ENGL 2: The World at Your Doorstep—On America and Global Issues

DH De La O, The Department of English and Comparative Literature @ SJSU, Spring 2016

Saturday, April 23, 2016

World News: 4.23.16



  • UNITED KINGDOM: President Obama says US-UK trade could take ten years to recover if the "Brexit" happens (Independent)
  • IRAQ: US-led coalition destroys $500 million of ISIS cash (CNBC)
  • KUWAIT: Mandatory DNA tagging to commence on all citizens, as well as tourists (SputnikNews)
  • GREECE: Photographers win Pulitzer Prize for haunting photos of Syrian refugee crisis (Huffington Post)
  • CANADA: Marijuana legalization eyed for 2017 (CNBC)
  • AUSTRALIA: Eighty rhinos to be relocated from South Africa in effort to save species (Tempo)

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DH De La O,
The Department of English & Comparative Literature
@ San José State University

Office Hours: Tu 10:30 - 11: 30 AM, FOB 111
Phone: 408.924.5019
Email: dhdelao@gmail.com

ENGL 2, Sec. 4—Tu/Th 7:30 – 8:45 AM, SH 348

ENGL 2, Sec. 8—Tu/Th 9:00 – 10:15 AM, SH 348

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eReader

  • "Are You an Insular American?" (DailyKos)
  • "Getting to Know the World Around Us" (Chicago Tribune)
  • "Leaving Empire: The Risks of American Insularity" (Religion Dispatches)
  • "Major Parts of World Ignored by U.S. TV News in 2013" (IPS)
  • "Why is America so Culturally Isolated and Insular Compared to the Average Country?" (Reddit)
  • "Young Americans Geographically Illiterate, Survey Suggests" (National Geographic)

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