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Essay Instructions: Modern World History Mod 3 ? SLP
Challenges in East Asia, 1800-1912
Following a remarkable voyage around the globe, Charles Darwin wrote, in his The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859, that nature favored characteristics most suitable to particular environments: thus, the fittest would survive longest and breed the most.
Darwin?s theories were path breaking for the time but were unfortunately used and extended towards humans to serve as a rationale for Imperialism.
This SLP will look at how this came about and why.
Read the information in the background material, look for more information, and then write a 2 to 3 pages paper answering the following question:
How did the idea of Social Darwinism fuel Europeans to see themselves as morally superior to those they ruled?
Session Long Project (SLP) Expectations:
In Module 3 SLP, you are expected to:
? Describe the purpose of the paper and conclusion.
? Answer the case assignment questions clearly and provide necessary details.
? Provide a quality argument; that is, no poor sentence structure, no spelling and grammar mistakes or run-on sentences.
? Provide citations to support your argument and references on a separate page. Please use APA format to provide citations and references [http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ ; http://support.trident.edu/files/Well-Written-Paper.pdf].
? Answer all the case assignment questions in an essay format instead of point format. Please do not type questions in the paper.
? Type and double space the paper.

Essay Instructions: Week Five

Religion in the Modern World

? Summarize the historical connections and theological similarities among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
? Describe the contemporary struggles within and among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Course Assignments


1. Readings

? Read Ch. 12 of the text.
? Review this week?s Electronic Reserve Readings.
? Review the ?Resources? section at the end of the assigned text reading.

2. Nongraded Activities and Preparation

? Complete the Understanding Religious Beliefs and Traditions II simulation located on the student website.

3. Learning Team Assignment: Contemporary Issues in Western Religions Paper and Presentation.

? Resources: Understanding Religious Beliefs and Traditions II simulation

? Choose one of the Western religious traditions discussed in the course.


? Write a 2,100- to 2,450-word paper about the contemporary issues facing the Western religious traditions studied in this course. The paper should discuss the following:

o Historical connections and theological similarities with the other two religions?this section is limited to 350 to 700 words
o Contemporary struggles within the religion and with the other two religions

? Cite at least five references in addition to the textbook.

? Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Essay Instructions: Using the two books (Consider Jesus) by Elizabeth Johnson and (Jesus the Christ ) by Brennan R. Hill
(cite from these sources)
Prompt:
Sin and reconciliation form the foundation of Pauline Christology. As post-Easter debates about the nature of Jesus emerged, considerations focused heavily on the Hebrew notion of God's Justice in light of human sin. Increasingly in the in the modern world the notions of social sin and liberation, distinctive within the ministry of Jesus, are again rising as essential elements of contemporary Christology.

Hill and Johnson ask, "Who do we say that Jesus Christ is in the face of the whole world which knows itself to be truly one world?"
***Using one gospel story about Jesus' invitation to liberation, describe your understanding of what it means to be saved in the modern world.

Essay Instructions: American abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock observed, ?The modern painter cannot express his age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or any other past culture. Each age finds its own technique.? Choose three works of mid-twentieth century art that illustrate this idea and discuss them in detail. How does the technique of these particular works help convey the reality of the modern world?

Book used in class
Gloria Fiero, (2011). The Humanistic Tradition: The Early Modern World to the Present. Vol. 2, 6th edition. McGraw Hill. ISBN-10: 0077346238, ISBN-13: 978-0077346232.