Racial experience

Description: You will write a brief (4-5 pages [more if necessary], typed (12-point font), double-spaced) essay in which you discuss and analyze your personal experiences with race and ethnicity.

Organization: Your essay should address the following issues:

A.    Your Racial and Ethnic Identity

What is it?  How do you define yourself (i.e., what symbolic markers/aspects your group identity from other identities)?  How do others define you in terms of race and/or ethnicity? What meaning does your group identity have for you?  How does it shape your personal identity?
How did you first become aware of your racial and/or ethnic identity as something that distinguishes you or marks you as different?
How does it affect your day-to-day experiences (if you feel that there is little effect, then you should explain why)?
How does your racial and/or ethnic identity affect your life chances (i.e., your opportunities to experience the good things in lifei.e., job opportunities, home ownership, and good healthas opposed to the badprison, residential segregation)?  Do you perceive any negative effects?  Do you enjoy any advantages?  You might find it helpful to compare yourself with members of other racial and/or ethnic groups in the U.S. or your home society.
Do you think your experiences based on your racial and/or ethnic identity are similar to others who share the same racial and/or ethnic identity, or are there other factors that influence your identity (e.g. gender, sexuality, ability, and nationality/immigration status)?

I am a Black African American Female. I am an U.S. citizen.

My racial experience was that I was call a “monkey” by one of my teammates at a school that I attended freshman year.

My skin color is what makes me different/exotic

Explain how being black effects me in the work area

Food security

The reading reflections will consist of one-two-page analytical reflections over specific assigned texts of your choosing from five different class meetings. These assignments should develop a critical analytical reflection on a key argument or problem in the text. You do not need to advance an explicit thesis or conclusion in these assignments, and you should not simply summarize the readings, but rather critically explore specific claims or arguments made in the readings.

The Ethnic Heritage of Caucasian and the Cultural Diversity on the Modern World

Step 1.  READ THESE ENTIRE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE BEGINNING. You will be marked down if you miss any of them!

Step 2.  The Library Research Portion of the Writing Assignment:  Find an academic, peer-reviewed source, either a scholarly article or book, on a topic about your ethnic heritage with which you are not familiar. The topic of your ethnic heritage upon which you decide to focus should: (1) be narrow enough for a four page paper, and (2) must be a topic that relates to the second part of the paper, where you will either observe an event related to the topic, or else interview a family member about that topic.

The following are some major anthropology journals.  These are just a sampling.  There are many others.  If you are unsure about whether a particular journal or article is acceptable, check with the librarian or Dr. Udvardy.

Africa                Man                Current Anthropology    Human Organization    Oceania                     

American Anthropologist            Ethnology                    Journal of Anthropological Research

American Ethnologist                Ethnos                          Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Cultural Anthropology                Folk                              Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Step 2.a.  Session with the Young Library.  During this session, you should learn:

        How to differentiate between academic sources and non-academic source materials.

        How conducting research using the Google or another mainstream internet search engine is different from using the databases of the Young Library, a major research library,

        How to access an anthropology or social science database.

        The mechanics of searching for articles on your topic, e.g., generating alternate keywords to find articles written on the topic you have selected.

        How to differentiate between a full-length article (acceptable information source) versus an abstract or book reviews (unacceptable information source).

        How to locate a book in an academic library such as the Young library using its Call Number, finding it on the shelf, and checking it out at the Circulation desk (dont forget to return it by its due date!)

Step 2.b.  Read the article or relevant parts of the book.  Take notes about what you learn.

Step 3.  Select and complete EITHER Option A OR Option B and follow those directions:

OPTION A.

Oral interview based paper.

Conduct a semi-structured interview:  Peruse the academic source you selected and read, and write a list of about 5-6 questions to ask your interviewee about that same topic.  For example, if you wrote about Irish ethnicity in America, interview your parent(s) about how closely their experience or that of your ancestors fits with what you have learned in the article or book.  Include not only questions about procedure, but also the feelings and emotions that were felt or displayed.

    Call, or use any facetime medium (zoom, facetime, skype, whats app, etc) or meet with your relative to interview them.  Do not email them or use written correspondence this is an exercise in conducting a live interview.  Take notes during the conversation, or, if you like, you can tape record it for later replay.

    Keep your list of about 5-6 questions with you and begin to ask them.  However, if your interviewee has important, relevant information that they begin to say, let them continue!  People generally love to talk, and your may learn a lot which you did not anticipate!  As long as it is about the topic you chose, that is fine.  Hence, you must balance finishing all your questions with what your interviewee has to say.  Also balance how enthusiastic they continue to be in the interview with tiring them out or making them bored!

    Take notes during the interview.  You are welcome to record the conversation (with your interviewees permission) if you like, but the notes will make it easy for you to write up your paper.

For the Interview, you can make it up or write a scenario for an interview because I don’t have an interview.

Abstract + Background of my research paper – MATSim

Please write 550 words for one of the parts of my report – MATSim

(2) Abstract
and
(3) Background

based on the report – MATSim

***Attached is our report

***Another Attached is our instruction from our Class

or ***if you need to access to the book

W Axhausen K, Horni A, Nagel K. The multi-agent transport simulation MATSim.
Ubiquity Press, 2016.

Attached is the PDF version of the books
or
you can find from Google as it is a free book

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Multi_Agent_Transport_Simulation_MAT/VeTgDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

**Just for your reference, below is my report content requirement**

Writing a report introducing your group project. This should include:
(1) Title
(2) Abstract
(3) Background
(4) Introduction to MATSim (e.g., framework, mechanisms)
(5) Introducing the base MATSim scenario that you choose, and also describing
your own MATSim scenarios (e.g., how and why do you modify the key elements,
such as network and daily plan, in your scenarios).
(6) Results of your MATSim scenarios (Note: you may need to compare the results
of your MATSim scenarios against those from the base scenario that you choose,
in order to understand how your modifications could influence the simulation
outcomes ).
(7) Conclusions (e.g., key findings, limitations and future work)
(8) Contributions of each member (see below for a specific example)
(9) References (NO specific requirement on reference format)