Task

Task
As mentioned in the introduction, our class has been chosen by the President to research several countries in the world. The class will be divided into groups of three and each group will research a separate country - China, Egypt, or Brazil. Within each group, each of the three members will have a role - History Researcher, Cultural-Linguistic Researcher, or US Relationship Researcher. This is further described in the 'Process and Guidance' section. Please visit that page next for a further detailed description of what you will be doing.

This task is very important not only to the President but to the country as a whole. If the United States continues to be viewed as unknowledgeable and uncaring by the international community, the claims that the US is a world superpower will fall upon increasingly deaf ears. To earn international respect, the US must act as if it both wants and deserves it, not only through 'hard power', but also through 'soft power'. The President's task that we have before us is one step down that road.

Read more in the Process and Guidance section, but make sure that as you begin your research, you know what is expected of you (in the Evaluation section) and that you will be writing a page to a page-and-a-half paper about your research as well as a 2-3 minute group presentation about your country.