"The Sisterhood of the Night" and The Salem Witch Trials

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/16/the-sisterhood-of-night-n_n_1521576.html

If  you use this information, give credit to the link under this passage:

The richest of the stories in this vein is ''The Sisterhood of Night,'' in which Millhauser adopts one of his familiar narrative voices -- the affable small-town archivist explaining some local peculiarity to an inquisitive stranger.

It seems that adolescent girls are going out at night in bands, seeking ''dark and secret places.'' Witchcraft is suspected, and also various unspeakable sexual perversions. ''What shall we do with our daughters?'' is the refrain of the adults. ''Tell us! we cry, our voices shrill with love. Tell us everything! Then we will forgive you.'' When the secret is revealed, we at first suspect that a joke is being made about teen-age girls and their ways. On reflection, we discover more complex meanings, to do with privacy, sanctuary and the unknowability of other minds. It is a lovely, haunting story, whose apparent simplicity masks its true depth.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/10/reviews/980510.10mcgratt.html

Links about upcoming film:

http://www.thesisterhoodofnight-movie.com/

Interview with the author:

http://transatlantica.revues.org/562

Salem Witch Trials/Hunt:

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/brief-salem.html

http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/home.html

Tradition, "The Lottery," and Groupthink

Articles on tradition:

This article discusses how different cultures address death:
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/19/local/la-me-0819-lopez-dyingwell-20120819

This link discusses American Culture:
http://www.americanfamilytraditions.com/american_culture.htm

Here is a link to what The Bible has to say about culture:
http://www.openbible.info/topics/traditions

This is an interesting look at how different cultures have different traditions when it comes to childcare:
http://alphamom.com/parenting/interesting-parenting-traditions-from-different-cultures/




Somebody made a short movie based on the story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV03h3XWTDU

Criticism:
http://home.netwood.net/kosenko/jackson.html

http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Jackson.htm
GROUPTHINK:
http://www.psysr.org/about/pubs_resources/groupthink%20overview.htm

http://www.abacon.com/commstudies/groups/groupthink.html

http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/theory/grpthink.html

http://boingboing.net/2014/08/05/how-groupthink-gets-reality-ba.html?utm_content=buffer54149&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Life of Pi

Here is the IMDB.COM page for the film:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454876/

Interviews with the author of the novel:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/nov/26/fiction

http://textualities.net/jennie-renton/yann-martel-interview/

Other articles about the novel/film:

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/French-director-swept-away-by-Life-of-Pi-2565015.php

http://www.theministryrookie.com/2013/02/25/does-the-life-of-pi-prove-the-existence-of-god/

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/may/25/fiction.reviews1

"A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" (Magical realsim, fairytales and more)

Magical Realism:
http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Magic_realism.html

http://www.english.iup.edu/pagnucci/courses/121/definitions/litdefinition-magicalrealism.htm

This article discusses "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" and magical realism:

http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/marquez.htm

Here is a list of fairytales that you may want to reference:

http://ivyjoy.com/fables/

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/

What makes a story a fairy tale?

http://www.voxmagazine.com/blog/2012/10/what-makes-a-fairy-tale/

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=jkSzkr4UWDgC&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=what+makes+a+story+a+fairy+tale&ots=5INIgjj9fI&sig=-bBpPAXuosHCiUyBu3uFbQmYHOA#v=onepage&q=what%20makes%20a%20story%20a%20fairy%20tale&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=-AR9FEgly9wC&oi=fnd&pg=PA64&dq=what+makes+a+story+a+fairy+tale&ots=AcMzBieWQS&sig=UY-nsUqv1cfOsWdlWoEEM7Nr7A8#v=onepage&q=what%20makes%20a%20story%20a%20fairy%20tale&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=1esOc6GGtOsC&oi=fnd&pg=PA2&dq=what+makes+a+story+a+fairy+tale&ots=0d0nbXFdyu&sig=XK7cnjf_z8L06Q5aEzwxBNZbBss#v=onepage&q=what%20makes%20a%20story%20a%20fairy%20tale&f=false


"A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"

http://www.academia.edu/1000317/Marquezs_A_Very_Old_Man_with_Enormous_Wings_and_Bambaras_The_Lesson

http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=12287

Author's Obit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/books/gabriel-garcia-marquez-literary-pioneer-dies-at-87.html?_r=0

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

Links on Southern Culture:

http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/regionalism.html

http://edsitement.neh.gov/launchpad-flannery-oconnors-journey-through-the-south

Folow this link for a collection of links about the story:

http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/O’Connor.htm

More on "A Good Man is Hard to Find":
http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=9&sid=7a0d2f82-11ba-4046-80b7-8b3557846338%40sessionmgr4002&hid=4214

http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=7a0d2f82-11ba-4046-80b7-8b3557846338%40sessionmgr4002&vid=11&hid=4214

http://commons.pacificu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1038&context=casfac

http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/607/784

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/old-WILLA/fall95/Haines.html

O'Connor reading the story and commentary:

http://www.openculture.com/2012/05/rare_1959_audio_flannery_oconnor_reads_a_good_man_is_hard_to_find.html

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/jul/05/fresh-look-flannery-o-connor-cartoons

Four collections of essays provide a good range of criticism on O’Connor (These would be found in the Literary Criticism section of a book store or library):

1. The Added Dimension: The Art and Mind of Flannery O’Connor, edited by Melvin J. Friedman and Lewis A. Lawson (1966; rpt. Fordham University Press, 1977).

