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African Americans in the north make a wise choice in seeking opportunities in american cities after gaining their freedom?
chapter 6
1. Did free African Americans in the north make a wise choice in seeking opportunities in american cities after gaining their freedom? were there better alternatives?
2.if Richard Allen were to be seen as a character in an american historical narrative, rather than only in an African american context, how would the stories we tell ourselves about him be different?
Chapter 7
1.was W.E.B Dubois correctin saying that the independent black church was “the alpha and omega” of african american life? Do you see the black churches as a progressive institution?
2. by what means did the rapidly growing enslaved americans cope with and survive life in bondage?what do you find admirable about the antebellum slave that should make him or her worthy of studying today
please do answer in reference to the textbook
Chapter 6 ; After the revolution constructing free life and combating slavery 1787 – 1816
Chapter 7 : African Americans in the Antebellum Era
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The African Americans in the north made wise choices in seeking opportunities in the American cities after gaining their freedom since it enabled them to perfect their skills and services to others and those of their kind. By the African Americans venturing out and diversifying their services and skills, they experienced growth and development regarding their professions and economy. When they ventured out and expanded their services and skills, they learned a lot from their surroundings and their neighbors that helped them come together and unite themselves as one people…………………………………………
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CUC107Assessment 2: Critical Reflection on Readings
Value:
40%
Length:
1000 – 1200 words
Due:
Monday, 11:59pm (CST), Week 8
Submission:
Submit your assignment through the Assessment 2 ‘Critical Reflection’ link
in the ‘Assessment Submission’ area of
Learnline
by the due date. This assignment is submitted using SafeAssign. Save your Word document file with your name, unit name, and assessment number included (e.g. John Green CUC107 Assignment 2). Ensure you have your name, student number and page number in the footer of your document, and the title of the assignment in the header.
Task Overview:
Introduction:
This task helps you to demonstrate your understanding of unit readings and concepts and how cultural self-awareness of influences on your culture can help you to be more culturally intelligent.
Task:
Write to critically reflect on how and why cultural self-awareness is important to develop cultural intelligence.
Task details:
You should define the terms ‘cultural self-awareness’ and ‘cultural intelligence’.
Consider their relationship to each other based on the readings from weeks 1-8.
Discuss how and why cultural self-awareness assists people to be more culturally intelligent.
Draw on your experiences to help illustrate key points made in at least four of the readings (weeks 1-8)
Preparation:
Use the readings each week
until week 8
to plot which 5 concepts you will write paragraphs on. This is available on learnline under ‘readings.’
Week
Focus
Reading
Assessments and reading hints
Cultural Self-Awareness
1
Culture
Spencer-Oatey, H. (2012)
. What is Culture?A compilation of quotations, GlobalPAD Core Concepts. Retrieved from:http://go.warwick.ac.uk/globalpadintercultural
Hypothesis Annotation activity for Spencer-Oatey here
Collates many ideas about ‘culture’. Read pages 1– 2 &16-17
2
Experience
Russell, K.M. (2011).
Growing up a third culture kid: A sociological self-exploration,
Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, 9
(1), 29-42.
Hypothesis annotation activity link to Russel here
This is a critical reflection- use this style of writing for Assessment 2.
3
Knowledge
Taipale, S. (2012). Mobility of cultures and knowledge management in contemporary Europe,
European Review, 20
(2),173-181. doi:10.1017/S1062798711000445
*Requires Library-enabled accessthorugh portals and to publisher’s page, where you can download the PDF*
This Report’s Page 1-3
Helps us understand the idea of Knowledge InfrastructuresTaipale discusses.
Think about what traditional and modern knowledge is.pp.173-178
4
Behaviour
Spencer-Oatey (2012 p. 1– 2; 16-17) – as above
What is culture?
CDU Graduate Attributes Annotation page
Cultural Intelligence
5
You and Culture
Quappe & Cantatore (2005) What is cultural awareness, anyway? How do I build it? Retrieved from
http://www.culturosity.com/pdfs/What%20is%20Cultural%20Awareness.pdf
Hypothesis annotation activity For Quappe and Cantatore here
Assess 1 Mindmap Due: Mon Wk 5
*Definition of Cultural Self- awareness
6
Cultural Difference
Brislin, R., Worthley, R, &Macnab, B (2006). Cultural intelligence: Understanding behaviors that serve people’s goals.
Group & Organization Management, 31
(1), 40-55. doi:10.1177/1059601105275262
*Requires Library-enabled access through portals and to publisher’s page, where you can download the PDF*
*Definition of Cultural Intelligence
7
Culture Shock
Flanja, D. (2009).Culture shock in intercultural communication.
StudiaEuropaea, 54
(4), 107-124.
* Requires Library-enabled access thorugh portals and to publisher’s page, where you can download the PDF*
Hypothesis annotation activity for Macionis, Walters and Kwok (2018) here.
*Culture shock stages and coping strategies
8
Cross-cultural Communication
Get familiar with APA6th referencing
Look at the Equity Unbound web page here: LOTS of Resources and Clips
CDU Graduate Attributes Annotation page
Assess 2 Critical Reflection on Readings Due Mon Wk 8
As a reflection, we expect you to write in the first person when recounting examples from
your experience
. Therefore, you will be moving between third person(e.g. this paper showed that…) when you discuss the readings and first person (e.g. Irecall that…) when you describe your experiences that illustrate the points being made in the readings.
Your reflection
will require Referencing:
Ensure that all sources of ideas from the readings are correctly referenced in the text
and in a reference list
at the end of your critical reflection. See the referencing style guide and sample essay for APA6th available on the Charles Darwin University Library website.
