Kulturraumbezogene Wirtschaftsthemen, Work for Week Six (April 27-30)

You will find a new folder ("Reading and Listening Comprehension Tasks for Week Six (April 27-30)" on the Ilias page containing new listening and reading comprehension tasks for this week (our last week for risk and crisis management).
I have also posted a new group of exercises (and their answers) under the file name "Week Six Crisis Management and Risk Management" on Ilias.

This week's optional writing task (250-350 words) can be found in the article "WEEK SIX Risk = Hazard + Outrage_Freakonomics Podcast". This is due to me via e-mail by Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 5 pm. (Due to the holiday on Friday, I need to move the deadline up by one day.)

Sample answers for the reading and listening comprehension tasks from last week can now be found in the Week Five folder on Ilias.

Kompetenzerweiterung II, Work for Week Six (April 27-30)

This week, please read about unreal time in Unit 13 and complete all of the accompanying exercises and learn ALL of the vocabulary for Unit 14 and complete its accompanying exercises. In addition to this, please complete Review 7 for Units 13-14.

As you will see in Unit 13, the past in English serves many functions. For advanced learners, it's crucial to master "unreal time" because of its function in making statements and requests more polite. It is essential to master "unreal time" in order to soften your speech in professional settings. (The speakers in these videos stress that British speakers place a premium on politeness, but politeness is important for the entire English-speaking world.) You will find overlap with German in many cases. (Some situations do call for directness and/or straight talk, however, so let the context dictate the language you use. You simply want to add polite forms to your repertoire so that you can use them when you deem them necessary. Having options is the essence of being fluent in a language.) These videos are useful resources in explaining unreal time further:
BBC Learning English: When is the past not the past? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdodZEttvSY
BBC Masterclass: Being polite (how to soften your English): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQN4-l5AXE0
BBC Learning English: Three ways to use "wish": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvKQb1gB3As
BBC Learning English: Stop saying (Using the correct verb form for "I wish"...and, yes, the teacher's delivery is a bit odd in this one, but the content is good): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEFHUEEoAqk

Additional online quizzes for unreal time:
https://www.englishrevealed.co.uk/FCE/fce_grammar/unreal_past_wish_if_only.php
https://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/advanced-level-past-conditionals-real-and-unreal
https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/4g7-wishes-and-regrets.php
http://usefulenglish.ru/grammar/subjunctive-mood-exercise-six
https://www.grammarbank.com/its-time-somebody-did-something.html
https://www.englishrevealed.co.uk/FCE/fce_grammar/fce_grammar_15.php

Please following channels tie into "quantity and money" and are channels I draw material from for business English classes. I suggest you watch five videos from these channels this week. Even if you are not going to choose business as your focus at the TH, I recommend that all of you gain a solid foundation in the business register and with business terminology. Nearly every professional activity will involve business acumen in some capacity. All the better if you can maneuver in this environment in multiple languages.
CNBC Make It (with some interesting series like "Millennial Money," which features what kind of standard of living a certain salary can get you in various cities, and "Suddenly Obsessed," which chronicles the rise of featured products and trends): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH5_L3ytGbBziX0CLuYdQ1Q
Business Insider (known for their "So Expensive" series, which explains why certain brands and products have such high price points): https://www.youtube.com/user/businessinsider/playlists
Freakonomics weekly podcast (hosted by the authors of the popular Freakonomics books): https://freakonomics.com/archive/

The following resources can be helpful in writing better essays:
https://oxfordhousebcn.com/en/writing-an-effective-essay-cambridge-b2-first/
https://www.caeexamtips.com/blog/c1-essay-examples

Unfortunately, there have been instances of plagiarism in the written assignments for this class. Writing feedback to essays can me take as much as 40 minutes per essay, so please respect my efforts by only submitting to me what are truly your own words. (This is, after all, the only way you will improve your writing.) Take the following quiz on avoiding plagiarism: https://web.williams.edu/wp-etc/acad-resources/survival_guide/CitingDoc/QuizAPA.php If you still have questions or concerns regarding what constitutes plagiarism, please contact me. 

