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College English

Below you will find useful course links, among other College English resources. Feel free to contact me with questions or suggestions.

Course Info

Calendar (includes daily assignments and notes — due dates only for Heidkamp’s classes)

Welcome Letter: “The Universe Is Made of Stories”

Course Profile

Course Outline

Music Poetry 2016-2017 (Spotify playlist)

Class Blog (Heidkamp)

Word Choices (go to your Blogger account to post)

RSS Word Choices (class blog)

  • Romanticism and Orientalism May 11, 2017
    Before talking about Orientalism, we should have a general idea of why there even is an ¨East¨ and a ¨West,¨ because these notions are artificial just as nations and their borders are. There really is no such thing as the ¨Middle East,¨ and we can also turn an atlas upside down without making any difference except for the way in which we perceive it. But for […]
    Warren Alexander
  • New Girl Fake Story May 3, 2017
    One of the most popular television shows today is a CBS sitcom called New Girl. Personally I really like the show but I think it is representative of a growing trend in modern day media towards shallow entertainment. The show features four roommates in a Los Angeles apartment, and their life living together. The plot reveals many interesting personalities an […]
    CharlesP
  • Happy Gilmore Does More Than Make You Happy (Satire Post) May 2, 2017
    Arguably the best movie Adam Sandler has ever been apart of (this is not hard for him) is Happy Gilmore. An American classic which features an unsuccessful golf player who turns out to have a knack for the sport of golf. He is a natural talent and ends up doing very well in a big tournament against some very good golfers. What makes this movie funny is the a […]
    CharlesP
  • Orientalism 2.0 April 27, 2017
    For almost all of human history, western countries have always viewed themselves as better. It usually comes down to race, and especially lately it has come down to race. I believe that we still have an Orientalist mindset and I don't think that it will go away in the next few years. Due to past generations, the continued mindset of a superior west has […]
    Maddie G.

RSS American Studies

  • Liability - Lorde (musical poetry)
  • Ultralight Beam by Kanye West
  • Who's The Master? I Dream of Jeannie Feminist Critique.
  • Country Hit That is Offensive to Many Women
  • Critique of Family Guy

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

RSS College English: Word Choices

  • Romanticism and Orientalism
  • New Girl Fake Story
  • Happy Gilmore Does More Than Make You Happy (Satire Post)
  • Orientalism 2.0
  • Halloween: an Orientalist's Holiday
Top image: from the Watchmen graphic novel (1987) - Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias at his controls for understanding and manipulating the world.

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