Annotated Bibliography

2012. Roland Emmerich. John Cusack, Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor. 2009. Film.
This is a film that shows how the day of the end of the world will be like. All kind of
disaster came to destroy the world, and people are trying there best to escapes from death.
Finally, a portion of people survived from a ship and land on an island. Both evolution
and creation did not deny the fact that this world will come to an end in one day.
However, the attitude to look at that day will be different. People believe creation will
look at that day as the last day for them to live in this world and they will be with the
creator soon. People who believe evolution will think that everything they had in this
world is gone and they have no hope on that day. This film shows that in people in these
disaster are trying to escape the disaster by their own power, and did not ask Gods help,
so it portrays that this is a world from evolution.
A&E Television Network. Histry, LLC, Web. 5 sep. 2013
Timothy McVeigh is a former U.S. Army. In April 19, 1995, 9:02 am, he used a truck
that packed with bomb to cause explosion to a story Building. 168 people died. 650
injured. 300 more building damaged or destroyed. Timothy was being charged
immediately, and was imposed death penalty.
Alan Sailer.Perfectly Timed Explosions. 2012. Web. Nov. 9. 2013
This is a picture captured right at the explosion of a bunch of crayon. It shows when the
explosion happen, the Crayon are broken into little piece. This is important because it
demonstrated that explosion will always be destructive. It will never create something.
The Big Bang claims that explosion creates the world is unexplainable when we look at
an explosion.
Anzaldua, Gloria. "How to Tame a Wild Tongue." Readings for Revolutionary Writing: Stretch-
accelerated Composition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's Custom Pub., 2013. 22-32. Print.
Many people dont understand or like the Chicano Culture and language. The author used
Chicano language in her work because she dont want this language to vanish. Chicano
people down at themselves until there is a book that related to Chicano culture published.
BCC. BBCs Planet Ant - Life Inside The Colony 2013. Youtube. Web. 8 November. 2013.
This is a documentary about ant. In the video, it shows how ants can be very organize,
which means they are like a troop that march on the same path back an forth. The reason
they can walk like a troop is because of their sense and communication. This is amazing
because ant can form something like bureaucracy, and in someway, it is organize then
people. This portray the world has a creator behind because it is hard to imagine that
living come from evolution could be as organize as human being.
"Big Bang Theory." Big Bang Theory. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Nov. 2013.
This explained the theory of Big Bang. It claims that the universe was come from the big
bang, which is an explosion. After that, planets are created, and the world was come from
this big bang. This theory emphasis on the fact that the world is not created by God, but
by chemical reaction.
"Black History Month." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 13 Nov. 2013. Web. 18 Nov. 2013
It is an aunal observance for remembrance the important event and people in the history
of the African diaspora. The Date of celebration is in the month of February and October.
Bonham, Frank. Durango Street. New York: Dutton, 1965. Print.
I learned that Rufus is a gang. He is having a feeling of being trapped because of his
background and race. At the end, all these feeling had left him
Bront, Charlotte, Fritz Eichenberg, and Bruce Rogers. Jane Eyre. New York: Random House,
1943. Print.
Jane Eyre is a orphan who were live in her aunts house when she was little. Later on, she
live in a female school to get education. After that, she become a tutor in the Thornfeild.
Then, she falls in love with the owner of the house, Rochester.
"Bronzeville." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 11 Sept. 2013. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.
This is a place where was mixed with Japanese and other culture. This place has later
become the Little Tokyo town today.
"Camelot." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 11 Dec. 2013. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.
Camelot was the kingdom of King Author. It is a play about the king and his lover
Guineveres marriage in Camelot.
Cavendish, Richard. Legends of the World. New York: Schocken, 1982. Print.
The legends of the World shows all the myths and fables in every cultures. It has include
the culture of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Tibetan, Mongolian, Egyptian, Christian,
Islamic, Persian, Ottoman, Ethiopian, Moorish, Jewish, Germanic, Celtic, Welsh, Greek,
Roman, Nordic, Russian, Teutonic, Slavic, Gypsy, African, American Indian, Incan,
Mayan, Aztec, Polynesian, and Australian Aboriginal. It shows that different culture has
different myths and fables related to the legend of their culture or the legend of the world.
