For Tuesday: Budd, “The Volunteer’s Dilemma” (pp.49-60)

 

NOTE: The Paper #1 Conference Schedule is in the post BELOW this one, or you can click here: Freshman Composition I (Fall 2021): Travel and Culture: For Next Week: Paper #1 Conferences (grassocomp1.blogspot.com)

Answer TWO of the following for next Tuesday’s class:

Q1: Though volunteerism has a long and celebrated history, Budd says that lately it has become “an international sin,” bound up in the “white-savior complex” (50). What does this mean? How could helping people in less-developed countries have a dark side?

Q2: In many ways, Budd agrees with many of the ideas espoused by Rick Steves in Sam Anderson’s essay that we read last week. According to Budd, why does he travel and participate in volunteerism? Why does he see it, like Steves, as a way to “rearrange your cultural furniture” (5)?

Q3: How do the Kenyans themselves feel about Calvary Zion and its volunteers? Do they share the global critics’ concerns, or is this a case of white people/outsiders speaking for the natives?

Q4: What do you think Budd wanted to get across in this essay, considering that he, himself, volunteers at Calvary Zion? Is he trying to expose its secret history? Support it? Do you think he will return in the future—and would he encourage other people to volunteer?

For Next Week: Paper #1 Conferences

 NOTE: Please let me know if you need to change or miss your conference time, and we can arrange a new one. Remember that all conferences are in my office Horace Mann 348, right next to our classroom. The door will be open, so please walk right in if I don't see you. 

TUESDAY                                    THURSDAY (same times as at left)

9:30 Brody                                    Oladoton 

9:40 Jeffery                                   Grace

9:50 Cristal                                    Trey

10:00 Bailey                                   Laney

10:10 Chandler                               Payton

10:20 Tyler I.                                  Deesa

10:30 Jazlyn                                   Sadie

10:40 Garry                                    Tristin

10:50 Kylie

11:00 Donovan

11:10 Derik                                    Alec

11:20 Byron R.                               Michael

11:30 Shian                                   Brittany

11:40 Lilly                                     Sienna

11:50 Ahlyra                                 Byron C.

12:00 Deserae                               Elijiah

12:10 Lane                                    Malechi

12:20 Kendra                                Alexander 

1:30 Dylan 

1:40 Sierra

2:00 Matthew 

For Tuesday: Anderson, "Rick Steves Wants To Set You Free" (pp.1-19)

NOTE: Remember that Paper #1 is due Thursday by 5pm! You can turn it in late, but you lose ten points for every day it's due for a maximum of two days (a zero after that). So after 5pm to 5pm Friday is one day, and then Friday to Saturday is two days. As I say, it's always better to turn in a rough draft rather than nothing at all...but the more you write, the easier it is to revise (turning in a single paragraph won't help you or me revise the paper!).

Answer TWO of the following:

Q1: Rick Steves is a self-professed missionary of travel, and he claims that travel "wallops your ethnocentricity" and "carbonates your experience" and "rearranges your cultural furniture" (5). How does travel do this, and why might he believe that Americans in particular are in dire need of walloping, carbonation, and rearranging? 

Q2: How does the author seem to feel about Steves as a person? He writes that Steves is "a combination of preacher, comedian, salesman, life-hacker, professor, and inspirational speaker" (7). Does he think Steves is a bit too much? Is he slightly making fun of him? Or is he also taken in by the Rick Steves gospel? Explain what makes you think so.

Q3: Many people find Steves' message a form of "liberal propaganda" and some go so far as to claim he's "anti-American." Why does he claim the opposite, that his programs are actually "American-loving"? 

Q4: Steves tells our author that "Fear...is for people who don't get out very much" (17). Why does Steves and the essay argue that travel is a way to confront and cure many of our cultural fears? Why would he also claim that the people who are most fearful (and angry) are the ones who travel the least? 

NOTE: If you're interested in watching Rick Steves do what he does best, you can watch some of his travel shows on You Tube here: https://www.youtube.com/user/ricksteves

For Tuesday: Morris, "My Father's Land" (pp.186-200)

NOTE: Remember that this is our own class this week, and we'll also be signing up for conferences for Paper #1 as well--so you don't want to miss! If you do miss, please let me know so I can get you into a conference time. The conferences will occur in a few weeks after I've graded the paper--see the course schedule for details.

Answer TWO of the following:

Q1: Even though Morris grew up in America, her father kept Jamaica alive for her through the language, the food, and the music. But she still wants to go there as an adult so she can "learn to see it through  my father's eyes" (187). According to the essay, what couldn't she see about Jamaica without going there? How does the place change her "composite view" of Jamaica? Does it become more beautiful--or more 'ugly'? (to use terms from Jones' essay). 

Q2: Morris gives us a brief history lesson in her essay, and would probably argue that you can't understand the 'conversation' of Jamaica without learning some of its history. Why does she feel this history is important? And why is it often ignored in the tours of the island, which focus on a "tourist fantasy of sun, sand, and sex" (190)?

Q3: The tour guide takes great offense to Morris' questions about the history of the estate, and says, "Americans always come here and want to make things personal...Slavery finished a long time ago; there is no point in crying about the past. Nobody want to talk about that anymore" (196). Is it wrong to make the past personal? Do you think Morris is trying to impose her own American viewpoint on Jamaican  culture? How does her father--who is Jamaican--feel about this?

Q4: Morris also writes that "Black history in the Americas is fleeting and ephemeral. It slips through one's hands like water" (192). Why is Morris' own history "like water"? Why is it so hard to hold and examine? Related to this, why does she also say "slavery produced a void in black social memory" (196)? Even though we know the history of slavery, why is it so difficult to know and to study? 

Handout: Citing and Introducing Sources

English 1113

Grasso

INTEGRATING SOURCES AND QUOTATIONS IN YOUR ESSAY

1. A good quotation adds more to your conversation than a summary or paraphrase

Ex: (Summary) The author feels that theories can be correct even if you don’t agree with them.

(Quote) “I wondered if I’d rejected the possibility of divine, objective beauty simply because I was excluded from it. Being excluded from a theory doesn’t make it incorrect” (106).

* The quotes gives a much fuller idea of what the author intended, and also brings the author's voice into the conversation. So it becomes more of a dialogue, than a monologue (just you writing).  

2. Always introduce quotes: give context for the source

In Chloe Cooper Jones’ essay, “Such Perfection,” she writes that “Being excluded from a theory doesn’t make it incorrect” (106).

OR: Even though the author feels left out of the standard definitions of beauty, she still admits, “Being excluded from a theory doesn’t make it incorrect” (106).

3. Always respond to a quotation with your own words and ideas. Don’t let a quote speak for itself.

In Chloe Cooper Jones’ essay, “Such Perfection,” she writes that “Being excluded from a theory doesn’t make it incorrect” (106). This is important because it makes her question whether beauty really exists as a thing, rather than an idea, and this is one of the reasons she travels to Italy in the first place.

4. Add a Works Cited page listing all the sources you quoted in your paper

Jones, Chloe Cooper. “Such Perfection.” Best American Travel Writing. Ed. Robert

MacFarlane. New York: Mariner Books, 2020.

Author + Essay + Anthology (and Editor) + City + Publisher + Date.

For more information about citation, check out the OWL: Purdue’s On-Line Writing Lab at: Purdue OWL // Purdue Writing Lab(I’ll place a link on-line). It will help you cite any source according to MLA citation or any other.