*Note: This homework assignment is due on Wednesday.
Write a newspaper article about the Sino-Japanese War based on the pictures from today’s slideshow. To view today’s slideshow as well as instructions on how to write the newspaper article click here.
Answer the following ten questions based on part 1 of Slumdog Millionaire.
1 ) What is the main problem in the movie?
2 ) What is Jamal’s explanation for how he knows the answers to the questions?
3 ) What are your impressions about the way characters in the movie speak?
4 ) Based on the movie, how is India the different as what you assumed it would be like?
5 ) Based on the movie, how is India the same as what you assumed it would be like?
6 ) How do the people of the slum react when the movie star arrives in their town?
7 ) Describe the relationship between Jamal and Salim.
8 ) How does Jamal and Salim’s mother die in the movie?
9 ) How would you describe the childhood of Jamal and Salim?
10 ) What do you think will eventually happen in the movie?
Write one paragraph explaining which economic concept (Imperialism? Capitalism? Communism?) the British used with regards to the British East India Company. Also write one paragraph explaining how you feel the British East India Company effected India.
Write two paragraphs applying one of Mao Tse-Tung’s quotes to today.
Answer the questions below using complete sentences based on our reading on the Middle East. Click here for a link to the reading.
1) What religions are based in the Middle East?
2) Which group unified the Middle East?
3) What are three “defining events” in Middle Eastern history?
4) When and where did mass production of oil begin in the Middle East?
5) What two important points of contention existed between the U.S. and the Soviet Union?
Students were instructed to answer the following questions based on a reading about the ANC:
1) When was the ANC unbanned?
2) What did the ANC commit to with the Groote Schuur Minute?
3) What did the Umkhonto we Sizwe do?
4) Why did the ANC pull out of the CODESA?
5) Is the ANC domination of South African politics a good thing or a bad thing? Why?
Write two paragraphs connecting Obama’s inauguration to anything that we have covered in class (i.e. the coronation of Wilhelm I as emperor of Germany or the fight between the prolateriat and the bourgeoisie).
Answer the following questions based on the first 30 minutes of this video of the confirmation hearings for incoming Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan.
1) What experience does Duncan have with education?
2) What challenges do you think he will face?
3) Do you think Duncan will make a good Secretary of Education? Why or why not?
