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66 Cards in this Set
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END OF NATURE
OR TURTLE ISLAND PIECE |
we are nature. all our senses. Nature is our construction now.Destruction is unethical. Green house gases and fossil fuels, alter nature
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THE LOVED ONE
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culture thats dead before they are dead, based on capitalism, misplaced idealism, hypocrisy. world is a simulation, COMMERCIALISM W/ SPIRITUALITY
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NECROPOLIS
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large cemetary, or burial place, near the sites of ancient civilization
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MEMENTO MORI
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REMINDER OF DEATH, THE SKULL BENEATH THE SKIN
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IF HE HOLLERS LET HIM GO
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racial paradox of american ideology, fredom and spatial restriction, job discrimination, exclusion from public facilities, restrictive covenants
can achieve freedoom within constraints of racist society |
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APOCALYPSE
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end of everything in the moment of judgement
central to L.A due to dissappointments of recovered paradise and dreams |
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PLAY IT AS IT LAYS
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nature is polluted by chemicals..failures and disappointments, abortion, dysfunctional nature, selling of rape
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RIOTS OF 1965
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Police brutality. Watts Riot= August 1965 "monkeys" by Chief Parker
Watts= new era black power |
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RIOTS OF 1992
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riot of color, majority were Latino then Black.
social and economic problems, conflicts with Korean shop owners |
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TO SLEEP WITH ANGER
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Transgenerational Structure-black immigration to LA
economic status vs. cultural tradtion nostaligia and ambition, old and young, death and life ends in affirmation and reconciliation, not dissappointment |
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FORTRESS L.A.
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Urban Racial Unrest--sees it as a class struggle between interest of wealth and the poor, municipal planning directed by wealth
exclusion of poor, control of poor |
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KERNER COMMISSION REPORT
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"two societies, white black ---seperate but unequal", riot commission report
Lyndon B. Johnson black frustration and lack of economic opportunity |
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CHANGING POLICING TECH
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crowd control, surveillance, patrol cars
intimidation, exclusion (gated communities), discomfort (bum proff benches) |
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RISING UNEMPLOYMENT MINORITY
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crack cocaine epidemic, gang hysteria
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RAMONA
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world jsut before origins of modern LOS Angeles,a naturally harmonious world, race and class are natural, leading characters to necessary behaviors according to status
forgives us for our sins and allows us to keep sinning |
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MEXICANS: RAMONA
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high spirited honorable, honest comical peasants
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INDIANS: RAMONA
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creatures, instinctive, patient, loyal, musical. not a civilized man
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ANGLOS: RAMONA
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SUBHUMAN: traders, thieves, dogs
HOWEVER, this allowed them to take over land, and sin, and keep sinning, becoming that which had been displaced |
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CHINATOWN
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wrendition of incidents surrounding the development of water resources in L.A. Owens Valley
dominate classes have maintained their positions of power MARX AND ALTHUSSER--ideology for thos who profit less so they dont revolt, biological, material, and ideological. Babies for work, water for production, ideolgoy for poor desire for water sex and money appearacne and reputation, must preserves one's name and image more important than the reality of ones actions |
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THE CRYING LOT OF 49
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entropy is a measure of disorder
physical systems do useful, organized work. closed systems always go in one direction -- down toward less organization, less productive information systems,information decays, noise becomes missed with signal |
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DIDACTIC
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instructional quality, teaching about the world, moral lessons included
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NATURES WRITING FUCTION
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observation, didactic, meaning, environmental conciousness, resoration
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L.A is unnatural and new, city of illusions
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young city (1781), city of immigrants, technological city, threatened by catastrophe, and known as an image through media
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4 types OF NATURE
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1)nature is everything at all times
2)nature has two matrixes (human nature, and non human nature)opposition---- --nature is non human and human is the artifical manufacture --or both are valid and both are nature 3)Metaphysical view of nature--god religion 4)There is no nature |
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SIGN
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anything with meaning,
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ICON
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1stness, resemblence
COLOR, display ideational certainty by virtue of their inherent representational character |
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INDEX
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2NDNESS, relatinship with thing and part of thing
material reference "footprint to foot" cause and effect |
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SYMBOLS
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3RDNESS
no relationship with thing but only because we've been trained to think so social certainty-- most common form of sign |
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ENTROPY
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starting a state of order and going into a state of less disorder
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DUALISM
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this invloves the spiritual vs. the bady or fact vs. imaginary. It is a duplicity in belief
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1848
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yEAR OF THE TREATY OF GUADELUPE, this is when california became U.S. land
Colorade, Arizona, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico Nicholas Trist |
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GRAPES OF WRATH
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JOHN FORD
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CHINATOWN
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ROMAN PLANSKI
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TO SLEEP WITH ANGER
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CHARLES BURNETT
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THE LOVED ONE
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TONY RICHARDSON
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PLAY IT AS IT LAYS
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JOAN DIDION
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IF HE HOLLERS LET HIM GO
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CHESTER HIMES
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THEY SHOOT HORSES DONT THEY
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HORACE MCCOY
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THE CRYING OF LOT 49
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THOMAS PYNCHON
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THE LOVED ONE
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EVELYN WAUGH
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THE DAY OF THE LOCUST
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NATHANIEL WEST
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IDEOLOGICAL STATE APPARATUSES
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LOUIS ALTHUSSER
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FORTRESS LA
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MIKE DAVIS
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GOLDEN LAND
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WILLIAM FAULKNER
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INDISPENSABLE SCAPEGOATS AND INTO THE MAINSTREAM
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HATA AND HATA
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RAMONA
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HELEN JACKSON
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TO BUILD A FIRE
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JACK LONDON
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END OF NATURE
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BILL MCKIBBEN
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REINVENTING EDEN
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CAROL MERCHANT
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WHAT IS A SIGN?
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PILLAR
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FACING WEST FROM CALIFORNIAS SHORES
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WALT WHITMAN
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FROM MILITARY INDUSTRIAL TO URBAN INDUSTRIAL
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RAUL VILLA
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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY
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FREDERICK TURNER
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REDISCOVERY OF TURTLE ISLAND
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GARY SNYDER
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CEREMONY
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LESLIE SILKO
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ORIENTALISM
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EDWARD SAID
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IF I AM TOO BROWN OR TOO WHITE FOR YOU
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WENDY ROSE
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JOHN RECHY
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CITY OF NIGHT
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AFTER THE FIRE
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MARGARET MILLAR
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THE PURITAN OF NEW ENGLAND LANDSCAPE
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BELDEN LANE
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THE IDEAL COUNTRY LIFE
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MATT GARCIA
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MARVELOUS POSSESSIONS
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STEPHEN GREENBLATT
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ORIGIN OF SPECIES
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CHARLES DARWIN
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THE PRARIE AND PIONEERS
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JAMES FENIMORE
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LOS ANGELES RIOTS
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MARK BALDASSARE
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A PARADOX FOR BLACKS IN THE PROMISED LAND
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KEITH NAYLOR
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