Christmas Links
Night before Christmas Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZfSoJmS1ug
Cajun Night Before Christmas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKR4jqDV3Dg
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX0Ffh_FcPE
TV Guide Television Schedule:
http://www.tvguide.com/special/holiday-guide/calendar.aspx
Presentation Schedule for the rest of the semester
November 2: Irish
November 7: Honduran/Italian
November 14: Vietnamese
Links from "War of the World"
If you want to listen to the complete broadcast of what we listened to today, you can find it here: http://www.radiolab.org/2008/mar/24/
If you would like to listen to a complete broadcast of the original War of the Worlds, as recorded by Orson Welles, you can find it here:
http://www.mercurytheatre.info/ Scroll down until you find the link for War of the Worlds.
If you would like to read/follow the original script of War of the Worlds, you can find it here:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/mars/wow.htm
Class material from September 19:
The Louisiana Purchase in a nutshell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WIMJOhOGKQ
Fats Domino singing "Walking to New Orleans":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDGWhqmF9RI
Class material from September 14:
The graphic on how the Mississippi river and the land in Louisiana has changed over time:
http://www.nps.gov/jela/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&pageid=357121
A link to the interactive clip, "How Hurricanes Destroy":
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/hurricane/ap/
A link to the Drew Landry song, "BP Blues":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EApX41i1tio
Class material from September 12:
The link to the clip about the Houma natives in Dulac, LA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh336aAPu9Q
Class material from September 7:
Map of New Orleans
Download the (regular) map of New Orleans that I passed out on the first day of class here. Download the ethnic map of New Orleans that I passed out on the first day of class here.
Syllabus
Our syllabus can be found here.
