Assignment 2: Cultural Activity Report Due Week 9 and worth 190 points Write a 500-750 word essay that describes your experience and addresses the requirements below. Step 1: Watch parts 1 and 2 of this community theater presentation which is an adaptation of the show ‘Amadeus’. Step 2: Identify the plot of the play and 3 […]
ASSIGNMENT 1: After finishing this week’s readings(The reader(Reader 6-8 & reader 9-10) I uploaded in the below attachment), please focus this week’s post on the questions below. Remember: the idea here is to think carefully about the questions, but you don’t need to worry as much about producing a perfectly polished text. Your post should […]
this assignment will consist of the three segments explored in this class: History, Arts, and Social Sciences. Using our final text, The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos, you will need to complete following two prompts: 1. The author of our text, Óscar Martínez, relies heavily on the use of location (such as Chiapas, […]
Answer these questions from the readings below ( See attachments) Discussion board answers should be 200-500 words. (don’t count the questions‘ word) From the Schildkrout reading: 1. How does Schildkrout use the two exhibitions to contrast the use of irony in exhibition making? Why was The Other Museum successful in using irony? 2. One of […]
No later than the fourth day of the academic week, please respond to this thread by writing a thorough and thoughtful essay that addresses each part of one of the following question sets: How did the Industrial Revolution transform people’s daily lives? Be sure to include sanitation and labor. How do Burke and Hare illustrate the changes brought […]
Considering the videos below, discuss your understanding of the concepts of cultural politics, cultural domination, accommodation and resistance as it relates to syncretism and the emergence of the culture of the enslaved (the precursor to African American culture) in the US. This prompt is designed to test your understanding of the processes through which the […]
ASSIGNMENT 1: After finishing this week’s readings(The reader(Reader 6-8 & reader 9-10) I uploaded in the below attachment), please focus this week’s post on the questions below. Remember: the idea here is to think carefully about the questions, but you don’t need to worry as much about producing a perfectly polished text. Your post should […]
Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana) and Leopold Sedar Senghor (Senegal) belonged to the generation of western educated intellectuals who came of age at the height of colonialism and who developed ideas that informed the anti-colonial struggle. Nkrumah attended Catholic school in Ghana and then studied at Lincoln University (a Historically Black College) in Pennsylvania. He joined other […]
BLACK CULTURE PROJECT You will have to complete a Black Culture Project that is worth up to 100- points. In completing your Presentation, you will select a work of literature, poetry, music, or some other cultural work or form created or popularized from the colonial period to the end of the Reconstruction period (1619-1977). You […]
Consider the quote by Adam Fuss in this module in which he describes his photograms as “not only depicting something, but invoking the moment of photographic creation and the life of the organic material with an eerie immediacy.” What do you think Fuss means by this, and how does this help inform our understanding of […]
