choose ONE of the following questions, and give a substantive response to at least two other students.1. YOU, THE ARTISTWrite a poem or a brief essay, draw or paint a picture, make a carving, compose a song, take a series of photographs. Consider doing a self-portrait in any artistic medium or literary form, representational or abstract. To get started, you might look at “Project Art-a-Day” at http://projectartaday.blogspot.com/2013/03/lesson-value-self-portraits.htmlInclude images or audio files of your creative efforts in your response. Then reflect on your experience.2. CROSS-FERTILIZATIONPresent and discuss an example of cross-fertilization between two or more art forms. For example, you might compare a theater presentation with a film adapation of the same play, or discover and describe how a poem can be illustrated as a drawing or painting. For this discussion, you might also compare art forms between two different cultures. For example, you might compare how religious images or music differ between religious or cultural groups.Be sure to include images and links so everyone can see or hear what you’re discussing.3. REVIEW A TED TALKTED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design. The TED organization sponsors global presentations on “Ideas Worth Spreading.”Go to the website https://www.ted.com/ . Find a TED talk that addresses the value of one of the humanities fields covered in this course or a controversy in one of the humanities disciplines. Write a review of the presentation. First, identify the name of the speaker and the presentation, indicate when it was presented, and give a link to the talk. Second, describe the main points of the TED talk. Finally, offer a critique —your assessment of the speaker’s ideas and the presentation overall. 4. DISCUSS FUNDING FOR THE ARTSAlthough most people appreciate the arts as part of their everyday lives (perhaps, especially, music and film), the arts often are first to go when public school funding is tight. Use the educational resources for this week as a starting place to explore the pros and cons of public funding for the arts and funding for art and music in public schools.

1 short parapgraph IQ Test from personality-testing.info Introduction This is an IQ test loosely modeled after Raven's Progressive Matrices. It was normed on an internet sample. Procedure This test has 25 questions which start on the next page. The last page has scoring instructions. The questions take the form of a 3x3 matrix from which one tile is missing. For each question their are eight possible answers A-H. You must choose the tile that completes that matrix best

You must have a clear and focused thesis statement, and you must also quote the novel at least three times (additional references in the form of paraphrases are also necessary). It must has minimum 750 wordsIntroduction paragraph includes the name of the novel, the author, and a one sentence brief summary of the novel.The thesis makes an arguable claim about the text and body paragraphs support the claim with specific paraphrases or quotations from the text (textual support).choose one of the topics for the essaysTopics: 1. The conflict created when an individual opposes a group or society is the recurring theme of many novels, plays, and essays. Pick a character in The Scarlet Letter who fits this description. Analyze his or her conflict and discuss how his or her opposition affects both the character discussed and the group or society opposed.2. Select a character you consider to be a villain from The Scarlet Letter. Then analyze how the character’s villainy enhances the meaning of The Scarlet Letter. Do not merely summarize the plot.3. In some works of literature, a character who appears briefly, or does not appear at all, is a significant presence. Choose such a character from The Scarlet Letter and write an essay in which you show how such a character functions in the work. You may wish to discuss how the character affects action, theme, or the development of other characters. Avoid plot summary. 4. Choose a complex character in The Scarlet Letter who might – on the basis of the character’s actions alone – be considered evil or immoral. Explain both how and why the full presentation of the character in the work makes us react more sympathetically than we otherwise might. In other words, explain how, by the end of the novel, we feel sympathy in relation to this character. Avoid plot summary.5. An effective literary work does not merely stop or cease; it concludes. In the view of some critics, a work that does not provide clear “closure” has ended in a faulty manner. A satisfactory ending is not, however, always conclusive in every sense; significant closure may require the reader to deal with ambiguity or uncertainty. Discuss the ending of The Scarlet Letter. Explain how and why the ending appropriately or inappropriately concludes the work. Do not merely summarize the plot.