Shock Doctrine

address the issues in The Shock Doctrine.  Lucky you, because Naomi Klein has a page listing many, many resources relating to this book here:

http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/resources

Essay 2, 3 and 4 all require outside sources and increasingly so.  For this first formal essay, you will be required to include citations from Klein’s book and, in addition, citations from at least two other scholarly sources.  Klein’s pages are a ready made research guide for you; however, there are thousands and thousands of other possible sources.  You are entirely free to find those on your own, in fact, you should do so. Klein does not include bibliographic information for some of the material s she has posted on her website, but it is possible for you to find out the precise information and include it in your works cited. If you use some of her sources, uncovering the precise bibliographical information will be required.

I do not believe she ever mentions the most brilliant book ever written on pain and torture, The Body in Pain by Elaine Scarry.  Those of you interested in writing about torture in the context of The Shock Doctrine will find The Body in Pain an excellent resource.

Pick One of these Topics

1.  The Shock Doctrine can be divided into these main sections

1.    Shock: Physical, Mental and Economic (However, I am going to embargo one topic: ECT, electroshock convulsive therapy, because I have read far too many papers on this subject because students find it both startling and easy to write about without going deeper.)
2.    Chile as the first example of the shock doctrine in action
3.    The World Bank and IMF as global institutions fostering the shock doctrine
4.    The fall of Communism in the USSR
5.    The shock doctrine in Iraq

Take any one of these sections and write an essay concentrating on her thesis and discussion in said section.

2. Take one chapter and discuss her thesis/argument/examples in that chapter.

INTRODUCTION
Blank Is Beautiful: Three Decades of Erasing and Remaking
the World

Part 1, Chapter 1: The Torture Lab
Ewen Cameron, the CIA and the Maniacal Quest to Erase and Remake the Human Mind
Part 1, Chapter 2: The Other Doctor Shock
Milton Friedman and the Search for a Laissez-Faire Laboratory

Part 2, Chapter 3: States of Shock
The Bloody Birth of the Counterrevolution
Part 2, Chapter 4: Cleaning the Slate
Terror Does Its Work
Part 2, Chapter 5: “Entirely Unrelated”
How an Ideology Was Cleansed of Its Crimes

Part 3, Chapter 6: Saved by a War
Thatcherism and Its Useful Enemies
Part 3, Chapter 7: The New Doctor Shock
Economic Warfare Replaces Dictatorship
Part 3, Chapter 8: Crisis Works
The Packaging of Shock Therapy

Part 4, Chapter 9: Slamming the Door on History
A Crisis in Poland, a Massacre in China
Part 4, Chapter 10: Democracy Born in Chains
South Africa’s Constricted Freedom
Part 4, Chapter 11: Bonfire of a Young Democracy
Russia Chooses “The Pinochet Option”
Part 4, Chapter 12: The Capitalist ID
Russia and the New Era of the Boor Market
Part 4, Chapter 13: Let It Burn
The Looting of Asia and “The Fall of a Second Berlin Wall”

Part 5, Chapter 14: Shock Therapy in the U.S.A.
The Homeland Security Bubble
Part 5, Chapter 15: A Corporatist State
Removing the Revolving Door, Putting in an Archway

Part 6, Chapter 16: Erasing Iraq
In Search of a “Model” for the Middle East
Part 6, Chapter 17: Ideological Blowback
A Very Capitalist Disaster
Part 6, Chapter 18: Full Circle
From Blank Slate to Scorched Earth

Part 7, Chapter 19: Blanking the Beach
“The Second Tsunami”
Part 7, Chapter 20: Disaster Apartheid
A World of Green Zones and Red Zones
Part 7, Chapter 21: Losing the Peace Incentive
Israel as Warning

Conclusion: Shock Wears Off
The Rise of People’s Reconstruction

3. Address the overall thesis of the book, selecting the examples that most interest you.

4. Write an essay on some aspect of the film Missing.  Please make sure that you do appropriate research into the film.  Again, your sources will make all the difference.

5. Write an essay defining capitalism, free market capitalism, democracy, socialism and/or Marxism. Use the Oxford English Dictionary as your starting point.  You will need to discuss this topic with me prior to beginning your essay process.  The OED is your starting point.  You will need to find good sources and have a conversation with me about those sources. Here is a useful page to get you started: Defining Capitalism, Communism, Fascism, Socialism

6. You may develop your own topic; however, make sure your topic is worthy of development at the college level.  Many times students choose topics which are far too general because they think there will be more to say, but overly general topics do not work, especially for the shorter essays you are writing. In all cases, you should think through an important issue we/Klein have /has addressed and then narrow it.
A. Pre-Writing Create and edit your document inside your Google Docs folder. Call it:
Your Last Name Essay 2 Pre-Writing

Use the Steps for Essay Construction Chart!!!!  Longer version here: https://www.msu.edu/course/wra/130/fernandez/study_guide/writproc.html

