Find five examples of insects in art and write-up your experience.

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This week, you are to find examples of insects in famous works of art. When you start looking, you will find that insects are everywhere in an aesthetic aspect. You are to go on a virtual museum tour and explore insects in art. You may choose one or two (or more!) museums from this link

( to go on a tour.

You are to find five examples of insects in art and write-up your experience. Please include the pictures in your write-up.

Some points to address in your write-up for each insect:

1. What type of insect did your photograph? Can you identify this insect easily?

2. For each picture that you take, you are to do research on the meaning of that insect species. What does this insect represent?

3. Do you find this insect art aesthetically pleasing?

4. A brief paragraph of which museums you explored, explaining your experience. Did you enjoy your time exploring art?

This assignment is meant to be fun and enjoyable. We have already viewed insects in our homes, now you will view insects in our everyday lives in print, art, and media.

Research a specific Insect species and explain how this insect benefits humans.

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There are many ways in which insects benefit humans. They are critical decomposers, predators of other insects, part of the animal food chain, important pollinators, and they inspire human inventions.

This week, you will research a specific Insect species and explain how this insect benefits humans. Some points that you should address in your 100-200 word post are:

1. What are the scientific names of this insect (use the format Genus species)

2. How does this insect help humans? Be specific in your explanation.

3. Could you live without this insect in your life?

4. Does this insect contribute to society in a large or small way?

There are over 3 million insects described, so it should not be difficult to find beneficial insect species. Furthermore, no one is allowed to use the honey bee as their post.
These links might be useful.



What greater significance does this insect have in the world.

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You are to create an insect symbol that represents you. Using this website ( , to review a few insect and arthropod species and their meaning. Using this information, you are to create an insect symbol that represents yourself. Think of this assignment as the insect as your spirit animal.

Some points you should address in your post are:

1. What is the name of your cultural symbol (you can use a currently named insect species (such as the blue morph butterfly, leafcutter ants, etc.)

2. Why did you choose this insect symbol to represent you?

3. What kind of significance does this insect hold for you?

4. What greater significance does this insect have in the world, if any? Are they revered (like the scarab beetle) Are they extremely popular as an aesthetic creature?

5. Include a picture of your insect spirit animal cultural symbol. This can be a picture that you draw or create yourself or a picture that you find online that you feel represents yourself best.
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What are the cultural and economic reasons for women avoid marriage and having children?

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Please read this ENTIRE document carefully before starting this essay.

This essay accounts for 70% of my final mark for my final year module, hence it is incredibly important to meet every single criteria. So please first of all watch the lecture recording in entirety and include at least one element from each lecture slide, as my professors prefers us first covering our core readings before including external readings and references.

Please follow the structure of the essay plan and handout provided, please do generally follow and include the parts however don’t stick to just these points please add where appropriate.

Title – What are the cultural and economic reasons for women avoid marriage and having children?   

Essay plan –

Introduction

The introduction, which will state what readers will gain from reading the essay and general outline of what is expected to be in the essay, the essay will begin with education.

Education and the impact on women’s choice

By starting off with education, it will allow readers to gain insight into how educational reforms worked in order to cope with Taiwan’s growing economy. It will also be mentioned that cultural roles on gender will be looked into to see how it has impacted women’s choice of avoiding marriage and having children.

Marriage and fertility

After discussing the impact of education, the essay will go into the reasons for the decline in marriage and fertility rates. The essay will also draw conclusions to see there is a correlation between culture and the economic, be it positive or negative. Relevant sources, such as graphs, data and case studies, will be used to back up the arguments made in the essay and used to establish cause and effect, if possible.

Cultural norms and impact on marriage and children

Impact of urbanisation and social class

Case study

A case study will be looked at in order to support the arguments made in the essay.

Conclusion

The essay will end with a summary of the main topic’s points and arguments; drawing conclusions on the culture and economic reasons that women avoid marriage.

write an ethnography, you must take at least one concept we have covered in the course and explore it further through an example on which you conduct preliminary research.

