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Welcome to English 110! As we prepare to begin our first-year writing course, think about the places that have helped shape your identity. Perhaps it’s a city, school, apartment building, tree house, lake, mountain range, restaurant, cabin or your grandma’s house. How do temporary locations – an open desert highway, a hospital bed, a dorm room – influence behavior and the way we see ourselves? In this class we’ll look at the interplay of place and identity for pop-culture characters such as the guys in The Hangover. We’ll also examine this theme in excerpts of graphic novels like Fun Home, books such as Don Pollock's Knockemstiff and essays including Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr.