English Faculty
Articulation Officer

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Phone: (209) 384-6315
E-mail: hundley.a@mccd.edu
Office: IAC 263

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Last updated March 8, 2010 by Amy Hundley

Useful Student Links for all English Courses

:Merced College Portal (student e-mail, library databases, etc.):
http://my.mccd.edu

:Capital Community College Grammar Guide:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index2.htm

:The Purdue U Online Writing Lab (OWL):
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl and http://owl.english.purdue.edu/oldindex.html


:Diana Hacker's Research and Documentation Page:
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc


:Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
http://www.m-w.com/

:Multi-language Online Dictionaries and Translators:
http://www.word2word.com/dictionary.html

:Internet Movie Database:
http://www.imdb.com/

:Movie Reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/

:Assessing Websites:
www.alexa.com

:Political/Editorial Cartoons:
http://www.funnytimes.com/

http://cagle.msnbc.com/politicalcartoons/


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Useful Student Links for English 1A:

Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri

:Editorial Reviews for Interpreter of Maladies

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Interpreter-of-Maladies/Jhumpa-Lahiri/e/9780395927205#CHP

:Biography of Jhumpa Lahiri

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/21/saturdayreviewsfeatres.guardianreview5


:Voices from the Gaps: University of Minnesota--Themes of Marriage and Tradition

http://voices.cla.umn.edu/essays/fiction/interpreter_of_maladies.html

:India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh 1947 and 1971 Partition

http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Part.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/629/629/6922293.stm

http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/conflicts/india_pakistan/partition

:A Reader's Guide

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/readers_guides/interpreter_maladies.shtml

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The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal:

:"History of the Holocaust: An Introduction”

 http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/history.html

:“About Simon Wiesenthal”

http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=242614

:“36 Questions about the Holocaust”

http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c+gvKLcMVluG&b= 394663

: Reading Group Guide

http://www.powells.com/biblio?show=TRADE PAPER:USED:9780805210606:7.50&page=readinggroupguide

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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls:

 "Excerpt: The Glass Castle: A Writer's Account of Her Life Journey From
West Virginia to New York City"

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=549259

:Reading Group Guide
http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/glass_castle1.asp

:“Interview with Jeannette Walls” by Rachel Kramer Bussel

http://www.gothamist.com/2005/05/27/
jeannette_walls_author_the_glass_castle_gossip_columnist_msnbccom.php

:“The Glass Castle: Outrageous Misfortune”
Book Review by Francine Prose New York Times (you might need to register for this site)

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/books/review/013COVERPROSE.html

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley:

:Paradise Lost by John Milton

http://www.paradiselost.org/5-overview.html

:The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

http://etext.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Rime_Ancient_Mariner.html

:The Myth of Prometheus

http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/grecoromanmyth1/a/prometheus.htm
 

:Electronic text of the story “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne:

http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/HawBirt.html

:Notes on “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne:
http://brainstorm-services.com/wcu-lit/hawthorne.html

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