Topic I don’t have much family history, or a lot of family. No one ever talked about the past or things they encountered. Direction: Choose a family history from collection. Use our course materials to put this source into context. Connect past events and trends, described in our course materials, to details in the family […]
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Research several Rolling Stone (or well-renowned journalistic publication of choice) album reviews (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews) and, using those reviews as archetypes, write a 400-600 word review of an album of your choice. Excellent album reviews will have some historical context (i.e., comparing similar previous albums by that artist and other artists) and a well-written narrative that includes
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1. The Supreme Io and the Creation of the World, by Maori, and the Yoruba Creation Narrative, by the Yuraba people, are similar in the ways how societies believed in higher beings creating everything as well as the existence of something being present before the creation of humans such as bodies of water, higher beings,
story of world civilization, from the beginning of man until the 20th century, from a student’s perspective. In this student interpretation of world civilization the goal is to discover a common theme that connects the different historical periods and civilizations discussed in the various readings and documentaries.
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Take two of the six religions that we have studied so far (Indigenous North American religions, Indigenous African religions, Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism) and compare and contrast their world outlooks, historical development, and their way of life. How are they similar? How are they different?
Creation Stories: Select one creation story from the assigned reading in World’s Wisdom and one from World Together Worlds Apart Chapter 1 (see the end of the chapter). Compare the stories. How are they similar? How do they differ? How might these inform our understanding about the peoples/societies that told these stories? Dance, Creativity, Trade: Choose two of the three topics. Briefly, summarize what was
