You need to complete two Cultural Learning Experiences that will allow you to directly observe and participate in a "new" culture first hand. Then, journal (write) about your perceptions and reactions. This assignment is your first journal. Your assignment is to interview someone from a culture that is different than your own. Be attentive during the interview and take your time. Then, write a 1 1/2 - 2 page journal about the interview thoroughly answering the following questions:

2. Identify the culture, race and ethnicity of the person interviewed. Be specific.

3. Examine their cultural beliefs, values, norms and social practices.

4. What traditions have been established in their culture?

5. What cultural patterns are present throughout the culture?

6. How has the interviewee's cultural identity been shaped because of their culture?

7. Identify if there are any cultural biases that separate this culture from others.

8. Consider: What impact does your own culture, race or ethnicity have on the interviewee? Or the outcome of the interview?

Answers should be complete and in paragraph form using MLA style. Be sure to include key terms and concepts discussed in your readings. Please attach your journal directly to this assignment.

Read the passage. (1) the first skateboard was constructed of old roller-skate wheels attached to a piece of wood. (2) improvements were made to the skateboard in 1959. (3) the year that the first commercially made skateboard appeared. (4) soon after, skateboarding began to grow in popularity. (5) in 1963, skateboard manufacturers formed the first professional skateboarding team. (6) that same year, the first organized skateboard competition took place, in california. which is the most effective way to correct the fragment in sentence 3? attach the fragment to sentence 4. attach the fragment to sentence 2. insert the phrase in the united states to the end of the fragment. insert the verb had before the verb appeared.

Read the passage, then answer the question that follows. no one could have seen it at the time, but the invention of beet sugar was not just a challenge to cane. it was a hint—just a glimpse, like a twist that comes about two thirds of the way through a movie—that the end of the age of sugar was in sight. for beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane. beet sugar was a foreshadowing of what we have today: the age of science, in which sweetness is a product of chemistry, not whips. in 1854 only 11 percent of world sugar production came from beets. by 1899 the percentage had risen to about 65 percent. and beet sugar was just the first challenge to cane. by 1879 chemists discovered saccharine—a laboratory-created substance that is several hundred times sweeter than natural sugar. today the sweeteners used in the foods you eat may come from corn (high-fructose corn syrup), from fruit (fructose), or directly from the lab (for example, aspartame, invented in 1965, or sucralose—splenda—created in 1976). brazil is the land that imported more africans than any other to work on sugar plantations, and in brazil the soil is still perfect for sugar. cane grows in brazil today, but not always for sugar. instead, cane is often used to create ethanol, much as corn farmers in america now convert their harvest into fuel. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how does this passage support the claim that sugar was tied to the struggle for freedom? it shows that the invention of beet sugar created competition for cane sugar. it shows that technology had a role in changing how we sweeten our foods. it shows that the beet sugar trade provided jobs for formerly enslaved workers. it shows that sweeteners did not need to be the product of sugar plantations and slavery.

Who did kipling think would read his poem? what do you think that this audience might have said in response to it?