As a way of experiencing the Humanities beyond your classroom, computer, and textbook, you are asked to do a certain type of “cultural activity” that fits well with our course and then report on your experience. Your instructor will require you to propose an activity and get instructor approval before you do it and report on it (students should look for any instructions in that respect). Every effort should be made to ensure that this is a hands-on experience (not a virtual one), that this activity fits the HUM 112 class well, and that the activity is of sufficient quality for this university course. The two (2) key types of activities are a museum visit or a performance. Note: This must not be a report on the same activity (and certainly not the same report) as done for another class, like HUM 111. For instance, one might go to the same museum as done for HUM 111, but this HUM 112 report will focus on entirely different works and displays.

1. Visit a museum or gallery exhibition or attend a theater, dance, or musical performance before the end of Week 9. The activity (museum or performance) should have content that fits our course well. Have fun doing this.
2. Write a two to three (2-3) page report (500-750 words) that describes your experience.

• • Clearly identify the event location, date attended, the attendees, and your initial reaction upon arriving at the event.
  • Provide specific information and a description of at least two (2) pieces.
  • Provide a summary of the event and describe your overall reaction after attending the event.
  • Use at least the class text as a reference (additional sources are fine, not necessary unless required by your content). Your report should include connections you make between things observed in your activity and things learned in the course and text.

Note: Submit your cultural activity choice to the instructor for approval before the end of Week 5 (earlier is even better). Look for guidance from the instructor for how or where to make your proposal. You may also seek advice from your instructor (provide your town / state or zip code) for a good activity in your general area.

Visiting a Museum

• It makes sense to approach a museum the way a seasoned traveler approaches visiting a city for the first time. Find out what is available to see. In the museum, find out what sort of exhibitions are currently housed in the museum and start with the exhibits that interest you.
• If there is a travelling exhibition, it’s always a good idea to see it while you have the chance. Then, if you have time, you can look at other things in the museum.
• Every effort should be made ahead of time to identify a museum that has items and works one can easily connect to our HUM 112 class and book. Since HUM 112 covers from 1600 AD to the present, it makes more sense to focus on items from this time frame. In general, museums with fine arts work better than history museums.
• Any questions about whether a museum-visit activity fits the course and assignment well enough will be decided by the instructor when the student seeks approval for the activity. Any alternative activity outside the normal ones listed here, such as for those limited by disability or distance, will be determined by the instructor. Normally, we do not expect students to travel over an hour to get to an approved activity.
• Make notes as you go through the museum and accept any handouts or pamphlets that the museum staff gives you. While you should not quote anything from the printed material when you do your report, the handouts may help to refresh your memory later.
• The quality of your experience is not measured by the amount of time you spend in the galleries or the number of works of art that you actually see. The most rewarding experiences can come from finding two or three (2 or 3) pieces of art or exhibits which intrigue you and then considering those works in leisurely contemplation. Most museums have benches where you can sit and study a particular piece.
• If you are having a difficult time deciding which pieces to write about, ask yourself these questions: (1) If the museum you are visiting suddenly caught fire, which two (2) pieces of art or exhibits would you most want to see saved from the fire? (2) Why would you choose those two (2) particular pieces?

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA Style format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. (Note: Students can find APA style materials located in the Additional Resources section of their Student Center within their course shell for reference)
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Explain the importance of situating a society’s cultural and artistic expressions within a historical context.
• Examine the influences of intellectual, religious, political, and socio-economic forces on social, cultural, and artistic expressions.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in the study of world cultures.
• Write clearly and concisely about world cultures using proper writing mechanics

Project 2 is a 1000 word literature review arguing that a scholarly conversation on a topic has changed—or has not changed—over a period of time. This project uses at least four sources, two of which must be published between 2000 and 2010, and two of which must be published between 2011 and 2017. Project 2 is a Global Citizens Assignment that conforms to Learning Outcomes objectives D, E, and F.

The intermediate draft should be 1,000 word literature review that argues how a scholarly conversation about your chosen topic has changed—or not changed—over a period of time, using two sources published between 2000 and 2010 and two sources published between 2011 and 2016. You should integrate summarized, paraphrased, and quoted materials from your four sources to demonstrate your understanding and provide support for your thesis.

I need my 4 attached sources to be used, however, if there is any problem with any source and it needs to be change, text me.

Format is MLA

research question and thesis should be stated clearly like in the attached document.

• Length: about 4 pages
• Format: Double-spaced or 1.5-spaced
  
• Include full citations indicating the sources of your information (see below for more information)
  
• Please work alone on this assignment!

Instructions:

First read pp. 179-182 of chapter 10 in Zhou & Sun 2004. This chapter is written by the well-known Chinese linguist Sun Hongkai of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. You may remember him as the one who documented the Anong language. (Note: you are only asked to read the first 4 pages of the chapter.)

Then, download and read any one of the chapters 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, or 17 from Zhou 2004. You are free to choose the language that interests you the most. (Note that each of these chapters is written by a different author.) Read the description of the same language in Ramsey’s Languages of China and Legerton & Rawson’s Invisible China (some languages do not appear in both books, so just read what is available).

Making use of material in these three sources, combined with what you have learned from other class readings (for example, Dwyer) and lectures (we have discussed Yi, Tibetan, Korean, and Mongolian in some detail), write a brief summary of the ethnic minority people and language you have chosen. (Be aware that these three books are written by authors with very different backgrounds, perspectives, and agendas.) You may consult additional sources if you wish, but it is not necessary. Reputable published sources such as An ethnohistorical dictionary of China (on reserve at Odegaard and available as an ebook through UW library) are preferable to open collaborative sources (such as Wikipedia).

