AP Literature
Meet Bernie
Hearing/Producing/Performing Oral History
Constructing a Conversation on Race
CriticsandBuilders.com
TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR CULTURE
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Below you will find useful course links and other American Studies resources. Feel free to contact us with questions or suggestions.
Course Profile
Standard-Based Grading/The Ten Standards of American Studies
American Studies Blog (go to your Blogger account to post)
Liability - Lorde (musical poetry) May 17, 2017
In March of 2017 New Zealand native artist, Lorde, released "Liability", her second single that is a part of her sophomore studio album Melodrama that will be released in June. The song was written by Lorde and American Musician Jack Antonoff and was debuted on March 10, 2017. While on Beats 1 Radio, Lorde stated that this song came from a sad ti […]
Ultralight Beam by Kanye West May 12, 2017
The song Ultralight Beam is featured on Kanye West album The life of Pablo. I think this song is poetic because it uses a lot of smiles and metaphors and because the song has a deeper meaning. I think the song had very good metaphors and similes. In the song Kanye sings, "We on an ultralight beam/ We on an ultralight beam/ This is a God dream/ This is a […]
Who's The Master? I Dream of Jeannie Feminist Critique. March 16, 2017
Episode 1 of the 1965 NBC television show I Dream of Jeannie, shows a United States astronaut Tony Nelson's spacecraft, Stardust One being forced to crash-land on a deserted island in the South Pacific. On the island he finds an odd bottle and when he opens it a beautiful genie comes out named Jeannie, after being released she follows Tony back to Florida an […]
Country Hit That is Offensive to Many Women March 3, 2017
In the song "God Made Girls" by Raelynn is a country hit that has some women really offended and has them ready to stand up for what they believe in. The song has some lines that stand out and some lines that are surprising they are in a song in 2017. On top of the lines that stand out another thing that hits feminists hard is that a women herself wrote this […]
Liability - Lorde (musical poetry)
Ultralight Beam by Kanye West
Who's The Master? I Dream of Jeannie Feminist Critique.
Country Hit That is Offensive to Many Women
Critique of Family Guy
American Lit: True American Stories
Analysis of Gone With The Wind
Qualifications to be pretty
No amount of roses or champaign will mask this blatant sexism
Espionage at its finest
The United States of Tom
College English: Word Choices
A Big Comedic Mouth
The Future is Humor
Family Guy enlightens an imperfect world
In Dire Need of a Satire
The "World's Language" meets Poetry
Top image: from the Watchmen graphic novel (1987) - Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias at his controls for understanding and manipulating the world.