History

Instructions: In 200-300 words, respond to the following prompts. Each prompt should be supported with research.   Describe the significance of the Truman Doctrine to the Cold War.  How did the Marshall Plan impact the future of Europe?  How did the social and racial changes that occurred during WWII impact U.S. society after the war?  What is NATO and why was (is) it important to the West?  What was the Red Scare? What role did the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) play during the Red Scare? What was the overall impact of the Red Scare on U.S. society? Use only sources found in the GCU Library, those provided in Topic/Course Materials, or those recommended by your instructor. Cite three to five relevant, scholarly sources in support of the content. This assignment uses a scoring guide. Please review the scoring guide prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. While Turabian style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using Turabian formatting guidelines, which can be found in the Turabian Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

Write a response to one (1) of the following essay topics. Make sure that you answer one of the prompts provided. Do not ignore the focus of the question as you write on the topic you pick. Make sure to use evidence from the book assigned for this class and materials presented in class to support your argument. When you are done, this will look like a “traditional” essay with an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. I recommend that you approach this essay using the techniques you learned in the first two assignments. Start by finding evidence. You will need at least six (6) quotes for this essay to support an interpretation – do not decide on your response before you do the research. Then go on to write your topic sentences, followed by an introduction. Once that is done you fill out each paragraph to help the reader follow your logic and thinking about each step in the essay. Each paragraph should be structured as follows: Topic sentence; set up the quotation; quotation; and explanation of how the quotation supports your argument. Make sure there is only one piece of evidence for each paragraph. TOPICS TO CHOOSE FROM 1 – Franklin Roosevelt instituted the New Deal to implement innovative economic ideas or relief, recovery and reform to end the Great Depression. First, you need to define how FDR’s approach was intended to end the Great Depression, and then go on to discuss at least at least three New Deal programs to show how they embodied the principles of relief, recovery and reform. 2 – For many people, the United States has always gone to war to help other countries; we fight wars for moral causes. Others believe the United States enters conflicts out of economic self-interest. Write an essay that argues for one of these two perspectives. You must find evidence from the Spanish American War, World War II and the Cold War to support your interpretation. 2 – African Americans have struggled to find equal treatment and opportunity ever since the end of the Civil War. Write an essay that discusses the two approaches – assimilation and black nationalism – from Reconstruction through the 1920’s. Example of a paragraph for assignment 3 PARAGRAPH IS IN RESPONSE TO THE PROMPT: The American Revolution was caused by a growing conflict between British policies and colonial views of the basic independence of colonial governments. PARAGRAPH – Topic sentence, set up to quote, quote, and explanation of the quote. The new economically-motivated laws passed by Parliament – The Townshend Acts – served to further anger colonists because of their assaults on local political control. Aimed at undermining colonial legislatures, this Act created an independent revenue source to compensate the colonial governors that were appointed by the Kind. “The Townshend Acts produced controversy and protest in the American colonies. For a second time, many colonists resented what they perceived as an effort to tax them without representation and thus to deprive them of their liberty. The fact that the revenue the Townshend Acts raised would pay royal governors only made the situation worse, because it took control away from colonial legislatures that otherwise had the power to set and withhold a royal governor’s salary.” The ongoing British assault on colonial self-determination, a power which the colonists argued was based on their right to be part of Parliament’s legislative process. Parliament, however, was simply ignoring the colonist’s rights as members of the British Empire by passing this new piece of repressing taxation.

Explain the relevance of “The 1619 Project” on the lives of modern college students. It only has to be 200 words and you must find 3-4 facts using The 1619 Project article to support the paper. Even though it only has to be 200 words I’ll still pay the amount of 275 words. I need it ASAP thank you.

Explore what led to the Modern Girl/New Woman phenomenon in the 1920s and 1930s. What new developments in global trade and technologies helped make it a global phenomenon? What were the key differences between the “New Woman” and the “Modern Girl” categories? Explore some of the similarities across different nations in terms of the backlash against the Modern Girl/New Woman. Why were the backlashes not exactly the same for both identities? Why do you think the backlash may have been more extreme in East Asia (China and Japan) and in Catholic European nations? Use evidence from course materials.

Describe the motivations and developments that led to European Imperialism in Africa in the 1880s. What were the main goals of such imperialism and what were the main rationalizations used by European powers? How did King Leopold II’s Congo Free State come to represent the hypocrisy of European Imperialism in Africa by the early 1900s? How did the superior weapons used by Europeans to defeat African military resistance eventually take its toll on European soldiers during World War I? To what extent does the conquest of Africa confirm Robert O. Mark’s concept of “the Gap”? Use evidence from course materials.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Essay Respond to one of the following prompts in a 700-750 word essay. Your answer should include direct references to the text, cited using Chicago-style footnotes. At the end of the essay, tell me the word count and put that in bold. Remember that you’re required to have an argumentative thesis and adhere to proper English grammar. Other quick notes: Five-paragraph essay, double-spaced, Times New Roman, size 12 font. No need to cite the Autobiography of Frederick Douglass using Chicago-style footnotes, but anything else you cite should be footnoted (just include the Autobiography in parentheses at the end of the sentence, along with the page number you’re citing). this is the prompt: For so much of this course, we’ve discussed competing notions of freedom in early America. How does Douglass define freedom? How does he achieve freedom?