This fact shows that in the deep of human beings mind, they believe that is a God exist
and the world is come from Him.
"Crenshaw, Los Angeles." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 17 Nov. 2013. Web. 18 Nov.
2013.
This is the hometown where is character Frank, in the book Southland, live in. It was a
place where has Asian American and African American live in.
Dead Poets Society. Dir. Peter Weir. Perf. Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke.
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, 1989. DVD.
Dead Poets Society is a meeting that a group of people will be in a cave reading poetry to
relief the sorrow that have. It help people to do what they want and free thinking.
However, this movement was banned in the university of Welton. The leader of this
meeting committed suicide at the end because his father does not let him do what he want.
Didion, Joan. "On Keeping a Notebook." Readings for Revolutionary Writing: Stretch-
accelerated Composition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's Custom Pub., 2013. 98-104. Print.
When we keep a notebook, we used to write down everything we saw. Sometime, we
might wrote down useless stuff, because we never went back to read them, or we have no
idea what is the note mean. We should keep our notebook in a more interesting way.
Donald L. Philippi, trans., 1969, Kojiki: Princeton, Princeton University Press, 655 p., and
Joseph M. Campbell, 1962, The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology: New York, Viking
Press, 561 p.
This is a myth of how Japan came from. There were six pair of deities, and they all
become being. One of the pair were being commanded to build the land of japan. They
were dipping the see, building the land, by their supernatural power. The female being
observed that her body is missing a part, and the male told him the reason. After that,
they make love and gave born to the little islands in Japan.
"Donate $50 or More Today for a Free Gift!" Freedom Writers Foundation. N.p., n.d. Web. 18
Nov. 2013.
Tolerance Education Foundation is still exist, but it is call freedom writer foundation. Its
purpose is to lower student dropout rate, increase educator job retention and satisfaction,
create a classroom culture of acceptance and inclusion, and promote success for all
students.
Dweck, Carol S. "Membership." Educational Leadership:Early Intervention at Every Age:The
Perils and Promises of Praise. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Sept. 2013.
Praise effort will creates a growth mind set for the students but praise intelligent will
made the student to have a fixed mind set. A fix mind set will discourage student to study
when they had a failure. Growth mind set encourage student to do their best to overcome
their weakness.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Dir. Michel Gondry. Perf. Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet,
Tom Wilkinson. 2004. DVD.
A couple felt in love at the beginning with whole hearted to each other. Later on when
they got marry, their relationship got worse. The lady decided to erase the memory of her
boyfriend from her mind. When the man found out, he was upset and decided to do the
same thing. At the end, they both regret of what they have to. Fortunately, their memory
got back and they love each other again.
Freire, Paulo. "The "Banking" Concept of Education." Readings for Revolutionary Writing:
Stretch-accelerated Composition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's Custom Pub., 2013. 143-
55. Print.
The education system in todays society is like a bank system. Teacher teaches student
knowledge, and the students are trying their best to memorize what the teacher said. Like
a person, depositing money into a bank. That cause the student to lack of critical thinking.
Gatto, John Taylor. The Six Lesson Schoolteacher. Whole Earth Review. 2010. Print.
The six lesson that a school teacher learn in school was to force the student to listen to the
rule of the school. The author learned that this will destroy the student because they will
not learn anything from memorizing.
Goldberg, Natalie. Writing down the Bones. Boston, MA: Shambhala, 2010. Print.
Free writing is a good way to train your writing. In free writing, you will write down your
first thought. Your first thought is whatever is in your mind in that moment.
Gods World. By Edna St. Vincent Millay : The Poetry Foundation. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Nov.
2013.
This is a poem that describes the beauty of the world. Since this world is so beautiful, the
poet cannot denied the fact that it is created by God, because it does not make any sense
that evolution can make this world to be so beautiful and ordered.
