Thoughtfully respond to the course material from this week.

• Here are some suggestions: What is your position concerning art having a social responsibility versus being individual expression? What about beauty versus ugliness?
• Cite at least two quotes from Arnold and/or Wilde within the body of your response to support your argumentation.
• Submission should be 2 full pages, doc or pdf file type, and formatted with 1 inch margins and 12-pt. Times New Roman or another serif font.
• At least 650 words count
• No outside resources needed. Only use resources I provided.

Reding 1: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wilde/oscar/doria…

Reading 2: http://mason.gmu.edu/~rnanian/Wilde-Preface.html

Reading 3: see attached file

1, Select a photograph to use as a point of inspiration (Include the inspiration photograph within the document,the title, artist/director, year, and place of origin, explain the background of the inspiration piece)

2, you art piece: Include your original photograph within the document,a title, Explain the background of your piece)

3, Connection: Explain the thematic connection between the two pieces, How are they similar and different? Are they the same medium? How does the medium impact what the viewer experiences? For photography, how do the formal elements of design compare to one another

The essay needs to be at least 1.5 pages but no longer than 2 pages.

Questions

1. How do criminologists measure (count) crime?
2. How much crime is there in the United States? Are crime rates going up or down?
3. How does the US compare to other countries in terms of violent crime (homicide)?
4. According to Barkan, what do we know about race and criminal justice involvement?
5. What is mass incarceration? What are some of its causes? What are some of its collateral consequences?
6. What is the significance of white collar, corporate and state crimes to the overall crime problem?

Week #6: All of the stories this week represent or explore various challenges in life. Those challenges can be personal, professional, or part of a wider situation or context (national or even international). Using examples from works by at least three of the four authors assigned for this week, what challenges do we see the characters or personas (the poems are not necessarily autobiographical) facing? What argument does the text seem to make in terms of facing challenges like the ones described? What can we learn or take away from reading these texts that might help us in facing or understanding our own challenges?

Activity on African Politics- Please view PDF in the files I posted

Readings: African Politics in Understanding Contemporary Africa, 57-80 (each answer at least a paragraph long)

1. Discuss the socio-economic, cultural and political challenges that African political

leaders faced in the early years of independence (60s-70s)

2. Describe the strategies that these African political leaders used to maintain power

3. List the five major types of regimes found in SAA and provide 5 specific examples for each type

Extra Political links aside from PDF that was attached

If you’d like you can view a documentary called Africa: in defiance of Democracy

https://www.africanvault.com/longest-serving-african-presidents/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35595822

http://www.systemicpeace.org/africa/ACPPAnnex2b.pdf

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2015/10/02/why-burkina-fasos-coup-failedhttp://web.mnstate.edu/robertsb/313/Post%20Indepenence%20African%20Politics%20&%20International%20Relations.pdf