2. Critical Essays on Flannery O’Connor, edited by Melvin J. Friedman and Beverly Lyon Clark (Hall, 1985).

3. Flannery O’Connor, edited by Harold Bloom (Chelsea House, 1986).

4. Realist of Distances: Flannery O’Connor Revisited, edited by Karl-Heinz Westarp and Jan Nordby Gretlund (Aarhus, 1987).

The Grandmother:

The Misfit with the grandmother:

Taking the family to the woods:

The author:

The Namesake and How to Do an In Text Citation for a Film

NY Times Movie Review:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/movies/09name.html?mabReward=relbias:w&_r=0&action=click&adxnnl=1&region=searchResults&module=Search&url=http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&region=Masthead&pgtype=Homepage&module=SearchSubmit&contentCollection=Homepage&t=qry226#/the namesake&adxnnlx=1399392285-cOQhIgbbksf+3kKwx4M/GA

Review of the novel:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/books/review/28METCALT.html?action=click&module=Search&region=searchResults&mabReward=relbias%3Aw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%3Faction%3Dclick%26region%3DMasthead%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26module%3DSearchSubmit%26contentCollection%3DHomepage%26t%3Dqry226%23%2Fthe+namesake

More sources:

http://ece.uprm.edu/artssciences/atenea/Atenea-XXVII-1.pdf#page=104

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3200/CRIT.50.1.111-128#.U2kJF_4cy70

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17449850701219892#.U2kJMf4cy70

In text citations for films:

To cite a movie within the text of your paper, put the first item of the Works Cited entry in parentheses at the end of the sentence. Your parenthetical citation may list the title, the director or a performer.

For example:

Ashame worries about her children getting married to please her and not for their own happiness (The Namesake).

Links on Food and Culture

http://www.pbs.org/opb/meaningoffood/food_and_culture/

http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FPNS%2FPNS41_02%2FS0029665182000342a.pdf&code=a5f2bf50f4e788b1d69390f92ddf4fcd

http://www.tasfed.org/en/makaledetay.aspx?id=698

http://www.uwlax.edu/urc/jur-online/pdf/2007/neely.pdf

http://edibleschoolyard.org/sites/default/files/meaningfoodinlivesJNEB2005.pdf

http://family.jrank.org/pages/639/Food-Food-Culture.html

http://pakistan.saarctourism.org/pakistan-food.html

http://www.pak-foods.com/

Assimilation

NYTimes articles:
http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/the-great-assimilation-debate/ http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/douthat-when-the-assimilation-of-immigrants-stalls.html http://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/07/garden/l-benefits-of-assimilation-229202.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/us/15immig.html?pagewanted=all

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/right-there-in-black-and-white-identity-assimilation-and-the-resume/?_r=0

Here is a link that talks about assimilation into American/other cultures.

http://m.nydailynews.com/life-style/children-tiger-moms-european-american-moms-differ-article-1.1798300

http://www.asian-nation.org/assimilation.shtml

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2673184?uid=3739808&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21104040633247

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/edu/89/3/433/

http://jbd.sagepub.com/content/29/6/505.short

Here is a link to the PBS website that discusses “New Americans”:

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans/

Here is a link that is specific to people living in new Jersey:

http://www.newamericansnj.org/

Http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/us/15immig.html?pagewanted=all

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/meltingpot/melt0525a.htm

“It’s difficult to adapt to the culture here,” said Maria Jacinto, 32, who moved to the United States 10 years ago with her husband, Aristeo Jacinto, 36. “In the Hispanic tradition, the family comes first, not money. It’s important for our children not to be influenced too much by the gueros,” she said, using a term that means “blondies” but that she employs generally in reference to Americans. “I don’t want my children to be influenced by immoral things.”

Here is an article entitled: “Why They Won’t Assimilate”:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/05/why_they_wont_assimilate.html

Assimilation is not a process magically initiated upon setting foot on Americanterra firma.  Rather, it only occurs when one or both of two conditions are met: The foreign elements must have a desire to assimilate or the host nation must place pressure on them to do so.  Unfortunately, neither is the case today because both immigrants and native-born Americans are far different than they once were.

President Obama’s speech about in which he discusses the American dream and what it means to us today.

http://raleightelegram.com/20120125624

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/us/15immig.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/assimilation-and-nativism-cont/

http://www.psy.miami.edu/faculty/dmessinger/c_c/rsrcs/rdgs/peers_social_general/Varela_etal_2004.pdf

The psychological definition:

http://psychology.about.com/od/aindex/g/assimilation.htm

Interview with Amy Tan (author of "Two Kinds")

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/travel/amy-tans-evolving-sense-of-china.html?hpw&rref=travel&_r=0&referrer=