You can submit two ways:
1
.
5 paragraphs
, each 200-250 words in length that critically reflect on concepts from
at least four
of the readings provided to you in weeks 1-8,
INCLUDING
cultural intelligence and self-awareness.
You should relate each of the reading’s ideas to an experience or observation from your own life (like a reading journal).
Or:
2.
A full essay with the elements Introduction etc listed below:
To successfully complete Assessment 2
as an essay
,
consider what a critical reflection is (see power-point presentation link in in the Assessment Tasks Overview table).
Introduction
Your essay should have an introduction that includes the following information:
·
Orientation
– background information: putting the assessment task into your own words;
·
A thesis statement/topic
: an initial thesis statement introduces and anchors your argument or discussionexpresses your viewpoint or stand on the subject;
·
An outline
of the structure of your reflection: the different parts or sections of the essay;
·
Scope
: This is optional. It may be appropriate to the reflection and outline the limits of the discussion.
Body paragraphs
· Your paragraphs must include a
topic sentence
,
supporting sentences
(theory and personal examples) and a
concluding sentence
(see paragraph example on next page).
·
Integrate references
into your points wherever possible.
· You should aim to have 4-6 paragraphs in the body of an essay of this length (not including the introduction or conclusion).
Conclusion
Ensure your conclusion does the following:
· Restate and qualify your thesis statement from your introduction.
· Provide a summary of the key points covered in the body of your reflection.
Before you submit:
· Read over your draft for grammar and spelling errors; do a ‘spell check’
· Checked your work against the
assessment criteria
;
· Made sure you have saved your file in the correct format (Word Doc) and with the correct file name (Name Unit Number Assignment number).
Paragraph Examples:
The following is an example of a paragraph taken from the Kate Russell paper that was covered in Week 2 (Russell, 2011, pp. 31-32). Notice the description (right-hand side) of each section of the paragraph.
I have come to realize the hyper-sensitivity to my surroundings that I experience is due, in large part, tothe defining and redefining of the self I have experienced moving from place to place.According to Fail et al. (2004), an ever-changing environment can alter third culture kids’ perceptions of belonging and identity.While I would, perhaps, like to think that I have a strong sense of self that remains consistent no matter my surrounding, it is simply not the case. I am, as Goffman’s theory of symbolic interactionism posits,a product of social interaction in which, through an internal conversation, I interpret others’ responses to me and respond accordingly.The classic example of this that I have often experienced is the assumption that I am shy. People haveoften interpreted my initially taciturn nature as shyness and have reacted to me in ways that make me feel like a fragile creature. My quietness is often a result of assessing my new surrounding and, in turn, assigning meaning to the objects that I take in. …….However, now, as I integrate micro-sociological theories into my perspective, and with the benefit of hindsight, I can see how my quiet uncertainty was less of a personality trait and more of a reaction to the need to define the new situation and establish my identity in my new surroundings.
Topic sentence
Theoretical support
Reflection and explanation of how she defines and redefines herself
Example
Re-stating the topic sentence with more information based on the example
Another example based on this topic
Cultural self-awareness (or the lack of) can be seen when people travel. For example,I was in my early twenties when I first travelled overseas to Indonesia. Like many young Australians, my first destination was Bali. At the Denpasar airport I overheard many Australian tourists complaining about an issue they considered very serious. “Why don’t they speak English here? You’d think in this day and age, everyone would.” One woman said loudly. Her friends wholeheartedly agreed as they tried to negotiate their way through the airport with signs in Bahasa Indonesia. There was no recognition that they were in a foreign country and shouldn’t just expect everyone to speak English wherever they went. Quappe and Cantatore (2005) would describe this as people in a ‘parochial stage’, where they think that their way is the only possible way. There was no evidence that they had made any effort to learn enough Bahasa Indonesia to get by in these situations. It seemed that they had no recognition that they should adjust themselves in some way Instead they expected everyone else to fit in with them. In this sense, they didn’t seem to have any cultural awareness or self-awareness and so were completing misreading the context and judging others unfairly because of that.
Topic sentence
Example
Reflection and explanation of how the author saw the situation
Theoretical support
Re-stating the topic sentence with more information based on the example
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What can we know?
Why did Descartes’ engage in the extraordinary method of doubting everything that is not absolutely certain? What was he trying to establish? How does he argue that we can’t rely on our senses? How does he manage to cast doubt on his reason?
How much can we rely on what we see and hear, think and believe? How does Descartes argue that there is anything that is really reliable? What if there cannot be any certain knowledge? Does there need to be? Is each mind’s subjective knowledge that “I exist” the only absolutely certain truth? How does Descartes argue that we can rely on our reasoning and our senses after he has completed the method of doubt?
What basis do we have for our knowledge? Do all beliefs have the same requirements?
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Descartes was a reknown French philosopher who strongly believed that in seeking the truth, there was need for little doubt since doubt would eventually lead an individual to finding the truth. Descartes engaged in a method of doubting everything that was not absolutely certain with the aim of limiting knowledge to things that were not certain in order to ascertain particular truths. Descartes was trying to establish the conception of knowledge and how a conviction based on reason was stronger than a conviction….
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Identify your selected healthcare concern in your city or state that needs your advocacy with an elected official. What is the impetus and rationale for your selection? What is your solution to this concern? Describe the model of policy making that you feel would be best applied to your policy concern and the rationale for selecting this model.
minimum 300 words. 2 outside scholarly references maximum 5 years old.my state : florida