The Conference of the Birds

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The Conference of the Birds by Farid ud-din Attar (ISBN: 978-0140444346)

  1. Take a section from the assigned readings and do the following in an essay:
    a. Identify the allegorical players in at least one of the parables told.
    b. Explain what each of the significant players in the parable represents.
    i. What is the parable suggesting? What is its controlling theme?
    ii. How is the soul’s journey being blocked from its path to God? iii. What answer is the parable giving in
    reference to the hoopoe’s advice? How does this help the soul’s journey on its path?
  2. Be mindful of the editor’s suggestions about interpretation on pages xv-xviii:
    a. “Two themes in particular are diffused throughout almost the entire poem—the necessity for destroying

the Self, and the importance of passionate love” (xviii);
b. “If there are two main actors in any given story, it’s a good bet—it doesn’t always work but it does most

of the time—that one of them represents the human soul and the other God” (xvi);
c. “…often in Sufi tales it is the socially inferior person who represents God or the divine. This is the part

of the Sufi love of paradox, a way of jolting the reader out of his normal expectation of the world” (xvii);
d. Objects and individuals don’t maintain allegorical significance from one story to another, so the

meanings of the symbols in each story have to be worked out anew” (xviii);
e. “…if a tale seems resistant to interpretation, the first thing to do is to turn the page back and reread the
hoopoe’s initial words” (xv).

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“Cultural borderland”

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We define “cultural borderland” as a space where two or more cultures and races/ethnicities occupy the

same territory. As such a cultural borderland is a political, social and psychological space without fixed

geographical borders. It is a space of resistance and liberation, a space that problematizes racial

differences and one that is defined by continuous change and ambiguities.

Choose one of the minority cultures in post-war Germany that we studied and discuss (May Aiyem Story)

and how discourses of race and racialization, and differences continue beyond 1945 and how they change

in postwar Germany. Provide example evidence across the sources we used to demonstrate how

members of one minority community responded to the dominant beliefs that “race thinking” and racial

distinctions had ended with the demise of the Nazi state.

While your essay should focus on one minority community, reflect on some similarities with and

differences to one other minority group we discussed in class. For example, what might members of the

Black People share with the Turkish minority? What are differences and/or similarities between the

experience of Germans of African descent and Turkish people returning to post-war Germany?

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Visual Communication Critique

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Find a physical object that you encounter in your daily life that you are willing to spend some time with

thinking about analytically and critically. This could be a car, architectural feature, appliance, object or

anything that communicates visually in its construction.The only thing I request you not critique is a smart

phone or computer. Spend some time thinking about it. Write around 3 pagesdouble spaced critique of

your object using the terms and theories that we have been reviewing in class, with special emphasis on

the terms found in the book“The Design of Everyday Things”. Include as a cover page an image of what

you are critiquing.

Reading:
The Design of Everyday Things
Infographics. The Power of Visual Storytelling
Perspective

Some of the questions you may want to consider in constructing your critique (in addition to addressing

the design terms in Norman’s book):

Analytic:
Does the object communicate anything to you about how it should be viewed/used?
Do cultural norms dictate how it should be viewed/used?
Does it require specialized knowledge or instructions?
How/When does it use text, fonts, typography?
How/When does it use images?
What is the layout (size, orientation, placement, etc)?
How is data represented?
How does it use color?

Critical:
Does its make any assumptions about its audience (cultural, physical, epistemological, etc)?
Does it work for its intended audience? Why or why not?
What are its limitations?
Where does it succeed in its goal?
Does it leave room for questions? Should it?
Does it imply a need that you have? Does it solve a need?
Does it communicate clearly?
Does it parse information cleanly?

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Diversity in Major Sports

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2-2 Diversity in Major Sports
Specifically, the following critical element must be addressed:

  1. Develop a research question that clearly and concisely articulates the purpose of the study.

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