Rhetoric & Technical Communication
Rhetoric & Technical Communication
Toscano, Aaron, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept. of English

Resources and Daily Activities

  • Conference Presentations
    • PCA/ACA Conference Presentation 2022
    • PCAS/ACAS Presentation 2021
    • SEACS 2021 Presentation
    • South Atlantic MLA Conference 2022
  • Dr. Toscano’s Homepage
  • ENGL 2116-014: Introduction to Technical Communication
    • February 1st: Reflection on Workplace Messages
    • January 11th: More Introduction to Class
    • January 18th: Audience & Purpose
    • January 23rd: Résumés and Cover Letters
      • Duty Format for Résumés
      • Peter Profit’s Cover Letter
    • January 25th: More on Résumés and Cover Letters
    • January 30th: Achieving a Readable Style
      • Euphemisms
      • Prose Practice for Next Class
      • Prose Revision Assignment
      • Revising Prose: Efficiency, Accuracy, and Good
      • Sentence Clarity
    • January 9th: Introduction to the Class
    • Major Assignments
  • ENGL 4182/5182: Information Design & Digital Publishing
    • August 21st: Introduction to the Course
      • Rhetorical Principles of Information Design
    • August 28th: Introduction to Information Design
      • Prejudice and Rhetoric
      • Robin Williams’s Principles of Design
    • Classmates Webpages (Fall 2017)
    • December 4th: Presentations
    • Major Assignments for ENGL 4182/5182 (Fall 2017)
    • November 13th: More on Color
      • Designing with Color
      • Important Images
    • November 20th: Extra-Textual Elements
    • November 27th: Presentation/Portfolio Workshop
    • November 6th: In Living Color
    • October 16th: Type Fever
      • Typography
    • October 23rd: More on Type
    • October 2nd: MIDTERM FUN!!!
    • October 30th: Working with Graphics
      • Beerknurd Calendar 2018
    • September 11th: Talking about Design without Using “Thingy”
      • Theory, theory, practice
    • September 18th: The Whole Document
    • September 25th: Page Design
  • ENGL 4183/5183: Editing with Digital Technologies
    • August 24th: Introduction to the Class
    • August 31st: Rhetoric, Words, and Composing
    • Major Assignments for ENGL 4183/5183 (Fall 2022)
      • Rhetoric of Fear
    • November 16th: Voice and Other Nebulous Writing Terms
      • Finding Dominant Rhetorical Appeals
    • November 2nd: Rhetorical Effects of Punctuation
    • November 30th: Words and Word Classes
    • November 9th: Cohesive Rhythm
    • October 12th: Choosing Adjectivals
    • October 19th: Choosing Nominals
    • October 26th: Stylistic Variations
    • October 5th: Midterm Exam
    • September 14th: Verb is the Word!
    • September 21st: Coordination and Subordination
    • September 28th: Form and Function
    • September 7th: Sentence Patterns
  • ENGL 4275: Rhetoric of Technology
    • April 13th: Authorities in Science and Technology
    • April 15th: Articles on Violence in Video Games
    • April 20th: Presentations
    • April 6th: Technology in the home
    • April 8th: Writing Discussion
    • Assignments for ENGL 4275
    • February 10th: Religion of Technology Part 3 of 3
    • February 12th: Is Love a Technology?
    • February 17th: Technology and Gender
    • February 19th: Technology and Expediency
    • February 24th: Semester Review
    • February 3rd: Religion of Technology Part 1 of 3
    • February 5th: Religion of Technology Part 2 of 3
    • January 13th: Technology and Meaning, a Humanist perspective
    • January 15th: Technology and Democracy
    • January 22nd: The Politics of Technology
    • January 27th: Discussion on Writing as Thinking
    • January 29th: Technology and Postmodernism
    • January 8th: Introduction to the Course
    • March 11th: Writing and Other Fun
    • March 16th: Neuromancer (1984) Day 1 of 2
    • March 18th: Neuromancer (1984) Day 2 of 2
    • March 23rd: Inception (2010)
    • March 25th: Writing and Reflecting Discussion
    • March 30th & April 1st: Count Zero
    • March 9th: William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984)
  • ENGL 6166: Rhetorical Theory
    • April 12th: Knoblauch. Ch. 4 and Ch. 5
    • April 19th: Jacques Derrida’s Positions
