Abitur 2012: Living in a Metropolis - Hamburg

Abitur 2012: Living in a Metropolis 

Karin Feldner & Bernd Guth 

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Semesterplanung 

• 15 Wochen, d.h. 60 WStd. 

• Einführung in das Thema am Beispiel einer 

ausgewählten Metropole ( vornehmlich Sachtexte 

zum Basiswissen). Dazu parallel arbeiten SuS an 

Präsentationen zu Aspekten verschiedener 

Metropolen → Basiswissen (ca. 8 Themen) 

• ErNi: Lesen einer Langschrift (Lesetagebuch etc.) 

• Bearbeitung der Langschrift und des Films 

• GruNi: Vertiefung über Songtexte, Gedichte etc. 

Abitur 2012 "Living in a Metropolis" 

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Hilfreiche Internetseiten: 

HOW TO KEEP A READING LOG 

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/1951593/HOW-TO-KEEP-A-READING-LOG 

Journals in the Language Classroom | Download as PDF (98K)* 

Scott J. Baxter 

http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/forum/archives/2009/09-47-4.html 

Teacher downloads 

http://www.filmeducation.org/teachingtrailers/secondary/downloads.html 

YouTube in the Classroom! 

http://esl.about.com/od/listeninglessonplans/a/youtube.htm 

ESL/EFL Lesson: 3 Steps In Using A YouTube Video 

http://www.enjoyteachingenglish.com/3-steps-to-using-youtube-video-in-a-eslefl-lesson/ 

Die Schüler 

Bildungsplan für die gymnasiale Oberstufe. Neuere Fremdsprachen 

„verstehen ein breites Spektrum von Tonaufnahmen, Tondokumenten, Rundfunk- und TV-Sendungen 

sowie Spielfilmen, auch wenn nicht unbedingt reine Standardsprache gesprochen wird. Dabei 

erkennen sie wesentliche Details, implizit vermittelte Einstellungen oder Beziehungen zwischen 

Sprechenden 

S. 22 

„analysieren Merkmale des Mediums Film unter Einsatz grundlegender Fachbegriffe,„ 

S.31 

Fernsehsendungen und Filme verstehen 

S.52/53 

C1 bis A2 

- Kann Spielfilme verstehen, auch wenn viel saloppe Umgangssprache oder Gruppensprache und viel 

idiomatischer Sprachgebrauch darin vorkommt. 

- Kann im Fernsehen die meisten Nachrichtensendungen und Reportagen verstehen. 

- Kann Fernsehreportagen, Liveinterviews, Talkshows, Fernsehspiele sowie die meisten Filme 

verstehen, sofern Standardsprache gesprochen wird. 

- Kann in vielen Fernsehsendungen zu Themen von persönlichem Interesse einen großen Teil 

verstehen, z. B. in Interviews, kurzen Vorträgen oder Nachrichtensendungen, wenn relativ langsam 

und deutlich gesprochen wird. 

- Kann vielen Filmen folgen, deren Handlung im Wesentlichen durch Bild und Aktion getragen wird 

und deren Sprache klar und unkompliziert ist. Kann das Wesentliche von Fernsehprogrammen zu 

vertrauten Themen verstehen, sofern darin relativ langsam und deutlich gesprochen wird. 

- Kann die Hauptinformation von Fernsehmeldungen über Ereignisse, Unglücksfälle usw. erfassen, 

wenn der Kommentar durch das Bild unterstützt wird. 

- Kann dem Themenwechsel bei TV-Nachrichten folgen und sich eine Vorstellung vom Hauptinhalt 

machen. 

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Ideen zur unterrichtlichen Umsetzung des Themas : Living in a Metropolis 

Realistisch verfügbare Zeit:15 Wochen, 60 Stunden 

Einführung in die Thematik im Kursverband 

Block I 

5 Wochen 

20 Stunden 

Metropolis allgemein, Fachvokabular und Themenkatalog (2 Wochen) 

Am Beispiel einer Metropole wird die derzeitige Situation anhand von Aspekten des 

Basiswissens bearbeitet 

Materialien werden gestellt 

(3 Wochen) 

Dabei: 

Intensive Arbeit an Texten (Anforderungsbereiche, Operatoren. unbedingt den Schülern 

aushändigen) 

Währendessen: 

An alle Schüler, die keine Präsentationsleistung ablegen, werden Themen verteilt, die sie 

außerhalb der Unterrichtszeit in Gruppen bearbeiten. 

