FIRST EXAM

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These videos and readings will “consume” about 4.5 hours of your time.

VIDEOS and AUDIO:

1. “Poisoned by the Gold Rush” (14 min)

2. “The Cultural Frontline: Modi’s Hip-Hop Nation” (30 min)

3. “What We Wear at -71C” (4:30 min)

4. “Yakutian Traditional Food: raw horse meat, frozen fish and more!” (4:30 min)

5. “Inside India’s Controversial Fireball Battle” (7 min)

6. “This is Indian Relay, North America’s Original Extreme Sport” (13 min)

7. “Mulletfest in Australia” (12 min)

READINGS:

1. “Posing like American farmers is the latest trend among Chinese influencers” (6 min)
** You can listen to this article by clicking on the audio link before the first photos and title

2. “A Judge Asked Harvard to Find Out Why So Many Black People Were in Prison” (15 min)

3. “The Courtesy of Covering Up” (10 min)

4. “We shot a moose, class. There will be a quiz” (15 min)

5. “My young mind was disturbed by a book. It changed my life” (15 min)

6. “Japan’s secret to taming the Coronavirus” (15 min)

7. “'Soft Girl': The radical trend millennials love” (10 min)
** Just read the first article (and don’t keep scrolling down to other articles)

8. “Linguists speak of a new Language Dialect” (10 min)

9. “What Two Starkly Different Philly High Schools Tell Us” (30 min) - You can listen to this also.

10. “The Profound Comfort of Kimchi” (10 min)

11. “Their Son’s Death Was Devastating. Then Politics Made it Worse” (10 min)