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Dark Ages Research Project and Diorama1. Pick a topic (Study history from about 200-1500 depending on topic)a) Maya and Aztecb) Umayyad’s and Abbasidsc) Chinese (Tang, Song or Ming Dynasty) and Mongols2. Information to finda) Find a map of the two empires and explain the geography (land and water features, weather, etc.)b) Summarize the history of the empires in a paragraph: basic information only (copy/paste = 0)f) List 5 Interesting facts about each empire

To earn extra credit, pick one of the movies from the following list. Write a 1-2 page essay giving me a summary of the movie and telling me how your chosen movie relates to the history we have studied and what you learned from watching it. A good summary including points of both historical accuracies and inaccuracies will earn you up to five points on top of your final grade. Any analysis over and above the basic may earn you extra points. Analysis over and above the basic would be, for example, most movies made about historical subjects tell us more about what is going on at the time they are made than it does about the historical subject they’re portraying. Pay attention to the dates these movies were made, points will be awarded for showing an understanding of the historical context in which they were created. For example, despite the fact that the first Indiana Jones movies ostensibly portray Harrison Ford battling the Nazis, they much more accurately portray Americans’ feelings about the Soviets and the Cold War in the 1980s, when the original movies were made. The new Indiana Jones, while the only one actually about the Cold War, really shows you a lot more about how Americans think of the War on Terror and the post-Cold War world. Points will be given for humor and entertainment value. Copying any portion of your essay from IMDB or any other website will not earn you points, so don’t waste your time (and mine)!

I, Claudius (1976) One of my favorite movies of all time, it is really a BBC miniseries, so it’s about twelve hours long. If you watch the whole thing, and prove to me you didn’t fall asleep in the middle, I’ll give you double points. This movie covers the development of the Roman empire from the point of view of the emperor Claudius. It is completely accurate to Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars, which means it probably isn’t accurate historically, but it is full of all the most salacious gossip about their emperors that a wealthy empire could come up with.Spartacus (1960) A classic epic film, the fictionalized account of an actual slave revolt that took place in southern Italy under the late Roman Republic.The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) The story of a medieval Frenchman who returns to his home village after having been away at war for years. His friends and family suspect him of being an impostor. More entertaining than it sounds from this description, it is also interesting because it is a true story, found in the French archives by a historian in the 1970s.The Lion in Winter (1968) Yes, there is a later remake of this movie, but watch the early one with Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Peter O’Toole as Henry II. This is the story of Henry’s reign in England in the High Middle Ages, his battles with France over his territories there, and his battles with his family, including his powerful wife and his pain-in-the-neck sons, particularly Richard and John.The Seventh Seal (1957) An Ingmar Bergman film about the Black Death and its effect on European culture. Does the film portray the ways that medieval Europeans dealt with the plague, or really just what 1950’s culture thinks about death?

The paper on Judaism and Christianity. If you have not yet begun to write the paper on Judaism and Christianity, then simply choose this assignment here for your paper #3.

Learning & Art, the Meaning to & Impact on Daily Life:Summarize (in at least 300-350 words) the two or three most striking things you have learned in Weeks 1 through 5 regarding the definition of art and its impact on black thought and culture and the human spirit, grounding your discussion of your new awareness in ideas learned from the course text. Also, address how each new awareness about art, black thought and culture, and the human spirit has affected your daily life. Be specific.In your report, make specific reference (along with MLA in-text citations that include both the last name of the author and the number of the page) to at least 3 different authors spanning the time frame covered in our first two units of study (so far from the 1700s until 1919). In determining the author of individual pieces collected in this anthology, keep in mind that Mullane is not the author of these selections of literature that she (as the editor) collected into the anthology that is our text book. If the author is not named, “anon.” would be noted as author. If you cite a specific reference from one of the general descriptions of the time periods, placed before the selections of literature that follow, then Mullane is the author.