    • April 26th:  Feminisms and Rhetorics
    • April 5th: Knoblauch. Ch. 3 and More Constitutive Rhetoric
    • February 15th: Isocrates (Part 2)
    • February 1st: Aristotle’s On Rhetoric Books 2 & 3
      • Aristotle’s On Rhetoric, Book 2
      • Aristotle’s On Rhetoric, Book 3
    • February 22nd: St. Augustine’s On Christian Doctrine [Rhetoric]
    • February 8th: Isocrates (Part 1)-2nd Half of Class
    • January 11th: Introduction to Class
    • January 18th: Plato’s Phaedrus
    • January 25th: Aristotle’s On Rhetoric Book 1
    • March 15th: Descartes, Rene, Discourse on Method
    • March 1st: Knoblauch. Ch. 1 and 2
    • March 22nd: Mary Wollstonecraft
    • March 29th: Second Wave Feminist Rhetoric
    • May 3rd: Knoblauch. Ch. 6, 7, and “Afterword”
    • Rhetorical Theory Assignments
  • ENGL/COMM/WRDS: The Rhetoric of Fear
    • January 10th: Introduction to the Class
    • January 17th: Scapegoats & Conspiracies
    • January 24th: The Rhetoric of Fear and Fallacies Part 1
    • January 31st: Fallacies Part 2 and American Politics Part 1
    • Major Assignments
  • LBST 2212-124, 125, 126, & 127
    • August 21st: Introduction to Class
    • August 23rd: Humanistic Approach to Science Fiction
    • August 26th: Robots and Zombies
    • August 28th: Futurism, an Introduction
    • August 30th: R. A. Lafferty “Slow Tuesday Night” (1965)
    • December 2nd: Technological Augmentation
    • December 4th: Posthumanism
    • November 11th: Salt Fish Girl (Week 2)
    • November 13th: Salt Fish Girl (Week 2 con’t)
    • November 18th: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Part 1)
      • More Questions than Answers
    • November 1st: Games Reality Plays (part II)
    • November 20th: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Part 2)
    • November 6th: Salt Fish Girl (Week 1)
    • October 14th: More Autonomous Fun
    • October 16th: Autonomous Conclusion
    • October 21st: Sci Fi in the Domestic Sphere
    • October 23rd: Social Aphasia
    • October 25th: Dust in the Wind
    • October 28th: Gender Liminality and Roles
    • October 2nd: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
    • October 30th: Games Reality Plays (part I)
    • October 9th: Approaching Autonomous
      • Analyzing Prose in Autonomous
    • September 11th: The Time Machine
    • September 16th: The Alien Other
    • September 18th: Post-apocalyptic Worlds
    • September 20th: Dystopian Visions
    • September 23rd: World’s Beyond
    • September 25th: Gender Studies and Science Fiction
    • September 30th: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
    • September 4th: Science Fiction and Social Breakdown
      • More on Ellison
      • More on Forster
    • September 9th: The Time Machine
  • LBST 2213-110: Science, Technology, and Society
    • August 22nd: Science and Technology from a Humanistic Perspective
    • August 24th: Science and Technology, a Humanistic Approach
    • August 29th: Collins & Pinch’s The Golem (Science), Ch. 2
    • August 31st: Collins & Pinch’s The Golem (Science), Ch. 3 and 4
    • December 5th: Video Games and Violence, a more nuanced view
    • November 14th: Boulle, Pierre. Planet of the Apes. (1964) Ch. 27-end
    • November 16th: Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. 1818. Preface-Ch. 8
    • November 21st: Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. 1818. Ch. 9-Ch. 16
    • November 28th: Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Ch. 17-Ch. 24
    • November 30th: Violence in Video Games
    • November 7th: Boulle, Pierre. Planet of the Apes Ch. 1-17
    • November 9th: Boulle, Pierre. Planet of the Apes, Ch. 18-26
    • October 12th: Lies Economics Tells
    • October 17th: Brief Histories of Medicine, Salerno, and Galen
    • October 19th: Politicizing Science and Medicine
    • October 24th: COVID-19 Facial Covering Rhetoric
    • October 26th: Wells, H. G. Time Machine. Ch. 1-5
    • October 31st: Wells, H. G. The Time Machine Ch. 6-The End
    • October 3rd: Collins & Pinch’s The Golem at Large (Technology), Ch. 7 and Conclusion
    • September 12th: Collins & Pinch’s The Golem (Science), Ch. 7 and Conclusion
