Refer to at least three of the learning resources for the week in your response to one or more of the questions below. Include specific examples from your life, history, the news, or the media. Why do legal protections for women’s employment rights continue to be an issue? Why isn’t women’s legal access to employment […]

Read the selections of revolutionary writings. Respond to these using the readings, the text, and most importantly, critical thinking skills and interpretive abilities. Base the discussion on evidence you see in our readings from at least one of the Humanities disciplines listed below. Response Parameters * The Humanities encompass many disciplines, including literature, art, philosophy, […]

Submit your thesis statement and annotated bibliography for the research paper. Your thesis statement must summarize the point you will prove in the paper. Your annotated bibliography must include the four sources you plan to use in your research paper. Two of those sources must be outside of assigned course readings and should be appropriate […]

  Instructions Identify two secondary sources from your selected topic. The secondary resources will review two historical events that impacted your research topic. Complete the Historical Context Chart to explore the how these events inform the historical context of your topic and support your thesis statement. To complete this assignment, use this Historical Context Chart […]

Does Diamond’s “Tilted Axes and Spacious Skies” theory satisfactorily explain why the richest economies in the world are located where they are? Do you think he is right about why these countries have the advantages they have? Why or why not?

Choose an Italian work of art related to Catholicism and present it to the class. What period does the work come from, and who is the artist? How does the work present an aspect of Catholicism (positively, negatively, etc.)? Connect the artwork to something you've read this week in either of our texts and explain […]

Briefly summarize Fidel Castro’s speech, “What is Cuba’s Sin?” Does it change, clarify, or expand any previous impressions you had about Cuba? How does it compare to what you’ve read in your textbook? Where have you obtained your previous knowledge of Cuba and does it change when you examine primary documents like Fidel Castro’s speech? […]

In this assignment compare the architects (they are artists too!) Frank Lloyd Wright Frank O'Gehry Introduce the architects, include images/descriptions of their buildings, and find differences/similarities in their work. What are the principal features of the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank O'Gehry? General Requirements: See the Humanities Writing Rubric in the Syllabus 4-6 […]

Choose one of the following for this discussion: Pick a religious festival celebrated in Italy and present it to the class. When is the festival and where does it take place (i.e., is it regional or national)? Who participates in this festival? Describe the important cultural symbols and the historical details (i.e., when did it […]

Based on the interviews and your textbook readings this week, draw on your knowledge of what was happening in Guatemala in the 1960s-1980s, and answer the following question: How did the issues of race, socio-economic conditions, social injustice and class privilege provide an impetus for these young women to join the guerrilla movement? Identify and […]