(1) Write a short history of ethnic immigration to your hometown. This is going to be easier if you're from a smaller town (like Perham, Dilworth, or Lidgerwood), and probably more complicated if you're from Fargo or Minneapolis. If you're from a large city (like Minneapolis or St. Paul), you could choose to focus on ONLY ONE ethnic group that settled in a particular neighborhood. For this submission (regardless of whether you write on a town, or just a particular neighborhood in a larger city), you'll want to answer three questions: (a) what ethnic group was involved in this migration?; (b) why did THAT PARTICULAR GROUP choose THAT PARTICULAR PLACE in North America to come to?; and (c) is there any remnant or reminder today, still existing in that town or neighborhood, that reflects that particular group's influence? If you look at the readings, you'll notice, for example, that the Catholic Church in Pisek is named after the Patron Saint of Bohemia (St. John Nepomucene), which reflects that town's Czech/Bohemian heritage. I can think of another example (without naming the town): there's a particular church in the area that, for its Fall supper, serves spaghetti and meatballs, rather than ham, turkey or lutefiske (which tends to be what most Fall church suppers around here consist of). That's because the original settlers of the town were Italian, and many third and fourth generation descendants of those folks still live in that town. For this topic, you'll probably need to rely on books, pamphlets, and records from your local public library or City/County Historical Society. Please provide some form of citation (the style doesn't matter: you can use APA, MLA, or Chicago Manual - whatever you're comfortable with) if you choose this one. You don't have to pick your actual hometown, but this will probably be easiest if you have SOME connection to the place (i.e. your grandparents were originally from there, your mom or dad grew up there, etc).
(2) The second option is to read the four articles on Canadian Content ("CanCon") rules for broadcast radio (and listen to the podcast in that same D2L Content sub-folder), and answer four questions: (a) Why did the Canadian government adopt these rules in the early 1970s?; (b) How does this relate to what you read about in the book, in regards to Canadians' concerns about their cultural uniqueness and sense of place?; (c) What's one argument for KEEPING those "CanCon" rules in place?; (d) What's one argument for getting rid of, or greatly reducing the extent of, those "CanCon" rules?
For either topic, you'll probably need at least 250-300 words to adequately answer all parts of the question.
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