• Max More – “A Letter to Mother Nature”
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – “I Have a Dream”
• John F. Kennedy – Rice Stadium moon speech (“not because they are easy, but because they are hard”)
• wikipedia’s list of notable manifestos
• the Dogme 95 filmmaking manifesto
• ten inspirational manifestos
• Geoff McDonald – “The Manifesto Manifesto”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xp4M0IjzcQ

Avatar Days from Piranha Bar on Vimeo.

(And wikipedia.)

• Ann Friedman – “The Hillary Clinton Catch-22”
• Ann Friedman – “Why Do Women Hate Anne Hathaway (But Love Jennifer Lawrence)?”
• Julie Miller – “A Tale of Two Oscar-Winning Actresses: Why Has Jennifer Lawrence Become a Media Darling by Breaking All the Rules, While Well-Behaved Anne Hathaway Is Getting Flack?”
• Sasha Weiss – “Anne Hathaway: In Defense of the Happy Girl”
• Jennifer Wright – “Anne Hathaway, Ourselves”
• Heather Havrilesky – “Mila Kunis, Jennifer Lawrence, and the Delicate Formula for Becoming America’s Best Friend”
• Tamara Winfrey Harris – “All Hail the Queen?: What do our perceptions of Beyonce’s feminism say about us?”
• Rakhi Kumar – “An Open Letter to Michelle Obama: BTW Beyonce No Longer a ‘Role Model'” vs. Caperton – “Okay, lay off Beyonce, already”
• Stephen Rodrick – “Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie”
• Hermione Hoby – “The slacker is back—and this time she’s female”
• The Lady Aye – “Beauty Is an Impediment: Julia Pastrana and the Modern-Day Politics of Being Seen”

More on the Zimmerman verdict (some of these we looked at in class, some we didn’t):

• Gary Younge – “Open season on black boys after a verdict like this”
• Ta-Nehisi Coates – “Trayvon Martin and the Irony of American Justice”
• Rasha Hamid – “You Have My Permission to Wear a Hoodie Every Day”
• Cord Jefferson – “The Zimmerman Jury Told Young Black Men What We Already Knew”
• Bring Me the African Guy – “We Don’t Die, We Multiply (Again)”
• Adam Kotsko – “What if Zimmerman had been a cop?”
• Dave Zirin – “Trayvon Martin’s Death, LeBron James and the Miami Heat”
• Andrew Springer – “NFL Stars Feel Heat After Zimmerman Tweets”

And here’s Molly Crabapple’s portrait of Trayvon Martin, which we looked at briefly in class:

Here’s the oft-referred-to video of the baby who doesn’t understand that magazine photos of food are not the same as food:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9CDzGY-kLI

Art Spiegelman’s New Yorker cover from the 9-24-01 issue:

Richard Drew’s photograph, “The Falling Man”:

• sex, gender, and toilets
• the shield of Superman: the evolution of an icon
• the coolest flags in human history
• yes we scan (modifying Shepard Fairey)
• 20 photos that changed the Holocaust narrative

“Missed Connection”:

“Be Good”:

“Migrant Mother”: