Once you have documented your interviewee's perspectives, reflect on what you felt when your subject told you about misunderstandings with people like you. How did you feel when you heard about it – sad, guilty, frustrated, defiant, amused, or some other sensation? What could have been done at the time to mediate the misunderstanding? What would each of the parties need to know about the misunderstood party in order for the misunderstanding to be prevented or remedied?

After reading the essays by Barber, Havel, and Woods, answer the following questions (a few sentences to a paragraph for each):

1) What is globalization? You may want to consider economic, business, and cultural variations on globalization here.

2) According to Woods, what are some of the key debates over the topic of globalization? Identify and describe at least three of these debates.

3) What does Barber mean by the terms "Jihad" and "McWorld"? Are there other possible outcomes available besides these two? What might they be?

4) Havel argues that globalization is "a warning sign that all is not well." What are the problems that we can see because of globalization, according to Havel?

After viewing the film Life + Debt, write an essay which answers the following questions:

According to the film, what are the problems and promises of globalization, as illustrated by the case of Jamaica? What would need to be done in order to deal with the problems and how would these actions make a difference?

In a formal essay (about 500-750 words, or 4-5 pages), compare and contrast the history of Belgian imperialism in the Belgian Congo with that of the British Empire in India. What are the similarities and differences which appear in the two practices of empire? You may use the British Empire and British India lectures for the background information about British imperialism, and the book King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild for information about Belgian imperialism.

Additional materials you may find helpful in preparing the paper:

"Some Reflections on How to Write an Essay"

http://scholar.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/essay.html

This is a basic overview of ways to write better essays, whether for History classes or any other class.

"On Writing a Research Essay"

http://scholar.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/researchessay.html

This is a more-advanced guide to writing a research-based essay. You will not need to do research beyond what we have covered in lectures and what is in the Hochschild book. You should try to use specific examples, though, to support your argument; and the Research Essay guide does provide some useful information in the Introduction, Statement of Thesis, Argument and Documentation, and Conclusion sections.

Additional materials you may find helpful in preparing the paper:

"Some Reflections on How to Write an Essay"

http://scholar.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/essay.html

This is a basic overview of ways to write better essays, whether for History classes or any other class.

"On Writing a Research Essay"

http://scholar.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/researchessay.html

This is a more-advanced guide to writing a research-based essay.

"A Starting Point Guide to Research for History Students"

http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/research.html

This is a guide to how to do research using the library resources at CSI as well as the WWW.

The CSI Library's "Alphabetical List of Databases"

http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/eresource/alphalist.php

This will be your starting point for most research at the CSI Library. Many of these resources are available from off-campus via the proxy login number on the back of your CSI ID. The databases which will be most useful for this project are:

Academic Search Premier

ARTICLES from the "Directory of Open Access Journals"

Communications and Mass Media Complete

Country Studies

EbscoHost Databases

Ethnic Newswatch

Infoshare

JSTOR

Lexis-Nexis Academic

The New York Times Historical from 1851-2001

New York State Newspapers FULL TEXT

Custom Newspapers Full Text

National Newspaper Index

Project Muse

TOPICsearch

WORLDCAT

In most cases, you will get the most useful results by selecting "Full Text" in the search.

"Evaluating Websites"

http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/csitutor.html#eval

This is a tutorial about reading websites critically. For this paper, you may use scholarly websites -- this means that you need to be able to identify the author of the website and that it should be on a site at an educational domain (look for the .edu, .k12, or .gov in the URL, for example) or one belonging to a reputable NGO (usually ending in .org, but sometimes these are hosted on commercial servers ending in .com). If you are unclear about whether or not a site is acceptable, please forward me an URL via email and I will confirm it for you.

"How to Cite, Using Footnotes: Using the Chicago Manual of Style"

http://scholar.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/footnote.html

This will walk you through how to format footnotes in the proper style.

"How to Cite, Bibliography: Using the Chicago Manual of Style"

http://scholar.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/bibliography.html

This will walk you through how to format your bibliography in the proper style.