Writing Homework Help

1. -Intercultural Communication: Identify your cultural background. Give your cultural’ interpretation of the following nonverbal actions: Note: You decide the location and the cultural background of these participants.

1. Two people are speaking loudly, waving their arms, and using many gestures,
2. A customer in a restaurant waves his hand over his head and snaps his fingers loudly.
3. An elderly woman dresses entirely in black
4. A young man dresses entirely in black
5. An adult pats a child’s head

6. Two men walking hand-in-hand around a shopping center (200 words)

2.-The Art of Poetry: The research paper should discuss one poem or two poems from any of the required readings from the course. The paper should be at least five pages long and should include at least two good secondary sources. The literary work, the poem, is the primary source. Secondary sources are essays, articles, or books written by scholars or literary critics about a particular literary work, or about several literary works, or about the author.

The following are possible topics for your research paper: 3) the theme of struggle and suffering in one or two poems; For your research paper you may analyze one poem or you may do a comparison/contrast between two poems. Another possible topic for your research paper is to discuss the autobiographical aspects of a poem (that is, in what ways a poem reflects events, feelings, or thoughts in the life of the poet).

Please read the following poem: “Still I Rise” and “Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou; (2500 words)