1.    Outside sources — In order to reverse the “normal” but intellectually bankrupt process described in “How Facts Backfire,” I am going to require that you do the bulk of your research before you formulate a single sentence, especially a thesis sentence.  Create a preliminary Works Cited page before you do anything else.  Research comes first.
a.    I WILL BE AWARDING 10 POINTS FOR THIS STEP PRIOR TO YOU TAKING ANY OTHER STEPS AND THEN AWARDING MORE POINTS FOR THE FINAL WORKS CITED PAGE IN YOUR FINAL DRAFT.  YOU WILL FIND ZOTERO INVALUABLE AS YOU COMPLETE THIS FIRST STEP.
This means you ‘go to the library’ and put your hands on a scholarly document yourself or locate an electronic version of a printed scholarly document available through our library web site or you interlibrary loan a scholarly document.  Web, magazine, encyclopedia or newspaper sources may NOT be counted as part of your outside sources for this class. You may consult them and may even include them in your works cited when appropriate, but you will need a minimum of two scholarly outside sources.  Often web based sources list printed sources which you can use if they are scholarly. You should make sure you understand the difference between scholarly journals and other library based sources which you may access electronically and the web. Of course, you must cite ideas even if you do not directly quote.  MLA guidelines for Works Cited pages do not require URLs, or rather, they explicitly say to check with your instructor about including URLs in your Works Cited.  I want you to include them because when you have a problem with a source, be it how to cite or how to interpret, I can help you if I can quickly check the source.  So for all sources available electronically, please include the URL.
?    Your final draft should have at least two citations from The Shock Doctrine and at least two scholarly citations from one or more outside sources you “discover” yourself.
?    Transition into and out of quotations carefully — see MLA Handbook for instructions about how to do this.
2.    Define your topic either by taking one of the suggested ones above or creating your own, but in any case, describe your topic in some way, possibly using a quote to stimulate your thinking.
2.    It can be helpful to use a quote to begin your thinking. Try finding a quote that somehow stimulates your thinking. Copy the quote and then frame a question around it. Then do two heuristics to develop the topic and/or your ideas about the topic. Write a paragraph defining your topic before your do your heuristics and tree. This is essentially the QFT
3.    Use two heuristics from our list. Apply them to your topic. List them by name.
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5. Create a Tree Diagram.https://www.msu.edu/course/wra/130/fernandez/study_guide/tree_diagram_basics.html
?    Keep it on one page if at all possible.
?    Please indent topic sentences.
?    Your thesis and topic sentences should be generalizations. See Study Guide.
?    Only one sentence per slot on tree
?    Sentence structure in tree needs to be perfect
?    Sentences in tree appear in essay and vice versa.  Don’t put an idea on your tree and imply it in the actual essay.
?    You may have as many topic sentences as you wish but no fewer than two.
?    All body paragraphs should have topic sentences and all topic sentences should appear on your tree diagram.

Your last name Essay 2 First Draft

Delete everything in your pre-writing except your tree diagram and your Works Cited.  Move your Works Cited to the last page of your document.  It need not be perfect for your first draft.  You are required to have a tree diagram in every version.  It is always placed on the first page of the essay.

Start the body of your essay on the top of a fresh page.

You should hand in a full first draft, complete with introduction, body and conclusion. Your first draft should concentrate on content, not surface editing.  Your first draft will not be edited by your professor for grammatical and surface errors.  It will be read for organization and content.  I will highlight particularly messy grammar errors without analyzing them for you.  It is up to you and your writing group members to help you find and fix editing problems before you hand in your final draft. Your final draft should be as close to letter perfect as possible but the first draft need not be.

Again, concentrate on organization and content in your first draft.  Always include the where and when of what you are describing. (Your first draft need not be a full four pages). And remember that I am not your audience.  Your audience is a reasonably educated person out in the world who has not read the books or articles you are discussing; therefore, you must provide your audience with all the relevant pieces of information necessary to understand the essay.

?    Revise your Tree Diagram between your Pre-Writing and you First Draft stages.
?    Please indent topic sentences.
?    Your thesis and topic sentences should be generalizations.
?    Only one sentence per slot on tree
?    Sentence structure in tree needs to be perfect
?    Sentences in tree appear in essay and vice versa.  Don’t put an idea on your tree and imply it in the actual essay. MAKE YOUR SENTENCES HERE ALL THE MORE PRECISE IN ORDER TO BE LOGICALLY CORRECT

C. Final Draft

Copy your first draft file and rename it:

Your last name Essay 2 Final Draft

Include a copy of your tree diagram in your final draft.

Polish your essay.  This means looking at details you may have left out and particularly studying each sentence for clarity. The body of your final draft should be a full four pages minus headers.  Your works cited page is a separate page and should be formatted as such.

You will find a spreadsheet in your Instructions and Checklists folder. Make a copy of that spreadsheet; rename it with your first name in front of the title and make sure it is INSIDE your folder. YOU WILL NOT GET CREDIT OR A GRADE UNLESS YOU COPY THE SPREADSHEET BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE YOUR GRADE APPEARS. DO NOT SHARE YOUR SPREADSHEET WITH YOUR WRITING GROUP.