Your optional essay topics for this week are: 
1. Can money buy happiness?
2. Does money make the world go round?

Choose one of the above questions for your optional essay of 250-350 words and submit it to me via email in an MS Word document by Wednesday, April 29th at 5 p.m. (Due to the holiday on Friday, I need to push the deadline up a bit in order provide feedback to all of my classes.) Try to write your essay within 90 minutes this week. Essays must meet the word-limit guidelines and be submitted by the deadline in order to receive feedback.

Kulturraumstudien USA, Work for Week Six (April 27-30)

**Announcement**: the North American Studies Program at the University of Bonn is organizing an online lecture series centered around the 2020 presidential election. Check out their website for more information (registration per email is required to participate): https://www.nas.uni-bonn.de/Events


This week's topic is health care in the United States, both in- and outside of the times of corona. If you remember from last semester, I told you that one of your short-answer questions on the exam would be to formulate a research question related to US cultural studies and to tell me how you would go investigating it. (You are welcome to prepare these in advance and to send them to me via email for feedback.) Therefore, our content this week will be led a variety of research questions pertaining to the US healthcare system.

Question 1: Why is the United States the worst-hit country by Covid-19?
Watch the video "Why is America's death toll so high?" from the Economist and answer the questions below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMLop-jR8cw
1. Why does journalist Idrees Kahloon argue that the United States "would have always found fighting a pandemic difficult, regardless of who the president was"?
2. What prevented private companies' tests from getting to the market quickly?
3. How is the US federal government's hands tied when it comes to regulating testing?
4. What accounts for the fact that the corona crisis and response to it is taking radically different forms in various states?
5. How has politics influenced the way states have responded to corona?
6.  What is Idrees Kahloon's explanation for why the US does not have the number of ICUs it would need to adequately tackle corona?
7. What percentage of the US population is uninsured and what percentage is underinsured when it comes to health insurance?
8. Why might some lost their health insurance during this time?
9. What funds are being used to reimburse uninsured corona patients?

Question 2: Why is healthcare so expensive in the United States?
Watch the video "Why the US pays more for health care than the rest of the world " from the PBS News Hour and answer the questions below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXBPKE28UF0
1. What drives pharmaceutical prices up in the United States?
2. How much of the US GDP is spent on healthcare?
3. Why are people in the US "stuck buying American" when it comes to their pharmaceuticals?
4. How have mergers and acquisitions within the US health industry driven pharmaceutical prices up?
5. How has medical coding become an industry in the US?

If you have been following the 2020 primaries (and if you followed Bernie Sanders' campaign in 2016), you know that "Medicaid for all" is a proposal that has been brought up in the Democratic debates. This leads us to our third question, which is: What is Medicaid?
Watch the video "Medicaid explained" from Vox and answer the questions below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOo_aw-xgHQ
1. Who lobbied against a national healthcare program in the 1930s in the US?
2. How do Germany and France treat private insurance companies differently than the US?
3. How did Medicaid get started?
4. What is the difference between Medicare and Medicaid?
5. What part of the Affordable Care Act did the US Supreme Court shoot down?
6. What are block grants?

Question 4: Why are African-Americans disproportionately contracting the corona virus in the US?
Watch the video "Why black communities are more at risk for contracting corona virus" from the Washington Post and answer the questions below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf_AqTiOOKc
1. What resources necessary for treating and preventing the spread of the corona virus are lacking more in African-American communities versus predominantly white communities?
2. Why have some African-Americans lost trust in health providers?
3. What do labor trends in the African-American population have to do with highest Covid-19 contraction rates?
(This video references the Tuskegee Experiment, a horrendous violation of medical ethics in which African-American men were intentionally denied treatment for a disease in order for the federal government to use them as a control group in a medical study. More information can be found here: https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm The lasting effects of this is highlighted in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu98KN4acis)

Question 5: Why is the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) still controversial?
Watch the video "Here's Why the Affordable Care Act Is So Controversial" from History and answer the questions below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryxbnSqN2Xo&t=5s
1. When did health insurance emerge in the US?
2. What is the individual mandate?