Zur Dokumentation der Gruppenarbeit an den Themen bietet sich die Nutzung einer 

Plattform wie CommSy an. 

Handouts etc. werden dort abgelegt und vor den Präsentationen von allen Kursmitgliedern 

durchgearbeitet. 

Präsentationsleistungen haben ihren eigenen Zeitplan und müssen in das laufende 

Unterrichtsgeschehen integriert werden. 

Block II 

5 Wochen 

20 Stunden 

Zeitraum für Präsentationen und Vertiefungen des Basiswissens. 

Die Schülergruppen führen ihre Präsentationen durch. 

Währendessen: 

ErNi: Eine Langschrift wird vorbereitet und ein Lesetagebuch erstellt, das wöchentlich 

eingesammelt und abgezeichnet wird. 

GruNi: Kurzgeschichten und weitere Sachtexte können mit den Präsentationen verschränkt 

werden. 

Block III 

5 Wochen 

20 Stunden 

Langschrift, Lektürearbeit 

ErNi: Traditionelle Lektürearbeit an der vorbereiteten Langschrift verbunden mit der Arbeit an 

einem Film. 

GruNi: Arbeit an verschiedenen Texten und an einem Film. 

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Besonders zu empfehlende Internetressourcen sind fett gedruckt. 

Two definitions 

A metropolis is a big city, in most cases with over half a million inhabitants in the city proper, 

and with a population of at least one million living in its urban agglomeration. Big cities 

belonging to a larger urban agglomeration, but which are not the core of that agglomeration, 

are not generally considered a metropolis but a part of it. A metropolis is usually a significant 

economic, political and cultural centre for some country or region, and an important hub for 

regional or international connections and communications. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis 

1. A major city, especially the chief city of a country or region: Chicago, the metropolis of the 

Midwest. 

2. A city or an urban area regarded as the centre of a specific activity: a great cultural 

metropolis. 

3. Ecclesiastical The chief see of a metropolitan bishop. 

4. The mother city or country of an overseas colony, especially in ancient Greece. 

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/metropolis 

Documentary: The New Metropolis 

http://www.thenewmetropolis.com/ 

Viewer’s Guide: 

http://www.thenewmetropolis.com/media/resources/New_Met_Viewers_Guide_714.p 

df 

Einstieg 

http://www.iba-hamburg.de/en/01_entwuerfe/start_01_entwuerfe.php 

http://www.ibahamburg.de/bilder_dokumente/dokumente/publikationen/klimafa 

Erweiterung: 

ktor_web_en.pdf 

http://www.emerging-megacities.de/seiten/tagung/startseite/startseite-en.aspx 

Global cities 

http://tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/globalcities/default.shtm 

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London – the EU’s largest metropolis 

"Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, 

who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a 

man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for 

there is in London all that life can afford.“ 

— Samuel Johnson zu James Boswell (September 20, 1777) 

• http://british-history.ac.uk/place.aspx?region=1 

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8451000/84 

51647.stm 

• http://londononline.co.uk/history/ 

• http://www.london.gov.uk/thelondonplan/thelondonplan.jsp 

• http://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/uploads/Housing_Strategy_Final_Feb10.p 

df (Boris Johnson’s London’s Housing Strategy) 

Transport; congestion charge; “green” buses 

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/projectsandschemes/7500.aspx 

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/ 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4689398.stm (London’s green 

buses) 

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/roadusers/congestioncharge/whereandwhen/ (congestion 

charge) 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_commuter_belt (London’s commuter belt) 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/davehillblog/2010/oct/28/peter-hendy-transportfor-london 

(Interview mit dem Chef von Transport for London) 

Urban development: Docklands 

http://www.dockland.co.uk/about-docklands.html 

http://www.lddc-history.org.uk/ 

http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Docklands/ 

London Olympics 2012 

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/2012 

• http://www.london2012.com/olympic-park 

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/14/east-end-olympicgames-hopes-dashed 

