1. Dr. Goldstein’s research in Peru
You will write a 400-word essay based on the prompt below. As described in the course syllabus, please have your essay “critically engage with the substance of the speaker’s talk using material from the course readings to support your argument.
"Dr. Goldstein’s research in Peru explores the dangerous conditions that impoverished people working in illegal gold mines and sex work endure. The plight of these workers highlights important connections between illegal mining, multinational corporations, environmental destruction, health and human trafficking. The Peruvian government is complicit in the mining and local police threaten to ‘exterminate’ these impoverished people if they are identified in speaking out against the mining corporations. In what ways is this issue specifically Peruvian, and in what ways is this part of a wider global problem? Use examples specific examples from Dr. Goldstein’s work to make your argument."
Some possible resources:
Overfishing and modern slavery
https://www.europeanscientist.com/en/environment/overfishing-and-modern-slavery/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Interpol rescues 85 children in Sudan trafficking ring
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/11/africa/interpol-burst-trafficking-ring-sudan/index.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Madagascar: Next government must end human rights violations
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/11/madagascar-next-government-must-end-human-rights-violations/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site
2. English language proficiency
Using the Office of English Language Acquisition Services (OELAS) website or the department of education website in your state, choose one English language proficiency (ELP) standard from each of the following domains:
Listening and speaking
Reading
Writing
For each standard, complete the “English Language Proficiency Chart” by including the following:
The ELP standard
The correlating language arts standards or Common Core Standard
A learning activity aligned with these standards
2. Chang Dai-chien
At one point in the movie we saw on Chang Dai-chien (Zhang Daqian), Chang is asked if his painting of Mount Lu is abstract art, since Chang had never been to the place he was painting. Chang’s response was all Chinese painting is abstract. But is it? Some might argue the opposite—that abstraction is inherently not Chinese?
