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MLA 1-1
 Residents of the District of Columbia should be given voting representation in Congress because they pay federal income taxes.
When a woman suffering from postpartum psychosis injures or kills her child, she should be treated for mental illness rather than charged as a criminal.
 Political and economic conditions in the early twentieth century help explain the popularity of Marcus Garvey's Back to Africa movement.
 Because fighting terrorists who plan their activities online is a high priority for the US government, Congress should enact stricter computer privacy laws that allow for wiretapping and other forms of surveillance.
 Online grocery shopping benefits American families because it saves money, saves time, and lowers exposure to marketing gimmicks.
 Because light therapy and antidepressants do not always help those suffering from seasonal affective disorder, patients should also consider dietary changes and supplements.
Although big businesses have traditionally been at odds with environmental interests, eco-friendly policies can actually lead to increased corporate profits.
The US AIDS epidemic that began in the early 1980s had much in common with the Black Death of the Middle Ages: Both began mysteriously, terrified the general public, and seemed to some people to be God's punishment for sinful behavior.
Americans must continue to maintain the separation of church and state to protect religious minorities and to protect religion itself from domination by the state.
Wyatt Earp's law-and-order reputation is a myth based chiefly on a poorly documented biography written early in the twentieth century.

MLA 2-1
OK - Civil War historian Dudley Taylor Cornish observes that many Southerners were so terrified of slave revolts that the sight of armed black men filled them with fear (158).
P - Many Southerners found it impossible to see a black man bearing arms as anything but an incipient slave uprising complete with arson, murder, pillage, and rapine.
OK - Civil War historian Dudley Taylor Cornish asserts that "for many Southerners it was psychologically impossible to see a black man bearing arms as anything but an incipient slave uprising complete with arson, murder, pillage, and rapine" (158).
P - During the Civil War, the Lincoln administration had the "humanity and good sense" not to send "agitators among [the] slaves to incite them to insurrection."
OK - Although the Union ultimately sent black soldiers to the South, the Southerners' fears that the troops would incite a slave uprising were unfounded, in part because of the restraint of the Lincoln administration (Cornish 158).

MLA 2-4
P - The sheer number of occasions on which people cry in The Wizard of Oz is astounding.
OK - Rushdie notes that so many characters cry in The Wizard of Oz that it’s surprising the Wicked Witch did not get wet and melt away earlier in the film (223-24).
P - Rushdie points out the number of characters who weep in The Wizard of Oz: Dorothy cries tears of frustration before being allowed to enter the Wizard's palace, the guard at the palace becomes sodden with tears, the Cowardly Lion cries when Dorothy hits him on the nose, the Tin Man nearly rusts up again from crying, and Dorothy cries again when captured by the Witch (223).
OK - Pointing out how many times characters cry in The Wizard of Oz, Rushdie observes that "if the hydrophobic Witch could only have been closer at hand on one of these occasions the movie might have been much shorter" (223-24).
P - Rushdie notes that Dorothy's weeping makes other characters cry, as when her tears "undam a quite alarming reservoir of liquid" from the guard in an extreme performance outside the Wizard's palace (223).

MLA 2-6
CK? - Many of William Faulkner's novels are set in Yoknapatawpha County, a fictional part of Mississippi.
NC - William Faulkner may have gotten the word Yoknapatawpha from a 1915 dictionary of the Choctaw language.
CK? - The writer and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston died in poverty in 1960.
NC - William Shakespeare was the only playwright of his generation known to have a long-standing relationship with a single theater company.
NC - Walt Disney fired and blacklisted all of his animators who went on strike in 1941.
CK - William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley were poets of the Romantic era.
NC - As of 2002, the film Titanic had earned over six hundred million dollars in the United States alone.
CK - Heroic couplets are rhyming pairs of lines written in iambic pentameter.
CK - Iris Murdoch wrote many sophisticated and complex novels before she succumbed to Alzheimer's disease.
NC - George Lucas made a larger fortune by selling Star Wars toys than he made by selling tickets to Star Wars.


MLA 3-2
E - The Delmonico brothers' French restaurant was among the first eating establishments to let diners order from a menu of choices, at any time they pleased, and sit at their own cloth-covered tables (437).
OK - As Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace point out, restaurant culture in New York City changed forever with the arrival of the Delmonico brothers' French restaurant, which was among the first eating establishments "to let diners order from a menu of choices, at any time they pleased, and sit at their own cloth-covered tables" (437).
OK - In their history of New York City's early years, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace describe the Delmonico brothers' first eating establishment, opened in 1827, as a shop consisting of "a half-dozen pine tables where customers could sample fine French pastries, coffee, chocolate, wine, and liquor" (437).
E - In 1830, the Delmonico brothers opened one of the first restaurants in New York City. "This was a sharp break from the fixed fare and simultaneous seatings at common hotel tables—so crowded (one guidebook warned) that your elbows were 'pinned down to your sides like the wings of a trussed fowl' " (Burrows and Wallace 437).
E - According to Burrows and Wallace, the Delmonico brothers' original shop enticed New Yorkers "with a half-dozen tables at which patrons could sample French pastries, coffee, chocolate, wine, and liquor" (437).
WHAOHOH OK! - As Burrows and Wallace note, New Yorkers in 1830 felt "a bit unsure about [such] fancy foreign customs" as eating in a restaurant that offered a menu and separate tables (437).
E - Burrows and Wallace observe that the Delmonico brothers' restaurant first attracted resident European agents of export houses, who felt themselves marooned among a people with barbarous eating habits (437).
OK - Burrows and Wallace observe that the Delmonico brothers' restaurant first attracted "resident European agents of export houses, who felt themselves marooned among a people with barbarous eating habits" (437).
OK - According to Burrows and Wallace, "The idea [of a restaurant] soon caught on . . . and harried businessmen abandoned the ancient practice of going home for lunch" (437)
Error - Native New Yorkers were at first suspicious of the concept of a restaurant. "The idea soon caught on, however; more restaurants appeared, and harried businessmen abandoned the ancient practice of going home for lunch" (437).

