- Choose an ordinary object in your environment and explain its cultural significance. What is your relationship to this object? How does this object become part of a larger conversation about to be human?
- Examine some element of popular or “trending” culture. What does this trend indicate about our particular cultural moment? What makes this element so popular and why? How is it shaping our understanding of what it means to be human?
- Write about yourself as positioned in this particular cultural moment. Where do you fit? Where do you not fit? How has your resistance to, or embracing of, the culture around you shaped your identity?
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