Identify and write your paper on one Civil Rights and Black Power leader.

You are required to answer one of three essay questions described below. The essay portion must be 4-5 pages in length, double-spaced, numbered, include 1 inch margins, use 12 point Arial, Calibri, or Times New Roman font.

Your essay must include a Works Cited page. The citation style of the Works Cited page may be either Chicago, APA, or MLA. The selected citations must be appropriate to the exam topic and the citations must support the assertions made in the exam.

Your essay will include three main parts:Introduction, Argument, and Conclusion.

The Introduction section should clearly state within the first 1-2 paragraphs.It must be relevant and appropriate to the argument and demonstrate an accurate and complete understanding of the question. This section should make it clear which question you are answering, but it should do more than restate the question by offering a brief response and it should be free of grammar and spelling errors.

The Argument section (3-4 pages) should incorporate pertinent details from the assigned readings but you may also use outside readings.The section must provide relevant historical evidence to support the key claims made in the argument as needed. It should maintain focus and avoid sidetracking. It should present your answer to the question clearly and concisely in an organized manner and it should be free of grammar and spelling errors.

The Conclusion section should be in the last part of your essay exam within the last 1-2 paragraphs. It should briefly restate and summarize the main points of the argument. It should also demonstrate insight and understanding regarding the question asked and it should be free of grammar and spelling errors.

A scoring rubric for the essay portion is included below.Answer one of the essay questions below:

Examine the 10-point plan of the Black Panther Party. How can this plan impact the issues that impact society today?

Interrogate the use of music and art as a form of resistance during the Harlem Renaissance?

Identify and write your paper on one Civil Rights and Black Power leader. (Examples could be Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, Bessie Smith, etc)

CRITERIA:
Mechanics – 10 points (5 criteria):

4-5 double-spaced pages in length; pages are numbered; 1 inch margins included; 12 point Arial, Calibri, or Times New Roman font used; a cover page with identifying information included

Citations – 10 points (5 criteria):

Works Cited page included; appropriate citation style used; selected sources are appropriate to the topic; citations support assertions made in the essay; footnotes/endnotes used in instances where detailed explanations would distract from the argument

Introduction – 10 points (5 criteria):

Clearly stated within the first 1-2 paragraphs; relevant & appropriate to the argument; demonstrated an accurate & complete understanding of the question(s); did more than restate the question(s) & offer a brief response; free of grammar & spelling errors

Argument – 60 points (5 criteria)

Incorporated pertinent details from assigned coursework & outside readings when permitted; provided relevant historical evidence to support&claims in the argument as needed; maintained focus & avoided being sidetracked; presented answer clearly & concisely in an organized manner; 3-4 pages in length and free of grammar and spelling errors

Conclusion – 10 points (5 criteria)

Clearly stated within the last 1-2 paragraphs; briefly restated,summarized the main points of the argument; demonstrated insight & understanding regarding the question(s); free of grammar & spelling errors

To what extent does Ammianus see the emperor’s character influencing the fortunes of the Empire?

Ammianus Marcellinus

For this paper on Amminaus Marcellinus,read the entire text and answer the questions below. Give sub-headings in your paper so that you know which question you are answering in that section. Your paper must be five pages (5) in length, 1.5 spacing, 12 point Times New Roman font. You do not need to use outside sources, but if you do, make sure you cite them fully and properly. In fact, all sources should be cited fully and properly using footnotes in the Chicago Manual of Style format.

Answer all three questions:

What is Ammianus’ attitude towards the Roman Empire?

To what extent does Ammianus see the emperor’s character influencing the fortunes of the Empire?

How much does Ammianus see the armies as political actors? Explain.

What was the attraction of the American western movie during the Cold War and what has contributed to its lasting box office power?What are the myths presented and what have historians said?

The American West
To answer this final series of  questions, you can select one of the images or films in this week’s material, or select outside material, and argue how it represents or presents inaccurate representations of the American West based on what you have learned throughout the course. Feel free to draw from any additional credible sources you find on the internet.
Develop your initial historiographical response of your selected topic by describing what historians, artists, television producers, film producers, musicians, and/or others have argued about it and how, or if, that argument has shifted over the years.
Read the course materials for week 8 and then participate in this essay response to the 3 questions.
What was life like for the Cowboy?  What have you learned about their actual life, what is the myth, and what have historians said?
What was the attraction of the American western movie during the Cold War and what has contributed to its lasting box office power?What are the myths presented and what have historians said?
How were women and minorities depicted in western films during the 1950s and 1960s and why did the depiction begin to change in the 1970s? What are the myths presented and what have historians said?

