Extra Credit Options for Humanities 105

You may only due one extra credit assignment per semester.

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You may watch and write a critical response to one of the following films: o Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase
(DVC Media Center VHS-1824, or youtube.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH7OmG2aUL4). ▪ A short, seven minute animated (claymation) mostly modern art masterpieces morphing into each other. o Unbearable Lightness of Being
(compare to
Immortality
).
▪ Tomas is a doctor in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is in love

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with Tereza; his more sophisticated lover Sabina eventually accepts their relationship and the two women form a friendship. The three are caught up in the events of the Prague Spring (1968), until the Soviet tanks crush the non-violent rebels.
The Long Walk Home
▪ Based on a true story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-1956.
Pablo Picasso; A Primitive Soul
(an A&E Biography at the CCC public Library).
▪ This is an A&E
Biography
of the life and work of Pablo Picasso.
Execution of Justice
(may be difficult to find)
▪ The true story of the assassination of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk on November 27, 1978, told from the perspective of the assassin Dan White.

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Make a "soundtrack" for this class. Put together and explain how your choices in songs represent the themes we have covered in class. (Include the audio).

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Read Jorges Luis Borges' T he Book