Assignment 1:Here is some background about the video game Gone Home: See pp. 138-39 of Bagnall for more info about the game, but here is a short description: “The game opens on the porch of a house: in the lower left-hand of the first person shot rests luggage, tagged for Kaitlin Greenbriar, the player, who has just returned home after spending a year overseas. In a note taped to the glass, the player’s sister Sam apologizes for her absence. … The player later discovers that, while they were abroad, Sam met and began dating fellow student Lonnie. Their parents were unable to accept Sam’s lesbian relationship, and so Sam and Lonnie ran away together.”Using at least one quote from the reading, explain how the author's experience of the game Gone Home both reflects heteronormativity and critiques it.Assignment 2:Recall our discussion of online harassment as a particular form of misogyny we have seen in popular culture and digital environments. We talked about this at the beginning of unit 3, on the day that we did the #upskirt reading focused on the keyword “surveillance.” In Activity 3.1, you listened to the podcast exchange between an online writer, Lindy West, who had been harassed and her harasser who was apologizing. He specifically admitted that he attacked her because she was a confident woman who was unafraid to write about being fat and feminist.In our current unit, we have also talked about video games and the misogyny in them. We looked at a youtube video produced by Anita Sarkeesian on the channel Feminist Frequency. I mentioned then that Sarkeesian has faced extreme forms of harassment – both online and “in real life” – simply in response to her commentaries on video games. This sort of violent backlash faced by female and feminist gamers is called “gamergate” and it is covered in the documentary GTFO, available through the library website. In order to get a sense of what this sort of online harassment and trolling is all about, watch this short 3 minute Washington Post video clip: How feminist blogger Anita Sarkeesian fights trolls. Scroll down to look at some of the comments the video received. (In order to see comments, click on the "Link" in Activity 4.3 to open the video in a new window.) What are the main themes of these comments? What do they imply? What seems to be “behind” them? If we consider this to be exemplary of a "system failure," what system are we talking about and what, exactly, has failed?

Questions:What is the speaker's main argument? Or what is his thesis?Name at least 2 specific examples/pieces of evidence he uses to support his argument? What kind of stories/evidence is Sapolsky telling his audience in the speech? What was the biggest takeaway that you had from this video? What interested you the most?How does Sapolsky organize his speech? When do those stories show up in his speech? When does he give that evidence? Is there any pattern you can discern or figure out from where he places that specific evidence?What is Sapolsky's purpose? What does he want from his audience?What is Sapolsky's tone? Is his tone successful in connecting with his audience? What examples of ethos, pathos, or logos does Sapolsky use in his speech? Are these examples of ethos, pathos, logos effective or not? How does this TED talk add to what you have already learned during this Zootopia unit? Can you draw any parallels with Sapolsky's TED Talk to any of the other sources from this unit? Ted talk name (The Biology of Our Best and Worst Selves" | Robert Sapolsky)

The cases and questions are provided in the textbook which is attached below.14.2 - Mexican Restaurant, p.415 Read each of the situations listed above. Type each question and provide answers. Be sure to support your answers with references from your readings and your own research. Make your case! Remember - in the law, there is often no one "right" answer. It is all about making your case using the facts and supporting materials.