Need By Tuesday 12 (Noon)….2 questions…minimum 250 words each

Expectations defined: Answer the following questions with a minimum of 250 words. You will be asked to select a quote from the reading to incorporate in your answer. This means that you will also include an in-text citation and reference for each quote (Author, year, p. X). Your response should be a substantial response to each question

 

 

 

QUESTIION 1: Do Li-Young Lee and Cathy Song share a similar style or do they differ, and what do we learn about cultural from the Turn of the Century writers? Explain.

 

**Authors/Selections

 

            1. Li-Young Lee

 

Secret Life, Become Becoming, Earth Unsung, From Blossoms, Little Ache, The Moon From Any Window

 

            2. Cathy Song

 

The Man Moves Earth, The Kindness of Others, A Prayer for My Mother, The Girl Can Run

 

 

 

QUESTION 2: How has our thinking about categories such as the color-line, mestiza, borderlines, minority-majority sexuality, or ability-disability changed or influenced the way we talk about cultural diversity today? When we consider cultural diversity, does further complicate or challenge these views? Why or why not? Explain.

 

**Authors/Selections for Reference

 

1. W.E.B. DuBois: Souls of Black Folk, Forethought and Chapter XIV

 

2. Fredrick Douglas: What to the Slave is the Fourth of July

 

3. Zora Neale Hurston: The Gilded Six Bits   

 

4. Langston Hughes: You and Your Whole Race and Remember

 

5. Sandra Cisneros: Geraldo No Last Name and Dirt

 

6. Judith Ortiz Cofer:   The Witch’s Husband and Not For Sale

 

7. Helen Hunt Jackson: A Century of Dishonor

 

8. Sherman Alexie, Jr.: Flight

 

9. Li-Young Lee: Secret Life, Little Ache, and Earth Unsung

 

10. Cathy Song: The Man Moves Earth, The Kindness of Others, and The Girl Can Run