Question 6: Why did healthcare premiums (i.e. monthly healthcare fees) go up for some people when the Affordable Care Act was introduced? (This is crucial for understanding some resistance to universal healthcare in the United States.)
Watch the video "Obamacare premiums" from CNN and answer the questions below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqPM5WWd2OI
1. Why did health insurance premiums increased dramatically in some states as a result of the Affordable Care Act?
2. How have many people on employer-based health insurance benefited from the new patients enrolled in Obamacare?

New music:
Tiggs Da Author "Georgia" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCRBofMzk8Y
Chaka Khan "Like Sugar" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RecY5iZn6B0

Kulturraumbezogene Wirtschaftsthemen, Homework for Week 5 (April 20-24)

I hope you are well and had a lovely holiday. Thank you to those of you who already sent me your first Teilleistung. I look forward to receiving the rest of them by Monday, April 20th at 10 am!

Information on your second Teilleistung will be published on this blog in the next couple of weeks. You will also receive your grade on the first Teilleistung per e-mail in the coming weeks.

You will find a new folder on the Ilias page containing new listening and reading comprehension tasks for Weeks Five (on the topics of risk and crisis management, which will also be the topics for next week).

I have also posted a new exercise (and answers) for vocabulary on risk management ("Words in risk management") on Ilias.

This week's optional writing task (250-350 words) can be found in the reading comprehension task on crisis management. This is due to me via e-mail by Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 5 pm.

Sample answers for the reading and listening comprehension tasks from last week can now be found in the Weeks Three and Four folder on Ilias.

Kulturraumstudien USA, Work for Week Five (April 20-24)

This week, please watch the Frontline documentary Trump's Trade War and answer the questions featured in this post. Understanding the context for the trade war is crucial for understanding contemporary US-Chinese relations, which are especially relevant for discourse associated with the corona crisis and featured in the 2020 presidential election. Consider this tweet, published by Donald Trump on April 18, 2020 ("Sleepy Joe" is Trump's nickname for Joe Biden): "China wants Sleepy Joe sooo badly. They want all of those billions of dollars that they have been paying to the U.S. back, and much more. Joe is an easy mark, their DREAM CANDIDATE!"

The documentary is roughly one hour long, but I encourage you to invest the time in watching it as it will help you understand much of what you've been seeing in the headlines. (English captions can be added to the video by clicking on the "cc" square at the bottom of the video.) Politicians often take advantage of economic illiteracy and the general public does not understand how the economy works but does understand the job status of themselves and their communities and the price of products and services. The documentary can be accessed here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_xQ5JisFuo

1. Why does the steel worker from Middletown say that he had been waiting a long time for steel tariffs?
2. What are the side effects of (steel) tariffs?
3. Who is Lou Dobbs? (This will require outside research.)
4. In Trump's advisors' trade meetings, what did the two "camps" come to be called?
5. According to Steve Bannon, what was required to fulfill a vision of "making America great again"?
6. How has the US experienced job growth in the past decades?
7. How was calling a "national security emergency" a trick up the sleeve of the US during trade talks with China?
8. Whom did US steel tariffs hurt more than China?
9. How does the Chinese government play a role in its economy?
10. What is the China model?
11. Why is the automobile industry the bellwether of the state of a country's economy, according to Freeman Shen?
12. How large is China's middle class?
13. What is forced tech transfer?
14. How has China broken the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
15. Why did US companies not want to come forward publicly with their complaints about China's practices? What long-term effect might this have had?
(Language note: when James McGregor likens the Beijing Olympics' opening ceremony to the "biggest coming-out party in history," he is referring to an older practice when young women were presented to society as "debutantes". Debutante parties/balls are still practiced in some areas in the United States, predominantly in the south.)
16. According to Bill Bishop, when was the turning point in how China viewed the US?
17. What was unprecedented about the Google hack?
18. What make tackling this situation "complicated"?
19. According to James McGregor, whom are US companies that operate in China beholden to and whom are they not?
20. According to Silicon Valley investment banker Ken Wilcox, what is China's long-term goal?
21. According to Dan Wong, why is Silicon Valley at the heart of the trade war?
22. Think back to the Space Race of the 1960s. What new race is the US engaged in?
23. According to James McGregor, where has the US gone wrong in terms of long-term economic growth strategy?
24. What is mercantilism? (This will require outside research.)
25. According to Da Wei, what is the optimistic and what is the pessimistic scenario regarding US-Chinese relations?

