Category: Assignment

Relying on the book, The Bastille Effect (Chapter 4: Sites of Condor),  discuss two common threads linking each of the four cities ruled under a dictatorship: Buenos Aires, Santiago, Asuncion, Montevideo.

Relying on the book, The Bastille Effect (Chapter 4: Sites of Condor), and related to class lectures and slideshows,  discuss two common threads linking each of the four cities ruled under a dictatorship: Buenos Aires, Santiago, Asuncion, Montevideo.

 

Relying on the book, The Bastille Effect (Chapter 11: Consecrate and Desecrate), and related to class lectures and slideshows, please offer an original critique of the film Hunger (directed by Steve McQueen) by interpreting the plight of Bobby Sands and the other Irish hunger strikers. In doing so, please incorporate the following concepts: Sanctity of Death, Martyrdom, and Sacrifice.

 

Relying on the book, The Bastille Effect (Chapter 10: Exterminate and Denial), and related to class lectures and slideshows, please explore genocide and mass killings in the Southern Cone of Latin America. Also pay close attention to the significance of the fate of indigenous people.

Explain,is there something particularly attractive about music and sound that makes it an effective medium for popular culture to spread widely? Why or Why not?

The materials over the last two weeks considers popular music in a global landscape addressing both the border-crossing and influence of music genres and celebrity. In developing your essay is there something particularly attractive about music and sound that makes it an effective medium for popular culture to spread widely? Why or Why not? refer to the Bravo and Kruse readings in addressing this question. Next, consider your own relationship with a music genre. Has it shaped your position or understanding of politics and/or activism?

Evaluate, compare and reflect on the ideas, arguments, perspectives and strategies presented in Gore’s an inconvenient sequel — Truth to Power.

Compose an essay of approximately two and a half to three pages in which you evaluate, compare and reflect on the ideas, arguments, perspectives and strategies presented in Gore’s an inconvenient sequel — Truth to Power –and compare these ideas and strategies with ONE of the following essays: Kristoff’s “Warm, Warmer, Warmest,” Kunstler’s “The Long Emergency,” “As the World Burns . . .” by Jensen or “Green Chic: Saving the Earth in Style….” by Matheison.

Define the thesis and themes, purpose, audience and tone of BOTH the documentary inconvenient sequel and ONE of the essays from above in your Introductory paragraph(s);