    • September 19th: Collins & Pinch’s The Golem at Large (Technology), Prefaces and Ch. 1
    • September 26th: Collins & Pinch’s The Golem at Large (Technology), Ch. 2
    • September 28th: Collins & Pinch’s The Golem at Large (Technology), Ch. 5 and 6
    • September 7th: Collins & Pinch’s The Golem (Science), Ch. 5 and 6
  • New Media: Gender, Culture, Technology (Spring 2021)
    • April 13th: Virtually ‘Real’ Environments
    • April 20th: Rhetoric/Composition Defines New Media
    • April 27th: Sub/Cultural Politics, Hegemony, and Agency
    • April 6th: Capitalist Realism
    • February 16: Misunderstanding the Internet
    • February 23rd: Our Public Sphere and the Media
    • February 2nd: Introduction to Cultural Studies
    • January 26th: Introduction to New Media
    • Major Assignments for New Media (Spring 2021)
    • March 16th: Identity Politics
    • March 23rd: Social Construction of Gender and Sexuality
    • March 2nd: Foundational Thinkers in Cultural Studies
    • March 30th: Hyperreality
    • March 9th: Globalization & Postmodernism
    • May 4th: Wrapping Up The Semester
      • Jodi Dean “The The Illusion of Democracy” & “Communicative Capitalism”
      • Social Construction of Sexuality
  • Science Fiction in American Culture (Summer I–2020)
    • Assignments for Science Fiction in American Culture
    • Cultural Studies and Science Fiction Films
    • June 10th: Interstellar and Exploration themes
    • June 11th: Bicentennial Man
    • June 15th: I’m Only Human…Or am I?
    • June 16th: Wall-E and Environment
    • June 17th: Wall-E (2008) and Technology
    • June 18th: Interactivity in Video Games
    • June 1st: Firefly (2002) and Myth
    • June 2nd: “Johnny Mnemonic”
    • June 3rd: “New Rose Hotel”
    • June 4th: “Burning Chrome”
    • June 8th: Conformity and Monotony
    • June 9th: Cultural Constructions of Beauty
    • May 18th: Introduction to Class
    • May 19th: American Culture, an Introduction
    • May 20th: The Matrix
    • May 21st: Gender and Science Fiction
    • May 25th: Goals for I, Robot
    • May 26th: Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot
    • May 27th: Hackers and Slackers
    • May 30th: Inception
  • Teaching Portfolio
  • Topics for Analysis
    • A Practical Editing Situation
    • American Culture, an Introduction
    • Efficiency in Writing Reviews
    • Feminism, An Introduction
    • Fordism/Taylorism
    • Frankenstein Part I
    • Frankenstein Part II
    • Futurism Introduction
    • Isaac Asimov’s “A Cult of Ignorance”
    • Langdon Winner Summary: The Politics of Technology
    • Marxist Theory (cultural analysis)
    • Oral Presentations
    • Oratory and Argument Analysis
    • Our Public Sphere
    • Postmodernism Introduction
    • Protesting Confederate Place
    • Punctuation Refresher
    • QT, the Existential Robot
    • Religion of Technology Discussion
    • Rhetoric, an Introduction
      • Analyzing the Culture of Technical Writer Ads
      • Rhetoric of Technology
      • Visual Culture
      • Visual Perception
      • Visual Perception, Culture, and Rhetoric
      • Visual Rhetoric
      • Visuals for Technical Communication
      • World War I Propaganda
    • The Great I, Robot Discussion
      • I, Robot Short Essay Topics
    • The Rhetoric of Video Games: A Cultural Perspective
      • Civilization, an Analysis
    • The Sopranos
    • Why Science Fiction?
    • Zombies and Consumption Satire
  • Video Games & American Culture
    • April 14th: Phallocentrism
    • April 21st: Video Games and Neoliberalism
    • April 7th: Video Games and Conquest
    • Assignments for Video Games & American Culture
    • February 10th: Aesthetics and Culture
    • February 17th: Narrative and Catharsis
    • February 24th: Serious Games
    • February 3rd: More History of Video Games
    • January 13th: Introduction to the course
    • January 20th: Introduction to Video Game Studies
    • January 27th: Games & Culture
      • Marxism for Video Game Analysis
      • Postmodernism for Video Game Analysis
    • March 24th: Realism, Interpretation(s), and Meaning Making
    • March 31st: Feminist Perspectives and Politics
    • March 3rd: Risky Business?

