You need to complete two Cultural Learning Experiences that will allow you to directly observe and participate in a "new" culture first hand. Then, journal (write) about your perceptions and reactions. This assignment is your first journal. Your assignment is to interview someone from a culture that is different than your own. Be attentive during the interview and take your time. Then, write a 1 1/2 - 2 page journal about the interview thoroughly answering the following questions:

2. Identify the culture, race and ethnicity of the person interviewed. Be specific.

3. Examine their cultural beliefs, values, norms and social practices.

4. What traditions have been established in their culture?

5. What cultural patterns are present throughout the culture?

6. How has the interviewee's cultural identity been shaped because of their culture?

7. Identify if there are any cultural biases that separate this culture from others.

8. Consider: What impact does your own culture, race or ethnicity have on the interviewee? Or the outcome of the interview?

Answers should be complete and in paragraph form using MLA style. Be sure to include key terms and concepts discussed in your readings. Please attach your journal directly to this assignment.

the group received an extra pound of butter for christmas.

the annex was delighted to hear that we'll all be receiving an extra quarter pound of butter for christmas.

this answer to this question is c. allegory

why?

stories with allegories have a hidden symbolic meaning with a theme. the hidden meaning can be political, or other real life problems.

1.   in sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. the speaker says “then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.   through his defeat of finding words to describe his love, he shows his love for her.

2.   instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her.   at the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. so instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her.

3.   the beloved asked the speaker to describe how he feels about her. she begins to describe what she feels but "drop the torch" and says that she can't do it because the words "hid in me out of reach." the the speaker says "nay, let the silence of my womanhood command my woman-love to thy belief" and that her silence will have to be the answer to his question.