Consideration:	Study White's painting in relation to material culture studies as a lesson concentration with the understanding that material culture addresses, among other considerations, a belief system equated unto assumptions.   Premise 1: Consider that the charcoal, dynamite, and a pile of wood depicted in the White painting are natural objects which can be placed in one category.   Premise 2: Consider that the man in the White painting is a natural object which can be placed in another category.
Assignment:	Design your own working definition of what entails an assumption. Then determine what you think is about to happen to the man in the photograph as you juxtapose him as an object in one category (premise 2) against the objects in another category (premise 1).
Question:	Material culture addresses, among other considerations, a belief system equated unto assumption. Given what you assume the charcoal, dynamite and pile of wood will be used for as you scan White's drawing, would you say that irony surfaces in his use of the word totem in the title of the drawing. Explain your understanding about when something can be assessed as ironic. Write your response in the space below
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Assignment:	Paying homage to a totem implies reverence and respect. Write an essay that affirms or negates that the pose of the man atop the pile of wood suggests reverence and respect. As a feature in your essay, be certain to discuss irony which is suggested in White's painting as well as in the title of the work. Write your response in the space below:
Exercise:	In 1964 FBI agents found the buried bodies of three civil rights workers--Michael H. Schwerner, James E. Chaney, and Andrew Goodman--in Philadelphia, MS. Examine accounts of the Philadelphia murders to draw parallels between objects in the Charles White painting and objects that might have been utilized in the murders of the three men.
	Acquire additional impressions about the Philadelphia, MS. murders. If you have time, view the film Mississippi Burning, released in the 1990s.
Question:	In 1964 President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed a sweeping Civil Rights Bill. From 1964 to 1994, certain national measures affecting desegregation efforts have been debated. a) How have the outcomes of such debates, certainly if rulings have been handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court, impacted upon the civil rights of African Americans? b) Do decisions rendered denote, figuratively, about what it appears may happen to the man in the Charles White painting? [insert reply box here] Write your response in the space below:
Conduct a Search	Familiarize yourself with: a) cases related to Bakke v. California Board of Regents b) the Case of Weber v. Kaiser Aluminum c) Affirmative Action More on affirmative action d)Affirmative Action in Higher Education d) Consent Decree
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