This is my annotated bibliography up-to-date to Week 10, it includes the all our readings and the resources I used in both my rhetorical analysis essay and my rhetoric in practice essay. Most of my resources in here are annotated. 

Annotated Bibliography

Atwater, G.M. “A Writer's Guide to the Old West.” Old West Writer's Guide, 2008, freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~poindexterfamily/OldWestSlang.html.

 

Autry, Gene. "Gene Autry's Cowboy Code." The Official Website for Gene Autry. Autry Qualified Interest Trust, 2016. Web. 2 Oct. 2017. <http://www.autry.com/geneautry/geneautry_cowboycode.html>.   

 

Barger, Robert. Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development. University of Notre Dame , www5.csudh.edu/dearhabermas/kohlberg01bk.htm.\

Robert Barger is a successful professor from the University of Notre Dame with a Ph.D., an extensive list of education, and received many awards “Distinguished Faculty Award, Eastern Illinois.” In this resource, it is intended to be a source of information, provided to students, to condense and summarize Lawrence Kohlberg’s background and his theory of morality. A strength of this article is that it provides a table that organizes the theory of morality as a visual cue and information that educates the student audience easier; however, a weakness is that it only describes the simplified version of Kohlberg’s theory and does not provide anything else in depth. I used this source for my rhetorical analysis essay since my thesis was revolved around the declining morality, I wanted to refer and define morality in terms of Kohlberg’s theory.               

 

Bell, Bob Boze. “Saloon Etiquette for Cowboys.” Bob Boze Bell's Big Bad Book of Bad Diary Entries, 1 Jan. 1970, blog.truewestmagazine.com/2017/03/saloon-etiquette-for-cowboys.html.

 

Cooper, Lydia R. “He’s a Psychopathic Killer, but So What?: Folklore and Morality in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men.” Papers on Language and Literature. Winter, 2009. 37-59.

Lydia Cooper, a professor, examines how structure and format Cormac McCarthy utilizes in No Country for Old Men is interpreted and what it is supposed to be evoked. Cooper discussed the framed narratives, dense prose styles, and folktale characteristics that dictates the shape of the plot and characters in the novel. She also provides context in relevance of the drug trade was to the point this novel was published. A strength of this is it was a detailed analyzation of McCarthy’s nonconventional writing style in No Country for Old Men and understand why McCarthy used it, one could use it to describe how McCarthy used context and structure to shape his novel.

 

Florida, Richard. “What Makes Countries Corrupt.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 10 Nov. 2010, www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/11/what-makes-countries-corrupt/66362/.

Richard Florida, professor at the University of Toronto’s Martin Prosperity Institute and also the experienced senior editor at The Atlantic, presents in his article analytical data which displays the relationships of aspects in society and morality. Essentially the content of this resource compares corruption according to the Transparency International’s 2010 Corruption Perception Index to many nation’s stances such as economic development, social tolerance, and other contributing factors divided in society. ­­­This article is useful in understand correlations between society and corruption. I incorporated the findings in my rhetorical analysis essay to show that as society (in my case- the west) emerges and divides from poverty, it becomes more exposed to immorality and corruption. In this sense, it provides a statistic that supports my thesis.

 

Gootenberg, Paul. “Blowback: The Mexican Drug Crisis.” NACLA, The North American Congress on Latin America, nacla.org/article/blowback-mexican-drug-crisis.

Paul Gootenberg is a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University from New York, his specialties regard the drug trade in the United States. Gootenberg states in this article the history of the emergence of the drug trade in the United States in depth and its development to power over Mexico’s modern society today. He argues on that, although Mexico’s declared into war, it has nt spread and become an international issue. I used this to support my idea of the corruption brought upon by drugs and how it influences our society

 

Kitses, John. "Authorship and Genre: Notes on the Western." (1969): 57-68. Web.

John Kitses, the author, elaborates on basis of the western genre and its common characteristics of individuals, nature, and the west, that structure classical western. The author also emphasizes how expressive and versatility of Western, as it has incorporated many aspects such as moral ambiguity. Despite that this is a valuable source to anyone who writes an essay connecting to the western genres and themes, a vulnerability of this is that its an older published work, meaning its content is a bit obsolete. For example, Kitses refers back to a lot of media- but while it may have been relevant to its time period, a lot of the movies and directors aren’t as recognized today- therefore unknown to those who aren’t extreme western fanatics. A strength of this is that it is heavily supported by evidence and elaborative on its main points.

 

Lauck, Jon. American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly: the Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953-1980. University of Nebraska, 2000.

