Gender

 

"Girl"

http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CH1430005205&v=2.1&u=fitsuny&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w&asid=fe5691927b646b2a07de5a8f86ad1734

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHr1HYW0mKE

https://apostrosea.com/2017/07/11/analysis-of-girls-by-jamaica-kincaid-1978-feminism-with-a-dash-of-race/

http://panmore.com/analysis-jamaica-kincaid-girl

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03626784.2016.1236658?scroll=top&needAccess=true&journalCode=rcui20

A Psychological Analysis of Connie: A Feminist Viewpoint of “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”

http://home.mindspring.com/~blkgrnt/footlights/foot66.html

Background Info:
http://www.philjohn.com/papers/pjkd_ga15.html

The story was based on Charles Schmid, the Pied Piper of Tucson:

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/schmid/sand_1.html

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2009-12-20/news/17941422_1_pied-piper-french-killings

https://celestialtimepiece.com/2016/10/10/where-are-you-going-where-have-you-been-and-smooth-talk-short-story-into-film/

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/23/movies/when-characters-from-the-page-are-made-flesh-on-the-screen.h

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "Bullet in the Brain"

   

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "Bullet in the Brain"

 "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

http://www.ambrosebierce.org/journal1baybrook.html

Some info on the author:

https://www.htsdnj.org/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=27608&dataid=46305&FileName=An%20Occurrence%20at%20Owl%20Creek%20Bridge.pdf

http://futureofthebook.org/occurrence/

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/an-occurrence-at-owl-creek-bridge-ambrose-beirce/3446101.html

"Bullet in the Brain"

 https://milled.com/the-new-yorker-1/tobias-wolffs-bullet-in-the-brain-DiWhBAykPux3iFvQ

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2008-03-29-0803270250-story.html

https://fictionwritersreview.com/shoptalk/short-story-month-rec-bullet-in-the-brain/

Interview with the author:

https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5391/the-art-of-fiction-no-183-tobias-wolff

Death and Time

This is just an abstract but the information can be useful:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885392410010614

https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/time-and-death-0

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/844507/what-happens-when-you-die-quantum-theory-life-after-death

"The Lottery" and "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"

 

"The Lottery" and "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"

 

The Lottery

 Articles on tradition:

This article discusses how different cultures address death:
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/19/local/la-me-0819-lopez-dyingwell-20120819

This link discusses American Culture:
http://www.americanfamilytraditions.com/american_culture.htm

Here is a link to what The Bible has to say about culture:
http://www.openbible.info/topics/traditions

This is an interesting look at how different cultures have different traditions when it comes to childcare:
http://alphamom.com/parenting/interesting-parenting-traditions-from-different-cultures/




Somebody made a short movie based on the story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV03h3XWTDU

Criticism:
http://home.netwood.net/kosenko/jackson.html

http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Jackson.htm

GROUPTHINK:
https://theconversation.com/group-think-what-it-is-and-how-to-avoid-it-161697

https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/glossary/groupthink

https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-groupthink-2795213

http://boingboing.net/2014/08/05/how-groupthink-gets-reality-ba.html?utm_content=buffer54149&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” 

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/13/opinion/david-brooks-the-child-in-the-basement.html?_r=0

http://www.tor.com/2015/11/19/ursula-k-le-guins-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas-is-beautiful-in-map-form/

http://www.jeffersonflanders.com/2006/07/ursula-k-le-guins-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas/

http://www.teenink.com/reviews/book_reviews/article/133226/The-Ones-Who-Walk-Away-From-Omelas-by-Ursula-K-Le-Guin/

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/25/688925/-

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/13/opinion/david-brooks-the-child-in-the-basement.html?_r=0

http://www.tor.com/2015/11/19/ursula-k-le-guins-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas-is-beautiful-in-map-form/

http://www.jeffersonflanders.com/2006/07/ursula-k-le-guins-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas/

http://www.teenink.com/reviews/book_reviews/article/133226/The-Ones-Who-Walk-Away-From-Omelas-by-Ursula-K-Le-Guin/

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/25/688925/-

The Village 

https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/sociologyofreligion/2017/12/17/religious-undertones-in-popular-film-a-critical-analysis-of-the-village/

https://www.vox.com/2015/9/11/9309749/the-village-shyamalan-good

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-village-2004

Assimilation, "Two Kinds" and The Namesake

 Ted Talk Video:

 https://www.ted.com/talks/shivansh_srivastava_the_abcs_of_assimilation

Video about Italian American Immigrants:

https://www.thirteen.org/programs/the-italian-americans/italian-americans-assimilation/

Onion Video About Pop Culture (comedy):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YxJZffezM0

Video About "teaching tolerance" with Assimilation:

https://www.pbs.org/video/pov-american-promise-teaching-tolerance-assimilation-1/

Video from class on Tiger Moms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAel_qRfKx8

Articles on the immigrant experience:

https://theimmigrantstory.org/assimilation-and-nostalgia/

http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/179/exploring-the-american-immigrant-experience-through-literature

An article about what it means to be American:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/books/review/amy-chua-political-tribes.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below


An Article about saying no to assimilation:
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/29/us/a-fervent-no-to-assimilation-in-new-america.html

More on assimilation:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/education/edlife/international-students-find-the-american-dream-in-flint.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=http://m.facebook.com&_r=0

http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/on-assimilationists-and-nativists/

Articles about choosing names for children born in America to new Americans:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/opinion/sunday/for-muslim-americans-baby-aidan-or-baby-muhammad.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=http://m.facebook.com&_r=0

https://www.genealogy.com/articles/research/88_donna.html

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/education/edlife/international-students-find-the-american-dream-in-flint.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=http://m.facebook.com&_r=0

http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/the-great-assimilation-debate/

 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/douthat-when-the-assimilation-of-immigrants-stalls.html

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/07/garden/l-benefits-of-assimilation-229202.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/us/15immig.html?pagewanted=all

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/right-there-in-black-and-white-identity-assimilation-and-the-resume/?_r=0

Clink on this link for articles about food and culture:

https://www.google.com/#q=cultural+importance+of+food

These links would help with the issues in "Two Kinds" also:

Here is a link that talks about assimilation into American/other cultures.

http://m.nydailynews.com/life-style/children-tiger-moms-european-american-moms-differ-article-1.1798300

http://www.asian-nation.org/assimilation.shtml

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2673184?uid=3739808&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21104040633247

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/edu/89/3/433/

http://jbd.sagepub.com/content/29/6/505.short

Interviews with Amy Tan (author of "Two Kinds")

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/travel/amy-tans-evolving-sense-of-china.html?hpw&rref=travel&_r=0&referrer=

https://www.npr.org/2017/10/17/558295524/-i-am-full-of-contradictions-novelist-amy-tan-on-fate-and-family

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COVE8t4vvfo

https://www.the-american-interest.com/2007/05/01/a-conversation-with-amy-tan/

Here is a link to the PBS website that discusses “New Americans”:

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans/

Here is a link that is specific to people living in new Jersey:

http://www.newamericansnj.org/

Http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/us/15immig.html?pagewanted=all

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/meltingpot/melt0525a.htm

Here is an article entitled: “Why They Won’t Assimilate”:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/05/why_they_wont_assimilate.html

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President Obama’s speech about in which he discusses the American dream and what it means to us today.

http://raleightelegram.com/20120125624

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/us/15immig.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/assimilation-and-nativism-cont/

http://www.psy.miami.edu/faculty/dmessinger/c_c/rsrcs/rdgs/peers_social_general/Varela_etal_2004.pdf

The psychological definition:

http://psychology.about.com/od/aindex/g/assimilation.htm