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PART AWe started this course in the Great Religions with two questions. One of these was — “How have religious traditions profoundly shaped the world to be the way it is today?” In this part of the Final Examination, I want you to use the knowledge gained here to contextualize a recent event. To contextualize something is to provide meaning to something by placing it in its historical context.1. For this part of the examination, please find a current newspaper article from a mainstream newspaper that discusses a recent event which reveals clearly and unmistakably the profound impact of some of the religious traditions we have explored in this class.A “mainstream newspaper” must be one of the following:Los Angeles Times / New York Times / Wall Street Journal / Sacramento Bee / Washington Post / San Diego Union / The Guardian (British) / Le Monde (French)A “current newspaper article” must be one written between 2019 and today. A “recent event” must be one that occurred in the same period — from 2019 to the present. 2. In your own words (always), please cite your article, providing a link to it. Then briefly summarize the three most important parts of your chosen article. Spend no more than 500 words on this, if not less. Use only your own words, not those of the article’s author.3. Next, discuss specifically how the applicable religious traditions have profoundly shaped the main event or subject discussed in your chosen article. Obviously, to do this part of the examination, you must discuss the religious traditions that apply to the event in your article. You must then argue persuasively for their impact — how these traditions have shaped the event or subject or affected its meaning or interpretation. For this part, please write, at minimum, 1000 words. If you wish to write more for this discussion part of Part A, please do so. Make it all relevant.Therefore:One newspaper article (attached to your essay or weblinked. If the link is dead or fails in anyway, points will be lost.)One article summary (not more than 500 words) taken from the approved list of newspapers.Analysis (1000 words at minimum, more if you like)PART BEvery module in our course has had its own Resources page. Those resources have been chosen to throw light on the focus for each respective module. Each week I have asked you to explore these pages. From your comments and messages to me over the last three weeks, many of you have. This part of the assignment will be to your advantage.For this part of the Final Assignment, please choos

e THREE resources (a website, database, film, etc.) offered on three different Resource pages in our course. Resources we have used already in the class cannot be used. Be large and seek new frontiers: it is YOUR education. Follow your curiosity and questions.Next, answer the following questions for each of the three resources:For each of the three resources, taken separately, briefly describe (in 200 words per resource) what the resource is. Summarize it. Hit all the high (significant) points so that a person unfamiliar with the resource knows precisely what the resource offers. DO NOT WRITE MORE THAN 200 WORDS FOR THIS DESCRIPTION.In 500 words or more for each resource, make clear how this resource (of the three you’ve chosen) specifically and significantly connects to the themes and materials and questions we have studied in our course. Work hard on this part: it matters. Please go beyond the obvious. Be specific. List those themes and materials and questions that apply to each resource and show me your knowledge not only of the resource, but also of the Esposito text that you are connecting the resource to.Hint: if you are not citing from the book to show these connections, you are shedding points. Aim higher.I will grade your work according to the number of significant connections you find, your knowledge of the resources, and your knowledge of the Esposito text. A superficial knowledge will lead to easy and obvious connections. You are too smart and resourceful for such easy and obvious links. Aim higher. Therefore:3 Resources from 3 different Resource Pages3 Summaries (each no more than 200 words) of the 3 Resources3 ‘Connection’ Analyses (each 500 words long or longer)Citing Your Sources: Be sure to correctly cite the words you borrow. When you borrow another author’s words, data, or ideas, use quotation marks to make clear what you’ve specifically borrowed, then immediately give a parenthetical citation telling me the work you’ve used, the author, and the page number. Using another person’s words without citing their work or without using quotation marks to identify precisely what you’ve borrowed is plagiarism. Ignorance of the term is no excuse and it will earn you an “F” for the paper and a black mark on your academic transcript – the one that is sent to the college you hope to transfer to. If you are not quoting brief passages from our sources (Esposito, the videos, forum documents, the resources, and so on), you are not supporting your claims in the essays and will lose critical points.