Gruwell, Erin. The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to
Change Themselves and the World around Them. New York: Doubleday, 1999. Print.
Ms. Gruwell teaches in a school where was full of discrimination. She used her love
and care to convert her students from hopeless to becoming freedom writers and pursuing
to go to college.
Gurch. John. A model of the face of an adult female Homo erectus.2012. National Museum of
Natural Historys David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins. Web. Nov. 9. 2013
This picture shows a creature that looks like a man and an ape. It was constructed from a
skull in Dmanisi. It has the feature of human, and a face shape of ape. It portrays the
process of evolution, where apes were becoming human. This is important because it
demonstrate that people believe human are come from apes, not created by God, which
mean, this world is also not created by God.
Hall, Donald. "Four Ways of Reading." Readings for Revolutionary Writing: Stretch-accelerated
Composition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's Custom Pub., 2013. 173-76. Print.
Reading can have four different ways. They are read slowly, quickly, pleasure, and
imaginary. Reading has less reality than melodrama.
Harris, Joshua. I Kissed Dating Goodbye. Sisters, Or.: Multnomah, 2003. Print
Do not rush to have a date. Always wait for Gods guiding. He has a plan in our life. He
has prepared a spouse for us already.
"Holiday Bowl." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 16 Nov. 2013. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.
This a bowling place located on Crenshaw Boulevard. This is a bowling place but also a
coffee place. This place is a diversity place, because there are Japanese American and
African American in this little place.
Hooks, Bell. Critical Thinking. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Sept. 2013
The world has stopped us to think independently, and it is important to be critical
thinking. As we keep growing, we learned not to think too much, but just listen and
memorize the thing the teacher said.
Jan Walls and Yvonne Walls (translators and editors), 1984, Classical Chinese Myths: Hong
Kong, Joint Publishing Company, 135 p. (BL1825.C48 1984)
This is myth in China. It is about the world was like an egg in the beginning. A giant
name Pan Gu has woke up in one day and sperated the earth and the sky apart. Many
years after he died and every parts of his body become the nature of this world. Then a
goddess came to the world and creates human being from clay. One day the sky has a
hole, she heals it with seven color rock. This reflect the belief in the heart of Chinese
people. This myth shows that some of the Chinese people does not believe evolution but
belief that the world is created by some gods.
King Kong. Peter Jackson. Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody. 2005. Flim.
In this movie, there are huge living thing such as the giant King Kong and dinosaurs.
Even the insects are bigger than we could see in our daily life. This illustrated that
evolution is correct because it shows that all the living things are big in the jungle
compare to the living thing we see today, and the reason to explain this is by evolution.
Also there is a clan of people who are very dark and does not look like the human we saw
today. They are more like the little King Kong, and this shows the process of evolution.
Lamott, Anne. "Shitty First Drafts." Readings for Revolutionary Writing: Stretch-accelerated
Composition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's Custom Pub., 2013. 229-32. Print.
First draft is essential for a good essay. The purpose for first draft is to put down
everything the topic is related to and move it around in the final draft. This will give idea
on how to write an essay
Lu, Min-Zhan. "From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle." Readings for Revolutionary
Writing: Stretch-accelerated Composition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's Custom Pub.,
2013. 238-51. Print.
The author has two language. She has a conflict on putting these two language together in
her writing. She discover that the Chinese education banned the student to be freedom
writers.
"Manzanar." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 17 Nov. 2013. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.
This is a concentration camp where many Japanese American has to move to and live in
during WWII. In the book of southland, Frank and his family were one of the family in
this camp.
McCall, Bradford. "Evolutionary Creation: A Christian Approach To Evolution. By Denis O.
Lamoureux And A Fine Tuned Universe: The Quest For God In Science And Theology.
By Alister E. Mcgrath." Heythrop Journal 52.2 (2011): 322-323. Academic Search
Premier. Web. 4 Nov. 2013.
This is a scholar journal that claims this world is come from both creations and evolution.
