Welcome to the course!
For homework, please:
- read the reading on Ilias featured in the "Week One reading" folder (pp. 17-29). Find a US speech (doesn't necessarily need to be from a politician; graduation/commencement speeches can serve as wonderful sources) and identify at least five different metaphors used in the speech (with the sections/examples in which they are used). Bring the speech and these notes with you to next week's class.
- do a Google Maps search (or other search engine of your choice) for Washington D.C. and have a look at what is referred to as the "National Mall". Using Hall's Triad, what monuments/institutions/offices located on and around the Mall strike you as interesting from a cultural studies perspective? What formal and informal levels lie beneath their surfaces? What is "missing" from the National Mall, in your opinion?
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