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One street a century apart: landscape, migration and globalization

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Name: ______________________   Date: ____________   One street a century apart: landscape, migration and globalization (7 points)

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Source 1: Scene 1: Main Street, about 1925

Scene 1, Main Street of an invented river town in about 1925: a white wooden church with a steeple and cross, a general store with the sign "Lindqvist & Sons General Store", a brick flour mill with a smoking smokestack, and two small workers' houses. A horse pulls a cart on the dirt street and two people walk past. Every sign is in English.
An invented town, drawn for practice.

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Source 2: Scene 2: the same street, about 2025

Scene 2, the same Main Street in about 2025: the church still stands; the general store building is now "Hilal Halal Market" and a Somali restaurant; the flour mill keeps its smokestack but is now "Mill Lofts and Coffee"; the workers' houses are gone and a building holds a "Global Burger" chain restaurant and a "Phones 5G" store. Cars drive on a paved street and people walk past.
An invented town, drawn for practice.

  1. (A) Identify Identify one feature in Scene 1 that shows religion on the cultural landscape. [1 point]

    Identify means: Give the information asked for: a word or short phrase can earn the point, with no reasons needed.

  2. (B) Describe Describe how the use of the mill building changed from Scene 1 to Scene 2. [1 point]

    Describe means: Give the relevant characteristics: what it is like, where and how much. A name alone earns nothing.

  3. (C) Explain Explain how the two scenes show sequent occupance. [1 point]

    Explain means: Say how or why, with every link of the chain: a cause, then because or so, then its effect, tied to the place or data asked about.

  4. (D) Explain Explain how one feature in Scene 2 shows cultural convergence caused by globalization. [1 point]

    Explain means: Say how or why, with every link of the chain: a cause, then because or so, then its effect, tied to the place or data asked about.

  5. (E) Explain Explain how migration produced the halal market and Somali restaurant in Scene 2. [1 point]

    Explain means: Say how or why, with every link of the chain: a cause, then because or so, then its effect, tied to the place or data asked about.

  6. (F) Compare Compare the groups of people shown by the businesses in Scene 1 and in Scene 2. [1 point]

    Compare means: Give a similarity or a difference and say it about both things, not one.

  7. (G) Explain the degree Explain the degree to which the two scenes can show how culture changed across the whole town. [1 point]

    Explain the degree means: State the degree first (to a high, moderate or low degree), then explain why with evidence.