What do you believe has been the most significant policy changes and do you see them moving in the right direction?

Read each section of the assignment carefully and answer in full sentences using proper grammar. Be sure to completely document any sources used within the assignment.

After watching the video below, please answer the following questions.

“Our land, Our life” a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ2N9-n-ka0

If you were asked to write a letter to the federal government on behalf of the Shoshone and the Dann sisters, how would you respond to what the federal government has done? In your response be sure to include if you agree with the stance the government is taking or question the continued assault on Native Americans, their land and their culture.

Over the last 10 – 15 years numerous changes have been made to Native American policies, what do you believe has been the most significant policy changes and do you see them moving in the right direction?

Explain how the experience of enslaved women as discussed in this book differ from that of slaves in general or of enslaved men as you have learned elsewhere?

Use from book ‘Ar’n’t I A Woman?’

Explain how the experience of enslaved women as discussed in this book differ from that of slaves in general or of enslaved men as you have learned elsewhere? Make sure to also compare and contrast what you have learned here and elsewhere about the experiences of enslaved women and white women during the Antebellum Period .

What did different governments and social classes fight over and why? What methods or tools did they employ to achieve peaceful outcomes? How successful were these outcomes? Why?

International and social relations. Kingdoms and empires often came into physical conflict with one another, as did different classes and interests within the same society. But sometimes they reached peaceful resolutions to their disputes. What did different governments and social classes fight over and why? What methods or tools did they employ to achieve peaceful outcomes? How successful were these outcomes? Why?

5. How to understand the history of western civilization. Every society that we have studied had remarkable individuals who were highly successful in achieving their goals. Some of them even had the title of “the Great” added to their names, men such as Ramesses, Cyrus, and Alexander. However, we have also seen instances of the collective power of people in groups. What is “History”? And is it best understood as the outcome of the actions of “great men,” the outcome of “social movements,” or both? Why?

Does the introduction present and describe the materials under analysis? Does the introduction point to the specific elements or approach to that analysis?

You can write about any texts that we have read this semester. You can analyze any formal aspects and connect those aspects to the larger themes or meanings. You might focus on just one text or several. You can write about the ways texts relate to and inform each other, examining the similarities and the points of departure between them as long as you are making an argument about the text or texts, closely reading passages from the text or texts, and using outside sources to help you communicate your reading of it.

Here are questions to ask yourself about the structural aspects of your paper:

Does the introduction present and describe the materials under analysis?

Does the introduction point to the specific elements or approach to that analysis?

Is there a clearly articulated thesis that states precisely what the essay’s argument is?

Is the paper structured along the lines of that argument, taking the reader through each aspect of the article?

What is truth, and how do we come to the truth when we live in such a complex and changing world?

Truth and the American way: The Pragmatism of William James
The Problem of truth
Along with Thoreau and Emerson, William James is perhaps the most important and influential of American Philosophers. William James was especially interested in the question of truth.
What is truth, and how do we come to the truth when we live in such a complex and changing world?
James was interested in truth on many levels: moral truth, scientific truth, religious truth, and philosophical truth. But the big problem for James is that many things can seem to be true that actually contradict each other, and trying to find the truth in such complex world is difficult.
James’ called his attempted solution to these problems “Pragmatism.” We will cover a small aspect of his theory as presented in his essay from 1907 entitled What Pragmatism Means.

How does Sarris describe the difficulties of having “ literate” questions for American Indian oral stories? Discuss your interpretation of what Sarris means in stating that Mabel’s “talk,” as he refers to the context of her storytelling.

Review the writing topics below before reading the three essays. Then, after carefully reading all three essays by Greg Sarris, MariJo Moore, and Drew Hayden Taylor, choose two of the three essays to write about in your Reading Response. Respond to two topics for each of the two essays you discuss. Write your response in prose paragraphs, not as a list, and write at least 300 words on each essay, for a total of at least 600 words.
Be sure to include one or more specific quotations from the essays as evidence to
support your interpretations.  Page numbers should be cited as I have done for the quotations below. Conclude your response by discussing the Closing Comment at the end.
Greg Sarris, “‘The Woman Who Loved a Snake’ and ‘What the People of Elem Saw’”
• Why is Mabel’s story about the woman who loved the snake confusing to Greg’s friend
Jenny, and why are Jenny’s questions about the story confusing to Mabel? Why, in your
opinion, are the two women unable to understand each other clearly? Identify the
important characters in Mabel’s story about the woman who loved a snake, and think
broadly in answering this question.
• How does Sarris describe the difficulties of having “ literate” questions for American
Indian oral stories? Discuss your interpretation of what Sarris means in stating that
Mabel’s “talk,” as he refers to the context of her storytelling, “interrupts” her listener’s
preconceptions about her and about her stories.
• Discuss Sarris’ key points about the limitations of writing’s ability to “ [recreate] oral
experience in given ways” . What are some of the ways writing shuts down the
larger experience of oral events, as Sarris explains it? Discuss Sarris’ view of how all who
are involved in the storytelling event – listener and teller – are part of making the
storytelling event meaningful.
• What questions does Greg ask Mabel about “what the people of Elem saw,” and what
do his questions clarify about the separation between them based on his Western
education? Discuss how Mabel’s responses to him point this separation out to Greg.

Identify three or more passages from the text that you specifically would like to dialogue with Coates regarding.

Letter to Mr.coates

You will never really know until you have walked a black mile.

Conversation Essay

For this assignment you will imagine yourself in a conversation with author Ta-Nehisi Coates regarding his novel Between the World and Me. Within this conversation, you will identify three or more passages from the text that you specifically would like to dialogue with Coates regarding. Your dialogue will be both questions and commentary .

 

 

What does the statement “Black Lives Matter” mean?Is this a statement of black supremacy in the way that ‘white power’ is usually understood as a statement of white supremacy?

Final Reflection Paper Guidelines
Paper Expectations: Write, minimally, one full page.
Saturday, April 23, 2022 before midnight.
Use Times New Roman, with 1-inch margins, and font no bigger than “12.” Be sure
to double space. Turn completed assignment into the online drop box.
Read the PDF entitled what’s wrong with All Lives Matter?
Answer ALL questions in light of what you learned this year:
• What does the statement “Black Lives Matter” mean?
• Is this a statement of black supremacy in the way that ‘white power’ is usually
understood as a statement of white supremacy?