Consider how assumptions about gender and ethnicity structured institutional responses to shell shocked soldiers in WWI.

This is the Prompt:

Bourke: Consider how assumptions about gender and ethnicity structured institutional responses to shell shocked soldiers in WWI.

These are the instructions:

A single-page response (typed, double spaced),guided by the relevant prompt, for at least seven readings over the course of the term. Each response should end with a sentence or two outlining what you would like to learn more about relative to this topic.

Have attached the document this should be based on.

How did the government handle the drug crisis in California?With the ongoing war on drugs, how did the California government step in and handle this widespread problem?

This is the main question of the group for a digital storytelling project which we will do later and we are doing individual research papers for it now.

How did the government handle the drug crisis in California?With the ongoing war on drugs, how did the California government step in and handle this widespread problem? How were the communities within the state affected?

This is the question that needs to be answered for this paper:
How did police forces intervene in communities of color relating to drug use?

Citations

Provide citations for all the sources that you use in your paper. As a general rule, you should provide a citation for any sentence or paragraph that draws on specific information or arguments. Use any standard academic format (e.g. Chicago-style, MLA, APA). Look here for info on citation formats: http://calstatela.libguides.com/style (Links to an external site.). You do not need citations for information so general that we could find it in any basic reference source.

Tip for History majors and MA students: Historians use the Chicago note-bibliography system, so I strongly encourage you to get in the habit of using that system.

Extra Advice

A few students have asked how many sources that they should use for their individual research papers. It’s always hard to answer that question, because there is no standard size for sources. Some sources, like a classified ad in a newspaper or a 30-second TV commercial, are very short. Other sources, like a novel or feature-length movie, are much longer. Rather than think about the number of sources, I encourage you to focus on filling your paper’s body paragraphs with specific details, examples, and short quotations. As a general rule of thumb, each paragraph in the body of your essay should have between 3 and 5 specific details, examples, and short quotations. A normal body paragraph is about 1/2 to 2/3 of a page, so that means you should have about 5 to 10 specific examples per page.

Also, you can use a combination of primary sources and secondary sources. It does not have to be all primary sources.

A good outline for the essay might look like this:

1. Introduction (a half-page paragraph setting up your question and thesis)

2. Body paragraphs (each paragraph should be 1/2 to 2/3 of a page; that means you should aim for 7 to 12 body paragraphs; each paragraph should help support your essay’s thesis).

3. Conclusion (a half-page paragraph summarizing your thesis and offering a thoughtful closing comment).

Describe at least three different facts or ideas—about the early life of Dorothy Vaughan,the history of African-Americans in mathematics,the history of African-American women computers at NACA, and the history of segregation in the US.

Reading About Hidden Figures

This week, we read the Author’s Note, Prologue, and Chapters 1—8 of Margot Lee Shetterly’s book, Hidden Figures.Know that many of you have seen the 2016 film of the same name,which we’ll watch together a few weeks from now. In these opening chapters,we learn a great deal about the participation of African-American women in mathematical work at NACA, along with the federal policies that made such work possible. We meet Dorothy Vaughan and the women who worked as mathematicians in the West Computing group at Langley Research Center. We also meet Katherine Goble who—with Dorothy Vaughan—is a character central to both the book and the film.

Describe at least three different facts or ideas—about the early life of Dorothy Vaughan,the history of African-Americans in mathematics,the history of African-American women computers at NACA, and the history of segregation in the US—that you find especially interesting in this week’s reading. What aspects of this history are new or surprising to you?

Where do you find connections with what we’ve already learned about the history of women and African-Americans in the mathematical sciences? Aim for a response that is 3–4 paragraphs long.

Identify the tenets of transcendentalism that served as a critique of mainstream society.How did Emerson and Thoreau conceive of nature and its role in the human experience? 

Unit Four Student Learning Objectives

Identify the features of the many reform movements that arose in the United States

Recognize the importance of the abolition of slavery in the reform era

Recognize the features and arguments of the national political debates over the expansion of slavery

Recall the importance of major battles of the Civil War

Recognize the role of slavery in transforming the aim and meaning of the Civil War

Recognize the various Reconstruction plans

Identify the dynamics of southern society, economy, and politics during Reconstruction Assignments (Things to Complete)

Identify the tenets of transcendentalism that served as a critique of mainstream society.How did Emerson and Thoreau conceive of nature and its role in the human experience?

Analyze the effects of historical,social,political,economic,cultural,and global forces on this period of United States history.

