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Introduction: What does it mean to be human?
Ryna May
1. Humanity 101 by Denise Duhamel
2. Are You Human?
3. The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
4. Everyday Use by Alice Walker
5. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
6. Film: Johnny Got His Gun
7. The Birth-Mark by Nathaniel Hawthorne
8. Film: Gattaca
9. Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
10. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
11. The Plague by Albert Camus
12. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
13. Film: Smile Pinki
14. Film: The Hunger Games
15. Film: Diane Arbus
16. Film: O Brother Where Art Thou?
17. The Violence of Naming : Everyday Linguistic Anthropology by Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein
18. How It Feels to be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston
19. Greek Medicine - The Hippocratic Oath
20. Film: Extreme Measures
21. Pain Has an Element of Blank by Emily Dickinson
22. The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
23. The Art of Healing by W.H. Auden
24. To One Shortly to Die by Walt Whitman
25. Beware of “Feminism Lite” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
26. Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay
27. Middlemarch by George Eliot
28. The Iliad by Homer
29. My Ántonia by Willa Cather
30. Coded Bias
31. The Brain in Love by Helen Fisher
32. Musee des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden
33. Shakespeare on Love
34. Goodbye to All That by Joan Didion
35. The Heavy Bear by Delmore Schwartz
36. Silas Marner by George Eliot
37. The Odyssey (The Lotus Eaters) by Homer
38. Film: Dead Poets Society
39. Give Yourself Permission to Be Creative
40. Poetry by Marianne Moore
41. Film: Water Children
42. To Be of Use by Marge Piercy
43. Film: Frida Kahlo
44. The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
45. I Sing The Body Electric by Walt Whitman
46. Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
47. Child's Play by Robert Louis Stevenson
48. Make the World Greta Again
49. Temporary Art
50. Katsushika Hokusai
51. How Art Shapes Culture and Reflects Human Experience
52. All the World's a Stage by William Shakespeare
53. To Be or Not to Be by William Shakespeare
54. 20 Big Questions about the Future of Humanity
55. Fern Hill and Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
56. What Will Humans Look Like in 100 Years?
57. Film: Her
58. Song IX and O sweet spontaneous by e. e. cummings
59. The Book of Job
60. Deepfakes
61. Film: Bicentennial Man
Appendix
Ze Frank asks us the essential questions to uncover how alike we might be no matter how different we might seem.
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