It used the term evolutionary creation, to compromise the two beliefs. It is true that the
world is created by God, as the Bible, but the living being are all had a evolution process,
and this process is function by the Holy Spirit. This is included in my anthology because
it shows how people believe Creation and Evolution should not be contradicting each
other
Moore, Lorrie. "How to Become a Writer." Readings for Revolutionary Writing: Stretch-
accelerated Composition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's Custom Pub., 2013. 272-78. Print.
To be a writer, there is something that we need to practice on every day. Sometime
writers dont know what they wrote. If writing is your will, no matter what other voice
came and temp you to change your will, insist with writing.
Naylor, Gloria. "The Meanings of a Word." Readings for Revolutionary Writing: Stretch-
accelerated Composition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's Custom Pub., 2013. 283-86. Print.
The meaning of a word can be different to different people. A word can be hurting people,
but it can also be powerless to a person, if he does not know what that word mean.
NOAH MACMILLAN, Creation Myths: Illustrated . 2011. Web. Nov. 9. 2013
This picture illustrated an Africa myth. This shows that they had a myth on people are
created by clay from God. This shows that some people in Africa believe creation. They
believe human are created by God, not by evolution. Therefore, they had a myth like this,
and this picture portrays this myth.
Orwell, George. "Why I Write." Readings for Revolutionary Writing: Stretch-accelerated
Composition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's Custom Pub., 2013. 287-93. Print.
Orwell was very lonely in his childhood, and he love to write since that time. He
informed four purpose of writing. They are write for clever, for recording, for historical
purpose, and political purpose.
"Ovarian Cancer Cedars-Sinai." Ovarian Cancer Cedars-Sinai. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Nov.
2013.
Ovary is a female reproductive organ that produces both hormones and eggs. This is the
disease that Alma got and died from. It is typically seen in women over the age of 50
years
Paul, R., and L. Elder. "Critical Thinking in Everyday Life: 9 Strategies." Critical Thinking in
Everyday Life: 9 Strategies. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Sept. 2013.
In order to train your mind to be critical thinking, there are nine steps to follow. These
nine steps are essential to practice on everyday.
Pipher, Mary Bray. "What You Alone Can Say." Writing to Change the World. New York:
Riverhead, 2006. N.p. Print.
Building a voice in our own writing is very important. Do not just imitating others
voice in your essay. Put a personality into your writing by building a voice in it.
Rich, Adrienne. "When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision." Readings for Revolutionary
Writing: Stretch-accelerated Composition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's Custom Pub.,
2013. 299-314. Print.
In the Patriarchy society, Women was not allow to publish poetry. Women cannot
produce work as good as men. Woman was experiencing both victimization and the anger,
therefore, in the poetry of the author reading in her dream was a blue song.
Revoyr, Nina. Southland. New York: Akashic, 2003. Print.
The book Southland showed the discrimination during 1960s in California. It has three
different races, and they are Japanese, African American, and White American. Japanese
American were very united with African American. However, White American were
strongly dislike African American. All these facts were revealed in the book through the
story of four African American boys, a Japanese store owner and a white cop.
"Saturday Night Live." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 18 Nov. 2013. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.
It is an American late night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by
Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol. This is what Jackie and her girl friend
were watching at late night.
Stories We Tell. Dir. Sarah Polley. Perf. Michael Polley, John Buchan, and Mark Polley.
National Film Board of Canada, 2012. Film.
This is a documentary about a ladys history but tell by different people. Different see
something is that women. Her name is Diane and she married to Michael but later on fall
in love with Harry. At the end she had a baby with Harry but she lied to Michael that it
was his. This video tell how different people will have a different comment on the same
person.
"Summary Of Freewriting By Peter Elbow." PDF And Ebook Files. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Oct. 2013.
Free writing is the best way to improve a persons writing. Write down your first thought
and keep going and never go back to erase or correct anything.
Swift, Kate. "Who's in Charge of the English Language?" Readings for Revolutionary Writing:
Stretch-accelerated Composition. By Casey Miller. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's Custom
Pub., 2013. 265-71. Print.
There are genders in English words. Some words are manly and some are womanly. In
the gender of words, we can see that there is a gender stratification in this society.
