Modern Texts 1
A former silicon valley engineer wrote this to express opposition to the controversial attempts to rectify the "Gender Leadership Gap"
What is James D'amore's "Google Memo"
One member of your group: Name your Nonfiction Book Study, its author, and its primary thesis.
Hmmmmm?
A speech by a seminal black- and women's-rights activist who spoke passionately about the hypocrisy of America's treatment of women.
What is Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech?
The person who spoke to the nation immediately after the assassination of Dr. King, encouraging calm with religious appeals and by relating his personal experience with the same type of loss.
Who was Robert F. Kennedy?
The cognitive bias responsible for interpreting information in a way that simply confirms existing beliefs.
What is Confirmation Bias?
A modern retelling of a classic children's story, but using a comically-excessive degree of flowery language.
What is John Branyan's "The Three Little Pigs"?
A civil rights activist wrote this elaborate counter-argument in response to a group of 12 clergymen discouraging protest.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
An allegory describing the process and difficulties of escaping ignorance.
What is Plato's "Allegory of the Cave?"
The memoir that helped influence Abraham Lincoln's thoughts on slavery, and describes how its author first taught himself to read before escaping to the north.
What is Frederick Douglass's "Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass"?
Whereas James Damore advocated for equality, this competing ideal advocates for social justice with an awareness of historical and generational disadvantages.
What is equity?
A poem relating the struggles and prejudices that women faced in Salem, Massachusetts in the late 17th century.
What is Margaret Atwood's Half-Hanged Mary?
Describe a key concept from your Video Essay Project research.
Hmmmm?
A short poem describing the intrinsic ability for humans to discover natural truth outside of established institutionalized forms of education (school, church, government).
What is Walt Whitman's "The Learn'd Astronomer"
Often considered the first "fake news" in American history, this article was written and published by a Framer of the constitution in order to fabricate hatred against the British King.
What is Benjamin Franklin's "Scalps for the King"?
This American philosophical ideal consists of four key pillars: nonconformity, self-reliance, free-thought, and natural truth.
What is Transcendentalism?
A young environmental activist's speech to a global body shaming those who refuse to take action on climate change.
Gretta Thunberg's "Speech to the UN"
Name your Dead Letter Project Speaker and describe the speech that they never delivered.
Hmmmmmm?
A posthumously-published poem written in the mid-19th century detailing the metaphorical death of a woman's mind, body, and soul.
What is Emily Dickinson's "I Felt a Funeral in my Brain"?
Written by "the world's first feminist," this writing argued that women should receive the same education as men, as opposed to the popular women's education at the time which focused on developing women into good wives.
What is Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly's "Vindication of the Rights of Women"?
America's gift/curse: The uniquely American philosophical struggle between TWO foundational desires: collective benefit vs. individual freedoms.
What is Collectivism vs. Individualism?
A nonfiction narrative about a man's experience navigating invisible bias relating to his daughter's favorite toy.
What is Ibram X. Kindi's "My Daughter's White Doll"?
A deceptive speech delivered on the birthday of Abraham Lincoln designed to incite fear and paranoia in the wake of the Cold War
What is Joseph McCarthy's "Enemies from Within"?
What is Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"?
The book that inspired the Harlem Renaissance which introduced concepts like the color line, "double-consciousness," and "the veil."
What is W.E.B. DuBois' "The Souls of Black Folk"?
The philosophical ideal that governments should act according to "the greater good."
What is Utilitarianism?