For this essay, students are asked to choose a topic from under the heading of human bodies,
Question:
For this essay, students are asked to choose a topic from under the heading of "human bodies", and write a short research essay. This essay will draw on peer review research and course themes. The essay will be analyzed for its historical contexts and meanings. • Goal: There are two goals for this assignment: 1) to gain experience in analyzing primary and secondary sources, and 2) to explore an area of interest that deepens the student’s awareness of the interconnections between the human and non-human world, between humans and the rest of nature
Structure: Your short essay should include: • 4-5 pages double-spaced • An introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion • Full sentences • Clear paragraphs and sentences • Bibliography and footnotes (Chicago Manual of Style)
Content: Your short essay should include: • Basic information on the image chosen (date, place, author, type of image: photo, poster, etc.) • A description of the image • A description of what the image represents – what themes and underlining issues exist within the image • A description of how the image relates to particular themes within environmental history in a particular geographical and temporal time frame.
Human Bodies • How to behave in certain spaces • Who is allowed in certain spaces • What notions of health are implied? (Bodily disposition, disease, nutrition, exercise, outdoor versus indoor activities) • What notions of gender, sexuality, class, and racialization are implied? • What are the bodies relationships to the environment around them? How are people using, contemplating, fighting nature? • How are bodies represented? • What changes over time?
FOR EXAMPLE-
The above image is just an example. Any kind of human body image can be chosen and based on the image, the assignment should be completed
Statistics Unlocking the Power of Data
ISBN: 978-1118583104
1st edition
Authors: Robin H. Lock, Patti Frazer Lock, Kari Lock Morgan, Eric F. Lock, Dennis F. Lock