Sumários

Essay guidelines; Carter and Reagan.

24 Novembro 2017, 16:00 Susana Isabel Arsenio Nunes Costa Araujo

Style guides, formal issues and general guidelines for the essay

Jimmy Carter, Religion and Human Rights
The Reagan Revolution, Reagonomics; 
Reagan's Second Inaugural AddressThe Return to Family Values


Teste de avaliação

22 Novembro 2017, 16:00 Susana Isabel Arsenio Nunes Costa Araujo

Teste de avaliação escrito.


Vietnam war (cont)

17 Novembro 2017, 16:00 Susana Isabel Arsenio Nunes Costa Araujo


Geopolitical context of Vietnam;
Morale of the Troops and Fragging IncidentsNixon's Silent Majority and the Generation Gap;
Visual Memory: "The Saigon Execution" in the The Deer Hunter - analysis of the "Russian Roulette" scene.


Vietnam War

15 Novembro 2017, 16:00 Susana Isabel Arsenio Nunes Costa Araujo

-Second part of the film (the Deer Hunter)
Opposition to the War and Social and Cultural Climate in the 60s 



The Vietnam War

10 Novembro 2017, 16:00 Susana Isabel Arsenio Nunes Costa Araujo

- Methodological background for essays and research:
 Two databases of academic periodicals which can be accessed from FLUL:

 JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/ Project MUSE https://muse.jhu.edu/

[Make use of them for your essays!]

- The Deer Hunter (1978) by Michael Cimino;

- Viewing questions (handouts).