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As you read, try to answer the following questions:



1) What is the significance of Katha to understanding George Orwell? Think about this question carefully, as a “good” answer will involve a number of elements, drawn from throughout the chapter.



2) Emma Larkin uses a peculiar map to navigate through Katha. What is the origin of this map?



3) Emma Larkin finds a particular house, where she meets a Burmese military officer. What is the significance of the… Continue

Your fifth five-paragraph essay is about the relationship between research and travel, particularly the way in which the things we learn during travel can give us new perspectives on the things we learn about a research topic before we travel.



Write a five-paragraph essay in which you explore this relationship in Chasing Che. Before he set out on his motorcycle trip in search of the Che Guevara legend, Patrick Symmes clearly did a significant amount of research about Che… Continue

If you want to learn more abou Patrick Symmes, the author of Chasing Che, you can check out his website: http://patricksymmes.com. There are even pictures of him on his motorcycle.

On Friday, you also have to submit a preliminary bibliography for your semester research project. This is the start of your semester-long project, certainly not the end. I don’t expect you to have read all the sources—yet—but you should have a good start on a list of sources you plan to use. These should be sources about a topic of study, and they should include “scholarly” sources.



Here is a list of various kinds of sources you should be looking… Continue