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/davehillblog/2011/aug/16/london-olympicslegacy-cynicism-after-riots 

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Building projects 

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=413465 

http://extras.stratalondon.com/movie 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jul/18/strata-tower-london-greenarchitecture 

Gentrificationand urban development 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/apr/20/communities.guardiansoc 

ietysupplement 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_End_of_London 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article624781.ece 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/supergentrifiers-ruinintegration-414219.html 

http://gentrificationblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/london-supergentrification-statt-social-mix/ 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/joepublic/2010/jun/29/housing-benefitcuts-poor-inner-london 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/11/housing 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/thinkingallowed_20080618.shtml 

http://heygate.heroku.com/before-the-heygate 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/08/heygate-estatehousing-gentrification 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13092349 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid 

_8800000/8800644.stm (text and audio) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD5I25GDlwE (BBC) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVxH610_dXA&feature=related 

http://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/LVMF-SPG-July%202010pt1-r.pdf 

http://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/LVMF-SPG-July%202010pt2_0.pdf 

 

Gentrification – Erweiterung 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125684429 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/thinkingallowed_20080618. 

shtml 

London - We built this city 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u7PLPdyWeE&feature=related 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gehnSHYrsnA&NR=1 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhjD01uSX98&feature=related 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFPnhhrE4kA&feature=related 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DLAHehn4Ag 

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The world in one city 

http://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/londonfacts/londonlocalgovernment/london 

mapandlinks/ (detaillierte Informationen zu den Londoner Bezirken) 

The Guardian newspaper offers a wealth of information on the capital 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/london/0,,1394802,00.html 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/london 

Living in London 

http://www.livinginlondon.net/ 

London in fiction 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_in_fiction 

http://www.fictionalcities.co.uk/london.htm 

London short stories 

Nicholas Royle, Time Out London Short Stories, Time Out 2000 

Adolf Barth, London Stories, Reclam 2003 

London poems 

Adolf Barth, London Poems, Reclam 1988 

http://www.poemsabout.com/london/ 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/poetryblake_lon/1blake_londonsubjectact.s 

html 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqIsu4wIEUE 

London songs 

http://www.timeout.com/london/music/features/2026/50_best_London_songs.html 

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/yradish/28947/50-great-london-songs 

Ralph McTell Streets of London 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctb-SrwL884 

http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/mctell-ralph/streets-of-london-11077.html 

An interview with Ralph McTell 

http://www.timeout.com/london/music/features/2026/2.html 

The Clash London Calling 

http://londonsburning.org/lyr_london_calling.html 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbD5v2xijqw 

Pet Shop Boys Suburbia 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4a0xZMMlqE&feature=related 

http://www.elyrics.net/read/p/pet-shop-boys-lyrics/suburbia-lyrics.html 

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Chicago – city of neighbourhoods 

Metropolenregion Chicago 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MapofEmergingUSMegaregions.png 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Megalopolis 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago 

http://www.chicagometropolis2020.org/ 

http://www.metrojoe.org/ 

Chicago – city of the century 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/index.html 

The Burnhamplan centennial 

http://burnhamplan100.uchicago.edu/ 

(The Burnham Plan is a popular name for the 1909 Plan of Chicago, co-authored by 

Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett. It recommended an integrated series of 

projects including new and widened streets, parks, new railroad and harbor facilities, 

and civic buildings. Though only portions of the plan were realized, the document 

reshaped Chicago's central area and was an important influence on the new field of 

city planning.) 

