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Select two artifacts from different cultures that depict a hero and analyze the similarities and differences between the heroic qualities expressed or represented in these artifacts.

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Other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

Amy Poehler, actress, comedian, and writer

Much of Amy Poehlers work, including her time on Saturday Night Live and Parks and Recreation, involved her closely collaborating with a team. Just like Amy, working with others who have different perspectives and talents can not only help you successfully meet your goals, it can also inspire you (and others) to work in new ways.

In this assessment, you will continue to strengthen your relationship-building skills as you explore how artists work together to change peoples perspectives and how you can use those same strategies to inspire change in your personal and professional life. Exploring these strategies will also help you hone your self- and social-awareness skills. Thats because, to work with teams effectively, you need to consider how others are feeling and how you can encourage them to do their best work. When your team members are doing their best, youll find that you do your best, too.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

Michael Jordan, former professional basketball player

Its easier if I just do it myself. That thought has probably crossed your mind at some point in your life or career. It might happen when youre working alone on a challenging task, you feel like explaining your process or asking for help will only make more work for you. In some situations, it may truly be easier to go at it alone. But more often, there is a tremendous benefit to working with others, especially when those people have different perspectives from yours.

During this assessment, you will also strengthen your relationship-building skills by exploring how artists collaborate with others to grow their abilities and how you can also work constructively with other people to achieve great things in your personal and professional life. As you collaborate with friends, peers, and colleagues, you will continue to strengthen your self- and social-awareness skills by learning to grow from feedback.

References

BrainyQuote. (n.d.). Michael Jordan quotes. https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/michael_jordan_167383

Goodreads. (n.d.). Amy Poehler quotes. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1227166-as-you-navigate-through-the-rest-of-your-life-be

OverviewPreparationInstructions

After you have chosen your topic and the relevant artifacts, write 23 pages that incorporate the following items:

1. Describe your chosen artifacts and the cultures in which these artifacts were created.

• Identify and describe the artifacts you selected for your comparative cultural analysis.
• Describe the cultures and historical context in which the artifacts were created.

1. Analyze how your chosen artifacts portray or express cultural views about heroes.

• Discuss two similarities and two differences between the hero stories from the two cultures.
• Explain what your findings suggest to you about the cultural values and beliefs of each culture regarding what makes a hero.

1. Summarize two main takeaways about the cultures reflected and insights you gained.

• Describe what you learned about the cultures reflected.
• Explain how the insights you gained from these two cultures can be used to widen your perspective.

1. Explain how understanding the cultural similarities and differences that exist between your own culture and your chosen cultures can benefit you in your personal, academic, and professional life.

• Describe at least two similarities and/or differences between your own cultural values and ideals and that of one of the cultures you chose for this assessment.
• Explain how these insights can be used to support your professional, academic, and personal endeavors.

1. Write in a well-organized and concise manner that adheres to the rules of grammar, usage, mechanics, citations, and formatting.

Additional Requirements

Your submission should meet the following requirements:

• Length: 23 pages of text, in addition to a title page and reference page.
• Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• Formatting: Format your submission with a title page, double-spacing, and a reference page.
• Citations: Cite at least two sources to support your analysis. Properly cite sources according to APA rules. Review for more information on how to cite your sources.

PARTTT2

Select an artifact that interests you and conduct a conversation about it with another person. Then, incorporate that dialogue to write about how artists collaborate and influence each other’s work.

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You cant live through a day without making an impact on the world. And whats most important is to think about the impact of your actions on the world around you.

Jane Goodall, primatologist and anthropologist

Think for a moment and try to remember the last time that a piece of arta book, a movie, a song, a painting, or any other workmade you cry. Perhaps they were tears of joy. Or maybe you were sad because a certain lyric reminded you of a painful moment from your past, or because you could relate to a characters struggles. In any case, the art made an impact on your life, just as it was designed to do. Understanding the positive and negative impacts we can have on others through art and other artifacts is a critical part of working together successfully.

In this assessment, you will continue to strengthen your self- and social-awareness skills and relationship-building skills as you explore how the humanities can be used to impact others, why its important to reflect on that impact, and how understanding your impact can help you collaborate with your co-workers and peers.

What you see depends not only on what you look at but also on where you look from.

