Robert dixon psychopath

01. .05 points, 10-45 words > Explain how John Guare's play Six Degrees of Separation (1990) is a play about the ways people share gossip with one another and back up your answer with an example of some of the gossip that circulates in the story. In order to get your half point here you must specifically reference the film or the play version of Six Degrees of Separation and be sure to explain and defend your response.

02. .05 points, 10-45 words > Read what C. Wright Mills' idea about the sociological imagination was all about here (Links to an external site.) and then make the argument that Paul Poitier's ideas about the imagination are similar to this very famous sociological concept. Explain and defend your response. I first introduced C. Wright Mills here.

03. .05 points, 10-45 words > How do Paul Poitier and Oesia and Flan Kittredge meet and who, specifically is the person or people who connect them?

04. .05 points, 10-45 words > The beating and death of Matthew Shepard happened about five years after the movie version of Six Degrees of Separation came out in theaters. How might his beating and death help inform our understanding of why Trent Conway felt he had to hide his sexuality from his family, peers and community? Explain and defend your response. I presented the story of the beating and death of Matthew Shepard in class. Trent is a character in both the film and play version of Six Degrees of Separation (1990).

05. .05 points, 10-45 words > Do you think Paul Poitier was correct to think that he needed to claim that he was the son of a famous African-American movie star in order to get very wealthy New Yorkers to like him? Back up your answer with at least one specific scene or or character or piece of dialogue from either the film or play version of Six Degrees of Separation (1990) and be sure to explain and defend your response.