Read the article below and discuss whether or not you feel the author truly and accurately reflects on how history will view this last century and whether you agree with that view based on the 20th century’s impact and influence on the 21st century.

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Retrospective on the 20th Century: One View

Reading and Response: How Do You Rate the 20th c. from Today’s Perspective?

Read the article below and discuss whether or not you feel the author truly and accurately reflects on how history will view this last century and whether you agree with that view based on the 20th century’s impact and influence on the 21st century.

Article: A 20th c. Retrospective 

 

Choose one reading from the module. From this reading, choose a quote that you feel is reflective of the lesson theme. Explain how the quote is significant to the theme, and how you can relate the message of the quote to yourself or to the world around you.

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Argument writing

Choose one reading from the module. (Reading is below) From this reading, choose a quote that you feel is reflective of the lesson theme. The theme is argument writing. Explain how the quote is significant to the theme, and how you can relate the message of the quote to yourself or to the world around you.

Requirements:

  • Three well written paragraphs that explain how your quote is representative of the module theme.
  • One example that relates your quote to the other readings present in the module.
  • One example that links your quote to “real life.”

 

How do the authors below thread some of the articulations of survival and hope of human and non-human beings, despite tensions, fragmentations, and divisions? Apply one specific insight and example (properly cited) in each reading to build up your answer.

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Human Rights and Social Justice: Global Indigenous Knowledge Movements

Question:

Indigenous, Black Peoples and People of Color in societies colonized by Westerncentric countries despite having many things in common have kept distant from each other, divided and fragmented. However, in different times there have been organizations that articulate conversations and alliances between dehumanized and demonized peoples and other beings (trees, mountains, volcanoes, oceans, animals, plants, etc.) How do the authors below thread some of the articulations of survival and hope of human and non-human beings, despite tensions, fragmentations, and divisions? Apply one specific insight and example (properly cited) in each reading to build up your answer.

Assigned readings:

Latif, Nadia. 2012. “It Was Better During the War”: Narratives of Everyday Violence in a Palestinian Refugee Camp. Feminist Review. Vol. 101.

Ware, Syrus Marcus and Giselle Dias (Niigaanii Zhaawshk0 Giizhigokwe). 2020. “Revolution and Resurgence: Dismantling the Prison Industrial Complex through Black and Indigenous Solidarity,” in Diverlus, Rodney, Sandy Hudson, and Syrus Marcus Ware, eds., Until We are Free. Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada Chapter 3.

Lakhani, Nina. 2020. “The Indigenous Awakening,”
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Lakhani, Nina. 2020. “Afterword,” in Lakhani, Nina, Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet. London/New York: Verso.

Discuss why the Changing of gun laws in the U.S.A. is the necessary to reduce firearms-related loss of life.

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Discuss why the Changing of gun laws in the U.S.A. is the necessary to reduce firearms-related loss of life.