| Ch. 2 Close Reading: The Art and Craft of Analysis | ||
| Queen Elizabeth, Speech to the Troops at Tilbury | ||
| • | [video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbjj9Nmn6ZU | |
| Clip of the Speech to the Troops at Tilbury from a 2005 BBC production called The Virgin Queen featuring Anne-Marie Duff as Elizabeth. | ||
| • | [text] http://tudorhistory.org/primary/tilbury.html | |
| A letter about Elizabeth’s speech written by Dr. Leonel Sharp after 1623. It is addressed to the Duke of Buckingham. | ||
| Winston Churchill, Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat | ||
| • | [audio] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVg7rnRheK8 | |
| Audio recording of Winston Churchill delivering his famous Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat speech. This is the first address given to the House of Commons on May 13, 1940. | ||
| • | [text] http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1841228_1841749_1841735,00.html | |
| List of Time magazine’s top ten greatest speeches of all time, which includes Winston Churchill’s Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat speech. | ||
| • | [text] http://www.historynet.com/what-if-winston-churchill-had-offered-less-blood-toil-tears-and-sweat.htm | |
| A surprising article addressing the possibly misguided and overly-aggressive nature of Churchill’s famous call to arms. | ||
| Ralph Ellison, from On Bird, Bird-Watching, and Jazz | ||
| • | [website] http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/2002/04/the-ralph-ellison-project-horace-porter-author-of-jazz-country-ralph-ellison-in-america/ | |
| A Web site dedicated to jazz and twentieth-century America that includes an interview with Horace Porter about Ralph Ellison’s life, perspective, and legacy. | ||
| Joan Didion, The Santa Ana Winds | ||
| • | [text] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/01/santa-ana-winds_n_1123931.html | |
| A Huffington Post article about the top 10 references to the Santa Ana winds in pop culture. Didion’s story features on the list. | ||
| Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth | ||
| • | [video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTbnOLIl_2M | |
| A short amateur experimental film based on Virginia Woolf’s essay. | ||
| • | [text] http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/17/specials/woolf-forster.html | |
| New York Times writer Horace Gregory explores that which he calls the “genius” of Virginia Woolf. | ||
| Groucho Marx, Dear Warner Brothers | ||
| • | [text] http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/court-appointee-quoted-groucho-marx-in-verdict-1.282605 | |
| Article about a man who quoted Groucho Marx’s letter to the Warner Brothers in a verdict he wrote as a Haifa District judge. | ||
| Christopher Morley, On Laziness | ||
| • | [website] http://essays.quotidiana.org/morley/ | |
| Web page documenting a few of Christopher Morley’s popular writings, including On Laziness. | ||
| Dodge, It’s a Big Fat Juicy Cheeseburger in a Land of Tofu (advertisement) | ||
| • | [text] http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20020502&slug=jdl02 | |
| Article addressing the edgy, possibly offensive nature of the Dodge cheeseburger ad. | ||
| • | [text] http://www.ru.org/index.php/ecology/283-weapons-death-and-tofu-finding-nirvana-in-an-suv | |
| Article discussing the appeal of SUVs and the ways in which advertisements capitalize on certain impressions. | ||
| Girl Scouts, What Did You Do Today? (advertisement) | ||
| • | [text] http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/133189/ | |
| Article about the extensive rebranding of the Girl Scouts of the USA. | ||
| John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961 | ||
| • | [video] http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/39155 | |
| Archival footage of President Kennedy delivering his famous inaugural address. | ||
| • | [text] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/19/AR2011011904768_2.html | |
| Article about the creation and lasting influence of Kennedy’s inaugural address. | ||
| Eleanor Clift, Inside Kennedy’s Inauguration, 50 Years On. | ||
| • | [text] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/01/15/kennedys-inauguration-speech-50th-anniversary.html | |
| Article about the 50th anniversary of JFK’s inauguration and the continuing significance of the speech in modern times. | ||
| United States Army Signal Corps, Inauguration of John F. Kennedy | ||
| • | [website] http://time.com/3879796/jfk-classic-photos-of-an-american-political-icon-1947-1963/ | |
| Rare photos of John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign and subsequent inauguration ceremony. | ||