You might also be interested in this video by the Financial Times on the labor force in China hitting its Lewis turning point (the point at which workers coming from rural areas hits its peak and begins to decline). This is important context in understanding why China would be pivoting towards technology when much of their economic boom can be chalked up to being a manufacturing titan. Aside from the strange, ominous background music, the video is rather well-done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t487ILVf87k

Some cool music:
Saint Motel "A Good Song Never Dies" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s29fcv5E52Y
Audrey Nuna "Time" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ppLBX2YKsQ
Broken Bells "Good Luck" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkv2zF2Bgq0
Nick Hakim "Qadir" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRVmNEidUkw 

Kompetenzerweiterung II, Work for Week 5 (April 20-24)

This week, please read about inversion in Unit 19 and complete all of the accompanying exercises and learn ALL of the vocabulary for Unit 20 and complete its accompanying exercises. In addition to this, please complete Review 10 for Units 19-20.

Inversion is important for sophisticated English usage and is tricky for German speakers as one has generally trained oneself to not let rules of German syntax (featuring the verb in the second position, otherwise known as "V2 position" in linguistics) interfere with English output. Page 154 of your Destination book features adverbials that trigger inversion in English. You should learn them by heart, read the examples in that table out loud and, ideally, write your own examples. Just like the gerund or infinitive rules from last semester, learning the rules of inversion in English will make it truly sophisticated.

These videos are useful resources in explaining inversion further: 

Inversion BBC class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Dw1IHUrwU
English Masterclass inversion, negative or limiting adverbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzNxZGC-Hg0
English Masterclass inversion, reduced conditionals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmQH6B9P8r8

Here are some accompanying exercises from BBC English:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/course/towards-advanced/unit-25/session-1 

Additional online quizzes for inversion:
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/inversion-exercise-1.html
https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/4g85-inversion-multiple-choice.php
https://learn-english-today.com/lessons/lesson_contents/exercises/inversion_quiz1.html
https://test-english.com/grammar-points/b2/inversion-negative-adverbials/
https://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/251.html

Please watch the following videos, whose topics tie into "power and social issues":

How to understand power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Eutci7ack
School of Life Machiavelli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOXl0Ll_t9s
What "Machiavellian" really means https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUlGtrHCGzs
Good Morning Britain Is civil disobedience justified when protesting important issues? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRPyLUn9MdY

Your optional essay topics for this week are: 
1. What does it take to be a great leader?
2. Is civil disobedience justified when protesting important issues?

Choose one of the above questions for your optional essay of 250-350 words and submit it to me via email in an MS Word document by Wednesday, April 22nd at midnight. Essays must meet the word-limit guidelines and be submitted by the deadline in order to receive feedback.

Kulturraumbezogene Wirtschaftsthemen, Work for Weeks 3 and 4

The following post includes the content that covers our sessions that fall between April 6-17. If class is not back in session at the TH on April 20th, please continue to consult this blog for further instruction.

Please make sure that your Teilleistung sign-up sheet has been submitted to me via email by April 10, 2020. The form is available on our Ilias page.

