{"id":284,"date":"2019-12-17T22:06:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T22:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-esc-westernciv-humandevelopment\/chapter\/m1-discourse-2-imagine-yourself-to-be\/"},"modified":"2020-01-14T18:48:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T18:48:03","slug":"m1-discourse-2-imagine-yourself-to-be","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-esc-westernciv-humandevelopment\/chapter\/m1-discourse-2-imagine-yourself-to-be\/","title":{"raw":"M1 \u2013 Discussion 2: Imagine Yourself to Be\u2026","rendered":"M1 \u2013 Discussion 2: Imagine Yourself to Be\u2026"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"m1-\u2013-discourse-2:-imagine-yourself-to-be\u2026\">\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\">In Discussion 1, you identified yourself as a person in the present in a particular place and time. Now refer \u201cThe Role of Women\u201d here for the following steps: http:\/\/mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu\/mesopotamialife\/article.php?theme=Role%20of%20Women.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Locate a woman of your age from the following period in ancient Mesopotamia (see the reference above) and do the same with that person\u2019s identifying characteristics. Be mindful of \u201cPresentism,\u201d which is the unavoidable tendency to superimpose your experience onto experiences from the past that are unfamiliar to you, and try to interpret their identity as they would see it.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Discuss the ways in which life of this woman would be different from yours.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Discuss ways in which life for her would be similar to yours.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>In what ways do you feel you can successfully compare your life to hers?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>In what ways are you aware that you cannot know this woman\u2019s experience?<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<div class=\"m1-\u2013-discourse-2:-imagine-yourself-to-be\u2026\">\n<p class=\"import-Normal\">In Discussion 1, you identified yourself as a person in the present in a particular place and time. Now refer \u201cThe Role of Women\u201d here for the following steps: http:\/\/mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu\/mesopotamialife\/article.php?theme=Role%20of%20Women.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Locate a woman of your age from the following period in ancient Mesopotamia (see the reference above) and do the same with that person\u2019s identifying characteristics. Be mindful of \u201cPresentism,\u201d which is the unavoidable tendency to superimpose your experience onto experiences from the past that are unfamiliar to you, and try to interpret their identity as they would see it.<\/li>\n<li>Discuss the ways in which life of this woman would be different from yours.<\/li>\n<li>Discuss ways in which life for her would be similar to yours.<\/li>\n<li>In what ways do you feel you can successfully compare your life to hers?<\/li>\n<li>In what ways are you aware that you cannot know this woman\u2019s experience?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-284\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li><strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Julia Penn Shaw, Ed.D.. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: SUNY Empire State College. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":85404,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"\",\"author\":\"Julia Penn Shaw, Ed.D.\",\"organization\":\"SUNY Empire State College\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-284","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":649,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-esc-westernciv-humandevelopment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-esc-westernciv-humandevelopment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-esc-westernciv-humandevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-esc-westernciv-humandevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85404"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-esc-westernciv-humandevelopment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-esc-westernciv-humandevelopment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/284\/revisions\/537"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-esc-westernciv-humandevelopment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/649"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-esc-westernciv-humandevelopment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/284\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-esc-westernciv-humandevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-esc-westernciv-humandevelopment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-esc-westernciv-humandevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-esc-westernciv-humandevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}