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write an ethnography, you must take at least one concept we have covered in the course and explore it further through an example on which you conduct preliminary research. Rather than summarizing the work of other authors, this option entails doing your own (mini) field-work. This could involve looking at people’s instagram posts, studying interactions in Facebook groups, investigating sneaker culture on reddit, or many other options. Concepts here can be broad—perhaps you want to research masculinity within a particular group—but given the length of the paper, if the concept you’re interested in is broad then your field site should be narrow.

Students should choose a topic, conduct research, and develop a thesis based on that research. You must draw on at least one theoretical argument from a readings on the syllabus in analyzing your research, and are welcome to integrate more than one. For example, you could use Evelyn Nakano Glenn’s integrated framework, or Sarah Haley’s approach to understanding race and gender, or David Valentine’s conceptualization of labels and categories, etc.
Please do not conduct any in-person research for this paper. If you feel you have a compelling reason that you need to do in-person research and can do so safely, please email me to discuss it. Please also be sure you are conducting research in an ethical way. You can reference our recorded class session on the final paper for additional guidance or email me with any questions.

Also on people affiliated with the LGBTQ movement who still receive backlash from society despite the numerous awareness campaigns. In my ethnographic research on Instagram posts on the LGBTQ movement, I identified different tags used to demean people expressing their sexuality. For example, lesbians are often referred to as “dykes”, while men, “faggots. However, some cases reveal ignorance because macro insults should not be permissible in contemporary society. Nevertheless, for society to overcome the challenges, it is imperative to embark on a miss-education course that involves unlearning the traditional society’s static stereotypes.

You already wrote 2 pages in total its 7 pages. I’ve attached the document you wrote.

Briefly summarize (1-2 sentences each) the 6 major points outlined in the following publication by McChesney (2015).

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The Science You Need to Know to Explain Why Race is Not Biological

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” – Nelson Mandela

In this extra credit assignment, you will briefly summarize (1-2 sentences each) the 6 major points outlined in the following publication by McChesney (2015). You can access the article here – https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2158244015611712.

Please skim the 6 respective sections and summarize the main point in clear, concise sentences:

  1. People cannot be reliably divided into racial groups.
  2. There are no relationships between traits that are used to categorize people into races (like skin color) and associated stereotypes.
  3. Over time, geography and environment influence the genetic structures of human populations through natural selection.
  4. There is more diversity within racial groups than between racial groups.
  5. All people living today are descended from populations that originated in Africa.
  6. All people living today are one biological species.

 How do archaeologists determine the function of a space? What types of information does a purely functional perspective exclude?

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AR Final Prompts

Short Answers are aimed to identify or describe in two or three sentences. Select five of the following eight Short Answer options.

Option 1: What is the goal of garbology? Explain one way that the study of garbage informs us of socio-economic organization.

Option 2: How do archaeologists determine the function of a space? What types of information does a purely functional perspective exclude?

Option 3: What is the major difference between etic and emic perspectives in archaeology and why is understanding this difference important?

Option 4: What is the Tomb of Askia? How does its protection help us understand the humanitarian aspect of cultural heritage?

Option 5: Describe the function and impact of the Ahnenerbe. Why is it that their “work” is categorized as pseudoarchaeology akin to popular television programs today, such as Ancient Aliens?

Option 6: Define institutional and domestic economies, and explain one major difference between them.

Option 7: Describe a case of excellent preservation and explain what we learned about the past from the case.

Option 8: Using one case study from class, explain two major reasons for the deliberate destruction and looting of sites by insurgent groups of people.

Short Responses ask that you identify, describe, explain, and/or evaluate within four to five sentences. Select three of the five Short Response options.

Option 1: From a Post-Processualist perspective, is the emergence of agriculture considered an advancement? Discuss two advantages and disadvantages of agriculture considering its effect on socio-economic organization.

Option 2: Describe the operational chain of looting. In doing so, emphasize the source/direction of demand, and explain two major justifications for purchasing/owning looted objects.

