The Big Lebowski Post

If you wish to take advantage of the make-up post opportunity, please do so here. After you've watched The Big Lebowski, please respond with your thoughts on the film's use of both the detective genre and the stoner-comedy genre. Choose one of the sequences that especially stood out to you and discuss what kind of philosophy it invoked, and why. Your response should be no less than 250 words.

3rd Narrative

Please post your third narrative--the remixed combination of your event based and chronological narrative--here. It should be no less than 250 words and can (and should) contain bits of your first two narratives. Since you've gotten the chance to edit with your peers, there should be few to no grammatical errors.

Event-based Narrative

Please post here the event-based narrative you've written about your interviewee. Remember, it should be scene based and no less than 250 words. There can certainly be overlapping material with your other narrative, but not overlapping language.

Chronological Narrative

Please post here the chronological narrative you've written about your interviewee. Remember, it should be no less than 250 words.

Response to "All The Reasons Why Zoos should be Banned"

In your post, you should first and foremost reflect on the way it is synthesizing and presenting research and information. How does it make an argument, is it effective? After addressing the genre of this piece as a research essay, you can feel free to respond holistically to the content: do you agree/disagree and why?

Your response should be no less than 200 words. You do not need to comment on a peers' post, but you most certainly can.

Here is the link again:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/why-we-should-close-all-zoos-778

Online Class Response

Please post briefly (but no less than 100 words) about how your research is going, what resources and databases have been especially useful, any questions you have, etc. Posts should be made by 10PM Wednesday. You should also make one reply to one of your peers' postsby the time we meet again in class on Thursday.

Please include your name in your post.

Discussion of "I Once Was Miss America"

Please post your response to Roxane Gay's short essay here. It can be pretty open ended, but some things you may want to address are the overall structure or language of the piece; the way Gay inserts herself into the narrative; the comment on race; the comment on genre (various genres really); the way this essay complicates or engages with ideology/pop culture; etc.

Your response should be no less than 200 words.

Chapter 4 Discussion

Please post your two questions and one response to your peers' questions about chapter 4 of the Bedford Book of Genres by commenting on this post!

Please include your full name as well.

Questions should be posted by 10PM the night before class, and comments should be no less than 150 words and finished by the time we meet in class.

Chapter 3 Discussion

Please post your two questions and one response to your peers' questions about chapter 3 of the Bedford Book of Genres by commenting on this post!

Please include your full name as well.

Questions should be posted by 10PM the night before class, and comments should be no less than 150 words and finished by the time we meet in class.

Chapter 2 Discussion

Please post your two questions and one response to your peers' questions about chapter 2 of the Bedford Book of Genres by commenting on this post!

Please include your full name as well.

Questions should be posted by 10PM the night before class, and comments should be no less than 150 words and finished by the time we meet in class.

Chapter 1 Discussion

Please post your two questions and response to your peers' questions about chapter 1 of the Bedford Book of Genres by commenting on this post!

Please include your full name as well.

Questions should be posted by 10PM the night before class, and comments should be finished by the time we meet in class.

Please post three film recommendations, three book recommendations and three musician/artist recommendations.

(Post by commenting on this post.)

(Include your full name in your reply.)