WilliamsMemo31

Williams Memo 31 Exemplary Texts

__**Memo 31: Exemplary Texts**__
 * Identify two or three texts that you have in your imagination as beautiful texts - and you want to write something similar (can be popular press; any text that is good to think with)
 * For each include: the title, narrative about why it is exemplary/what was compelling about it

Jakes, T. D. 1999. //Holy Bible: Woman Thou Are Loosed Edition//. New King James Version. Thomas Nelson Inc. The Bible is a beautiful text because the narrative makes use of stories, metaphors, etc in order to impart lessons on how to live your day to day life. This performative aspect is one reason why it is so enduring a text and why components of it have been appropriated by others who seek to create enduring works of art.

Farmer, Paul. 2005. //Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor//. reprint. University of California Press. The reviews on Amazon.com indicate that people cry when they read this book by Paul Farmer which discusses the concept of health as a human right. Unfortunately, I have not read it yet, so I'm not sure if it is just the subject matter or, possibly, the way that Dr. Farmer shapes his prose, but I would like my work to affect people emotionally as well as providing good social science analysis and the international medical technology transfer framework.