Option 3: Select ONE of the following methods of analysis. In your response, please include 1) the associated data and general state of preservation and 2) process of its recovery and analysis, as well as 3) what the resulting interpretations can tell us about the past.

  1. Archeobotanical (Paleoethnobotany) Analysis
  2. Zooarchaeology
  3. Absolute Dating
  4. Regional Analysis
  5. Remote Sensing
  6. Relative Dating
  7. Osteological Profiles

Option 4: Select ONE of the following pairs of scholars and compare and contrast their positions on either community engaged research or curatorial work within encyclopedic museums. In your response, please be sure to explain the strengths and weaknesses of both positions while also offering your opinion as to which is more logically sound.

  1. Alicia Odawale and Richard Hansen – Community Engaged Research in Archaeology
  2. James Cuno and Chip Colwell –Legacy Collections and Encyclopedic Museums

Option 5: Select TWO of the following terms and explain how they relate to the field of archaeology. In your response, please include an example of the way archaeologists engage with/resolve the legacies of the selected terms and also explain why it is important for them to do so.

  1. Nationalism
  2. Racism
  3. Anti-racism
  4. Ethnocentrism
  5. Colonialism
  6. Queer
  7. Feminist
  8. Indigenous
  9. Agency

Essay 1: Please write about four paragraphs each

You are a museum curator at the Quai Branly in Paris designing an exhibition of Benin Bronzes. Describe how you plan to exhibit these pieces and what narratives or attributes you intend to feature. Are you presenting the works as part of a shared human history or are they framed as the cultural heritage of the Benin people? How do you plan to reply to questions concerning repatriation or the colonial legacy of encyclopedic museums? Finally, how is your approach to museum curation informed or shaped by our present political climate? What do you hope to resolve or rectify in the process?

 

Essay 2: Using one example from class, explain how archaeology/archaeological data has been used to justify inequality in the past. How did this case marginalize and elevate specific populations at the time? What are the legacies of these inequities in today’s society? In your opinion, how can archaeology/archaeological data be utilized to support modern social justice issues that seek reparations and an equal future?

 

Essay 3: Examine the motivations of the four characters provided below, and take ONE position on the repatriation of the burial remains housed at the Hearst Museum, University of California at Berkeley. Consider your character’s perspective and what they stand to gain or lose—educationally, religiously, or otherwise—from the results of the execution of this NAGPRA case. Prepare your essay to support your position with at least three justifications of potential benefits and/or losses to sway the other participants in this case.

Context: NAGPRA – Hearst Museum Case 

Explain to the non-specialist public the major essential characteristics of the cities and sites destroyed by Vesuvius.

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Description of the assignment: Your task is to plan an international, possibly BLOCKBUSTER exhibition with rooms/displays that will explain to the non-specialist public the major essential characteristics of the cities and sites destroyed by Vesuvius. Your budget for the show and all the material used to mount it is LIMITLESS – spend whatever you need (you’ll never hear that phrase in the real museum world!). Use as much realia, “real stuff” (physical evidence and artifacts), as you can to tell the stories of the places we will have worked in the course of the seminar. Your responsibilities are to choose the material and design the display for sections 1 and 2 (Destruction, Discovery, and Exploration; City Layout and Main Public Spaces and Buildings [incl. Temples]) and sections 3 and 4 (Daily Life—anything from Eating to Entertainment; Death and Remembrance) For each section you work on, you should first list the pieces and material you’ll use. Then write a substantial paragraph (or two short paragraphs) on how you will display your materials, why you have selected the works, what they say about the topic, and how they “fit together,” conceptually and physically, in the show. You should repeat this pattern for all four sections, and end the take-home with a concluding paragraph that sums up your main aims and points. In addition to ancient objects like works of painting and sculpture, inscriptions, jewelry, household items, or whatever, please feel free to use plans, sketches, models, interactive audio-visual displays, animations, or any other visual aids that come to mind.

 

How did the discovery of absolute dating transform archaeological reconstructions of societies?

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How did the discovery of absolute dating transform archaeological reconstructions of societies?