This assignment consists of writing two separate 4-page (1000words each) essays in one paper. Do not bother with introductions or conclusions, just address all parts of the question asked, provide specific details to support your assertions, and analyze those details to show how they answer the question. See the detailed instructions for further directions.
1. Compare the political development from the late 19ththrough the early 20th centuries in two of the following: Great Britain, France, the 2nd German Reich, Austrian Empire. Provide specific details and analysis of the following: (1,000 words answering this question)
• What domestic problems did each face?
• Who were the key individuals involved?
• What specific actions and/or government policies did they take to address those problems? Why?
• How effective were those actions/policies?
2. Discuss the causes and effects of the First World War. Provide specific details and analysis of the following: (1,000 words answering this question)
• What were the long-term and immediate causes, and why did they lead to the war?
• Which nations and key individuals were involved in the peace settlements?
• What were the specific goals of each nation/key individual?
• What were the social, political, and economic consequences of the war and the peace settlements for both the victorious and defeated nations?
DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS:
1. The finished paper must be typed in a standard 11- or 12-point font (Arial or Times New Roman), double-spaced, and at least 8 pages/2,000 words in length – at least 4 pages/1,000 words per essay.
4. Start each essay on a new page (think of it as a new chapter).
5. Use only information from assigned readings and lectures.
8. You must use footnotes to cite the sources for all information in the paper.
a. Provide footnotes for almost everything you write except generally accepted facts.- use this website for instructions on how to format textbook citations ; https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/turabian/turabian-notes-and-bibliography-citation-quick-guide.html
– use this website for instructions on how to format lecture citations; https://columbiacollege-ca.libguides.com/chicago/classnotes
YOU CAN NOT USE OUTSIDE SOURCES ONLY THE FILES and links I HAVE ATTACHED.
you also have to use chapters 20 to 27 of the textbook “The Making of the West, Value Edition, Volume 2”
Category: History
Write a 1500-word essay (no more than 1750 words), on the topic and two cultural groups you have proposed and researched.
Include at least 7 internal citations within your essay (with at least one from each of your sources: your textbook and six outside sources), in support of your explanations. So this means:
Use your Perspectives textbook as ONE of your sources. This will be good for your anthropological concepts!
Use THREE outside sources for the ’historically marginalized group’ within the U.S.
Use THREE outside sources for the ’historically marginalized group’ outside the U.S.
Quotations should be 10 words or less.
The essay assignment should include:
1. Introduction: In your opening paragraph, introduce the topic and the two cultures you are studying. Include in-text citations for your sources.
a. Introduce the topic.
b. State the names and geographic locations of the two cultural groups you are studying for your cross-cultural analysis.
c. Explain why you chose the topic and the cultural groups.
d. Introduce anthropological concepts.
2. Exploration of the cultures and topic: This is the heart of your essay! It is a detailed discussion of the specific topic you have chosen, in each of the cultures in your research project. Support and document your findings with citations from your sources. Address the following areas in your essay, to share what you have learned during your research.
a. Exploration of the cultures and the topic.
1. Introduce the first culture you have studied for this assignment, and explain how they incorporate aspects of the topic you are studying into their lifeways.
2. Introduce the second culture you are studying, and explain how they incorporate aspects of the topic you are studying into their lifeways.
b. Application of anthropological concepts — these should be woven into your information on each of the cultures (not “tacked on” at the end).
Explain and apply the anthropological concepts you have chosen, and use them to help define and analyze how your topic is incorporated into the lifeways of each culture. For example, how does an understanding of gender shed light on the ways people create and incorporate coming of age ceremonies in these cultures? Be sure to use an in-text citation from your textbook for each concept.
c. Cross-cultural analysis.
Compare AND contrast the way specific aspects of the topic are incorporated in each culture. For example, each group may have a coming of age ritual, but the rituals will be specific to each culture! Be sure to explain one similarity AND one difference between the two cultures.
3. Conclusion: Reflect on your research, and think about future research!
a. Explain one way this cross-cultural analysis has deepened your appreciation for the uniqueness of each culture or the topic in your essay.
b. Discuss the cultural and anthropological relevance of your research.
c. Describe one new area you would like to explore in your cross-cultural analysis. Explain how that would broaden your knowledge of the cutures or their lifeways.
