Your reading response should demonstrate: 1) that you have read all the required materials; 2) carefully thought through them; 3) and thought of the connections, comparisons, relations between them. While you should draw specific examples from the texts, please minimize quotes and obvious summaries and paraphrases, and focus your efforts on your analysis and critical reading. You are free to include images, graphics, links, etc. and you can also write in any style and format (blog-like, essay, wiki post, etc.), but try to remain focused on the texts and not bring in other texts unless specifically asked to do so.

These questions are (non-comprehensive) examples of how to think through and structure your reading response:

How is the history of coffee intertwined with socio-political and economic relations of power, such as slavery, colonialism, imperial trade?

How is the story of coffee the story of the making and remaking of globalization and the modern world? What do these mean? Draw on specific examples from the texts.

While coffee can be analyzed as part of a global system, how have ideologies, (government) policies, or structures of trade resulted in local differences?

What are some of the central arguments Wolfgang Schivelbusch makes about the social, cultural, political and economic importance of coffee, and how are these arguments sustained and/or complicated in the other readings?

Antony Wild’s sub-title (“a dark history”) is obviously a play on words. Explain what you think are the things and processes meant by ‘dark’ based on your analysis of his and other texts.

The Chronology of a Terrorist Attack For this assignment, you are to select an actual terrorist attack that has occurred in the past and provide a brief case study regarding the incident. For the purposes of this assignment, the occurrences of September 11, 2001 are not to be used. The preference is to focus on an attack against the United States and the incident can be domestic or international in nature. In your paper, the follow areas are should be addressed, providing sufficient information is available: A general timeline of the attack to include inception of the concept, planning, execution, and aftermath. The identification of any pre-incident indicators that were indicative of an impending attack. The motivation / ideology and goals / objectives of those implementing the attack. The results and aftermath of the incident – including casualties, property damage, and any second and third order effects of the incident. For each assignment, you are tasked with authoring a college-level writing work meeting the following criteria: The length of the each paper shall be between four and six pages long, NOT INCLUDING a title page and a Reference page. NO abstract is needed for this assignment. Use a minimum of four resources in the generation of the work. The format of the paper will follow APA guidelines and include properly formatted in-text citations and end of work references. The purpose of these papers is to give the student opportunity to practice the two skills that are the most crucial your future success: critical thinking and writing. The paper should also demonstrate an understanding of the class material through a correlation between the facts of the case study or topic and the information covered in the class. Thoroughness, grammar and neatness count. The final product shall be in MS Word format, double-spaced, using Arial or Time New Roman 12-point font, and in APA format.

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