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Fall 2007     102  Readings with Hyperlinks

Topic: Conflict, Homicide and Art

Professor Mary T. Conway, Community College of Philadelphia, Department of English

 

Fiction 

“Everyday Use” by Alice Walker

https://marytconway.tripod.com/theresearchpaper/id49.html

 

“Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin

http://www.pbs.org/katechopin/library/storyofanhour.html

 

 

Material Culture

“Lost Dreams on Canvas” (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, young victims’ portraits, ongoing)

http://www.pafa.org/lostDreamsOnCanvas.jsp

 

“The Spirit Painter” Philadelphia woman commemorates homicide victims

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20070816_THE_SPIRIT_PAINTER.html

 

 

Non-fiction

Group One: Acceptable Sources: reviewed, edited, or claiming to use reliable researching, reporting or argument methods, which are either transparent or available upon request. Not a guarantee of accuracy, lack of bias or comprehensiveness.

 

1. “The Mysterious House that is White” (Philadelphia Daily News reporter’s blog, addressing causes of homicide rate, July 2007)

http://blogs.phillynews.com/dailynews/crime/2007/07/the_mysterious_house_that_is_w.html

 

2. “Does Gun Control Reduce Crime or Does Crime Increase Gun Control?” (Academic Journal, 2006)

https://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj26n1/cj26n1-6.pdf

 

3. “Adolescent Birth Rates, Total Homicides, and Income Inequality in Rich Countries” (Academic Journal, 2005)

http://www.ajph.org/cgi/reprint/95/7/1181

 

4. “Mining the Crime Drop of the 1990s for Social Cues” (National Public Radio, Talk of the Nation Program, February 2007; audio file)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7453416

 

5. “Does Eating Salmon Lower the Murder Rate?” (New York Times [Sunday magazine], April 2006)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/magazine/16wwln_idealab.html?ex=1185940800&en=7b71fe289db5e620&ei=5070

 

6. “Econometric Modeling as Junk Science: Myths of Murder and Multiple Regression” (Academic Journal, 2002)

http://crab.rutgers.edu/~goertzel/mythsofmurder.htm

 

7. “Philadelphia Homicides Rise Dramatically” (National Public Radio, Interview with Temple criminologist and Philadelphia Daily News Reporter/Blogger, audio file, May 7, 2007)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10041811

 

 

8. “Stop Whistleblowin’” (blackprof.com, Academic Blog, May 16, 2007)

http://www.blackprof.com/archives/2007/05/stop_whistleblowin.html

 

 

9. “The Story of a Snitch” (Magazine, in-depth report; April 2007)

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200704/stop-snitching

(full article by subscription only; available only within CCP library)

 

10. “A Prohibition-style Crime Wave” (Alternet website, webpage collecting alternative media, original source, book review from The DrugReporter, November, 2004)

http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20578/

 

11. “Rapper Who Might Not Snitch on Cho” (Alternet, webpage collecting alternative media, original source, New America Media, April 2007)

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/51007/

 

12. “How drugs harm the family tree” (Daily News in depth article, June 2007)

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20070611_HOW_DRUGS_HARM_THE_FAMILY_TREE.html

 

 

13. “A city’s deadly toll” (Philadelphia Inquirer interactive map of shootings and homicides, 2007; statistical data)

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/special/violence/

 

14. “As suspect surrenders, a family gives up on city” (Philadelphia Inquirer, news report, August, 2007)

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20070811_As_suspect_surrenders__a_family_gives_up_on_city.html

 

15. “Dawson Family Survivors File Lawsuit Against Officials, Police”   (Baltimore Sun news report, February 2005)

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/crime/bal-dawson0218,0,5070444.story

 

16. “You Do What You Eat” (Ode Magazine, 2005)

http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/26/you_do_what_you_eat#comments

 

GROUP TWO

Commentary and Opinion; reliable first person accounts, or arguments based on multiple first person accounts; or, shorter arguments using limited information. May be reliable and use outside sources, but claims are limited and often need to be corroborated.

 

1. “A Hip-hop Backlash against Snitching” (National Public Radio, audio file, January 2006)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5178424

 

2. Black Informant Blog Posts on snitching and media coverage

http://blackinformant.com/?s=snitchin

 

3.”Snitching is risky; staying silent even riskier” (Daily News columnist, August 2007)

http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/20070803_Elmer_Smith___Snitching_is_risky__staying_silent_even_riskier.html

 

4. “Next Killer May Already Be Wanted” (Daily News Column, August 16, 2007)

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20070816_Stu_Bykofsky___Next_killer_may_already_be_wanted.html

 

5. “The Real Meaning of Snitching” (Washington Post Opinion, August 20, 2007)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/17/AR2007081701715.html

 

 

GROUP THREE

Advocacy Groups: These MAY be Reliable Sources, but need to be validated by an outside source (they often use other sources within their articles). Advocacy groups usually make obvious their position and do not explore both sides of an issue.

 

1. “States With No Death Penalty Share Lower Homicide Rates” (Death Penalty Information Center, 2000)

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=17&did=437

 

2. “New York Times Reports Rising Murder Rates” (Council for Conservative Citizens, June 2007)

http://cofcc.org/?p=319

 

3. “Prison snitch may have to forget about release” (Webpage with information about informants; criticized for endangering witnesses; applauded for challenging the use of criminal informants by police)

http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/whosarat/vpost?id=820809

 

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