Social Movements Week Fourteen



Quiz Thirteen will close late Monday night (actually  4 a.m. on April 29).  It will cover the readings listed below plus additional material covered in class.
Quiz Fourteen will close late Monday night (actually 4 a.m. on May 6).  It will cover the readings listed below plus additional materials covered in class. 
Final Exam Alternative One: Quiz Fifteen will be an online multiple choice exam focusing on selected issues from the semester as a whole as well as topics covered in the last week.  A study guide for this exam will be released in class on May 5.  The exam will open on May 8 and close at 12:30 p.m. on May 12.  You will have one try on this exam and one hour.  There will be 50 items, some but not all of which will be repeats from our weekly quizzes.   You cannot stop the clock on the exam, you should allow an hour to take it. To find your grade on this test, click on "Grades on Quizzes." If you attempt this exam at the last minute and something goes wrong, then come to class for Alternative Two.
Note:  Please print or save a copy of the confirmation page saying that your exam has been submitted.  Make a note of the exact time when you take it.  We have had a few incidents of quizzes reported to have "disappeared" from SAKAI.  The SAKAI people are skeptical of these reports.  If this happens again, I want to have documentary evidence for the SAKAI investigators.  No complaints of lost exams will be accepted without this document.
Final Exam Alternative Two:  An essay final examination will be given on Monday May 12 at 2 p.m. in our classroom.  If you do not complete Alternative One, you must complete Alternative Two. 
Final Exam Alternative Three:  You may take both Alternative One and Alternative Two, each at the appropriate time.  If you choose this option, the two scores will be averaged together. You will NOT be given the higher of the two. I do not want students to think they have to take both exams to maximize their chances of a good grade.  Please email me by 1:30 on Monday if you plan to take this option so I know how many exams to run off.

Readings:

  1. Turncoats and True Believers, Chapter 14:  "Holocaust and Genocide Revisionism".  In SAKAI/Resources/WeekFourteen
  2. Neil Smelser, "Discouraging Terrorism"  in Sakai/Resources/Week Fourteen
  3. Revisionists and Truthists.ppt.  In Sakai/Resources/Week Fourteen
  4. "Critics Cost Muslim Educator Her School,"  NY Times April 28, 2009.  Links to video to be shown in class.
Links and Notes:
  1. "Loose Change" video trailer
  2. Popular Mechanics, "Debunking the 9/11 Myths"
  3. Jack Braitch, Conspiracy Panics 
  4. Brent Blanchard, "A Critical Analysis of the Collapse of the WTC Towers"
  5. Douglas Hermanb, "Truthers versus Debunkers"
  6. James Taranto, "Truthers are Stranger than Fiction"
  7. Wikipedia, "911 Truth Movement"
  8. 911 Scholars for Truth
  9. Cooper Union Conference Video   Jim Fletzer Speaks  
  10. Institute for Historical Review. 
  11. Vicrtims of Zion
  12. Holocaust Denial:  Wikipedia
  13. Denial of the Armenian Genocide:  Wikipedia
  14. Burundi Genocide - Wikipedia
  15. Khmer Rouge Genocide - Wikipedia
  16. Darfur:  A Genocide We Can Stop
  17. War in Darfur - Wikipiedia
  18. U.S. Holocaust Museum. 
  19. 911 Truth Contest 
  20. http://www.sf911truth.org/  
  21. Aids not caused by HIV  -  Evidence that it is -
  22. A Professor Sues His Class...
  23. Trudy Rubin:  Give Pakistani tribes reason to carry the fight to jihadists -
  24. France Still Divided Over Lessons of 1968 Unrest.  Barricades still divide the French. 
  25. David Brooks:  Demography is King. 
  26. Letters to the Editor on the 1968 Protests at Columbia University.