Nuclear Nightmares I: The Nuclear Apocalyptic

Hiroshima: Dropping the Bomb

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF4LQaWJRDg

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6jIfv3cMlw

• Peter Jennings report “Hiroshima & Nagasaki”

• http://www.hiroshima-remembered.com

• http://www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/2003/0312/0312new4.cfm

• http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/Library/Enola.html

• http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/trial/enola/

Witnessing to Disaster

• http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=87963598&m=91297255

• NPR, “Art, and Hope, from the Ashes of Hiroshima.”

“Duck and Cover” (1951)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60

“Operation Cue” (1955)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USuCxRlRMdg

“The House in the Middle”

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t_5wthG0Wc

• The National Clean Up – Paint Up - Fix Up Bureau

Civil Defense Begins at Home

• http://www.civildefensemuseum.com/

Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas

The Berlin Crisis, 1961Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFaIw48vwvw – Kennedy on Berlin Crisis

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2QS-zTWDxo –Kennedy on Cuba

• Documentary on the Crisis: “Thirteen Days in October” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvxuZMhmdxQ&feature=fvsr

• “In these traumatic few years, climaxing with the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, humanity came as close as it has ever come to exterminating all life on the planet.” (Rose, 12)

Essay Writing

• Or why the five-paragraph essay is no longer your friend...

• ``Often post-secondary writing involves issues or problems that perplex us and for which we cannot come to a definitive conclusion. The goal of such writing is not the ending but the journey” (BPH 75).

Note taking and PlanningFrom the U of T Writing Centre:

• Some techniques for integrating note-taking and planning

• Though convenient, the common method of jotting down your notes consecutively on paper is far from ideal. The problem is that your points remain fixed on paper. Here are three alternatives that provide greater flexibility:

method 1: index cards

• When you are researching, write down every idea, fact, quotation, or paraphrase on a separate index card. Small (5" by 3") cards are easiest to work with. When you've collected all your cards, reshuffle them into the best possible order, and you have an outline, though you will undoubtedly want to reduce this outline to the essential points.

method 2: the computer

• A different way of moving your notes around is to use the computer. You can collect your points consecutively, just as you would on paper. You can then sort your ideas when you are ready to start planning. Take advantage of "outline view" in Word, which makes it easy for you to arrange your points hierarchically. This method is fine so long as you don't mind being tied to your computer from the first stage of the writing process to the last. Some people prefer to keep their planning low-tech.

method 3: the circle method

• This method is designed to get your ideas onto a single page, where you can see them all at once. When you have an idea, write it down on paper and draw a circle around it. When you have an idea which supports another idea, do the same, but connect the two circles with a line. Supporting source material can be represented concisely by a page reference inside a circle. The advantage of the circle method is that you can see at a glance how things tie together; the disadvantage is that there is a limit to how much material you can cram onto a page.

Mind Mapping Might Help

• Check out free mind mapping software online

• FreeMind – see “Nuclear Memory” mind map

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grut_2cardM Freemind tutorial