English 120:

College Composition & Reading: “Morality, Madness & the Media”

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Elements and principles of composition. Practice in writing expository and argumentative themes. Research paper. Reading to stimulate logical thinking and effective writing.

Fall 2010 Required Texts

  • Cooper, Lydia R.“‘He’s a psychopathic killer, but so what?’: Folklore and Morality in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men” Papers on Language and Literature. Southern Illinois University. 2009. (handout)
  • Ellen, Barbara. “Actresses Should Stand Up Against Violence in Films.” The Observer.  6 June 2010. (handout)
  • Le Guinn, Ursula. “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” The Wind’s Twelve Corners: Short Stories. New York: Harper Perennial, 2004. (handout)
  • McCarthy, Cormac. No Country for Old Men. New York: Random, 2005.
  • Moseley, Daniel. “The Joker’s Comedy of Existence.” Supervillians and Philosophy. Ed. Ben Dyer. Chicago: Open Court. (handout)
  • Pinker, Steven. “The Moral Instinct.” New York Times. 13 January 2008. Online. (handout)
  • Raimes, Ann. Keys for Writers. 5th ed. New York: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 2008.
  • The Dark Knight. Dir. Christopher Nolan. Perf. Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, and Aaron Eckhart. Warner Bros. Pictures, 2008. (viewed in class)
  • Yeats, William Butler. “Sailing to Byzantium.” The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1956. (handout)

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