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The Content Analysis 1 assignment is designed to build understanding of course content by asking you to make connections between readings, lectures, and course themes.

In crafting your response to the Content Analysis 1 prompt, only use evidence from assigned readings and lectures. Include in-text citations for any sources quoted, paraphrased, or summarized. Avoid including lengthy quotes. Instead, paraphrase and explain the relevance and significance of the selected passages, lectures, or video segments in your own words as much as possible. For in-text citations, use MLA format by providing the author’s name and the page number, if there is one. Include a Works Cited as the last page of your document.

Word count: 900-1100 words

Due: Tuesday 7/16/24 by 11:59 PM PT

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Directions: In 900-1,100 words, please respond to the prompt below. Your answer should employ a roughly 50/50 balance between evidence from the course lectures and the assigned readings. This Content Analysis is assessing your ability to analyze the material from the first part of the class (i.e., weeks 1-3). Please use only course materials in your essay. Outside materials are not allowed.

In your answer, you should include evidence from multiple lectures and readings in order to demonstrate fluency with the overall questions and frameworks of the first part of the class. You must also organize your argument around a coherent thesis.

Prompt: Throughout this section of class, we have discussed many of the world's systems of beliefs from the origins of human civilization to the preserved oral traditions of many non-literate peoples. In many of these systems, there is a strong set of ideas about the nature of the cosmos and humanity's role in it. In some, the cosmos are almost custom built for us, while in others, the cosmos are understood to be harsh and unforgiving, with humans surviving only almost as an accident.

Considering the above, please answer the following question: how does a society's understanding of the nature of the cosmos affect how their society functions at the level of self, family, and/ or community? In other words, do you think societies with an understanding of a non-human centric "inhumane" cosmos behave and act differently than those that have a more human-centric and "humane" cosmos? Is there any correlation at all?

Remember: You must employ a roughly 50/50 balance of evidence from the course lectures and assigned readings!!!

Bonus Question from the California Natives Lecture (worth +1/3 of a letter grade)- What local animal is Prof Pat terrified of?

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Work 2

Word count: 500 words maximum

Week 3 Discussion Board Questions

1. Describe two parts of Plato's Symposium that resonated with you, emotionally. How did these scenes make you feel, and why?

2. Choose 1 important scene from Euripides' Trojan Women and 1 scene from Homer's The Iliad. Why did these scenes stick out to you? How did the author want the audience to feel, and how does this connect to the historical context surrounding both texts?

**Include in-text citations when quoting or paraphrasing**