Your Teilleistung is due by April 20th at 10 a.m. That assignment is currently your priority and should be submitted to me via email. 

As was the case last week, you will find two new folders on the Ilias page: one containing new listening and reading comprehension tasks for Weeks Three and Four (on the topics of finances, stocks, and raising capital/pitching ideas for a new business) and the other containing optional articles that might be useful for you in completing your Teilleistung.

I have also posted two exercise (and their answers) for vocabulary on banks/banking and investment on Ilias.

This week's optional writing task (250-350 words) can be found in the listening comprehension task accompanying the Big Think video entitled "Everything you need to know about finance and investing in under an hour". This is due by Wednesday, April 15, 2020 at noon.

Sample answers for the reading and listening comprehension tasks from last week can now be found in the Week Two folder on Ilias.



 

 

Kulturraumstudien USA, Work for Week Three

**Note: should classes not take place at the TH again on April 20th, please continue to consult the blog for assignments. Have a great holiday!**

Last week, you watched content related to German immigration to the United States and this week we're going to focus on the 2020 US Census, whose official "count day" is April 1, 2020. For some background, watch the videos below and answer the accompanying questions:

2020 Census What is the Census: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq-FMB4epyw
1. What is the census?
2. How often must the census take place in the US?
3. Where in the US Constitution does it detail the requirements for the census? (This will require outside research.)
4.  How is the census important for legislative representation?
5. List three ways in which US citizens and residents can benefit from participating in the census.
6. What is new about this year's census?

What's census data really used for, anyway? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40weA4OzHeE
1. Why did the Trump administration want a question concerning citizenship on the census?
2. How did critics react to the question?
3. How can the census NOT be used?
4. How is public opinion of the census changing?

Why the census matters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZEJl0owrfY
1. What are the consequences of an inaccurate census count?
2. How is a census count relevant for tackling the corona virus?
3. How has the corona virus (also referred to as "COVID-19" in US media) impacted the census bureau's campaign as well as the activities of census takers?
4. Who, according to Stacey Abrams, has the greatest contact to communities in the corona crisis?
5. How could the corona virus impact the way US citizens vote?
6. Could the November election be postponed?

https://www.prb.org/what-the-2020-u-s-census-will-tell-us-about-a-changing-america/
Summarize in your own words five things that the 2020 US Census will teach us, according to the article above. 

The census is an important tool for measuring demographic change. When this is discussed, Latinx populations are most often focused on, but obviously other populations are contributing to this change as well. First, consult the following link to get an idea of what non-English languages are most frequently spoken in homes across the US and then watch the videos that follow: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/immigrants-us-states-fastest-growing-foreign-born-populations

African Asylum Seekers in Maine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZnMjtnec0c
1. Why is Portland, Maine attractive to African asylum seekers?
2. What is Maine in need of?
3. Who is teaching asylum seekers English?

Little Haiti in Miami https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYZ-eJ9-zYg
1. What brought Haitians to Miami and when did they come?
2. How has identity changed over the generations in Little Haiti?
 
Dearborn, Michigan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFojsxILWro
1. What brought immigrants to Dearborn?
2. How has the Arab-American population changed in Dearborn since the 1950s?

Indian-Americans and the US Hotel Industry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj92GMVDUzw
1. What percentage of hotels are run by people of Indian heritage in the United States?
2. In what year did Indian immigration to the States increase (and why)?
3. What does a farming background have to do with running a hotel?
4. How did Indians contribute to chains like Days Inn and Best Western's success?

Exploring Hmong-American Cuisine in Minneapolis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asQHq4ODITE
1. Where have the Hmong settled in the US?
2. Why have most people not heard of the Hmong?
3. When Hmong New Year?
4. What is the traditional religion of the Hmong people?
5. How has the Hmong population thrived in the US?
6. How did Diane Yang discover fine dining?
7. How does Diane Yang incorporate Hmong cuisine and flavors into her work?
8. What implications does host Jessica Sanchez's statement that her food is not "tied down by one heritage or one definition" have?

