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Japan Restarts Commercial Whaling
“Cultural Appropriation”

Cultural Appropriation: the act of taking or using things from a culture that is not your own, especially without showing that you understand or respect this culture.
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Here are the slides explaining the assignment. SPSE Assignment
Asylum-seeker’s Stories
Refugees and Asylum Seekers. What’s the difference? Let’s look
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There are many different ways to structure a presentation or report. For academic work, one very useful structure is Situation, Problem, Solution, Evaluation (SPSE)
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The Rohingya Refugees
Our ancestors started walking out of East Africa some 50,000 years ago (most likely due to changing climate and a rising population). By about 15,000 years ago, homo sapiens, (people like us), had spread all over the planet all the way down to the tip of what is now South America. Except for Antarctica, human groups have established traditional homelands everywhere.
Continue readingThe Reporter as Invisible Observer
In your anecdotal lead (the beginning section of your feature article), you need to “set the scene,” that is, describe in sensory detail people doing something. Not what you are doing, but what they are doing.
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In this team presentation, you will conduct an in-class survey of your fellow students, then analyze the results and present your data to the class.

