World Culture Paper
WORLD CULTURAL REGIONS – FINAL EXAM
Dr. Tisha Bender
Answer TWO out of the three Questions Below. Your Final Paper must be 5-6 pages in length, typed and double-spaced in 12 point font.
In answering each question, you must connect at least one relevant Group Presentation, the relevant class readings, class discussion, and any TED talk or video we watched on the subject, to the region chosen when you selected the Group Presentation you’d like to use. Select well chosen quotations from each source, citing them correctly, where they help to illustrate your answer. Links to all readings, TED talks and videos are on our Syllabus, and also on all our Sakai announcements.
Your Final Paper is due to be submitted to the Assignments area of our class Sakai site on Thursday, April 30th, which will be our last class.
Question 1:
As the Geographer, William Thomas, Jr. said, “The first task of a ‘culture conscious’ geographer in studying a region is to see the region as it is understood by the people who inhabit it.” With reference to “What’s in a Name? An Exploration of the Significance of Personal Naming of ‘Mixed’ Children for Parents from Different Racial, Ethnic and Faith Backgrounds,” by Edwards, Rosalind and Chamion Caballero at http://login.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/login?url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2008.00776.x, plus ONE Group Presentation on NAMING, and other relevant class materials and discussions, discuss the truth of this statement.
Question 2:
Martin Scorsese once said, “People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.” With reference to “The Future of Language” by David Masci, at http://library.cqpress.com.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre2000111700&type=hitlist&num=1 as well as ONE Group Presentation on LANGUAGE, and other relevant class materials and discussions, show how this is either valid or invalid.
Question 3:
William Thomas said, “Geography is not only land plus man, but land plus culture acting through man to reshape the land.” With reference to “The Symbolism of the Skyscraper: Case Studies of New York’s First Tall Buildings,” by Domosh, Mona at https://search-proquest-com.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/docview/1297908893?accountid=13626, and using ONE Group Presentation on ARCHITECTURE, and other relevant class materials and discussions, show how this could be true.
