Visit the interactive website of the The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, in this link: https://www.slavevoyages.org/ 3) Spend at least 10 minutes to familiarize yourself with the website. Click on the different pages and explore their content. 4) Next, review in depth the following features and content on the website: a) Watch the video: "Henry Louis Gates introduces Slave Voyages 2.0 and some of its people" b) Click "Introductory maps" and examine the contents of the nine (9) maps featured c) Watch the "Slave ships in 3D video" (4 mins). Pay attention to the reconstruction of the slave vessel L'Aurore, its routes, and the conditions of the ship and enslaved people. d) Click "Timelines of estimates" and examine the timeline, compare the data of embarkments and disembarkments under different flags, and examine the graphs and maps. e) Click "Timelapse," watch the Introduction video (2 mins), and explore the timelapse. 5) After reviewing the contents above, prepare a response to the Discussion Forum:

You will work on a research project for the duration of this course that you will deliver as a presentation in Week 8. For this project, select a person whom you believe had significant influence (positive or negative) on a movement for social, economic, and/or political change in the 20th and 21st centuries. Explore and address the following in your project: Summarize the person's ideas. How did the ideas or changes affect the establishment and status quo? What was the context in which this person proposed ideas/change? How did the government or the people respond to the ideas/change? What sort of following or support did he/she have? How have the ideas/actions of the person influenced contemporary cultures and ideas? Instructions For the assignment this week, address the following: State the topic. For the stated issue, identify at least three (3) aspects of the issue that you think you will likely develop in your presentation. Briefly state why you have chosen each aspect. You are not confined to three aspects only, but you must develop at least three. As you develop your presentation, you may find other aspects that you deem more relevant, and you may add or substitute those.

What happens in "Birches" by Robert Frost? How do the poem’s language, images, and symbols convey its themes to readers? Do you prefer this type of modernist poem or more experimental ones? Why?Please respond to each of the three people. In 40-75 words state weather you agree or disagree and give examples/showing further understanding of the poem, while being respectful.