Answer the case study following questions please!

1- Why does the writer employ the word cult in the title? What connotations does this word have? How does it affect the tone of the essay?

2- Consider the first two paragraphs of this essay, which constitute the writer's introduction. What thesis or claim does the writer advance? Why does he present his main idea in two brief paragraphs instead of one?

3- Summarize Schlesinger's argument. How does he state the problem and then proceed to offer a solution?

4- Note the many refrences to historical figuers that the writer presents. Why has he employed this technique?

5- Examine paragraph 11, which consists of two very long sentences and one shorter one. How does the writer achieve coherence? Why does he place certain words within quotation marks? What assumptions does he make about his audience in presenting relatively complex sentence structures?
 
 

and attitudes that frame our communality. Before Reading Do you support various ethnic studies programs and departments on your campus? Would you major in such a discipline? Why or why not? he in the ing of peoples. Modern communication and transport accelerate mass migrations from one continent to another. Ethnic and racial diversity is more than ever a salient fact of the age. 1 But what happens when people of different origins, speaking different : languages and professing different religions, inhabit the same locality and live under the same political sovereignty? Ethnic and racial conflict-far more than ideological conflict-is the explosive problem of our times. On every side today ethnicity is breaking up nations. The Soviet Union, India, Yugoslavia, Ethiopia, are all in crisis. Ethnic tensions disturb and di- vide Sri Lanka, Burma, Indonesia, Iraq, Cyprus, Nigeria, Angola, Lebanon, Guyana, Trinidad-you name it. Even nations as stable and civilized as Britain and France, Belgium and Spain, face growing ethnic troubles. Is there any large multiethnic state that can be made to work? The answer to that question has been, until recently, the United States. "No other nation," Margaret Thatcher has said, "has so successfully