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ENG 102: Writing Through Literature

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  • Screencasts

    Screencast: Final Assignment, Case Study

    May 21, 2025 /

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    Final Paper overview

    May 16, 2025 /

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    Transcendent Kingdom Intro

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  • Assignments

    Final Paper Assignment

    May 14, 2025 /

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  • Assignments

    Paper 2 prompt

    April 24, 2025 /

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  • Blog Posts

    Blog Post #6

    April 22, 2025 /

    In “Sonny’s Blues,” how does the final scene in the jazz club reflect the themes of redemption and understanding in the story? Discuss the significance of Sonny’s performance and the narrator’s reaction to it.

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  • Reading,  Screencasts

    “Recitatif” screencast

    April 9, 2025 /

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    Blog post #5

    April 9, 2025 /

    Please watch the video answer the discussion question below Toni Morrison has described her short story “Recitatif” as “an experiment in the removal of all racial codes from a narrative about two characters of different races for whom racial identity is crucial.” According to the scholar in this video, the idea of racial division is replaced by a more generalized depiction of how cruelty, discrimination, and dehumanization originates. This, the story seems to show, is the root of racial/ethnic division. What do you make of this argument about the origin of racial division and its relationship to dehumanization? Is this right? Does it miss something important about racism? In your…

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  • Reading

    “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin

    April 8, 2025 /

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    “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison

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Course Information

What:  ENGL 102, Section 0879

Where: LaGuardia Community College

Instructor: Paul Fess

Email: [email protected]

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