unit topicsDifferences between popular culture and folk culture
Taboo vs.Habit Examples of popular culture and folk culture in the United States Diffusion of Hip Hop music Dialect Diffusion of English Creole Language Conquest Theory vs. Agricultural Theory Sino-Tibetan Language Family Indo-European Language Family Ideogram British vs. American English Major Cultural Hearths of the World Diffusion of Languages American Sign Language: History Cultural Landscapes: Definition and Who Came Up With It Branches of Religions Denominations of Religions Universalizing religions vs. Ethnic religions Monotheism vs. Polytheism Regions where major universalizing religions are practiced today Regions where major monotheistic religins are practiced today Major branches of Christianity and Islam Sacred sites of monotheistic religions Hindu Caste system Animism characteristics Ethnicity vs. Race Nationalism: positives and negatives Self-Determination Regions where ethnicies in the US are distributed (look at census maps) Affirmative Action US Preamble (beginning of the US Constitution)...What's the main meaning? 13th, 14th, and 15th, Amendment 3/5th Compromise Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling Jim Crow Laws Brown vs. Board of Education 1954 ruling Voting Rights Act of 1965 Grutter vs. Bollinger 2003 Balkanization/ Shatterbelt Know these Regional Conflicts: Arab-Israeli Conflict Northern Ireland Conflict South Africa and Apartheid Balkan Conflict(Bosnia) Sudan(Darfur) Pakistan vs.India(Kashmir Dispute) |
frq topicsAnalyze how the English language has changed through the argument of the conquest theory.
Explain how British English and American English have changed throughout time and through popular culture. Compare and contrast how popular culture and folk culture could benefit a society through the economic perspective of ESPN. How can the Arab-Israeli Conflict both an ethnic and religious conflict? Explain thedifference between universalizing religions and ethnic religions. Describe how nationalism and self determination resulted in the break up of the former country ofYugoslavia. Analyze how monotheistic and polytheistic religions differ on a global scale. |