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.

Read “You Make the Call: How connected should we be?” on page 59 of the Mental Health and Stress chapter.

After reading the article and the entire Mental Health & Stress Chapter, discuss your educated opinion on this topic. Whenever possible, relate your answers to our course material.

Are we as a society “too connected?” Do you think this issue of connectivity (maybe social media specifically) affects mental health? Do you personally find that you struggle to disconnect? Are there certain daily times / activities you feel that should be absolutely free from device connectivity? You may want to discuss the pros and cons of constant connectivity that you have experienced in your own life, or the lives of those close to you. What strategies are available to help someone who is struggling to disconnect for a healthly period of time?

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.

Open the worksheet that you worked on last week. To complete the second table, select three reasons for creating an artifact from the resources provided, or provide your own reasons.

1. In the first column, state the reason for creating an artifact.
2. In the second column, provide an example of an artifact that could have been created for the reason presented.
3. In the third column, state whether the artifact was created by an individual or a group, and provide the name(s) of the creator(s).
4. Select one of the artifacts listed and answer one of the questions following the worksheet:

• Do you believe the creator was successful in achieving their purpose? OR
• How do you think the artifact and the culture in which it was created could have influenced each other?

Once the worksheet is complete, save the file a final time. Submit your completed worksheet for grading.

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)