4. Bibliography or References List at the end of the essay.
Formatting
Your essay should be a minimum of 1500 words (no more than 1,750 words), double-spaced. Include the word count after the last sentence in the paper for only the body of the paper. Don’t count the words in the heading, title or Works Cited/Bibliography. Remember, the assignment is graded for word count, not page length.
Type your full name and “Semester Research Project” at the top of the first page.
Include a Works Cited or Bibliography. Be sure to use full bibliographic references for all sources, including websites, formatted according to the citation style you have chosen.
Use the following links for each of the citations styles (MLA, Chicago, APA):
MLA Style – Excelsior Online Writing Lab
APA Style – Excelsior Online Writing Lab
Chicago Style – Excelsior Online Writing Lab
Remember to proofread and edit for spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Use the spell and grammar check!
(I have my proposal essay) This is the feedback I got on it (Good choices for your final essay Michelle. My main comment is that you also needed to share the references for those two concepts you chose (both as in-text references as well as full references in the bibliography), so be sure to add those in your final paper.)
Respond to the original discussion below in 250+words using the rubric and sources provided below https://youtu.be/9C72ISMF_D0
-answer all aspects of the question in a minimum 1200 word essay.
-engage with and quote from at least five secondary sources and at least four primary sources, with authors and page numbers cited (see lists below).
-bold or underline your citations in your essay.
-provide a works-cited page.
-use and engage with the fifteen terms provided (see below)
-bold or underline the fifteen terms provided.
-make use of the text as evidence for what it is that you are asserting
-demonstrate understanding of what is being asked and the ability to write your answer in a way that makes sense both historically and in grammatical terms
[Prompt]
“In the years between 1815 and 1848, two rival political programs appeared, reflecting rival sets of hopes. Some Americans felt largely satisfied with their society the way it was, slavery and all, especially with the autonomy it provided to so many individual white men and their local communities. They wanted their familiar America extended across space. Other Americans, however, were beguiled by the prospect of improvement to pursue economic diversification and social reform, even at the risk of compromising some precious personal and local independence. They envisioned qualitative, not just quantitative, progress for America.”
Explain this passage from Daniel Walker Howe in a more or less narrative style essay that is no shorter than 1200 words. What are these “rival political programs,” what specifically did they want America to look like, and in what ways did they advocate for their respective visions? Furthermore, what is the difference between “qualitative” and “quantitative” progress and how do they differ? Finally, how does the Civil War, and its lead up, figure in these conflicting visions?
[Secondary sources]
(please bold or underline in your essay)
-Harry Watson, “The Great Body of the People” from Liberty and Power
-Daniel Walker Howe, “The world that Cotton Made,” “Andrew Jackson and his Age” and “Awakenings of Religion” from What Hath God Wrought -Paula Marks, “I am Driven Away From my Home” from In a Barren Land
-Paul Johnson, “A Shopkeeper’s Millennium”
-Arthur Bestor, “The Communitarian Point of View” from Backwoods Utopias
-James McPherson, “The Differences Between the Antebellum North and South”
-James McPherson, “Mexico Will Poison Us” and “Mudsills, and Greasy Mechanics for A. Lincoln” from Battle Cry of Freedom
-David S. Reynolds, “Pilloried, Prosecuted, and Praised” from John Brown: Abolitionist
-David Blight, “For Something Beyond the Battlefield: Frederick Douglass and the Struggle for the Memory of the Civil War”
[Primary sources] (please bold or underline in your essay)
-Andrew Jackson, On Indian Removal
-Catherine Beecher, “Circular Addressed to the Benevolent Ladies of the U. States”
-Lyman Beecher from “Six Sermons on Intemperance”
-Angelina Grimké, “Human Rights are not Founded on Sex”
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Declaration of Sentiments
-Thomas Gray, “The Confessions of Nat Turner”
-Alabama Slave Codes
-John O’Sullivan, Annexation
-Charles Sumner, “The Crime Against Kansas”
-Mississippi Declaration of Secession
-Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address
Minimum 1200 words
[Fifteen terms]
(please bold or underline in your essay)
Abolitionism
Whigs
Indian Removal
Second Great Awakening
The Temperance Movement
The Seneca Falls Convention (and/or the Declaration of Sentiments)
Angelina Grimké
Utopian communes
Folk culture
Northern exceptionalism
War with Mexico
Manifest Destiny
John Brown
The Dred Scott Case
Secession
Please answer two of the following four prompts. Each essay must be at least 1-2-pages long (Times New Roman size 12, 1-inch margins, double-spaced). Specify the prompts you are answering at the top of each essay. Each essay must also cite at least one course reading and one course lecture. Your completed midterm must be at least 2-4-pages long.
