Readings
In the memoir Educated by Tara Westover, a young Tara has just entered college and is shocked by how people of this religion behave at Brigham Young University.
What is Mormonism?
What is the judicial, legislative, and executive branch?
At the University of South Carolina, undergraduate students are pursuing this degree type.
What is a bachelor's degree?
In Sorry to Bother You, Cassius Green learns this voice from an older co-worker to get more telemarketing sells.
What is the "white voice"?
To know, or not to know your ____ date is the central question to the Knowers by Helen Philips
What is Death? or What is one's death date?
What is the holocaust?
This language is the second most-spoken in the U.S. with about 35 million speakers
This school bares the name of a famous female businesswoman after a big donation of 45 million dollars.
Who is Darla Moore?
According to Nick Ng, if you don't drink this delicious beverage then you are not Chinese.
What is tea?
Name one these arachnids that deserve death in Nikki Giovanni's Allowables
What is a brown recluse or a black widow?
This country is the setting of Call Me American by Abdi Nor Iftin
What is Somalia?
This Greek word means "all powerful".
What is omnipotent?
The current president of the University of South Carolina
Who is Michael Amiridis?
The "scientific" name for horse-people in Sorry to Bother You
What is an Equisapien?
In Mercy, these two items are the peaceful weapons.
What is a cup and a napkin?
This Greek term means "word" but in Mezler's definition of a discourse community, he uses it to mean specialized language.
What is lexis?
This writer wrote a famous series of fantasy novels heavily inspired by biblical tales. The novel adapted to film is called The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1950).
Who is C.S. Lewis?
After the completion of eleven buildings, they all formed a U-shape that opened up to Sumter Street. Name this modified quadrangle.
What is the Horseshoe?
Formation by Beyonce demonstrates this particular geographical type of subculture amongst African Americans.
What is Southern African American culture?
This author, wrote 2BR02B, famous for Slaughter House Five and a WW2 veteran.
Who is Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.? Prompt: Kurt
DD: Name the 5/6 criteria necessary for Melzer's definition of a discourse community
1. Public goal, 2. Intercommunication, 3. Feedback, 4. Genres, 5. Lexis, and 6. Expertise.
You may know this British singer-songwriter from her smash hit, Running Up That Hill, featured in Stranger Things on Netflix, but she is also famous for other hits, including Wuthering Heights and Cloudbusting.
Who is Kate Bush?
The University of South Carolina-Columbia is the flagship campus for the state university system. The University of South Carolina has campuses all across the state. Name 2 of these 8 campuses.
What are USC Columbia, Upstate, Aiken, Beaufort, Lancaster, Sumter, Union, and Salkehatchie?
This fancy French term dealing with film means everything we can see in every shot.
What is Mise-en-Scène?
In Old Fangs, these three animals went down childhood memories in a forest.
What is a fox, a panda, and a wolf?
This city is the capital of Somalia where Call Me American takes place
What is Mogadishu?
On the dance floor I'm a klutz, from a word meaning "wooden block" in this Germanic language
What is Yiddish?
The University of South Carolina School of Law became named after this prominent plaintiffs attorney following 30 million dollar donation.
Who is Joseph F. Rice?
In the short story, "You, Disappearing", once someone/something has disappeared you can call this government agency.
What is the Bureau of Disappearances?
A person's initial were carved in this type of tree in a Poem by Matthew Olzmann
What is the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine?
In Life Undercover, this quote was attributed to this American forefather, 'Better one hundred guilty persons should escape than one innocent person should suffer.'
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Puttering about with peas, this monk laid the foundation for modern genetics
Who is Gregor Mendel?
When the University of South Carolina opened its doors in 1805, there was only one building. This building is now a dormitory for honors students located on the historic Horseshoe.
What is Rutledge College?
____ Say, ____ Say
What is They Say, I Say?
Wehling Jr., by the end of 2BR02B has secured these three volunteers for his triplets.
Who are Wehling Jr., Dr. Hitz, and Leora Duncan?