Include at least the following information:

• population and geographic distribution
• language varieties and dialects
• general language features
• type of writing system(s)
• important points related to language policy, education policy, and writing system policy as well as additional information that you think is interesting or worth noting.

Do not attempt to include all the information in your readings; use your judgment to summarize and highlight. Don’t include technical details that you do not understand. If there are technical descriptions that you feel are important to understand and include in your paper, ask me for an explanation. Be sure that the paper represents your own writing, i.e. that it makes use of the information you’ve taken from the sources, but extracted, reorganized, and presented in your own words.

Your grade will be based on

1. coherence and organization of your paper, general clarity of the writing
2. accurate representation of information learned from the readings
3. judicious selection of material from reading included in your paper
4. connection of the reading material to other information learned in class
5. sufficiency of attributions in the text or in footnotes, with complete bibliographic citations

Aside from these requirements, you have freedom to decide on the content and structure of your paper.

When you are done writing your paper, search on YouTube (or elsewhere on the web) for a video that features a speaker of your language. Watch the video to get a feel for the sound of the language. Add the URL (web page address) of the video as an appendix at the end of your paper.

Citing Sources:

When writing an academic paper, you should always credit the source of all information or ideas that are not considered common knowledge. (What is or is not considered common knowledge is, of course, somewhat subjective. It varies depending on the field you are in and the audience you are writing for.) There are two reasons for doing this. First, to clearly distinguish which information or conclusions come from other sources from those that are your own contribution. Second, to give the reader the opportunity to directly consult your sources. Note that you are obliged to give citations even if you are not directly quoting another text. Many people mistakenly think of plagiarism as using another author’s exact words without credit. However, there are many other types of more subtle plagiarism that must be avoided: it is important not to take credit for specific ideas or articulations of those ideas as if they were your own.

There are a number of different ways to cite sources. In this class I do not require you to use any particular style, as long as you are consistent and provide all necessary information. (For downloadable descriptions of different styles, visit the UW library home page and click “Citation Styles & Tools”.) If the information in several sentences is from a single source, you can put one citation at the end of that set of sentences rather than providing a citation after each sentence. For information from class lectures, give the instructor name, the course name, and the date of the lecture.

Below is an example of a passage illustrating two citation methods: in-line and footnotes.

Example 1: in-line citations

The Dai are one of the 56 officially recognized nationalities of China, numbering 839,747 in 1982 and approximately 1,250,000 in the early 21st century. Dai is related to Zhuang, Thai, Lao, and other languages in the Tai-Kadai family. Most of the Dai live in Yunnan Province (Zhou and Fang 2004:201, Ramsey 1987:164). The Dai classification includes a number of distinct but closely related ethnic groups in western Yunnan, are less Sinicized than the Zhuang, and have a writing system related to the Siamese script used in Thailand (Ramsey 1987:243).

Works Cited (this goes at the end of the paper)

Ramsey, S. Robert. 1987. The Languages of China. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Zhou, Yaowen & Fenghe Fang. 2004. “The use and development of Dai and its vernacular writing systems”. In Minglang Zhou and Hongkai Sun (eds.), Language Policy in the People’s Republic of China: Theory and Practice since 1949, 201-218. Boston, Dordrecht, New York, London: Kluwer Academic Publisher.

Example 2: footnotes

The Dai are one of the 56 officially recognized nationalities of China, numbering 839,747 in 1982 and approximately 1,250,000 in the early 21st century. Dai is related to Zhuang, Thai, Lao, and other languages in the Tai-Kadai family. Most of the Dai live in Yunnan Province.[1] [2] The Dai classification includes a number of distinct but closely related ethnic groups in western Yunnan, are less Sinicized than the Zhuang, and have a writing system related to the Siamese script used in Thailand.[3]

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[1] Ramsey, S. Robert. 1987. The Languages of China. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Page 164.

[2] Zhou, Yaowen & Fenghe Fang. 2004. “The use and development of Dai and its vernacular writing systems”. In Minglang Zhou (ed), Language Policy in the People’s Republic of China: Theory and Practice since 1949, 201-218. Boston, Dordrecht, New York, London: Kluwer Academic Publisher. Page 201.

[3] Ramsey, op. cit. Page 243.

I’ve attached the original Comprehensive Business Plan. the company is Starbucks and the business goal is to to invest and expand their menu to include healthy food and specifically a healthy protein shake.

Part I: State your overall company strategy to support the business goal of your chosen business opportunity in technical terms such as pricing, differentiation,
and responsiveness.

Part II: Provide an initial demand forecast for your product/service for the first six months of operation. Discuss the technical rationale for your forecasting
method and why it is better than other methods of forecasting.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

•  Clearly explain your company’s strategy to support the business goal of your chosen business opportunity in technical terms such as pricing,
  differentiation, and responsiveness. (Clearly explains company’s strategy to
  support business goal and provides
  detailed technical terms)
•  Provide an initial demand forecast for your product/service for the first six months of operation.(Provides initial demand forecast for
  product/service for six months)
•  Discuss the technical rationale for your forecasting method and why it is better than other methods of forecasting. (Discusses the technical rationale for
  forecasting method and provides
  explanation of why it is better)

3 pages with 3 references.