I. Paraphrase the following passages in your own words: 60%
1. The program was founded by Mingo, who washed up almost a year ago at the Salvation Army’s Harbour Light Detox and Recovery Center
in the city’s hard-luck Downtown Eastside. He was addled by crack cocaine, and ground down by homelessness and doubts his abilities as a
master criminal.
2. Her childhood was spent shuttling between the United States and Mexico and she passed a lot of time grappling with her cultural identity
while she was growing up.
3. Wright was continually searching for natural forms appropriate to human needs, forms that he described as “organic architecture, opening
onto the world rather than insulating people from it.
4. A medical doctor, Galabru played a key role in opening negotiations that led to the 1991 peace accords ending the Cambodian civil war,
which left more than a million people dead.
5. Imprisoned, tortured, threatened with death, these women and men spoke to me with compelling eloquence on the subjects to which they
have devoted their lives for which they are willing to sacrifice them—from free expression to women’s rights, from environment defense to
eradicating slavery.
II. Answer the following questions: 40%
1. If crime is diagnosed as kind of addiction, what do you think a criminal should be treated?
2. What is Frank Lloyd Wright’s “natural philosophy” about?
3. What are the following singers distinguished for? Name one thing for each.
Lila Downs & Nancy Ajram
4. Whose story impressed you and why?
Kailash Satyarthi (head of the South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude)
Vaclav Havel (the first non-communist president of Czech Republic)
Kek Galabru (the doctor who gives medical treatment to people in custody of the police in Combodia)
Oscar Arias Sanchez (a Nobel Peace Prize winner for his role in ending conflict in Central America)
Juliana Dogbadzi (an active woman speaking against the Trokosi system in Ghana)