History channel 

http://www.history.com/topics/chicago 

Official city website 

http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en.html 

Chicago history museum 

http://www.chicagohs.org/ 

Chicago history journal 

http://www.chicagohistoryjournal.com/ 

Sweet home Chicago 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlou_2lMLAc&feature=player_embedded#! 

http://www.chicagohomeless.org/what/housing/sweethomechicago 

http://www.magellandevelopment.com/aquachicagoapartments/ 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB5ST4gngb8 

http://www.thecha.org/ 

http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/parks.home.cfm 

http://www.jobsatrush.com/living-in-chicago.htm 

A guide to Living in Chicago 

http://mssa.mccormick.northwestern.edu/Housing_Resource_Center.pdf 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Chicago 

http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?chicagodots 

Chicago gentrification 

http://www.nbcchicago.com/the-scene/real-estate/Is-Chicago-Still- 

Gentrifying.html#ixzz1VYLYBu9N 

http://timeoutchicago.com/things-to-do/62175/pilsen-gentrification 

http://timeoutchicago.com/things-to-do/62177/when-gentrification-works 

http://www.peoplesworld.org/chicago-gentrification-is-a-global-issue/ 

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Pilsen 

http://www.pilsenportal.org/index.html 

Pullman 

http://www.pullmanil.org/ 

In February 2002, families living in the Robert Taylor Homes public housing development 

were given a 180 day notice of eviction. In six months, the community that had been their 

home for generations would be demolished. 

http://www.dislocationfilm.com/film.html 

Chicago resident on gentrification 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppzlK8OdglY 

Chicago fiction 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fiction_set_in_Chicago 

Chicago poems 

http://carl-sandburg.com/POEMS.htm 

Chicago songs 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_about_Chicago#J 

http://www.poemhunter.com/songs/chicago/ 

Frank Sinatra, Chicago 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmOOYxU99fI 

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967), Chicago Poems 1916, Chicago 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22mcxyO8s7U 

Gathering Poems from Sandburg's 'Great Period' 


Studs Terkel dies 

The author-radio host-actor-activist and Chicago symbol has died. "My epitaph? My epitaph 

will be 'Curiosity did not kill this cat,'" he once said. 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-studs-terkel-dead,0,3592218,full.story 

So Long, Studs Terkel, And Thanks 


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Johannesburg – city of gold 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannesburg 

History 

http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/places/villages/gauteng/johannesburg/index.htm 

http://www.joburgnews.co.za/facts/index_heritage.stm 

Transport 

http://www.joburg.org.za/content/view/1226/78/ 

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=1257414/index.html 

Townships 

http://www.soweto.co.za/html/i_overview.htm 

http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/places/villages/gauteng/soweto/history.htm 

http://www.alexandra.co.za/index.htm 

http://www.joburgnews.co.za/2006/feb/feb13_sophiatown.stm 

http://www.southafrica.info/about/history/sophiatown50.htm 

Jo’burg in writing 

http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2010.07-books-writing-johannesburg/ 

Phaswane Mpe, Welcome to Our Hillbrow, 2002. 

"Welcome To Our Hillbrow" is an exhilarating and disturbing ride through the chaotic and hyper-real 

zone of Hillbrow - microcosm of all that is contradictory, alluring and painful in the changing South 

African psyche. Everything is there: the shattered dreams of youth, sexuality and its unpredictable 

costs, AIDS, xenophobia, suicide, the omnipotent violence that often cuts short the promise of young 

people, and the Africanist understanding of the life continuum that does not end with death but flows 

on into an ancestral realm. Infused with the rhythms of the inner city pulsebeat, this courageous novel 

is compelling in its honesty and its broad vision, which links Hillbrow, rural Tiragalong and Oxford. It 

spills out the guts of Hillbrow-living with the same energy and intimate knowledge ,with which the 

Drum writers wrote Sophiatown into being.” http://www.amazon.de/ 

Ivan Vladislavic, Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked, 2009. 

(Review in The Guardian) 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/nov/18/featuresreviews.guardianreview18) 

Heidi Holland, From Jo'Burg to Jozi, 2006 

“The authors approached about eighty journalists and writers based in Johannesburg and asked them 

to write short pieces about the city in which they work and live. They did not specify form or style-the 

contributors were free to express themselves however they wanted to.” http://www.amazon.com/ 

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New Orleans – from French settlement to post-Katrina 

Katrina and after 

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/08/katrina-5-years-later-new-orleans-is-a-stateof-mind.html 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/insidenova/2010/05/hurricane-katrina.html 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/orleans/ 

http://www.nola.com/katrina/ 

http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Hurricane+Katrina 

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/2010/02/07/2010-02- 

07_saints_lift_new_orleans_spirits_but_lower_ninth_ward_still_has_long_way_to_go_fo.html 