MLA 3-4
E - Packer notes "the liberalization in Africa of the rules governing used-clothing imports in the past ten years."
OK - George Packer interviewed many Africans who feel that "something precious has been lost" with the arrival in Africa of cheap and plentiful used clothing (233).
OK - One young Ugandan worries that the influx of Western clothing will devalue Ugandan culture, which he says is "dead. Dead and buried" (qtd. in Packer 233).
E - Packer asserts that Ugandan culture will not survive for another decade because Ugandans are becoming accustomed to Western goods (233).
E - An American reporter observes that the availability of Western clothing may send Africans the message that "their own things are worthless and they can do nothing for themselves" (Packer 233).

MLA 4-6
Dwyer, Rachel, and Divia Patel. Cinema India: The Visual Culture of Hindi Film. New Delhi: Oxford UP, 2002. Print.
Shelly, Sushama. "Kishore Kumar." CinéBlitz Nov. 2002: 95-96. Print.
---. "Playback Time: A Brief History of Bollywood 'Film Songs.' " Film Comment May-June 2002: 41-43. Print.
"Rajkumar." Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema. Ed. Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen. New rev. ed. London: British Film Inst.; New Delhi: Oxford UP, 1999. Print.
Vasudev, Aruna. Foreword. The Cinemas of India (1896-2000). By Yves Thoraval. New Delhi: Macmillan, 2000. vii-viii. Print.
"Vijay Anand (1935-2004): A Belated Tribute." Upperstall.com. Upperstall.com, 2004. Web. 12 May 2004.
Nigosian, S. A. "Hinduism." World Religions: A Historical Approach. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford, 2000. 20-55. Print.
Tsering, Lisa. "Bollywood Confidential." Salon.com. Salon Media Group, 28 Jan. 2003. Web. 29 Apr. 2004.
Lagaan. Dir. Ashutosh Gowariker. Perf. Aamir Khan and Gracy Singh. Columbia TriStar, 2002. DVD.
Kehr, Dave. "The Cricketing of an Indian Village." Rev. of Lagaan, dir. Ashutosh Gowariker. New York Times. New York Times, 8 May 2002. Web. 13 May 2004.

MLA 4-7

United States. Cong. House. Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina. A Failure of Initiative. Washington: GPO, 2006. Print.
Hirsch, Arnold R., and Lee A. Levert. "The Katrina Conspiracies: The Problem of Trust in Rebuilding an American City." Journal of Urban History 35.2 (2009): 207-19. Academic Search Premier. Web. 4 Feb. 2009.
Bier, Vicki. "Hurricane Katrina as a Bureaucratic Nightmare." On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina. Ed. Ronald J. Daniels, Donald F. Kettl, and Howard Kunreuther. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2006. 243-254. Print.

Aptheker, Bettina. "Katrina and Social Justice." Childs 48-56.
Childs, John Brown, ed. Hurricane Katrina: Response and Responsibilities. Santa Cruz: New Pacific, 2005. Print.
Ortiz, Paul. "The Battle for New Orleans." Childs 1-6.

Jensen, Richard. "Katrina." Class in America: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Robert E. Weir. Westport: Greenwood, 2007. Print.
"Katrina Money Spent and Wasted." Narr. Carl Quintanilla. Nightly News with Brian Williams. MSNBC, 29 Aug. 2006. msnbc.com. Web. 21 Feb. 2009.

Inside Hurricane Katrina. Prod. Natl. Geographic Channel. Warner Home Video, 2006. DVD.
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Nolan, Bruce, Michelle Krupa, and Gordon Russell. "Death. Loss. Rebirth." NOLA.com. Times-Picayune, 30 Aug. 2006. Web. 30 Jan. 2009.

Sciabarra, Chris Matthew. "Katrina." Notablog. N.p., 6 Sept. 2005. Web. 2 Feb. 2009.

"Post-Katrina Education Problems Linger." eSchool News. eSchool News, 30 Aug. 2007. Web. 29 Jan. 2009.


MLA 4-8

F - A parenthetical citation in the text of the paper must always include the following information if available: the author's name, the work's title, and a page number.
T - The works cited list is organized alphabetically by authors' last names (or by title for a work with no author).
F - The works cited list should include all of the works the writer consulted while researching the paper.
T - An in-text citation names the author (if there is an author) either in a signal phrase introducing the cited material or in parentheses after the cited material.
F - When a work's author is unknown, the work is listed under "Anonymous" in the list of works cited.
F - The list of works cited is titled Bibliography.
T - When a work has no page number, it is possible that nothing will appear in parentheses to mark the end of a citation.
F - In the parentheses marking the end of an in-text citation, use the abbreviation "p." or "pp." before the page number(s).
T - When a paper cites two or more works by the same author, the in-text citation includes at least the author's name and the title (or a short version of the title).
T - An entry for a Web source in the list of works cited gives the date the Web source was accessed.