Q Working Lives in Cultural Context [WLOs: 1, 2, 3] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4] Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the essays “Learning from Ladakh,” “Live Free and Starve,” “Amigos,” “The Restaurant Owner,” and “Flavio’s Home” in your course text. In addition, read the poem Scribbles on the Poverty Line (Links to an external site.), the webpage Poetry and Economics: Maintaining Our Link to Humanity (Links to an external site.), and the article “Why I Quit the Company (Links to an external site.).” Finally, review the gallery titled Work (Links to an external site.) on the website of Steve McCurry and the website of Taslima Akhter (Links to an external site.). For this assignment, you will analyze how two written texts and one photograph depict work and working lives within specific cultural contexts. To begin, choose two written texts and one photograph, which you read and viewed this week. Reexamine those three works, considering how the authors and photographer depict work, individuals at work, different occupations, social class, wealth and poverty, and economic considerations. In your paper, Develop a thesis statement that asserts a central idea about how two written texts and one photograph depict work as influenced by cultural identity, traditions, and values. Analyze how two literary texts depict work and working lives within a specific cultural context. Integrate one work of photojournalism into the analysis to further illuminate the connection between work and culture. Examine how the use of specific literary conventions and photographic techniques contribute to the effectiveness of the author or photographer’s message. Assess how the authors and photojournalist make work a broader political or social issue.
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