The World-System, Hegemony, and Decline by Thomas J. McKormick Summarize the world-system. (p. 4)

Explain how modern nation-states both provide stimulation of economic growth and interfered with the mobility of capital, goods, and labor across national boundaries. (pp. 4-5)

Define hegemony. Describe how hegemony and the balance of power have been contradictory forces internationally. What two historical examples are given when hegemony triumphed over the balance of power? Explain (pp. 5-6)

According to McKormick, why is hegemony always impermanent? (pp. 6-7)

National Security, Core Values, and Power by Melvyn P. Leffler

Define national security policy. (p. 7)

How does Leffler describe the differences between realists and revisionists? What does he maintain is the role of national security in American foreign policy? (pp. 7-8)

Describe Leffler’s distinction between core values and vital interests. (8-9)

How does Leffler define power? Explain how Leffler applies his concept of power to American foreign policy in the 20th century. (p.9)

answer: compare a myth legend, or classic work of literature of you choice to a modern work that reinterprets it.focus on the similarities in theme between the newer work and the original, and provide examples that illustrate these themes from both works. the modern work may be any novel, movie, play, short story, or other storytelling medium with which you’re familiars long as it is clearly inspired by a myth, legend, or classic work of literature.

short-response prompt  

read the following excerpt from “fish cheeks” by amy tannin which tan recounts a christmas eve dinner.  

i fell in love with the minister’s son the winter i turned fourteen. he was not chinese, but as white as mary in the manger. for christmas i prayed for this blond-haired boy, robert, and a slim new american nose.  

on christmas eve i saw that my mother had outdone herself in creating a strange menu. she was pulling black veins out of the backs of fleshy prawns. the kitchen was littered with appalling mounds of raw food: a slimy rock cod with bulging fish eyes that pleaded not to be thrown into a pan of hot oil. tofu, which looked like stacked wedges of rubbery white sponges. a howl soaking dried fungus back to life. a plate of squid, their backs crisscrossed with knife markings so they resembled bicycle tires.  

after everyone had gone, my mother said to me. “you want to be the same as american girls on the outside.” she handed me an early gift. it was a miniskirt in beige tweed. “but in side you must always be chinese. you must be proud you are different. your only shame is to have shame.”

answer:

explanation:

what the heck this is weird that they would do that