Jon Lauck, the founder of the Midwestern History Association, is a history professor at the University of South Dakota and the reputable author of many published books. In his book, Lauck discusses the origins of problems with agribusinesses in the mid-west and the essence of how the competition has shaped communities involved with it. I mentioned this source in my rhetorical analysis essay because I wanted to describe how western society’s relationship with the food and how it was manufactured. It was intended to strengthen my argument that desensitization to the meat industry is an example of shifting attitudes and culture compared to the Cherokee, who used to pray after killing animals.

 

Leonard, Elmore. Fire in the Hole: Stories. New York, NY: William Morrow, 2012. Print.

Elmore Leonard, an acclaimed novelist, published the western short-story of Fire in the Hole in the setting of Kentucky, where it follows the story where Deputy Raylan Givens is assigned to arrest Boyd Crowder, one of his close friends from mining now-turned extremist and a problem for the government. There is incorporation of much traditional western culture, but its lack of a happy ending makes it neo-Western. This story is intended to appeal to those who prefer the western Genre or friendship-based tales. This story could be relevant to my rhetorical analysis essay because it could be compared as No Country for Old Men and Fire in the Hole contain classical western features and have a sad or darker ending.

 

McCarthy, Cormac. No Country for Old Men. New York: Vintage International/Vintage, 2007. Print.

Cormac McCarthy, an acclaimed American novelist, established No Country for Old Men as a neo-Western tale that focuses on declining morality correlated with each succeeding generation. His novel uses a background of rising organized crime revolved around drug trafficking along the US-Mexican border to evoke this increase of corruption within the West. Through a unique format, McCarthy wrote the novel structured in changing point of views of characters and understand the underlying context of the novel. I used this novel as a source to support the thesis of my rhetorical analysis essay to show that society is experiencing a collapse of morality. This novel is intended for western fanatics and action-enthusiasts.

 

Murdoch, David Hamilton. The American West: The Invention of Myth. Reno: U of Nevada, 2001. Print.

David H. Murdoch, a British historian, discusses that the West is build off a myth, perceived among many Americans in order to ignore its actual tragedy. Murdoch describes that the westward expansion had actually impacted America both economically and socially negatively; this, in turn, led Americans to construct a mythical positive view on the West. This became a perspective that overshadowed the actual realities of Westward extension. A strength of this source is that it could be used to provide historical context and the origin of the western genre, but a weakness includes that it could be written from a skewed perception of Americans, as Murdoch is not someone personally related to America’s western culture.

 

Olver, Lynne. “Cowboy Cooking.” The Food Timeline: Cowboy Foods, Foodtimeline, 3 Jan. 2015, www.foodtimeline.org/foodpioneer.html#cowboy.

 

Proulx, Annie. Brokeback Mountain. New York: Scribner, 2005. Print.

Annie Proulx, a successful author, writes the story of a homosexual relationship between Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar, who meet while herding sheep on Brokeback mountain around the 1960s to the 1980s. The story focuses on the difficulty of managing their sexual chemistry and relationship while acting as civilized individuals of a society that criticizes what they represent. While the pair conform to societal rules by getting married to women and have families, the interference by the western convention of death provokes grief among the audience. This heartfelt novel could be used to support neo-western aspects and understand the attitudes towards homosexuality in Western culture.

 

"Rogues, Reprobates, Outcasts, and Oddballs; The Anti-Hero." The Heroic Ideal: Western Archetypes from the Greeks to the Present (2010): 184-201. Web. 18 Oct. 2017.

In “Rogues, Reprobates, Outcasts, and Oddballs; The Anti-Hero” the author discusses the common popularized impression people have on what defines a hero, which is the “self-conflicted loner’ persona. The author argues on the point that heroes are not the everyday person, however this is a weakness as the credibility of the author remains questionable. The majority of this source is not statistically significant. This source is useful for those who want to write an essay discussing how a novel is subverting away from the western genre.

 

Vogel, Christopher. A Practical Guide to The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. Digital image. Thewritersjourney.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Oct. 2017.

Christopher Vogel, a Hollywood development executive, explores his recognition of a consistent system within all myths and how they all include archetypes. He establishes this by mentioning “The Hero Stages” which can be altered in any order, and still keep its purpose as a myth. The strength of this is that it helps us understand the common pattern among stories and predict the roles and relationships within them, therefore it educates the audience. I would incorporate this into my rhetorical analysis by understanding the roles of characters within the novel No Country for Old Men and using it to support my thesis.

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Here is the file for my annotated bibliography in MLA format.