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/katrina-lower-ninth-ward/story?id=11488921 

Videos: “Five years later” 

http://www.google.de/search?q=katrina+five+years+later&hl=en&client=firefoxa&hs=8YX&rls=org.mozilla:en- 

GB:official&prmd=nv&source=univ&tbs=vid:1&tbo=u&ei=xmyDTIygCJGSswbTj4jmCA&sa=X 

&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=8&ved=0CDcQqwQwBw 

History 

http://www.neworleansonline.com/neworleans/history/ 

http://goneworleans.about.com/od/tours/a/historyofno.htm 

http://www.inetours.com/New_Orleans/French_Quarter_History.html 

New Orleans in writing 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_in_fiction 

Tom Piazza, Why New Orleans Matters, 2008 

“In the aftermath of Katrina and the disaster that followed, promises were made, forgotten, and 

renewed. Now what will become of New Orleans in the years ahead? What do this proud, battered city 

and its people mean to America and the world? ” http://www.amazon.com 

Tom Piazza, City of Refuge, 2008 

“In the heat of late summer, two New Orleans families--one black and one white--confront a storm that 

will change the course of their lives.” http://www.amazon.com 

Dave Eggers, Zeitoun, 2010 

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, longtime New Orleans residents Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun 

are cast into unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water. Good Samaritan Abdulrahman 

has stayed on in the city, traversing its deeply flooded streets by canoe, feeding trapped dogs and 

rescuing survivors, as New Orleans becomes a disaster zone. But nothing could prepare him for the 

wholly unexpected nightmare that follows . . . http://www.amazon.co.uk/ 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/07/dave-eggers-zeitoun-hurricane-katrina 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/11/dave-eggers-zeitoun-hurricane-katrina 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/7472849/Zeitoun-by-Dave- 

Eggers-review.html 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/books/review/Egan-t.html 

http://www.salon.com/books/int/2009/07/16/dave_eggers 

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2009/07/qa-dave-eggers-on-a-new-orleanstragedy.html 

http://www.nola.com/books/index.ssf/2010/08/dave_eggers_wins_american_book.html 

http://www.faz.net/s/RubD3A1C56FC2F14794AA21336F72054101/Doc~EA530997305 

47289FDDB10F1013B417~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html 

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Novels 

London 

Colin MacInness, Absolute Beginners, 1959 

Hanif Kureish, The Buddha of Suburbia, 1990 

Andrea Levy, Never Far from Nowhere, 1996 

Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere, 1996 

Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down, 2005 

Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry, 2009 

Sebastian Faulks, A Week in December, 2009 

Stephen Kellman, Pidgeon English, 2011 

Harri lebt er mit seiner Mutter und Schwester im 9. Stock eines Londoner Sozialbaus. Er liebt 

Haribo, den Aufzug, obwohl er nach Pisse stinkt, die Tauben und seine Turnschuh, Unikate 

mit den selbstgemalten Adidas-Streifen. Doch hier in den grauen Schluchten eines 

abgehängten Stadtviertels stimmt nichts. Dann wird ein Nachbarsjunge auf offener Straße 

erstochen. Harri beginnt seine abstrusen Ermittlungen. 

http://www.amazon.de/Pigeon-English-Stephen-Kelman/dp/1408810638/ref=sr_1_1?s=booksintl-de&ie=UTF8&qid=1319733937&sr=1-1 

New York 

Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958 

Paula Fox, Desperate Characters, 1970 

Lawrence J. Davis, A Meaningful Life 1971 

http://184.73.187.38/media/doc/2010/01/12/meaningful-life.pdf 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/books/06davis.html 

http://theasylum.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/l-j-davis-a-meaningful-life/ 

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/04/conversation-jonathan-lethem-lj-davisponder-a-meaningful-life.html 

Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, 1984 

Nick McDonell, Twelve, 2002 

Films 

Twelve 

http://www.12-themovie.com/ 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1407084/ 

Love Actually 


Matchpoint 


Riff Raff 


London Kills Me 

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Notting Hill 


A Love Song for Bobby Long 


Night on Earth 


L.A. Crash 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375679/

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