WORTH: 2% of semester grade

 

CAN THIS BE TURNED IN LATE?: NO

All files should be saved on your computer as: your last name, followed by an underscore ("_"), followed by the first two letters of your first name, followed by an underscore ("_"), followed by the assignment number. So if a student named Saddam Hussein were to submit assignment number 17, the file name would be:

hussein_sa_17.doc

THIS IS ASSIGNMENT 17

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question on pp. 24 - 25

1) In turning her book The Central Park Five into a documentary, Sarah Burns had to make choices about what to include and what to exclude. Thinking about these pages and the film, answer the following interrelated questions:

A) what set of facts about that night did Burns exclude in the film version of the story she tells?

B)Why might she have excluded these facts?

C) Does the exclusion of these facts make any difference?

D) Where in these pages does Sarah Burns use the passive voice (e.g., "Mistakes were made" rather than "Fritz made a mistake") in a way that obscures who did what to whom?

questions on pp. 67 – 71, pp. 124 - 128, and the entirety of the film

2) Using the evidence contained in these pages and the film, choose one of the following claims to argue in 2-3 paragraphs that adopt the cl/ev/wa format.

A) Although the media clearly portrayed the Central Park Five in a racist fashion, the media actually had little impact on how the criminal justice system went about pursuing the case. The undeniably serious flaws in how the system handled the Central Park Five were the product of honest mistakes independent of media racism.

or

B) The media's racist portrayal of the Central Park Five warped the criminal justice system's pursuit of the case.