Analyze a work of human creative expression, describe it, describe its purpose, and assess how creative expression impacts and is impacted by surrounding situations. You will also pose questions about the relationship between culture and expression as well as how values shape and are shaped by expression, and determine how you would go about answering them.

Overview

For this assignment, which supports your final project, remember that you are assuming the role of a researcher of human cultures, an anthropologist who is looking from the future back into our world today.

In your final project you will analyze a work of human creative expression, describe it, describe its purpose, and assess how creative expression impacts and is impacted by surrounding situations. You will also pose questions about the relationship between culture and expression as well as how values shape and are shaped by expression, and determine how you would go about answering them.

In this assignment you will practice asking the questions and determining how to go about answering them.
Prompt

Given the cultural work you have selected in Module Two, take time to work on the following: You chose Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty

Thinking of the work selected, explore how acts of creative expression impact, and are impacted by, the people and situations surrounding them.
State questions about the relationship between culture and expression.
State questions about your values and how they are shaped by the expression of others.
Determine how you would go about answering the questions posed.

Guidelines for Submission

Your submission should be a one- to two-page Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Two sources are required, one of which must be academic. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.

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