Kulturraumstudien USA, Homework for November 30th

**Please be advised that we will NOT have class on November 23rd (which is Monday of the project week). Our next session will be on November 30th.**

For homework, please: 

- read pp. 154-157 (stopping at "The evolutions of state government and federalism in the USA"), which is posted on Ilias under the folder "reading for November 30th" and answer the following questions:

1. At the beginning of the reading, a comparison is made between the US and the EU. In what ways are these entities similar and at what point is a comparison between the two no longer possible?

2. Why would Puerto Rico be interested in statehood?

3. What are states prohibited from doing?

4. List three powers "reserved" for states and the implications of states having these powers themselves.

5. What is meant by "concurrent powers"?

6. What is noteworthy about the wording of the 14th Amendment?

- have a look at one or two of the biographies in the "copies from Founding Fathers" folder on Ilias. These biographies come from a National Geographic magazine publication entitled Founding Fathers. Pay attention to the language used to portray these men. What stands out to you in the way that they are presented? (What I want you to do here is pay less attention to the content of the article and more to the language used to convey that content. This is a skill to hone in this course: examining content on a meta-level as well as gleaning information from it, if there is any to be had.)

- find the document on Ilias entitled "Greek crisis cartoons" and examine the German cartoon and the US cartoon. What evidence of their being created by a German artist and a US artist, respectively, is embedded in the cartoon? 

You'll also find our NASA hoodie notes and a file with some paintings by Norman Rockwell posted on Ilias.

Interesting links:

History of the Library of Congress (minutes 3-4 show you its gorgeous and European-inspired interior): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Ze_bpATac

TED Talk with Cartoonist KAL Kallaugher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO_4RfH-_h4 

Digital collection of political cartoonist Herbert L. Block's work from the Library of Congress (a site worth investigating/bookmarking; they have hundreds of digital collections): https://www.loc.gov/collections/herblock-cartoon-drawings/about-this-collection/

Quotes attributed to Benjamin Franklin, some of which were featured in Poor Richard's Almanack: https://www.fi.edu/benjamin-franklin/famous-quotes

Thomas Jefferson's home in Montecello (now a museum): https://www.monticello.org/

Complete Federalist Papers: https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/full-text