This unit focuses on the period from 1850 to 1877, an era of political turmoil that resulted in a catastrophic civil war and a troubled era of rebuilding the nation:

The reform movements that swept the north,especially abolitionism

Efforts to contain the expansion of slavery by Congress and the court system

Major military campaigns of the Civil War

The transformation of the war into a war against slavery

Efforts at Reconstruction and southern resistance to a new political and social order

Course Student Learning Objectives

1 Create an argument through the use of historical evidence.

2 Analyze and interpret primary and secondary sources.

3 Analyze the effects of historical,social,political,economic,cultural,and global forces on this period of United States history.

Unit Four Student Learning Objectives

Identify the features of the many reform movements that arose in the United States

Recognize the importance of the abolition of slavery in the reform era

 

What were three main causes or sources of this new integration of Eurasia?What were three important consequences or effects?

Write an essay that answers the following question.

The great classical cultures of Eurasia created separate identities but each of these cultures also contained important elements that other peoples adopted. In the classical and post-classical periods (600 BCE to 1450 CE), the peoples and cultures of this vast area had consistent and enduring interactions. What were three main causes or sources of this new integration of Eurasia?What were three important consequences or effects? What made these causes or sources and consequences or effects so important?

Note: when you discuss the important consequences or effects of developments you identify or what we can learn from parallel worlds,do not extend your discussion beyond the year 1450. For instance, do not discuss their significance for life today. The shape of the current world is beyond the scope of this class. The Final Exam in HIS 233 tests your mastery of course content and this course ends around the year 1450, so your discussion of important consequences or “take-aways” needs to end around that year as well. The nearly 570 years since 1450 (which is the time period covered by HIS 234) have had more impact on the nature of the modern world in any case.

You can only use sources from the book, Human Journey: A Concise Introduction to World History Volume 1, 2nd Edition By: Reilly, Kevin.

The formatting of the essay and all citations need to follow the Chicago Manual of Style format.

Describe the event from in an ‘official’ or ‘neutral’ way.

Comparative Analysis

Purpose

Understand the complexities of history by comparing the experiences of two different groups involved in the same historical event.

Examples:

Student protestors and military members involved in the clash in Tiananmen Square,China

Jewish settlers and Palestinian people in Israel

South Koreans and Americans in South Korea or South and North Koreans

Assignment

Choose an historical event after WWII. It can be one covered in class or one of your choosing.

Note your topic should not be the same as the topic for your major essay.

1. Describe the event from in an ‘official’ or ‘neutral’ way.

2. Describe the event from each group’s perspective.

3. Explain how the perspectives are different and why.

4. Comment on the significance of perspective in understanding history.

Format and Requirements

Approximately 2 pages, double-spaced

Does not need to be an essay format. Headings suggested.

Properly referenced using in-text references and reference section – APA

What does each reading tell you about the culture,concerns and cultural beliefs of the civilisation which created each law code?

Ancient Law Codes

Chicago style

You must write a paper about all three of these law codes, in which you subject the readings to critical thought and analysis, including your conclusions from that analysis. You must compare,contrast, and critically analyse EACH of the three readings.

Your analysis should include the following points (iun no particular order):

What does each reading tell you about the culture,concerns and cultural beliefs of the civilisation which created each law code?

Given that each civilisation existed hundreds (or more) years apart from each other,what do similarities tell of cultural commonalities; what do differences tell of cultural differences between the three civilisations?

Is there any evidence to suggest that each civilisation had similar beliefs of moral behaviours?

What do the types of punishments given in each law code tell of how each civilisation viewed that status of humans and the value of human life?

Discuss the meaning of differences between economic and physical punishments.

[Be sure to quote and cite appropriate sections of text from each law code to support your
conclusions.]

What do the people they interview know about the Amistad? What is their understanding of the impact of the slave trade in their lives?What about Colonization?

Films analysis

Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels


Synopsis:

Ghosts of Amistad by Tony Buba is based on Marcus Rediker’s The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (Penguin, 2012). It chronicles a journey to Sierra Leone in 2013 to visit the home villages of the rebels who captured the slave schooner Amistad,to interview elders about local memory of the incident, and to search for the long-lost ruins of Lomboko, the slave trading factory where their cruel transatlantic voyage began. The filmmakers
rely on the knowledge of villagers, fishermen, and truck drivers to recover a lost history from below in the struggle against slavery, and to explore the African origins of the heroes of the Amistad incident.

Possible Questions to consider:

1. What is the premise of the film? What are the goals of the film makers? What do they hope to learn?

2. How do the locals receive the film makers? How are they able to make connections along their journey?

3. What do the people they interview know about the Amistad? What is their understanding of the impact of the slave trade in their lives?What about Colonization?

4. How does this film and the Amistad provide connections between slavery, Africa, and African culture?