ENGLISH 1A: STARSTRUCK—FAME, CELEBRITY, AND NOTORIETY

DH De La O @ SJSU, Spring 2013

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Celebrity News 04.10.13 [UK Edition]


  • "Dong Dong! The Witch is Dead" poised to hit number one on UK charts after Margaret Thatcher's death (Independent)
  • Brawling on Twitter: One Direction and The Wanted (Mirror) 
  • Also ... Teenage One Direction fan struck by car while waiting to glimpse the boy band (Mirror)
  • Simon Cowell could care less if you think he's gay (Sun)
  • Seven Sisters, a new British soap opera, unravels on Twitter, not TV (Telegraph)
  • Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall's daughter hits the Sydney Fashion Week catwalk (Sun)
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Course Details

DH De La O, The Department of English & Comparative Literature @ San José State University

English 1A: Starstruck—Fame, Celebrity, and Notoriety

Section 01 (#22706): Mo/We 7:30 – 08:45 AM, DMH 354

Section 09 (#23517): Mo/We 9:00 – 10:15 AM, HGH 120

Office: FOB 111

Office Hours: Tu 10:30 – 11:30 AM

Phone: 408.924.5019

Email: dhdelao@gmail.com

Selected Posts

  • [Reflection 11: Holding Nothing Back—The Celebrity Sex Tape Phenomenon]
  • Close Read Essay: Paparazzi and Celebrity Photography
  • Descriptive Essay: Celebrity Inc. and Fame as a Commodity
  • Editorial Essay: In Cold Blood and the American Fasciantion with Crime
  • Expository Essay: Fame Junkies and Our Addiction to Fame
  • Process Analysis Essay
  • Reflection 01: Crossing the Line—Athletes Behaving Badly
  • Reflection 02: Political Stars—Celebrities and Politics
  • Reflection 03: Somebody Think of the Children—Celebrity Kids and the Paparazzi
  • Reflection 04: Like Wildfire—Understanding Viral Videos
  • Reflection 05: In It to Win It—Winning a Reality TV Competition
  • Reflection 06: The "Exclusive" Inside Story—Exploring Tabloid Magazines
  • Reflection 07: Doors Swung Open—The Ethics of Outing
  • Reflection 08: I Feel Pretty—Attractiveness in America
  • Reflection 09: Hey, That's Me!—Seeing Yourself in Popular Culture
  • Reflection 10: What's Hot on Telly?—Must-See TV from Around the World
  • Week 01
  • Week 02
  • Week 03
  • Week 04
  • Week 05
  • Week 06
  • Week 07
  • Week 08
  • Week 09
  • Week 10
  • Week 11
  • Week 12
  • Week 13
  • Week 14
  • Week 15
  • Week 16

Blog Archive

  • ▼  2013 (54)
    • ►  May (5)
    • ▼  April (14)
      • Process Analysis Essay
      • BREAKING: The NBA's Jason Collins Becomes First Op...
      • Week 15
      • Reflection 10: What's Hot on Telly?—Must-See TV fr...
      • Week 14
      • Celebrity News 04.19.13 [Boston Edition]
      • Reflection 09: Hey, That's Me!—Seeing Yourself in ...
      • Reflection 08: I Feel Pretty—Attractiveness in Ame...
      • Week 13
      • Celebrity News 04.10.13 [UK Edition]
      • Descriptive Essay: Celebrity Inc. and Fame as a Co...
      • Reflection 07: Doors Swung Open—The Ethics of Outing
      • Week 12
      • Celebrity News 04.04.13
    • ►  March (13)
    • ►  February (13)
    • ►  January (9)

Syllabus

  • Spring 2013

Dropbox Documents

  • 1A Process Analysis Essay Rubric
  • Balancing Content and Style in PowerPoint
  • Citing Sources in MLA: The Basics
  • MLA Style 101
  • Owen Noone and the Marauder: A Folk Playlist
  • Reflection Sample

eReader

  • "'In Cold Blood' A Cold Case Police Decide is Worth Digging Up" (Los Angeles Times)
  • "'In Cold Blood', Half a Century On" (Guardian)
  • "'In Cold Blood': A Legacy in Photos" (Lawrence-Journal-World)
  • "Creative Nonfiction: Where Journalism and Storytelling Meet" (The Writer)
  • "I Want to be Famous" (Guardian)
  • "One Night on a Kansas Farm" (New York Times)
  • "Ron Galella, King of the Paparazzi" (Time)
  • "So You Want to be Famous..." (Newsweek)
  • "Talking Pictures with Annie Leibovitz" (Independent)
  • "Why Do We Want to be Famous?" (Psychology Today),

Writing Resources

  • DailyGrammar
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library [San Jose State University]
  • EasyBib
  • Grammar Bytes!
  • Grammar Girl
  • MLA Block Quotations [Northern Oklahoma College]
  • MLA In-text Parathetical Citation [Duke University]
  • MLA Style Guide [Purdue University]
  • MLA Works Cited Page [Cornell Univeristy]
  • Online Writing Lab [Purdue Univeristy]
  • Writing Center [San Jose State University]

Celebrity News

  • BuzzFeed
  • Daily Mirror
  • Deadspin
  • Entertainment Tonight
  • Entertainment Weekly
  • Gawker
  • Just Jared
  • National Enquirer
  • New York Post
  • People
  • PerezHilton
  • The Sun
  • TMZ
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