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Write an image analysis paragraph using the following guiding questions.

What is Simone’s message ?

How has the fact that she is a second generation immigrant affected her life?

What do we learn about her life through her art?

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1. In the last question, you were asked to think about what you might find out about Simone Lia through her art.

When you respond to this question, you are doing it through your personal knowledge as well as from the perspective of the many groups you are a part of. Simone Lia has created her art in the same way.

To what extent do shared and personal knowledge influence our understanding of the experiences of an artist and what their artwork represents?

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Tom Kiefer is a fine art photographer from the USA. Use the above site to access the photos of the personal belongings.

El Sueño Americano/The American Dream is a photographic documentation of the personal belongings carried by migrants and those seeking asylum that were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at a processing facility near the U.S.–Mexico border in southwest Arizona.

These belongings, necessary for hygiene, comfort and survival, were deemed ‘non-essential’ or ‘potentially lethal.’

What can we learn about the journey of these immigrants from Mexico to the USA by looking at the belongings they had to leave behind?

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El Sueño Americano / The American Dream is a photographic documentation of the personal belongings carried by migrants and those seeking asylum that were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at a processing facility near the U.S./Mexico border in southwest Arizona.

These belongings, necessary for hygiene, comfort and survival, were deemed "non-essential" or "potentially lethal."

I ask the viewer to consider these photographs as untold and unknown stories, markers of human journeys cut short.

My intent is to explore the humanity of those who risk their lives crossing the desert into the United States to create a personal connection for the viewer and to extend compassion and empathy to those who seek a better life.

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El Sueño Americano / The American Dream - T O M K I E F E R

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El Sueño Americano / The American Dream is a photographic documentation of the personal belongings carried by migrants and those seeking asylum that were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at a processing facility near the U.S./Mexico border in southwest Arizona. These belongings, necessary for hygiene, comfort and survival, were deemed "non-essential" or "potentially lethal."

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3. After seeing Tom Kiefer’s photography exhibition and learning more about its content and inspiration, think about the following knowledge questions:

To what extent have your knowledge and understanding of the hardships faced by the people who left these items behind been expanded?

Is it possible to understand something you have never experienced?

What role does empathy play in the creation of knowledge?

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1. The speaker says that we become the story we have been told by the people around us.

2. DNA complements the story that we have been told.

3. The speaker mentions that DNA helps us to realise that we are actually a mix of different cultures.

4. The speaker says that for those  who get a DNA test, they will win a trip back to the place of their genetic roots.

5. DNA tells...

A-    your biological story.

B-    your cultural story.

C-    the story your parents created.

D-    the stories of your parents, colleagues and friends.

6. Cultures can be...

A-    Restrictive

B-    Wonderful

C-    Annoying

D-    Different

7. Travelling is beautiful because...

A-    it broadens your mind.

B-    you have a biological return.

C-    you have a trip to your genetic roots.

D-    you can take a DNA test.

8. Complete the following sentences using appropriate words.

1. After having our fourth child, I knew we needed a bigger and more __________ car.

2. Some people migrate from one city to the other in search of new opportunities, others make a long and perilous __________  .

3. Annie is a young girl, but she has a very __________ mindset, almost as if she had been born 50 years before.

4. When she got to the airport, she was given so much information, she had to pause and sit to __________  everything she had to do.

5. One of my __________  at work has been fired for being systematically late.

6. The bed at the hotel was incredible; as soon as you got in, you felt  __________  by this feeling of lightness and comfort.

7. The last time I saw Hally, we had a __________  time. We went to an amazing restaurant, walked around the city and finally took the ferry for a magical night sky view.

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Post your the questions you were assigned to create, state your group number and names.