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• BLOG  ---

  Did we analyze the text (SON) sufficiently? I have some doubts about it and I feel I didn't go as good a job as I should have.

  -- THE BIG QUESTION: what would have happened if the child had not made 'that' hand gesture?

  ---- THE BIGGER QUESTION: is "THE ITALIAN" anti-Italian?  I propose the following thesis:.....

REMEMBER the importance and influence of FILM in those days.

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LIVE BLOG:  what order did you watch the INTRO VIDEO and FILM?

Which order do you think works better? What difference would it have made in your understanding or approach to the text?

--- This, reduced to a minimum, is the essence of what in CRITICAL THEORY we call "DISCOURSE". The discourse is the set of arguments or previous knowledge that are brought to bear on the critical discussion of a text. This works for any discipline, humanities, arts, sciences. It applies also to human behavior (in a sense).

- THE READER is THE TEXT

- REALITY IS LINGUISTIC (Roland Barthes - 'linguistic' means everything is communication.

THE WAY THEY LIVED

ANIMATION

FOREIGN BORN POPULATION FROM 1851

THE "ITALIAN PROBLEM"

ANTI ITALIANISM

1. Anti-Italianism
2. CONVENTIONAL WISDOM
3. AMORAL FAMILISM The Moral Basis of a Backward Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
4. What Sets Italian Americans Off From Other Immigrants?
5. Italians, working across the country

FOR TRANSFER STUDENTS
RESEARCH

The central role of the ANARCHIST in this film
The question of what are immigrants looking for?
Social justice