Virtual Black Cultural Art EventsAll SectionsNo unread replies.No replies.General suggestions include virtual attendance at a public reading of poetry, fiction, &/or other literature; virtual attendance at a public festival, play, &/or music performance; virtual attendance at a public museum.You might check out the Tacoma Art Museum for exhibits by and/or about black culture. You might also check out the NW African American Museum listed below.Northwest African American Museum (Links to an external site.)www.naamnw.org/?Northwest African American Museum, NAAM … Northwest African American Museum 2300 SOUTH MASSACHUSETTS ST SEATTLE, WA 98144 206-518-6000 …Google+ page (Links to an external site.) · Be the first to review (Links to an external site.) 2300 S Massachusetts St Seattle, WA 98144, United States+1 206-518-6000This Virtual Black Cultural Art Event Exchange: Use this optional forum to share ideas of upcoming, interesting virtual cultural art events to attend in preparation for the upcoming Mid-term Black Cultural Art Report in Week 5. When choosing events, you will need to choose events at which an art by black artists is highlighted that you will define and describe. When attending these virtual black cultural art events, you’re asked to note specific, concrete details of the art, the artists, the audience or intended audience, and the place. It is especially important to describe the concrete details and to consider what they reveal. Who are the people that make up the intended audience? Who are the artists? What are the materials and message of the art? Where is the art displayed and who has access to this place, particularly in non-pandemic times? What can you tell about race, class, and gender? Be specific. If people of all races, classes, genders, sexual orientations are the intended audience, describe concretely who you would expect to see. For instance, is the intended audience primarily, say 90% (or some other %), one race/class/gender/sexual orientation or another? What details would you note regarding class and gender? What would be the cost of the art and entry to view/experience the art? What are the labels used to name the genre of the art? Is it folk art? Fine art? “Alternative” art? How might all of these relate to what you’re reading in our text? How might these relate to a history of institutionalized hierarchies of so-called norms, oppressions, and advantages and disadvantages?You will need to develop details that show. You’ll need to consider what you’ve read about race, gender, sexual orientation, and class, and discuss these in shaping both the event (the art as well as the participants) and your experience of the event. You might also consider the function of the art in relation to race, gender, sexual orientation, and class. You’ll need to clearly identify what you see as the art, the artists, the audience (other visitors or attendees intended to view the art), and the place.Things to consider in choosing an event:Our text focuses primarily on race, providing a context of the definitions, history, laws, personal and systemic effects and actions that shape how we come to think of and be affected by those ideas. For some of us there will be information that is new and even shocking, presenting many opportunities for rethinking what we have come to believe. The intent in this class is to read and discuss these ideas, all the while keeping in mind the study of humanities, which includes the study and practice of art. Over the course of the quarter we will be paying attention to the presence and role of art in our own and in others’ lives. What is it we (both individually and culturally) label as art? Perhaps it’s a thing: a painting, a song, a novel, a poem, a sculpture, a ceramic bowl, a mask, a quilt, a basket, a building, etc. Perhaps it’s an action: the landscaping: the landscaping of a private and/or public space, the painting of a home or building, a ritual, the decorating of interior spaces. Or perhaps it’s a way of acting, as in “the art” of relating to others, to living, to playing a sport, to being a student, to resolving conflict, etc.The point in virtually attending black cultural art events for this class is to experience art in terms of race, class, gender. In choosing a black cultural art event, you will need to define the art you want to experience, and, once virtually viewing the event, you will need to note details of what you see as the art, the artists, the other intended observers, and the place at which the event occurs. Furthermore, your observations of the art, artists, other intended observers, and place are to reflect specific details of race, class, and gender.In short, it is up to you to choose the specific events, keeping in mind that what you see as art, in the context of race, class, and gender, must be central to the event. It would also be good to choose an event that is in some way new to you.As stated in the syllabus, you will be writing a mid-term formal black cultural art report on both course assignments and attendance this quarter at two black cultural art events. In preparing for this, students are to have visited at least two varied black cultural art events of your choosing prior to Week 5. As suggested, you might visit a museum, a poetry or other book reading (check local bookstores, the University of Washington, the Hugo House, etc., for any virtual events they are offering), an art gallery showing, a cultural festival, a music concert, a play, or other black cultural art event, including any that may be held virtually through the Ft. Steilacoom and Puyallup campuses. Check your local papers, public bulletin boards, as well as this black Cultural Art Event forum on the discussion forum.When you go to whatever you’ve chosen, consider what you’ve read about race, and consider this in shaping both the event and your experience of the event. Note that it can be helpful to take notes on the spot. While notes are informal writing, the Mid-term Black Cultural Art Report you submit to me is considered formal writing, which you will develop with detail, logic, and polished clarity.