Tan, Amy. "Mother Tongue." Readings for Revolutionary Writing: Stretch-accelerated
Composition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's Custom Pub., 2013. 353-58. Print.
Express the thing you want to say in your own way is important. Amy has developed a
way of expression that is different than her moms.
"The Catcher in the Rye." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 17 Nov. 2013. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.
This book is about a boy name Holden who drop out of high school and wonder what to
do after. He meet many girl but they didnt satisfy him. He love one girl, Jane, but she
ignore him. At the end, he has decided to go back to school.
"The Color Purple (film)." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 17 Nov. 2013. Web. 18 Nov.
2013.
The color purple is a story focus on the life of color in southern United States. The theme
of this book is Racism and sexism.
Tuesdays with Morrie. Dir. Mick Jackson. Perf. Jack Lemmon,Hank Azaria, Wendy Moniz.
1999. DVD.
This film is about an old professor has come to a day where his feet cannot move
anymore. He told his former student that he will die soon, and he teaches him the last
subject, which is death. His former student was very busy in work. After listen to the
lesson of death, he didn't value work that much. Instead, he learn how to enjoy his life not
to miss the happiness he had in his life.
"Watts Riot 1965." Watts Riot 1965. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.
The Watt Riots in 1965 causing a great damage to cars, houses, stores, and street. It
relate to the text because Franks family were living very close to the place where the
Riots took place.
"Watts Riots." Watts Riots. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.
The watt Riots causes 34 died. This is connected to the text because Curtis and three
other boys were also killed during the Roits.
"Watts Riots." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 18 Nov. 2013. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.
It is related to the book Southland because Thomas, the officer, has a partner who left
him and moved to east somewhere after the Watts, and the Watts maybe a cause for him
to move
"What a Wonderful World Lyrics." Lyrics.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2013. Web. 8
The lyrics in this song reflect the beauty of this world. It is a wonderful world because it
is colorful, everything is helping and building each other, and people are having love
toward each other. Therefore it is a wonderful world. Again, it emphasis on the order and
harmonious of this world, and it is hard to say that evolution creates a world like this.
Wilson, Edward O. "The Writing Life." Readings for Revolutionary Writing: Stretch-accelerated
Composition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's Custom Pub., 2013. 376-80. Print.
Wilson was a Biologist. He major in micro exploration of ants. In the report that he has to
type, he inform the importance that English is to him.
Weisman, Alan. The World without Us. New York: Thomas Dunne /St. Martin's, 2007.
This book is about what will the world be like if human are not exist. It claims that if
human does not exist in this world, every factory, or product that human had built will
become fossils or rock in 500 years. When all these things are gone, the environment of
the world will become better and so that more living thing could survive. In conclusion, it
insists that human existing is harm to the world.
"Westside Pavilion." Westside Pavilion. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Nov. 2013.
This is a mall where located in L.A. Its interior design is a real attraction around that
place. In the second last chapter of southland, Jackie and Rebecca went to this place to
buy their dress.
X, Malcolm. "Learning to Read." Readings for Revolutionary Writing: Stretch-accelerated
Composition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's Custom Pub., 2013. 256-64. Print.
Malcolm has a positive mind in prison. He did not give up his life, instead he uses his
time very wisely. He has become a great reading model to me.
"Zlata's Diary." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 11 Sept. 2013. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.
It is about a little girl, Zlatas life during WWII. Her acquaintances, including her parents,
and killed by the war. She was alive and live strongly. She has live over the war, though
she has think of suicide, but she didnt. She know she has to be strong for her mother.
Zophy, Aufie. "Y..... Unblind." Poemhunter. N.p., n.d. Web.
The poet of this poem, saw the glorious light at night, and question himself why havent
he see the light in the morning. He realizes it is because of the busy day that he missed
the time to enjoy the glorious world, which is created by God. This is important because
the poet look at the world like looking at a piece of drawing that is drew by a master. He
appreciates this world, and he knows that it is a masterpiece by God. This shows the poet
believe God creates the world.