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100

"Ethnic identities are created in family and community life."

Appiah

100

Who wrote a series of novels set in Homewood, a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, including Two Cities, Hoop Roots, and The Cattle Killing?

Wideman

100

Kwame Anthony Appiah's "Racial Identities"

Racial identity, racial identification

100

When planning an essay, what is one of the three questions to consider?

1. What do I want to write about?

2. What do I know?

3. What do I need to know?

100

Which two hosts grew up 20 minutes from each other?

Kelly and Annie

200

"The writer's motives, the issue of exploitation, the inevitable conflict between his role as a detached observer and his responsibility as a brother would be the center of such a book."

Wideman

200

Which author received their PhD from the University of Pittsburgh?

Miller

200

John Berger's "Ways of Seeing"

Images, art, personal experiences

200

What are two forms of prewriting?

Outlining, mapping, listing, free-writing

200

Which host has different colored eyes?

Annie

300

"Such texts often constitute a marginalized group's point of view of entry into the dominant circuits of print culture."

Pratt

300

Who was a professor in the departments of comparative literature, Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University?

Pratt

300

Richard E. Miller's "The Dark Night of the Soul"

Literate arts, critical optimism

300

What are the three components of a good introduction?

1. Hook

2. Background information

3. Thesis

300

Which host works in a research lab?

Owen

400

"If we 'saw' the art of the past, we would situate ourselves in history."

Berger


400

Which author is also an art critic, whose book began as a series on a BBC television show?

Berger

400

Mary Louise Pratt's "Arts of the Contact Zone"

Contact zone, autoethnography, transculturation

400

What are the three things to look out for during proofreading?

MLA, spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization, sentence structure

400

Which host is an Irish triplet (3 siblings in 3 years)?

Caroline

500

"If there is to be lasting hope for the future of higher education, that hope can only be generated by confronting our desolate world and its threatening, urgent realities. The only way out is through." 

Miller

500

Who got their MA and PhD from Cambridge University in England and has taught at Yale, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and many other institutions in the United States, Germany, and Ghana?

Appiah

500

John Edgar Wideman's "Our Time"

Point of view, writing, reading, history

500

What is one of the main components of a strong thesis?

1. Show your knowledge of a subject

2. Justify your argument/stance

3. Express one main idea

4. Be specific

500

Which host is a certified EMT from Miami Florida?

Montrell