Category: Essays

⦁ How are commodities central to globalization processes? How has that centrality played out in the five ethnographies, and how do different commodities function differently in peoples’ lives? Relate the paper title with five books:
1. Wilk, Richard. 2006. Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists. London: Berg.

2. Miles, Ann. 2004. From Cuenca to Queens: An Anthropological Story of Transnational Migration. Austin: University of Texas Press.

3. Allison, Anne. 2006. Millenial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination. Berkeley: University of California Press.

4. Stoller, Paul. 2002. Money Has No Smell: The Africanization of New York City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

5. Weiss, Brad. 2009. Street Dreams and Hip-Hop Barbershops: Global Fantasy in Urban Tanzania. Bloomingtom: Indiana University Press.

⦁ Watch movie “Mean Creek” and write about theme. How it relates to Harry Potter themes?

⦁ Make a claim on a theme in one of the Harry Potter’s novels and how it relates to the real world.
This essay will be an argument (Toulmin) paper in which you make a claim on a theme in one of the Harry Potter novels and how it relates to the “real world”. Use the novel, the movie, and any other source you need.

⦁ Read book: Hidden Order the Economics of Everyday Life By: David Friedman
Write a book review: On one paragraph summarize the overall message of the book.
Pick two paragraphs, most interesting and most relevant.

⦁ Take a position on a Causal Analysis of your position in the Harry Potter phenomenon; how do you feel about the Harry Potter series? What are some of the causes within the HP series that make people take sides?

⦁ Chronicling and exploring identity history: Write an 8-page APA essay chronicling and exploring identity as a specific factor in your history (both personal & familial) relating it to the experiences of Minority groups in the United States. Utilizing qualitative research, analyze and critically approach the factors. (Historical, social, economic, political, religious, legal, culture, etc.) That have shaped your experiences, and your family’s experiences, in the US.

⦁ Lawrence v. Texas: Analyze the case, litigants and its ascent to the Texas Supreme Court if applicable. A description and analysis of one or two related cases may be included as well as describing its political/policy impact/consequences of the case and state their reaction to it.

⦁: the research paper must involve research involving reference to at least one of the following
1. Literary criticism
2. Historical information
3. Biographical information
4. Another work of literature
the research project must have a thesis statement!
The research project must have thesis driven arguments. This means that every argument and supporting example must be clearly related to the thesis statement!

⦁ Mexican Culture: The country’s future plans and prospects (for developement) under Globalization; which industries are going to be developed, how will political be resolved; what will be the consequences of their relationship to the US (good or bad) be? What will be the long term effect of NAFTA,and CAFTA. What should the country do to protect their natural resources for the long term; how should the country establish immigration / emigration reform?

⦁ The Road novel vs. the film paper: This is compare and contrast novel ‘The Road” by Cormac McCarthy and the film the road”