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Exercise #10, due Thursday, April 29, 2021, Brainstorming for the Formal Paper Topic on Rhetoric of the Cold War Learning Goal/Skill:• Think critically! Learn to recognize how a writer chooses certain words to try to manipulate the reader (you?) to feel certain emotions, think a certain way, or support a certain policy.Directions:1. Review all of the Formal Paper Instructions, and specifically consider the prompt for the formal paper topic “A” (the full instructions are in the “Formal Paper” folder in “Content” in Blackboard). Topic A reads:The Cold War was at least partly “fought” in the realm of ideas, expressed in the careful choice of words (and, implicitly, the rejection of other alternative words). How did some people who commented on current events during the Cold War use words in an effort shape their audience’s attitudes and/or responses to those events? Include examples and quotes from at least three distinct primary sources.SOURCES to USE for this topic• PDF file of “The Cold War and the Third World,” from Reilly, Worlds of History, Chapter 26, found in the “Readings” folder in Blackboard’s “Content” area.• Relevant contextual information from the course textbook, Wiesner- Hanks, History of World Societies2. Imagine you are going to write your Formal Paper on this topic. Youobviously are not required to choose the topic for your paper, but for this assignment, pretend like you will. Write at least one-page (ca. 350 words), but no more than two, of INFORMAL WRITING in which you brainstorm about how you might successfully write such a paper.3. Indicate at least three primary sources that seem especially useful, and why they would be useful.i. You don’t necessarily need to mention or use all of the suggested sources for this assignment, or even for your formal paper. There are more than you need, in total, so you should be selective.ii. Still, you should obviously have read and thought about many of your source options before you start this brainstorming exercise. SO…4. Provide at least two direct primary source quotes and explain whatpurpose they could serve in your paper.5. Reference using footnotes, as you will do for the Formal Paper. This is part of the score for this exercise.i. If you don’t use footnote references, it’s -10ii. If you still don’t know how to make and use footnotes, look at “How to Make and Use Footnotes,” posted in the “Readings” folder in Blackboard.6. If you would prefer to write out your informal brainstorming in outline form,that is perfectly fine, as long as the total words add up to at least 350.7. Please include a WORD COUNT for my convenience. 8. Submit your response by the usual methods (if you don’t know these yet,look at the directions for the first exercises for this class).NOTE: For best results—especially if this is the formal paper topic you end up choosing—you should also make sure you have read the assigned textbook chapters that give the Cold War context: Wieser-Hanks, A History or World Societies, Chapters 31 and 32. SCORING CRITERIA (out of 100) 30 points for turning anything in that remotely resembles the assignment 20 points each (60 total) for meaningful/thoughtful references to three relevant primary sources. -10 if you don’t reference with footnotes -10 If you only bring in two primary documents (there should be at least three) -20 if you only bring in one primary document (there should be at least three) -70 if I see no evidence that you read any of the assigned primary documents -1 to -10 for grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc. that is so flawed that it interferes withthe reader’s comprehension -1 to -10 if you have fatally misunderstood something important (like a vital fact or abasic point of a document).-1 to -50 if the response is not long enough—about 350 words (the deduction is determined mathematically by how big the shortfall is). To check your word count, highlight your text, click on “Review” at the top of your Word program and then select Word Count (or just look at the numbers to the bottom left)

Term Paper 2 Suggested questions to answer – not required questions to answer. There are also only suggested number of pages. The course is teaching American Indian religion and philosophy – so demonstrate that you’ve done the work to have an intelligent and academic perspective. In other words, what have you learned? AIS 310 American Indian Religion & PhilosophyCeremonyCritique and Analyze the material, then Support your position. – Introduction (1 page)• In general, what are the purposes for American Indian ceremonies? What might they all have in common?• Are any American Indian ceremonies similar to what exists in other cultures?- Function (1-2 pages)• Choose one specific ceremony covered in this course. What is the primary function of this ceremony? What is involved?• Using the same ceremony from above, what are the observable and unobservable functions of the ceremony? (How might the ceremony/activity(ies) provide a function in the family or the community?)- Application (1-2 pages)• Choose one or more ceremonies. Give examples of how the ceremony is significant or relevant in todays’ times? Reflect on todays challenges or challenges for their community environment.• Describe or interpret how the origin stories (the four in iLearn) might give us information about the people and their environment.- Scope (2-3 pages)• Describe how people are involved in their ceremony (either as an individual, or as a group; you can describe a specific ceremony, the preparation of the ceremony, or how it is conducted).• What do you consider to be the purpose or expected outcome of their ceremonies? You can choose a general theme or a case-by-case study.- Conclusion (1 page)• What do you now understand about American Indian religion and philosophy?• Compare your knowledge of American Indian religion and philosophy to another major religious practice and/or philosophy.

Although Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in 1865, many believe that the Civil War has not truly ended. What are some issues that still divide the United States not just by North and South, but along other lines? What do you believe is the biggest issue dividing the people of the United States today? Needs to be 8 to 10 sentences.