Complete and submit the assignment below, then you can proceed onto the next lesson.Analyzing Modern-Day IssuesWrite an essay and make sure to to read the directions below; do not forget to use supporting details in at least 350words and cite all sources that you use. You must successfully pass this essay to move on in the course to the next lesson)The African EnvironmentModern Africans still face many of the same environmental issues that their ancestors dealt with. Drought, overuse of land, and desertification are problems that affect the present and will help determine the future.Use the Internet or magazines to research the ways a current African ethnic group or country is struggling to survive in its environment. Then write a short report of your findings. Remember this should be at least 350 words and cite all of your sources that you use.Describe the group or country and its current problems and indicate how the people are trying to solve them.Draw comparisons with problems Africans faced in the past.This needs to be in essay format.Ethiopia 2002: BBC report on famine conditions in EthiopiaDrought in Eastern Africa: Background information of the Eastern Africa drought that threatens millions of people with starvation.

For this journal, I want you to think about the role of images in art, especially religious art, as well as what images mean in our own times. The term that will be the focus of our discussion is iconoclasm, which means literally "breaking images." While images of Jesus, Mary, and the saints (called icons) were important in Byzantine religion, there was about a century when icons were seen as negative and destroyed - this is the iconoclastic movement. In Islamic religion, images of Mohammed and other religious figures, or any animals and people, are not appropriate for mosques. In this discussion, read the following three articles:https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/figs/hd_figs.htmhttps://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/icon/hd_icon.htmhttps://www.wmf.org/project/qusayr-amraThen write a few paragraphs (1 page 300 words double spaced) about what you learned about history and images by reading those three articles. Finally, do you see any similarities or examples of iconoclasm in the modern world? Remember, too, that iconoclasm is not necessarily negative, especially in some of the examples that you might discuss that are happening now. I look forward to seeing your responses to this fascinating topic!

Initial Post InstructionsThink about conversations around politics when you were in primary school (around age 10). What were some of the ways you learned about the political establishment through family members and friends? How were you politically socialized as a child? Use evidence (cite sources) to support your response from assigned readings or online lessons, and at least one outside scholarly source.