1. How did British colonial rule in South Asia transform agriculture and agrarian relations in the region? How does Jyotiba Phule’s description of the condition of agriculture reflect the system of landlordism under colonial rule? Your essay must cite at least one course reading and one lecture.
2. According to Mike Davis, what makes famine a “redistributive class struggle”? Why does Davis argue that the late Victorian holocausts are essential to understanding the making of the Third World? Your essay must cite at least one course reading and one lecture.
3. To what extent did colonialism constitute a rupture in the environmental history of South Asia? Discuss with reference to colonial forest policies. Your essay must cite at least one course reading and one lecture.
4. In what ways did colonial plantations rely upon the subjugation of both labor and nature? How does Gaiutra Bahadur describe the condition of South Asian indentured laborers, specifically women, on colonial plantations? Your essay must cite at least one course reading and one lecture.
Write commentaries on THE FIRST five of the following. NOT NUMBER 6 For each one, write up to one page. Answers will be
graded on quality not length. For each case, describe its context, its historical significance, and
comment on any questions of interpretation. Depending on the passage or image, you might want
to explain technical terms or allusions, pick out the political or literary aims of the author or maker,
write about how it relates to other available evidence, or just show what it contributes to our
understanding of the age. You should focus on explaining and interpreting: do not spend time
repeating or paraphrase the passage.
GUIDANCE ON WRITING COMMENTARIES
Rules of the examinations
This is an open-book exam, but you should answer in your own words. Do not collaborate with other students on the course or with anyone else. You are free to use textbooks and other academic publications, but do not use ChatGBT or similar AI. Violation of these rules, as well as any other academic dishonesty, is prohibited.
Late penalties. Exams received after noon on the due date will lose half the total score. Exams received after midnight on the due date will receive a zero.
How to write a good commentary
The aim of the exam is to test your understanding of materials discussed in the lectures and assigned as reading. I am particularly interested in finding out how good you are at thinking critically about the different kinds of written testimony and material evidence we have for this period. What problems does each source raise? what contexts help us use it? and what is its wider significance for understanding the Roman Republic
You will be asked in each examination to write commentaries on five of the ten provided. For each one, write up to one page. Answers will be graded on quality not length. For each case, describe its context, its historical significance, and comment on any questions of interpretation. Depending on the passage or image, you might want to explain technical terms or allusions, pick out the political or literary aims of the author or maker, write about how it relates to other available evidence, or just show what it contributes to our understanding of the age. You should focus on explaining and interpreting: do not waste time repeating or paraphrase the passage, and do not write a mini-narrative, even if one springs to mind when you see a piece.
You will have an opportunity to write in a different way for the final paper. But for this exercise I am interested in your skills as an historian in interpreting evidence.
PLease let me know if you have any questions
HIST130 Essay #2 PROMPT
What political, social and economic factors caused the Civil War?
Your paper must:
– Be four to five pages long, or around 1250 words
– Double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12 point font with default margins
– Not waste space (proper heading, indentation, spacing…)
– Cited, using primary sources from Cougar Courses and your textbook
– Contain no grammatical errors
– Use third person
– Must cover the chapters in the corresponding unit
Inability to follow these guidelines will result in deductions from your essay’s final grade. You
must demonstrate the ability to analyze sources and place them in a proper historical context.
Please refer to the “Grading Rubric” on Cougar Courses to understand what is expected for
this essay to be successful.
The essay is due May 17, at 11pm on TurnItIn.
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slavery caused the civil war. use political, social and economic for main topics. Subtopics can include: Manifest Destiny (Mexican War, Indian Removal, celebration of westward movement) Cotton (importance to southern and northern economies) Slavery Sectional Differences (north versus south) Legislation and court cases (Dred Scott, compromises…) Role of women Role of abolitionists for textbook citations, please include page numbers and no direct quotes.