Contact Me

Office: Fretwell 255F
Email: atoscano@uncc.edu
LBST 2213-110: Science, Technology, and Society » November 7th: Boulle, Pierre. Planet of the Apes Ch. 1-17

November 7th: Boulle, Pierre. Planet of the Apes Ch. 1-17

Themes to Guide Us

  • Satire
  • Anthropocene
  • Postcolonial Theory
  • Privileging Knowledge
  • Devolution
  • The Problem of Utopia

Also, as I’ve mentioned before, I don’t know of any online copies of Planet of the Apes (1964), so you need to get the physical book (or the ebook). Your Final Exam will have questions on this novel, and there will be questions to test whether you read the book or just watched the film(s).

Planète des Singes

Pierre Boulle, author of Planet of the Apes and Bridge over the River Kwai, started out as an engineer and French secret agent, who was captured in 1943 by French legions who supported Japan (this was after France fell to Germany). He was engaging in espionage in what is now Vietnam, Loas, and Cambodia. His experience as a POW was certainly incorporated into Bridge over the River Kwai but we can also read some of that in Ulysse Mérou’s captivity in Planet of the Apes. The novel is important to this class for its commentary—it is a social science fiction political satire—on scientific authority, evolution, and intelligence (vs. intellectualism). There is also the theme about human-animal relations, which a contemporary satirical text deals with: South Park’s “Whale Whores” episode. We won’t spend too much time on this theme, but definitely be thinking about the assumptions we have of animals and, specifically, types of animals. Why are animal lives not held to the same value as human lives? Consider the term anthropocentric.

As mentioned before, some science fiction readers expect plot devices to be accurate—as scientifically precise as possible. This class looks at the allegorical aspects of science fiction: it’s a projection of the author’s cultural moment into an imagined (future) setting. Although we can clarify some of the “technical” details, let’s not get too bogged down in the physics of space travel. However, if you haven’t seen Interstellar (2014), you should. It’s out of this world–Ha!

Satire

One of my favorite genres! Satire is “a way of criticizing people or ideas in a humorous way, especially in order to make a political point, or a piece of writing that uses this style” (Cambridge University Dictionary). Other definitions will use irony–when something is supposed to have one effect but it has the opposite; working against the logic of one’s goal, morals, or self interests; being unable to see the folly with which a character observes the world. Ulysse Mérou finds himself in a world full of apes and is relegated to the status of an animal. The effect is to demonstrate how humans treat animals and other humans. Planet of the Apes is a political satire that shows readers the issues with assumptions of superiority and firmly held reason. Although Hollywood has produced many spoofs that satirize films (Spaceballs, Fear of a Black Hat, 27 Dresses), a satire doesn’t need a roman à clef, a specific text to poke fun at or simply reference.

Also, satire is not synonymous with sarcasm…but it’s close.

Anthropocene

On second thought, let’s get into the subject of privileging the human over the animal. The term Anthropocene refers to the current geological time period that is characterized by human activity significantly changing the planet. The term is actually a proposed term and not considered the agreed-upon scientific term, which is Holocene. However, the move is a political one that could gain more traction as the effects of a warming and polluted planet become impossible to ignore. Besides carbon pollution from the Industrial Revolution through today causing the atmosphere to warm, humans have devastated the environment in many ways:

  • Air particulates–soot, smoke, smog, and dust
  • Water pollution–ocean, rivers, drinking water, etc.
  • Microplastics–tiny fragments that end up in water
  • Nuclear weapons testing–specifically in the United States, increased rates of thyroid cancer (Remus Prăvălie, 2014)
  • Deforestation–human encroachment into forests, razing trees for homes and land to graze
  • Mercury–contaminating oceans and marine life from burning fossil fuels
  • Pesticides and herbicides–harmful to humans, soil, rivers, marine life

The proposed name makes sense when we consider the ways human activity has altered ecosystems on the planet. Another term that’s completely without controversy is ecocide,* human destruction of the environment. It has a sinister etymology for an English professor because it has a connotation of suicide: we kill the environment and ourselves. But don’t worry. Environmental destruction, like traffic, is someone else’s problem–not yours. Here are some sites I found in and around Charlotte:
*See sarcasm…

  • Birkdale Shopping Center
  • Neighborhood in North Charlotte
  • What happens to all that trash you produce? (required viewing)
    • “Methane has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after it reaches the atmosphere” (Environmental Defense Fund)
    • “Find that inner nerd!”–Of course, you need to communicate these messages, so technical communication is important.
  • What Can and Can’t I Recycle Curbside in Charlotte?
    • Not everything is recyclable
    • Also, notice things must be clean to go into recycling–even that sticky peanut butter!

