Course Project Stage 1: Discovering Connections (60 points) The purpose is for you to compare cultural productions in the Humanities from three different cultures using a specific humanities field. You will select one field in the Humanities to focus on and discuss three different examples from this field from three different cultures. Instructions for Stage 1 Note: Please adhere to the sentence suggestions for each section. This should not exceed two pages in 12 point font, double-spaced. Step 1: Find your examples Do some research outside of the course materials and find three specific examples from 3 different cultures that all have something in common from one of the fields below. religions literary arts visual arts music dance theater drama For example, you could choose three different paintings, one Chinese, one American, and one from Italy. Important notes: • . Make sure to provide clear examples to avoid being too general in your analysis. For instance, choose specific paintings or videos from YouTube for each. Avoid having all of your examples be from Western countries, Look also from: о African cultures (e.g. mainland African cultures and African diasporic cultures like Afro-Caribbean) • ○ 00 Indigenous cultures (e.g. Native American, Inuit, and Aboriginal) Latin America cultures (e.g. Mexican, Argentinian, and Peruvian) South Asian cultures (e.g. Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nepali, and Sri Lankan) Pacific Islander cultures (e.g. Native Hawaiian, Polynesian, Samoan, and Tahitian) Keep in mind that "culture" is not necessarily synonymous with "geographical location." Step 2: Describe your examples Describe each of your three examples briefly in 2-4 sentences each. Include the following information. . • The culture and time period for the example (for example, 20th Century Nigeria, 19th Century African American, Chinese Ming Dynasty, the 1600s) The title of the example, if there is one. The artist or creator of each example and the dates this person lived (1920- 1980, for example) A citation in MLA format, including an image of the example, either as a link out or as an image in the paper. Step 3: Discover the connections In about 3-5 sentences, explain at least one specific element or aspect that you think your three examples have in common such as: Are they all from the same time period? Do they have a common theme like war, motherhood, peace etc.? Do they all use the same palette of warm colors? Do they all tell a similar story? Do they all have the same kind of protagonist? • Do they all use similar metaphoric imagery? • Do they all have the same function, as in a ritual? • Do they all address ethics? or metaphysics? or epistemology? • Do they all depict the same kind of image, like of nature? of people? Of buildings? Step 4: Identify course resource(s) Identify at least one to two resources from the course materials you could use information from to talk about your examples. In about 2-4 sentences, briefly state why you think this resource (s) will be useful. At this point, you don't have to know exactly what you will use from the resource(s), but you should have an idea of what resource(s) will be useful. Again, there is no need to do outside research. Please rely on the materials in the online classroom. Step 5: Citations Include citations for your examples and the course resource(s) you identify either in the section where you list them or at the end of your assignment. Please make sure your citations are in MLA format.