Finally, read the following article:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/key-findings-about-u-s-immigrants/
How does the article define the term "immigrant"?
There are fourteen sections to this article, each phrased in the form of a question (e.g. "How many people in the US are immigrants?" "What is the legal status of immigrants in the US?" and so on). Make sure you can answer all of the those questions after reading through the article.

The following video was recently released by Vox and might be especially interesting for those of you who visited the "California Dreams" exhibition:
How San Francisco erased a neighborhood (a terrible chapter, but watch to the end as there's a silver lining): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcsdglJFT0M

And some music:

Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue (conducted by Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH2PH0auTUU
Aaron Copland, "Hoedown" from Rodeo (high school orchestras in the States love playing this one :-) ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oR1Vh3DfqM
Chet Faker "To Me" (Australian singer with musical influences from soul and R&B) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ4xZJUGST8
Jungle "Heavy, California" (English band, but US title ;-) ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4LkSRXrK34
Michael Kiwanuka "Black Man in a White World" (an English singer with musical influences from the States) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TYlcVNI2AM
Sudan Archives "Come Meh Way" (American violinist from LA) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLPGMb35ubk
Yola "Ride Out in the Country" (The Current is a cool music channel on YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhbxVWt4OgE
Brittany Howard "Stay High" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfizQsGWOxI
Alabama Shakes "Gimme All Your Love" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oib0a2_itA
Nina Simone "Sinnerman" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH3Fx41Jpl4
Stevie Wonder, "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysxUWx7dNO4

Kompetenzerweiterung II, Work for Weeks Three and Four

The following post covers our sessions spanning from April 6-17. If we do not have class at the TH starting the week of April 20th, please continue to consult the blog for assignments.

For the next two weeks, I would like you to read the grammar points for Unit 25 (on reporting) and complete all of its exercises. Learn ALL of the vocabulary for Unit 26 and complete all of its exercises as well. Then complete "Review 13" for Units 25-26. I would also like you in this time to complete Progress Test 1, which begins on pg. 102, and Progress Test 2, which begins on pg. 218. You are welcome to send me any questions you have per email.

Make sure that by April 20th, you have completed all of the exercises from this and my previous two posts. I highly encourage you to do all of the online exercises as well.

Here are some additional online exercises for reporting:
https://test-english.com/grammar-points/b1/reported-speech-indirect-speech/
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-4.html
https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/4g11-reporting-verbs-exercise.php
https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/reported_speech/statements2.htm
A great exercise to see if you've really grasped the concept is to take a German news article and to translate all of the reported speech into English. You will have to do this often in your translation classes to come, so you must have a firm understanding of reported/indirect speech in English. Try it and ask me any questions you might have! 

This video is a very nice recap from BBC Learning English that covers quite a few verbs that are used in conjunction with reported speech. (It's important to learn a set of verbs for reporting because they must be used in order to introduce the reporting in English. Compare this with German in which your Konjunktiv I does all of this work on its own.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu_3OgQxe2s

All three questions below for your optional essay center on the theme of hobbies and free time from your vocabulary unit for this week.

1. Watch the TED talk "How to gain control of your free time" and take note of the speaker's main message and points. Do you agree with/can you relate to her advice? Write an essay taking one of her messages and expanding on it or refuting it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3kNlFMXslo
2. Watch the video "Screen Time Rules for Kids from NPR" and answer the question, "How much screen time is too much for kids?" (The video doesn't give any specifics here, so it's up to you to determine this.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtbdqIds_3c
3. Read the article "Why Don't Millennials Have Hobbies Anymore?" and answer the question posed in its title on your own terms: https://www.elitedaily.com/life/millennials-hobbies-anymore/1287244

Choose one of the above questions for your optional essay of 250-350 words and submit it to me via email by April 15th at noon. Have a great holiday!