Quiz 4

World History Summer 2020

Quiz 4

Each of the following current events articles can be understood on multiple levels. The majority of people who read them will take them at face value. Whatever the author says will be taken as fact, and the reader will have little to no background / historical knowledge of the issues that may be involved. How has taking this journey through World History this summer grown your ability to understand or appreciate articles such as these? Perhaps you are in a better position to be a critical consumer of media. Maybe you have a deeper, longer-term understanding of the issues presented. Maybe you recognize more nuance and the intersection of issues. Maybe you just get more enjoyment out of reading them because you know what the authors are talking about. Or it could be something else entirely. 

How has learning World History grown your ability to understand or appreciate articles such as these? Another way to think about it is, think about how you would have read the article 3 months ago. Do you think you read it differently now? In what way?

Please choose 3 of the following 4 articles. Each is very current. Summarize the key points of the article and answer the question: How has learning World History this summer grown your ability to understand or appreciate the article? Be sure that your answers demonstrate historical knowledge… this is best done by citing examples and details from the historical record as it was presented to you during the course of our class. You may use our textbook, your blogs, other students’ blogs and any other resource used during the course of the class.

I suspect some of you will have very interesting answers, and you might want to read each other’s thoughts. Please post your responses on your blog by the due date, Sunday, July 19, 11pm.

Remember, respond to 3 of the articles. Plan to spend about 30 minutes on each response.

1) Umut Uras. “Turkey turning Hagia Sophia back into mosque divides social media.” Al Jazeera. July 11, 2020, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/07/turkey-turning-hagia-sophia-mosque-divides-social-media-200711104417533.html

2) Anne Mawathe. “Coronavirus: Why Africans should take part in vaccine trials.” BBC. May 18, 2020. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52678741

3) Ganesh Chakravarthi. “Is it Time to Embrace the Anthropocene? The Anthropocene requires that humanity take responsibility for preserving the earth and its species.” The Diplomat. February 11, 2020. https://thediplomat.com/2020/02/is-it-time-to-embrace-the-anthropocene/

4) Justin Dallaire. “Why Pride sponsors shouldn’t hit pause during Black Lives Matter protests.” strategy. June 9, 2020. https://strategyonline.ca/2020/06/09/why-pride-sponsors-shouldnt-hit-pause-during-black-lives-matter-protests/