MUST USE CITATIONS FROM THE AMERICAN YAWP CHAPTERS 1-15 INCLUDE PAGE NUMBERS OF WHERE THE CITATIONS ARE FOUND https://www.americanyawp.com/
The Research Paper Prospectus writing assignment is very important and is the start of the larger final research paper. Provide a preliminary research paper title. No cover pages are required. The Prospectus will contain:
1. An introduction with necessary historical context (background) and the importance of the topic. In the introduction, cite three different academic sources (please note that for the introduction, these must be books). Remember, citations are not synonymous with quotations. In academic writing it is important to cite when: (1. Paraphrasing, 2. Referencing a text, 3. Synthesizing information, 4. Analyzing, 5. Comparing readings, 6. Assessing information, 7. Using a quotation. )
2. A research question at the end of the introduction. This question must be open-ended and research based. It should begin to build an argument answered in part by the thesis statement.
3. A thesis statement paragraph that responds to the research question. It is important to set up the thesis statement with additional historical content. This is necessary when setting up an argument. Please note that it is necessary to also cite sources in the thesis statement paragraph. 4. Analysis and argumentation in support of the thesis statement. It is important to write a minimum of four-to-six (4-6) strong, evidence-based paragraphs in support of the thesis statement. In these supportive paragraphs, cite a minimum of three times in the in-text citation form. 5. Do not conclude. The paper is not finished yet; rather, provide a “road map”–which is an analytical discussion of what will follow next. Explain what the final research paper version will look like and what sources are needed to finish the paper. In this “road map” you will begin to develop a plausible counterargument and explain how you will refute it.
6. Provide a Works Cited page. (Total sources cited for the Prospectus= 8). Four academic books, two academic journal articles, and two primary sources. Special note: It is important to write the Research Paper Prospectus Draft in the MLA format (Modern Language Association). Please refer to the Purdue OWL MLA guidelines. They have updated the 8th to the 9th Edition of MLA recently.
Every paragraph will contain numerous in-text citations in parentheses. These are also referred to as in-text parenthetical citations, ex: (Samuels 233), (Armesto 120). Both of these citations contain the last names of the authors referenced and the page numbers consulted.
Research topic: Evaluate and analyze the debate surrounding Olmec society as the mother culture of Mesoamerica
Sources from JSTOR
A. Discuss three major changes in race relations (i.e., laws, amendments, labor arrangements, working conditions, migration patterns, socioeconomic changes) that resulted from Reconstruction (suggested length of 2–3 paragraphs). B. Describe two consequences of industrialization on American politics and/or society (suggested length of 2–3 paragraphs). C. Explain the rise of the Progressive movement (suggested length of 2–3 paragraphs) by doing the following: 1. Describe the role of religion and social morality in promoting Progressive reforms. 2. Describe two reform movements that helped to define the Progressive Era. 3. Discuss one impact of the Progressive movement on American politics (i.e., amendments, legislation, diplomatic decisions). D. Explain (suggested length of 2–3 paragraphs) the role of American imperialism in leading the United States into two of the following conflicts: • Hawaiian Annexation • War in the Philippines • Spanish-American War • World War I E. Provide acknowledgement of source information, using in-text citations and references, for quoted, paraphrased, or summarized content. 1. Include the following information when providing source references: • author • date • title • location of information (e.g., publisher, journal, or website URL)
The assignment question is:
Compose a separate essay (1000 words minimum each) on two (2) of the questions below.
1. Why were some “barbarians” more successful in creating enduring kingdoms than others in early medieval Europe from the 5th to the 10th centuries? What were the most lasting consequences of both the successes and failures of “barbarian” rule in these various places during this period?
2. Compare and contrast what it meant to be Christian in the 5th, 10th, and 15th centuries C.E. Analyze in terms of the beliefs and practices of the major groups, including the Church and its clergy, that made up medieval European society during each of these periods.
Assignment Instructions: Compose an essay, 1000 words minimum, that addresses all the parts of the question above. Use only the secondary and primary sources provided in our readings and on the course site. Aim to use at least half of the primary sources as the main evidence to support your analysis. Please see the rubric for specifics about how your essay will be evaluated.
Hello, I have attached the rubric for the assignment (please follow the rubric) and I have included the name of the textbooks to use. Please use the textbook and cite them in the essay with page numbers from the book. Please use as much evidence from the textbook as possible. Please also state the evidence and give a good analysis. I have included the name of the two textbooks below. Please also included a works cited page with all the sources used.
John M. Riddle, A History of the Middle Ages (300-1500) ISBN-10: 0742554090
Alfred J. Andrea, The Medieval Record: Sources of Medieval History ISBN-10: 1624668380