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American Literature AP

Below you will find useful course links and American Lit resources. Feel free to contact me with questions or suggestions.

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Music Poetry 2016-2017 (Spotify playlist)

Class Blog

True American Stories (go to your Blogger account to post)

RSS True American Stories

  • Analysis of Gone With The Wind May 21, 2017
    The 1939 movie Gone with the Wind promotes the Mammy stereotype, which is present throughout the movie. This movie is still relevant, along with other works of fiction based during the same era, as the Civil War is still a highly studied topic by scholars today. It begins right before the Civil War, and takes place in Georgia, so the families owned slaves an […]
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  • Qualifications to be pretty April 24, 2017
         Inside the TV show america's next top model it picks girls from around the world to compete in a competition to be a model. Each week the girls have to go through an array of competitions ranging from commercials to modeling to doing runway shows, and are judged off of their looks and progress throughout the weeks. Even Though this seems like a sha […]
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  • No amount of roses or champaign will mask this blatant sexism April 18, 2017
    As one of ABC’s most successful shows, The Bachelor has been on the air for fourteen years. For just as long, however, this romance-centered program has come under very harsh, very valid criticism. Accused of promoting and perpetuating blatantly sexist themes throughout its time on TV, some might say that a more appropriate name for the show would be somethi […]
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  • Espionage at its finest April 17, 2017
    The show Archer is about the world’s greatest spy named Sterling Archer and his wacky adventures and the people he works with. The show was created by Adam Reed for the FX network back in 2009 and is currently still airing and about to premiere their eighth season on May 5th. By over-exaggerating stereotypes — specifically, the “douche bag” or “player” stere […]
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RSS American Studies

  • Dark Souls 3’s Relationship to Mental Health
  • Cultural Analysis of “Boys Among Men”
  • The Mind of Sherlock Holmes: The Man Society Doesn’t See
  • Angels Are Everywhere
  • The Incredibles 2 and Breaking Dominant Ideologies

RSS AP Lit: Story Power

  • Some thoughts about The Cariboo Cafe
  • First Days of School Mix
  • Music Poetry, Thanks to the Class of 2019 …
  • Welcome!
  • The Old Blog is Dead! Long Live the Old Blog!

RSS American Lit: True American Stories

  • Analysis of Gone With The Wind
  • Qualifications to be pretty
  • No amount of roses or champaign will mask this blatant sexism
  • Espionage at its finest
  • The United States of Tom
The top image is the amazing art of Dave Gibbons from the Watchmen graphic novel (1987): Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias at his controls for understanding and manipulating the world. He takes his cultural criticism and his apocalyptic morality a bit too far, but we can still take inspiration from his intellectual effort, right? :)

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