examine culture and globalization.
Culture includes the shared values, language, food, customs, and beliefs of a group of people over a period of time.  Culture is learned and expressed through our behaviors. Culture evolves and adapts. Throughout history, globalization has had positive and negative effects on culture.
Respond to the following questions:
Do you think globalization is making people around the world more alike or more different? What are the implications? Support your opinion with a clear example 
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Globalization has introduced Canada to a variety of cultures, including foreign languages, foods, and religions. As a result, Canada is now known to be one of the most culturally diverse nations in the world. As a result, microcultures have developed, drawing on customs of traditional Canadian/Eurocentric culture and others from India, China, and Italy, for example. This is seen in many countries around the world where immigration is celebrated and as a result, has made the world a more culturally diverse place. Take, for example, a family from India who celebrates their traditional customs, religious beliefs, and speaks their native language. A second Indian family moves to Canada, learns English, and adopts some of the social customs practiced in Canada. On the other hand, a third family from India moves to South Korea, and adopts some of the Korean social customs, and speaks Korean. Because of globalization, we now have three unique cultures, one being of the Indian-Canadian family, the second being the Indian-Korean family, and the third being the family that still live in India and practice the typical Indian customs. Globalization has not homogenized cultures but instead has allowed multiple influences to come together to create new cultures.

ONLY BID IT IF YOU CAN HANDLE IT Size and format:Size: 350-450 words (at around 2 pages; if you think you can keep shorter than this, but complete, even better).Format: Times New Roman, 12pt font, double spacedTopic:Choose a favorite song of yours and provide a short description/analysis by using the music terminology presented in the class.Instructions:The objective of this assignment is to make you/enable you use the music terminology that was presented in the introductory modules. Choose a favorite song of yours and: 1.Tell us the title/name of the piece, the name of the composer/singer/group and of the genre. Provide a link (preferable on youtube) so that we listen to the song and evaluate your description easier. 2. Why is this song important to you? Provide a couple of sentences explaining. 3. Analyze/describe the music according to the following list: Instruments: What kind of instruments you can recognize? Make sure you categorize them according to the Sachs-Hornbostel system. Melody: describe the melody according to the terminology presented in the lecture. Is the melody ascending, descending, arched? Are here any sequences? Are they step or large intervals? Does the melody sound to you legato or staccato? Texture: What would you say it is the dominant texture of the song? Is it monophony, heterophony, homophony, or polyphony? Explain why you think so. Does it combine more than one texture? Rhythm: Can you recognize the meter? Is it regular or irregular/asymmetrical? Does it change? How you would describe the tempo? Is the music piece slow or fast? Form: Can you recognize/describe the form? Does it have multiple parts like instrumental introductions and interludes or it focuses on singing from the very beginning? Can you recognize a specific form structure (strophic, binary, ternary, etc.)? Is the verse chorus? Explain and describe.

This assignment focuses on content area words. ESL students (and many native speakers) tend to have particular difficulty with them. This assignment has 3 parts:Part 1:Choose a textbook. This can be any textbook, it doesn’t have to be for your current or future students.Give a citation for the textbook and page numbers used for this assignment. (If you need assistance with citing references in APA format, here’s a link: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html (Links to an external site.)Check your citation – sometimes students give me just the title of the text, or the title and author. I’m looking for an actual APA style citation that includes page numbers.Select at least 6 words that are content specific to the chapter. List them and define them (because I might need the background info :)Part 2:Think about teaching these words to students, and answer these 5 questions in at least a couple sentences for each one:(pages 258-263 may be helpful to review and refer to as you answer these, particularly p. 259)How will you relate the “new” to the known?How will you offer repetitions of the new words in meaningful contexts?How will you provide opportunities for deeper processing of word meaning of this set of words?How will you engage students in using these newly learned words?What strategies will you offer students to use independently and understand new word sets such as these in the future? (2-3 ideas) (Note – so not further work on the set of words you were taking about in 1-4, but new sets they will encounter in the future)Part 3:Discuss how this vocabulary exercise and the activities above (#1-5) apply to English learners. Is their experience the same as native speakers? Why or why not? Would you do the same things for both groups? Why or why not? (minimum 4 sentences)

Identify and express any hidden assumptions underlying each of the following statements (5 points each, 20 points total). As a reminder, a hidden assumption is a thought or belief that forms the basis for a line of reasoning that may not be apparent to all concerned. Here’s an example:Prostitution is immoral; therefore, it should be illegal.What is being assumed here?In order to draw the conclusion that “prostitution should be illegal,” you first have to look at the premises or reasons why. The premise in this statement is: “Prostitution is immoral.” What is this argument assuming about “immoral things” that allows it to jump from “prostitution is immoral” to therefore it should be illegal?The hidden premise is this: Anything that is immoral should be illegal.If anything that is immoral should be illegal, and prostitution is immoral, it therefore follows that prostitution should be illegal, based on the initial premise which was “hidden” (implicit). We express hidden assumptions in argument so that we can examine them critically. Is it true that “all immoral things should be illegal”? I would say, not necessarily, especially considering that we don’t all agree on what the boundaries of “morality” are!Now it’s your turn! Express the hidden premises in each of the following statements (5 points each): 1. Harold is a politician, so you have to fact-check every other word that comes out of his mouth. (Hint: what general point is being assumed about politicians here?)2. No one should care that Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in Paris; she has plenty of money to replace all the items that were stolen from her.3. If Brewster Bland is a good family man, he’ll make a good senator.4. Many celebrities believe that a 35,000-year-old spirit entity known as Ramtha speaks through channeler J.Z. Knight. Therefore, this belief is worthy of respect.

This assignment must be completed and submitted on a Microsoft word document. Also, this assignment must be submitted to the course Turn It In assignment dropbox area by the assigned due date, for review and grading. Failure to submit via Turn It In assignment dropbox area will cause a “0” numeric grade. No assignments are accepted via course email and/or FIU email. No EXCEPTIONS!!Case study Analysis Assignment is worth 100 points (10%) of your course weighted grade. The assignment must be in APA format (i.e. font size 12 font, font names that should be used are times new roman or Calabria (not both), normal margins (no more than 1 inch), double spaced). The assignment requires a min. of 600-1000 word count or 3-5 pages or (Excluding title and reference pages). A minimum of two (2) references are required in proper APA format. References can come from a refereed peer-reviewed journal article, course textbook, and/or a credible internet source. Scenario: Chapter 10: The Gastrointestinal System (GI): The gastrointestinal system is divided into two areas of study. Clearly this division is arbitrary and is based more on current medical practice than on scientific principles. Dentists and orthorhinolaryngologists, who also treat the diseases of the salivary glands, treat diseases of the mouth. Gastroenterologists are concerned with the diseases involving the remainder of the gastrointestinal tract, including the liver and the pancreas. The surgical lesions of the esophagus are in the domain of thoracic surgeons, whereas general surgeons operate on the abdominal part of the gastrointestinalCase #4: A 40-year-old man had retrosternal pain that was most pronounced when lying down after meals. This was associated with regurgitation of gastric acid into his mouth.What is the cause of his pain?What is the most likely diagnosis?rointestinal tract.