WALLS AND FENCES...

Walls and Fences: (10%)

This is our first assignment and is due rather quickly, so do not dilly dally. You must choose an historical wall or fence. Here is a brief list of some possibilities:

Antonine Wall                                                                   Aurelian Walls

Berlin Wall                                                                                    Botswana-Zimbabwe Border

Ceuta and Melilla Borders (Spain-Morocco)             Dingo Fence

Emmitsburg Road Fence                                              Fence around Manzanar Camp

Fence at Buckingham Palace                                      Great Wall of China

Great Zimbabwe Walls                                                  Green Monster

Hadrian’s Wall                                                                 Indo-Bangladeshi Barrier

Intramuros                                                                                    Kremlin Wall

Kuwait-Iraq Barrier                                                          Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi  (Vietnam)

Red Snake (Iran)                                                             Sacsayhuaman (Peru)

San Diego Border Fence                                               The Atlantic Wall

The Communards' Wall                                                            The Korean Wall

The Lennon Wall (Prague)                                            The Peace Lines (Belfast)

The Walls of Constantinople                                        Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall

Wall of Jericho                                                                 Walls of Ávila 

Walls of Babylon                                                             Walls of Dubrovnik

Walls of Troy                                                                    West Bank Separation Barrier

Western Wall

You will do some simple research on your wall/fence, using google, google scholar, and google books. You are allowed to go to the library for this but a library visit is not required. Your short essay will be 2 pages long (double-spaced) and will place the wall or fence into its historical context. How, when, and why did this wall/fence come about? Who does it separate from whom? Was it successful in creating a separation?

9/25  Thu         Walls and Fences Due

…TYPED AND AT THE START OF CLASS

…future assignments will be cited in Chicago Manual of Style and judged by exacting standards. For this assignment, you may use a common sense method of citation. FOLLOW ALL RULES OF ACADEMIC HONESTY. If it is a quote or idea you are using from someone else, leave it in quotes or cite it with a common sense method. What does that look like? Here is an example:

In TC Boyle’s Tortilla Curtain, the character Kyra states, “Immigrants are the lifeblood of this country.” (page 74) IN the New York Times article “Pilgrim of Topanga Creek,” Scott Spencer writes that Mr. Boyle deftly portrays Los Angeles's Topanga Canyon, catching both its privileged society and its underlying geological and ecological instability…An undocumented Mexican couple struggle for survival in the interstices of society and in the canyon itself, even as an affluent Anglo couple live their fearful, selfish existence behind the dubious protection of a walled development called Arroyo Blanco Estates. (http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/02/08/home/boyle-tortilla.html)