Ch. 6 COMMUNITY
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
	•	[text]  http://www.opednews.com/articles/Letter-from-Birmingham-Jai-by-Chloe-Lizotte-110710-618.html
		Editorial article that analyzes the structure of the Letter from Birmingham Jail and attempts to determine why it makes such an effective argument.
	•	[text]  http://suite101.com/article/martin-luther-kings-approach-to-nonviolence-through-religion-a262313
		Brief article that examines the religious influences behind Martin Luther King Jr.’s writing.
Henry David Thoreau, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
	•	[text]  http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/01/books/the-mysterious-thoreau.html
		Famous novelist, poet, and literary critic Joyce Carol Oates talks about Thoreau and Walden, the book from which Where I Lived was taken.
Richard Rodriguez, Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood
	•	[video]  http://vimeo.com/6650278
		Richard Rodriguez’s interview with Dr. Eric Schramm.
	•	[text]  http://www.scottlondon.com/interviews/rodriguez.html
		Transcript of an interview between Scott London and Richard Rodriguez on the subjects of language and education. Some biographical information on Rodriguez is provided.
Ellen Goodman, The Family That Stretches (Together)
	•	[website]  https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/visualizations/2012/comm/1940_census_change.pdf
		The U.S. Census bureau compares its data from the 1940 and 2010 national censuses in an effort to identify ways in which America has changed.
	•	[text]  http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/07/us/CENSUS.html?src=tptw
		New York Times piece that provides a number of statistics using data from the Census Bureau. These statistics reflect numerous additional ways in which America has changed.
Lori Arviso Alvord, Walking the Path between Worlds
	•	[website]  http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nap/
		The website for the Native American Program at Dartmouth College offers literature and other information about the organization, including albums of photos from their annual pow-wow and other events.
Robert D. Putnam, Health and Happiness
	•	[audio]  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1074874
		Robert Putnam speaks about his book Bowling Alone, from which this chapter is excerpted.
Dinaw Mengestu, Home at Last
	•	[text & audio]  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18932579
		Mengestu talks about and reads from The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel telling the story of a similar immigrant trajectory.
	•	[text]  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/realestate/25livi.html?pagewanted=all
		New York Times article about living in Kensington, Brooklyn.
Scott Brown, Facebook Friendonomics
	•	[text]  http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/04/pl_brown_karma/
		In this other article by Scott Brown, he joins the conversation about modern philanthropy and calculates technology into the equation.
Malcolm Gladwell, Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted
	•	[text]  http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/09/gladwell-on-social-media-and-activism/63623/
		Alexis Madrigal responds to Gladwell’s article.
Aurora Levins Morales, Child of the Americas
	•	[website]  http://www.auroralevinsmorales.com/
		Author’s personal website; contains information, writing, and community interfaces.
	•	[text]  http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/vof/transcripts/LevinsMorales.pdf
		Interview in which Levins Morales discusses her family heritage, her childhood in Puerto Rico, and her writing.
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Want (painting)
	•	[text]  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/norman-rockwell/about-norman-rockwell/689/
		Brief biography of Norman Rockwell that is directly connected to the Freedom from Want painting.
Roz Chast, The Last Thanksgiving (cartoon)
	•	[text]  http://www.dailynexus.com/2011-04-07/roz-chast-yorker-cartoonist-speaks/
		Roz Chast makes a presentation to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences about her work, including "The Last Thanksgiving."
Nissan Motor Company, The Black Experience Is Everywhere (advertisement)
	•	[text]  http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/003074.html
		An article reflecting on Nissan’s “Black Experience” ad campaign.
Andrew Carnegie, from The Gospel of Wealth
	•	[text]  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/peopleevents/pande01.html
	•	http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/carnegie-timeline-rags-to-riches/
		These websites provide biographic information on Andrew Carnegie that is useful for understanding the formation of the philosophy behind The Gospel of Wealth.
Bertrand Russell, The Happy Life
	•	[text]  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell/
		Stanford Encyclopedia entry on Bertrand Russell and his philosophies.
Garrett Hardin, from Lifeboat Ethics
	•	[text]  http://gavnugent.hubpages.com/hub/The-Argument-Against-Foreign-Aid-Garret-Hardins-Lifeboat-Ethics
		Direct counterargument to the case that Garrett Hardin makes in his essay Living on a Lifeboat.
Peter Singer, The Singer Solution to World Poverty
	•	[video]  http://www.cc.com/video-clips/8nmnda/the-colbert-report-peter-singer
		Stephen Colbert speaks with Peter Singer about the model of altruism he proposes in his book, The Life You Could Save.
Zapiro (Jonathan Shapiro), World Economic Forum (cartoon)
	•	[text]  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/03/05/magic-mountain
		New Yorker article providing information on the World Economic Forum at Davos.
	•	[website]  http://www.zapiro.com/Cartoons
Cartoonist’s personal website. Contains information, blogs, and links to his work.
The Christian Science Monitor, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and the Billionaire Challenge
	•	ABC News interviews Gates, Buffet, and Turner about the Giving Pledge and philanthropy. [video]
		◊	Warren Buffet:  http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/giving-pledge-warren-buffett-12259449
		◊	Ted Turner: http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/giving-pledge-ted-turner-12259545
		◊	Bill and Melinda Gates: http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/giving-pledge-bill-melinda-gates-12259511
	•	[website]  http://givingpledge.org/>
		Official website of “The Giving Pledge” effort.
Der Spiegel, Negative Reaction to Charity Campaign
		•	[text] http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/negative-reaction-to-charity-campaign-german-millionaires-criticize-gates-giving-pledge-a-710972.html
			The concerns expressed by these German billionaires are similar to the arguments raised by philosopher Neil Levy in his paper, “Against Philanthropy.”