Assignment Part I:
Please watch the documentary Cane Toad: An Unnatural History (YouTube Video). Its video quality is a bit poor. My sincerest apologies in advance.
After you watch the documentary, you need to do the following:
1. Summarize the documentary stating at least three ways in which the Cane Toad is loved. Need Assignment Help?
If you clearly indicate your three points, you will ace this part.
2. Summarize the documentary stating at least three ways in which the Cane Toad is hated in Australia.
If you clearly indicate your three points, you will ace this part.
3. Use any one concept from class to explain the documentary.
Please refer to handout on culture-nature i.e. see handout on "Invasive species a few concepts to understand". Concepts are used to explain questions of HOW and/or WHY something is the way it is. For example, you can discuss how the introduction and the chain of reactions to Cane Toads show that we never have a pure nature out there and a socio-cultural sphere in here. But that we have a social-nature, where humans can introduce a species to an environment and get impacted by it in turn. Or you can point to how there are complex relations between
Cane Toads and human beings. OR you can use any of the other concepts that I outline in that part of the handout.
4. Write your any One Informed personal take-away you have from the documentary.
Assignment Part II:
Please do some online research on an invasive species in Lake Michigan. You can also virtually visit the Shedd Aquarium (Chicago) if you have the time to do so and do this research.
Select any one invasive species.
5. Discuss what are the effects of that introduction of invasive species in Lake Michigan, including how has the invasive species interacted with the ecosystem and how fisher folk and others view and regard that particular invasive species.
6. Write your own ONE informed take-away point from the research that you did on the invasive species in Lake Michigan.
Assignment Part III:
Keeping yourself updated and creating self-awareness! Find any news from The Guardian news website ONLY, on an invasive species. In the search box of the news site punch in "invasive species" and see what you are getting. Select any ONE news dated within the last 5 years (i.e. between 2019-2025). Please do not select any other news site. The date must be between 2019-2025.
7. Please write a summary of the news piece that you found on invasive species in The Guardian, such that it can be posted on a social media site.
8. What is your ONE take-away from this news piece from The Guardian on invasive species?