 

Do you think the film captured, metaphorically or literally, the ways in which Jews conceived of their own experiences of survival and their path to a homeland after the war?

Holocaust DP camps immigration

After viewing the film The Illegals* and reading this week’s assigned secondary source readings,consider to what extent the film conveys realistically (in your view) the plight of Jewish survivors in post-war Europe and beyond, as portrayed to some extent in the readings you’ve completed this week and in the past few weeks (and perhaps especially last week).

Do you think the film captured, metaphorically or literally, the ways in which Jews conceived of their own experiences of survival and their path to a homeland after the war? If so, how? If not, why not?Did Bauer and Patt’s articles illuminate any aspects of the film in particular?

Post your initial response of 5-7 paragraphs

Compare and contrast Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence with Thomas Paine’s pamphlet “Common Sense.”

Declaration of Independence and Thomas Paine’s pamphlet “Common Sense.”

Compare and contrast Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence with Thomas Paine’s pamphlet “Common Sense.”Which had the greater effect on revolutionary America? Are these documents still effective today?

3-4 pages; paper must include a thesis statement.
Use specific examples to support your argument and cite all sources carefully.
This is not a summary of the two primary source documents, but an analysis of their similarities, differences, and effectiveness. Make sure to show thought and analysis throughout the paper

How,according to at least one of the authors we have read, is white privilege invisible?What role, according to George Lipsitz,do white people play in the continuance of white privilege?

White privilege

Your response for each question must be 200 words or longer.
Sample citations:
Quotation with the author’s name in the sentence:
Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).
Quotation without the author’s name in the sentence:
Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).
Paraphrase with the author’s name in the sentence:
According to Freud, actual but unacceptable desires are censored internally and subjected to coding through layers of condensation and displacement before emerging in a kind of rebus puzzle in the dream itself (7).
Paraphrase without the author’s name in the sentence:
Actual but unacceptable desires are censored internally and subjected to coding through layers of condensation and displacement before emerging in a kind of rebus puzzle in the dream itself (Freud 7).
Exam Questions: (200+ words per answer)

How,according to at least one of the authors we have read, is white privilege invisible?What role, according to George Lipsitz, do white people play in the continuance of white privilege? Is the meaning of racism “‘useless’ because it has too many meanings?” (Kolchin 168). Why or why not?

In his introduction to How Racism Takes Place, George Lipsitz notes that “discrimination itself is a health hazard” (7). Place this assertion in conversation with Derald Wing Sue’s definition of microaggressions. To what extent does Sue’s argument align with Lipsitz’s? What, per Sue, are the consequences of microaggressions?

When and why, per Woody Doane and/or Gary Taylor has the category of whiteness expanded or the terms used to describe racism changed? When, according to Noel Ignatiev, did the birth of race occur? Ian Lopez asserts that “Whites should renounce their racial identity as it is currently constituted in the interests of social justice” (2). To what extent do you support this proposal?

 

.What time period do your sources span? How is this time period usually referred to by scholars

Women Suffrage

The goal of this assignment is for you to characterize a historical debate featuring the historical figures who speak through the primary sources in For the Record.
carefully consider the following guidelines:
Select at least five primary sources. You should write about a debate for which there are multiple perspectives featured in our collection of primary source documents. Present the positions of the historical figures, with an emphasis on the individual, not the “document” or “article.”
Define the time period you are writing about.What time period do your sources span? How is this time period usually referred to by scholars (ex: Reconstruction, Gilded Age, Progressive Era, Jim Crow). You should not begin or conclude your paper by making a broad statement about this historical theme in the present context/modern day/today. Stay focused on the time period you define.
Defining your time period and the evidence that supports your claim go hand-in-hand: The historical debate you select to write about could be something that is visible and present in Modern America as well, but really the focus of the paper is a claim you can support using evidence from our primary source collection in For the Record. Don’t include outside research. You may refer to information from America: A Narrative History.