Science fiction, to return to the topic for today, often has post-apocalyptic settings because the authors project contemporary issues into a future setting. But environmental destruction isn’t an imaginary thing. This year’s COP27 in Egypt or last year’s COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, UK, as well as the Paris Climate Agreement are attempts to lessen the impacts of environmental destruction. Notice I didn’t write “halt”…

Solutions You Can Do!

  • Bug burgers and beetle wings!
  • Carbon offsets…well, there’s an issue there
    • NPR’s Marketplace discussed carbon offsets (11/08/2021)
    • “Oxfam has calculated that the total amount of land required for planned carbon removal could potentially be five times the size of India, or the equivalent of all the farmland on the planet” (Oxfam, August 2021, p. 7)
  • Drive less; walk more
  • Protect your fruit!

For more information, look at an Anthropocene timeline.


Obvious Allusions and Puns

“Take your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!” (1968 film)
Where is this line in the novel?

  • Ulysse Mérou is an allusion to the character Ulysses (or Odysseus) in Homer’s Odyssey.
  • Soror is the sister planet of Earth (p. 23). Any guess as to why “Soror” for the “sister” planet?
  • The Institute for Advanced Biological Science (p. 133) alludes (not perfectly, of course) to the Institut de France, which houses the French Academy of Sciences that you no doubt remember from the Pasteur-Pouchet Debate.
    • The Institute for Advanced Biological Science is official science
    • Consider the roles of the Orangutans, Gorillas, and Chimpanzees

Exploration and Discovery

Although there are other Earthlings as characters, we don’t see them enough to focus too much attention on them. However, I might ask you to comment about the Professor in next week’s post. We’ll see. Let’s think about how the protagonist, Ulysse Mérou, deals with this new world of Soror. We should try to compare the narrative of the Time Machine and Planet of the Apes to discover patterns between the two texts. Yes, patterns exist. I didn’t just pick these texts at random.

  • p. 13: “[T]he voyage lasted about two years our time, during which three and a half centuries must have elapsed on Earth.”
  • p. 13: “[T]he professor….often admitted he was tired of his fellow men.”
  • p. 14: The spaceship is a mini-Ark with vegetable, flowers, “some birds, butterflies, and even a monkey, a little chimpanzee…christened Hector.”
  • p. 18: The crew arrive in orbit around Soror, a comparable planet to Earth.
  • p. 22: Is it safe? They “tried it out first on [their] chimpanzee.”
    Foreshadowing to the tests the apes do on humans.
  • p. 23: “[W]e knew that a civilization existed….Rational beings…had molded the face of the planet.”
    Pay attention to the use of tools (or inability to use them) and how that makes a being intellectual as opposed to just intelligent.

Nova

Two years without female companionship. Imagine how happy the crew (except for the professor) is to see not just a woman but one considered conventionally beautiful by their culture’s standards. Notice how many references Ulysse makes to dogs (p. 31, 33, 49, 50).

  • p. 31: “Have you ever watched a timid puppy on the beach while his master is swimming?….Such, exactly, was the behavior of this girl.”
  • p. 33: Nova’s “peculiar swimming action resembling a dog’s…”
  • p. 49: “Men and women…snuggling up together as dogs do in the cold.”
  • p. 50: “But although [Nova] was marvelously beautiful, I still did not regard her as a woman. Her manner was that of a pet seeking the warmth of its master.”