James Deacon, artist

Through this course, you have studied what it means to be human. And youve explored the unique ways people all over the world express themselves and their different perspectives through art, culture, music, religion, literature, and more. Along the way, youve also learned how important it is to broaden your own perspective, so you can think and act appropriately in different cultural environments and better collaborate and solve problems with peers, colleagues, and coworkers whose experiences and perspectives are different from your own.

In this assessment, youll look back at all youve learned so far and discover how these same concepts and skills will allow you to continue to broaden your perspective, collaborate with others, and solve problems as you encounter new cultures and ideas outside of the classroom.

Many of humanitys finest achievementssuch as the International Space Station, the Allied victories in the Second World War, and the founding of the United Nationswere made possible by people of different cultures coming together to pursue a shared goal. In fact, history shows us that when diverse groups collaborate, they are likely to achieve more than groups that are less diverse (Page, 2008). With this in mind, you’ll continue to strengthen your relationship-building skills by exploring how nations and cultures have collaborated throughout history. And youll consider how collaboration can help you to achieve success in your own workplace and community.

References

Page, S. E. (2008). The difference: How the power of diversity creates better groups, firms, schools, and societies. Princeton University Press. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691138541/the-difference

Quotefancy. (n.d.). Jane Goodall. https://quotefancy.com/quote/981661/Jane-Goodall-Your-life-matters-You-can-t-live-through-a-day-without-making-an-impact-on

Quote Me on That. (2016). Where you look from. https://www.quotemeonthat.com/quotes/category/perspective

OverviewPreparation

Select a work of art or cultural artifact that you would like to use as the subject of your writing. You are free to choose one of interest to you, as long as it hasn’t been used in the other assessments. The artifact can range from things like literary works, films, musical pieces, or artwork. After you have your artifact selected, find a person with whom you can have a 1015 minute dialog about your artifact. This person might be a family member, friend, coworker, et cetera. You may hold your conversation in person, over the phone, or virtually; the choice is yours.

Your conversation should be informal and relaxedwe want you to have fun with it. And here are some ideas on how to guide your conversation:

1. Show or play the artifact to the other person and allow them to examine it.
2. Share your reasons for why you chose this artifact and why it resonates with you.
3. Provide a few interesting details about the artist.
4. Invite the person to share their thoughts about the artifact and reactions to anything you shared.

Instructions

In this assessment, you will write an academic piece that addresses the prompts listed below.

• Step 1: Reflect on how culture and artistic expressions influence human thought and behavior.
• Provide insights on how this artifact might influence peoples thinking and behavior in the future.
• Step 2: Explain how the artifact or work of art reflects both collaborative and individual efforts.
• Describe the path, journey, or process the artist used to create the artifact and discuss the collaboration or influences that happened between the artist and others.
• Describe the ways the artist put his or her interpretation and creativity to shape and craft the final artifact.
• Explain how the artist’s cultural and personal experiences can be detected in the cultural artifact.
• Provide specific examples to support your response.
• Step 3: Relate how the creative process uses problem-solving, relationship-building, and self- and social-awareness skills.
• Describe the creative process the artist used and provide examples of how the artist used problem-solving, relationship-building, and self- and social-awareness skills to help him or her to complete the artifact.
• Provide an example of how you can use the artist’s process and methods to support your endeavors. If you have had a similar experience, you may use your experience to illustrate the connection between these concepts and skills.
• Provide specific examples to support your descriptions.
• Step 4: Explain how the interpretive process can be a collaborative process.
• Identify how people in a group sharing ideas, thoughts, experiences, et cetera, could influence one another in the course of connecting with or interpreting the artifact. Provide a specific example of when you experienced this.
• If so, how did it change? Provide specific details.
• If not, why do you think this is?
• Describe your conversation with another person about your artifact.
• What did you enjoy or not enjoy about the conversation?
• Did the other person point out something you didn’t notice? What was it?
• Did you connect with the other person and find some shared experience through your conversation about the artist or artifact?
• Did this also uncover something new you learned about yourself or the other person?
• Did you connect with the other person by finding some shared experience through your discussion about the artist or artifact?
• Did this also uncover something new you learned about yourself or the other person?
• Provide specific examples to support your response.

Additional Requirements

Your submission should meet the following requirements:

• Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• Formatting: Format your submission, with a title page, double-spacing, and a reference page.
• Citations: Properly cite sources according to APA rules. Review for more information on how to cite your sources.