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Chapter 1. Trevor describes his mother's dedication to God and her near fanatical need to attend several churches of different cultures, ending the chapter in a daring escape and a fantastic 'I told you so' moment between mother and son. a. Did Trevor feel the need to seek out popular culture later in life due to being sheltered from it when he was younger? b. As a person raised in an environment where violence and political strife was normalized, are there underlying conditions that affect his daily life as a result of those traumas? Chapter 2. A chapter describing the incredible trials of Trevor's identity, as the child of a Swiss man and a Xhosa woman in an era where sexual relations with another race was illegal in South Africa. a. In having to adhere to a separate set of expectations due to his skin color, at what age did Trevor become self aware of the reasons for this? b. After Apartheid fell, do any of his family still retain some of the same behavioral cues in ...

  This week's peer review activity is an Observational Review, meaning that you will be supporting each other's writing by offering specific observations (based on the questions below).  This is not a critiquing exercise.    Your role as a reviewer is to help the writer understand how their ideas came across to you.   This is a hugely helpful exercise for the writer.  For most of us, our ideas make sense to us because we know what we mean.  And it really helps to have someone say back to us what they heard.  That helps us understand what and where to revise. Directions: 1. Upload a link to your synthesis paper by Friday at 11:59pm. 2. Respond to two classmate papers, answering the following 3 questions: a.  What do you understand to be the main argument/claim of this paper? b.  What main ideas support that argument/claim? c.  What additional ideas/resources would further support that claim?   For example, "I saw you used Marx a...

1. “Western scholars talk about technology in the Roman Empire,” Mavhunga says. “What if we  were to do this for Africa? If we say that technology is something that comes prior to the  colonial period, what do es it do to the way we think about history?” - Beatty, Pineda, Saiz 2.  Scholars’ relative disinterest in the history of technology in Latin America stems in part from the view that Latin America’s contribution to patterns of technological change has been largely marginal, derivative, or mimetic.- Peter Dizikes 3.  To sociologists, gone was the lonely inventor as a hero or genius. It was a myth created by past authors. Innovation is rather a social process. To economists, gone was invention without market value. It is a subject for the historian. To the policy-maker, gone was (or should be) research with no application. The golden age between the state and the funding of the basic scientist, although short-lived, is finished. Innovation as a category in the twe...