Please answer two of the questions provided below (one question per page) utilizing only the resources provided (including the links provided).

Please answer two of the questions provided below (one question per page) utilizing only the resources provided (including the links provided). Please use in-text citations and provided a reference page. describe the nuances, according to Zalasiewicz et. al., of the Anthropocene. What is the history of its use? What are the controversies around its use? What is The Great Acceleration, and how does it fit within the Anthropocene? Is the term useful, and if so, what does it imply? What fields and domains can it be applied to? Think about the Haraway quote about the “arts of living on a damged planet.” How does the material this week fit that definiotn? How would you describe Anna Tsing’s project? Why the mushroom? What can it teach us? What does Tsing do when her world start to fall apart? Why? What is “precarity” and how does it figure into Tsing’s project? What does it mean to imagine “storeis as handrails?” What did Hiroshima reveal about third nature? What does the Matsutake mushroom reveal? Why does Tsing want to track the course of the Matsutake mushroom though commerce and ecology? If you read the Gary Snyder poem, do you think it’s hopeful? Why or why not? What does it purport to teach its readers? How is “A Garden or a Grave” an example of “arts of the Anthropocene?” How is The Mushroom at the End of the World an example? What is Oscar Romo doing in “A Garden or a Grave?” How does he contribute to the argument? How does Stern help the canyons “reassert” themselves? How do “trees and tires and tomatoes” matter to the essay? How about borders and boundaries, how do they contribute to the essay? “Through small but incremental gestures,” Stern writes, “you begin to shape a way to see the landscape differently.” What gestures does Stern refer to in the essay? What is Tsing’s intent in Part 1, “What’s Left?” Choose specific quotes and concepts from throughout Tsing’s Part 1 to help describe her project. What is precarity? How does Tsing write about transformations? How about containment and contamination? What’s up with matsutake and its emergence? Why is Tsing so taken with the matsutake? What do the Mien and the Hmong people have to do with Tsing’s argument? How about storytelling? Forests? Why does Tsing dwell on plantations? And do comment on the lovely chapter “Smell.” How is that chapter indicative of stories about the Anthropocene? What does the smell have to do with Tsing’s argument?