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| Date/Presentation | | Literary Work | Medical Condition |
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| Tues | Aug | 27 | |
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Survey; Quotes on Fact vs. Fiction*; Topic Signup |
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| Tues | Sep | 3 | #1 |
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Black Swan Green chapters 1&2 (Janetta) |
stuttering |
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The Reason I Jump |
autism |
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| Tues | Sep | 10 | #3 |
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Hunger (Parts I&II, 1st 2 pages of Part III), The Long Winter (chapters 22-24) (Jemy) |
starvation |
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| | | | #4 |
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The Heart Fails Without Warning (Shannon) |
anorexia |
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| Tues | Sep | 17 | #5 |
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Cold Mountain 1st and 3rd chapters (Kieran) |
PTSD ("soldier's heart") |
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| | | | #6 |
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To Build a Fire; A Sort of Miracle (Nora) |
hypothermia |
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| Tues | Sep | 24 | #7 |
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The Winter Soldier chapters 1-8 |
PTSD (shell shock) |
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| | | | #8 |
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The Hours (Kieran)relevant pages about Woolf's suicide
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AIDS/suicide |
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| Tues | Oct | 1 | #9 |
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Infinite Jest relevant pages for
both forms of addiction |
drug/alcohol addiction |
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| | | | #10 |
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Infinite Jest (Aman) |
entertainment addiction |
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| Tues | Oct | 8 | #11 |
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The Emerald Light in the Air (Hannah) |
Suicide/Electroshock Therapy |
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| | | | #12 |
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A Woman in Berlin (Sonya)
(relevant excerpts)
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rape survival |
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| Tues | Oct | 15 | #13 |
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Slaughterhouse Five (1st half)(Janetta) |
PTSD (battle fatigue) |
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| | | | #14 |
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The Trials of Nina McCall pp. iv-9, 42-130 |
STDs |
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| Tues | Oct | 22 | #15 |
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Volunteers Are Shining Stars and A Plague of Tics (Reyna) |
OCD |
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| | | | #16 |
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The Names of the Dead chs 1-6, 1st 8 pages of ch 7 |
Vietnam PTSD |
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| Tues | Oct | 29 | #17 |
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Madame Bovary Pt. III Chapter 8 |
arsenic poisoning |
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| | | | #18 |
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Cancer Ward (chapters 1-2, 4-7) (Shannon) |
cancer |
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| Tues | Nov | 5 | #19 |
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Still Alice (Sep03 to Jan04, June04, Oct04, Nov04, Jan05, Feb05, June05 to end) (Reyna) |
Alzheimer's |
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| | | | #20 |
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The Father (Nora) |
Alzheimer's |
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| Tues | Nov | 12 | #21 |
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Enduring Love (Chapters 1-11; 3rd to 5th pages of Ch. 17; Appendices I & II) (Hannah) |
stalker's syndrome |
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| | | | #22 |
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The Smoking Section (Aman) |
smoking cessation |
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| Tues | Nov | 19 | |
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Students share plans for final paper. |
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| Tues | Dec | 3 |
#23 |
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In Every Moment We Are Still Alive (to p.63+pp?) (Jemy);Final Paper draft handed in or returned |
ac.my.leukemia preg. |
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| | | | #24 |
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The Pale King excerpt? (class) |
emergency medicine |
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| Tues | Dec | 10 | |
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Final Paper handed in or returned; discuss Teng article? |
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