More Observations of Nova

  • p. 30: “[H]er eyes….[had] a sort of void, an absence of expression reminding me of a wretched mad girl I had once known.”
  • p. 31: “[W]e heard her: but the sounds she uttered only added to the impression of animality created by her attitude.”
    How did Nova greet Hector, the crew’s pet chimpanzee?
  • p. 81: “My sleep was interrupted, however, by feverish nightmares, in which Nova’s body appeared in the guise of a monstrous serpent wound around my own body.”
    • Whoa! What does that dream mean?
  • p. 89: When Ulysee first tried talking to Zira, “Nova looked furious and could not keep still.”
    • What?!? How come? What could that possibly mean? (not required reading but interesting)
  • p. 107: “I allowed myself to be stroked by [Zira’s] hairy hand, much to the displeasure of Nova.”
  • p. 115: “I, the ultimate achievement of millennial evolution….I, Ulysse Mérou, embarked like a peacock around the gorgeous Nova on the love display.”
  • p. 130: To calm Nova down, “[Ulysse] had had to resort to force to keep her quiet. After receiving a few thundering slaps across her beautiful face, she had eventually calmed down.”
  • p. 134: Zira didn’t like Ulysse slumming with Nova–“Since she was now convinced I had an ape’s mind, my intimacy with the young girl vexed and shocked her.”
  • p. 149: Using the flashlight to control Nova, “I am the absolute master at home, now that I possess this instrument, and no longer need any arguments more striking to keep her quiet.”
  • p. 194: “I often Think of Nova….Since I have changed camps I have even forbidden myself to show her more affection than I show to her fellows.”

p. 37: “’A female savage…belonging to some backward race like those found in New Guinea or in our African forests?’”

  • Colonialism
  • Jingoism
  • Cultural imperialism (cultural hegemony)

What it means to be civilized (or advanced) has to do with how cultures behave. What’s one of the worst practices to engage in for humans? What is a marker of a civilized people? One thing for sure is that technologies appear to mark civilized societies. Of course, such an attitude is culturally relativistic.

Postcolonial Theory

This is an introduction but postcolonial theory is an approach to literature that seeks to explain local and global relationships within the context of (specifically European) of the history of colonialism. Writers from the Global South often have postcolonial themes as main features of their texts. However, even privileged members of a former (or current…) colonial empire can offer insight into the context of colonization. For instance, the refugee crisis caused by migrants fleeing worn-torn areas is often met with disdain from Western countries with statements like “we can’t take everyone in,” “they need to stay and fight for their homes,” and “we’re not responsible for all the ills of the world.” Many within former colonial empires recognize the migrant crisis as one cause by Wester powers’ meddling in the affairs of previously colonized nations. Likewise, environmental impacts that cause inhabitants to flee can be seen as an extension of the environmental impacts perpetrated by industrial powers.

Now comes the fun part. Was Boulle promoting an uncritical view of colonization, or is he using Ulysse, an obvious reference to Odysseus, as an example of a privileged explorer who assumes all should recognize his humanity? The trials and tribulations he goes through to demonstrate his humanity satirizes Western colonial assumptions of natives. Might he even be a feminist?

Consider the issues around the language barriers between different groups.

Soror Humans

  • p. 41: Ulysse considered the Soror humans to have “a lack of conscious though; the absence of intelligence.”
  • p. 46: “[T]hese beings were roused to fury by objects. Things that were manufactured provoked their anger as well as their fear.”
  • p. 47: “Their women were all beautiful, though none could rival Nova’s splendor.”
  • p. 48: “[T]he shelters were not even huts, but nestlike constructions like those built by the big apes in our African forests.”
  • p. 112: Sex in captivity–“The only surprising element in these displays was the scientific ardor with which these apes followed them, never omitting to makes copious notes on the procedure.”
    • Let’s connect this to another scientific observation of animal mating. What could we say about the situation the apes are in as they try to record human mating?
    • What environment factors may affect the Soror humans’ behavior?

Film Clips

Well, I couldn’t figure out how to create clips of Planet of the Apes from my Blu-ray, but I found the YouTube clips for you to watch.

Clips from the 1968 film

  • Human Hunt
  • Human See, Human Do
  • Writing in the Sand
  • The lead up to the famous line
  • Not wanting to believe no evidence…the official stance

Next Class

Continue reading another third of Planet of the Apes by next class, 11/09–make a wish!


Oxfam. Tightening the Net: Net Zero Climate Targets – Implications for Land and Food Equity. August 2021. https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/621205/bp-net-zero-land-food-equity-030821-en.pdf

“Satire”. Cambridge University Dictionary. nd, https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/satire

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