After reading the introduction to this literary period in the online text, please complete the following activities.

READING: Southern Renaissance-First Wave (p.656)

If you directly cite information from outside sources or the online text, please do so in correct MLA format (in-text citations and a reference list).

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• Define the literary period (this information can be found in the online text).
• List 2 authors from this literary period (this information can be found in the online text).
• List 3-5 events (historical, political, social, technological) that occurred during this time period and give a brief description of each (this information can often be found in the online text; however, additional online research may be necessary).
• Discuss how you believe a minimum of 1-2 of these events may have impacted the pieces that you read this week.

This is the final discussion assignment in the class. You are going to review all the presidential chapters in the text from Chapter 9 to Chapter 14. You are going to review the lectures on the modern presidents and then you will choose TWO presidents from this list: Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Ronald Reagan.

You are going to use the text, lecture, and video information to compare and contrast the two presidents of your choice as domestic leaders and foreign policy leaders.

Finally of all the modern presidents you are to tell which one you feel is the best and highest rated president of all the modern presidents and why. You are to respond to TWO other students by agreeing or disagreeing with their choices. Good luck on this final discussion assignment worth 8 final points.

In groups of two undertake the following:

==> Write a 3-4 page paper in which you discuss the similarities and differences between the creation myths that you have studied in this course. Your paper should discuss no less than three (3) similarities and no less than three (3) differences. obviously, a similarity or difference may not apply to all the myths, so compare what is comparable without forcing a similarity or a difference to apply to all myths. Nonetheless your paper must incorporate the Hebraic Myth (Genesis), the Greek Myth (Theogony) as well as whichever African myth/s you choose to employ for your paper. Note: Do not compare one African myth with another African myth, and do not use myths that we have not studied in class.

This is your midterm paper and the due date is Oct. 4, 2019.

Directions:

Step 1: Revisit your Information or what you used as information in the paragraph you chose for the prevision assignment. First, copy the information from your essay word for word.

Step 2: Then, review the directions on information from the following lectures: Review PowerPoints: Essay Format & Tips on Writing and Preparing for Project 1: Practicing PIE.

• Remember, information is used to support the topic (topic sentence) and to make the topic sentence credible and verifiable.

Step 3: After reviewing the information on how to write a strong point, rewrite your information. You may need to introduce the quote better, choose a different quote that supports the point better or whatever else you think will improve the information.

1-2 paragraph (minimum of 5 sentences each) well-argued answers engaging the specific material, names, ideas and arguments in the textbook.

***Textbook will be provide

1.Formulate your own definition of “religion.” Test your definition to see if it applies to various cultural phenomena normally labeled religious. (page.7)

2.Try to define “philosophy.” What are some of its main concerns? (pp. 8-9)

3.What is the philosophy of religion? Explain how approaches to philosophy of religion are influenced by different approaches to philosophy itself. ( pp. 9-10.)

4.What is the religious nonrealist view of religion? What arguments can be given for it? (pp. 21-24.)

5.What is the religious realist view of religion? What arguments can be given for it? ( pp. 26-27.)

6.What critique would a nonrealist give of a realist view of religion?( pp. 23-24)