Please explain why did fighting in the American Revolution shift over time from the Northeast to the Middle Atlantic to the South. Contrast the primary British and American war strategies from 1776 to 1781. Please argued and supported with specific examples from the US History.  including an introduction and an argument explaining how you will answer the question and support your points, the body of the essay with specific examples that support your argument (separate paragraphs explaining your points, and also a conclusion. Thank you

It has long been argued, particularly by conservatives, that there is a liberal bias in the mass media. On the other hand, progressives and liberals counter that conservative media has its own bias and that conservative media spends most of its time trying to invoke fear and division in the general public. With these two points of view in mind, please respond to the following question. (1) How is the media, biased, more towards progressive-liberal values, conservative values or in both directions depending on the specific media outlets you may access? Explain your response. (2) Find two or more examples of media bias (video clip, article, images) and attach to your Dropbox submission. Explain in detail how these example/s represent media bias and the impact that it has on public opinion. As part of your research and examination of media bias include recent polling data results showing the public’s confidence in the objectivity or fairness of the media. Provide an Internet citation for each polling source discussed. 4-5 double-spaced pages of text Write in complete sentences and paragraphs. Bullet points or lists will not be accepted.

The Annotated Bibliography assignment asks you to conduct research on some area or problem of Shakespeare/ early modern studies that interests you. The research that you are doing for the annotated bibliography should be on sources that you will use in Essay 2.  This annotated bibliography will consist of five sources. Use the FSU library (library collection of books and ebooks, JSTOR, Literature Resource Center, and MLA International Bibliography) to find sources. Google Books and Google Scholar can also be useful, but these tend to access previews, rather than full text sources. Please do not use sources accessed any other way.  For each entry, do the following: 1. Cite the source correctly in MLA format.  2. Describe the approach (or approaches) to literary criticism that the writers seem to take. How do you know this?  3. Describe the main claim made in the source. In complex arguments, explaining this idea may take some space.  4. Explain how the sources uses one or more of Shakespeare’s plays (and/or some other early modern primary source).  One effective way to find sources is to read the footnotes and citations of material that you have already read. I would like you to do this for at least one of the sources that you include in the annotated bibliography. In other words, we have read a few critical essays and we have seen that these essays make use of a dense web of additional sources. Find and read one of these sources. Include it in your annotated bibliography so that you can incorporate it into your final essay. Make sure to indicate which source you mined from one of our critical essays–identify the essay where you found it.

Stage 2 Overview: After you have a good, clear question you will start doing research in order to answer that question. At every moment in this stage, think consciously about how you can apply our class “toolkit.” A good historian does not just look for evidence specifically focused on or directly trying to answer their question; instead, a good historian zooms out from their specific question, and explores the bigger-picture context tied to their specific question. In the discipline of History, the “bigger-picture context” usually implies two things: the broader time period connected to the question, and the general theme/category of the topic that the question falls into. Here’s an example with a sample question:   Question: Why were so many Americans opposed to giving women the right to vote? What were they afraid of? Why was it that many women didn’t think they should have the right to vote? Time Period: 1890s-1920s Theme/Category: Women’s History/Gender History (or you could go in a different direction and explore the general topic of the history of the suffrage movement—not just for women but generally how suffrage—the right to vote—was expanded for all different kinds of people over American history).   So for this question you would need to do some general research that gives you an overview on the main events of the 1890s-1920s, and an overview either on the history of Women in the United States, or a history of the suffrage movement in the United States. The point of this stage of research is to obtain a better understanding of the “entry points” for your question—in other words, what are the openings that lead you in the direction of answering your question. Starting on a general level allows you to make connections between cause and effect that won’t happen if you start out too focused. For example, if you are exploring the question above, if you just research women’s history you wouldn’t know that this was when the anti-slavery movement emerged in the U.S., and you would miss the connection between ideas about racism and white superiority and the surprising ways that this affected peoples’ views on women voting. As you complete this stage of your research, your question will start to evolve a little bit (sometimes a lot, and that is okay!). The more you know about the topic, the more nuanced and complex your question will become. For example, if we are still working with the sample question above, once you’ve understood that this time period coincides with the beginning of the anti-slavery movement, your new question can be more sophisticated; now you might ask, “Did the racism of white women who were fighting to gain the right to vote help or hinder their movement?” Or you might ask, “Why did many white women not see their own subjection as similar to that of black people, and see potential allies in black activists?”   Checkup Assignment for Stage 2: Please double space your response to the following questions (your response will be 3 pages in total, double spaced). Page 1 answers this question Find and read one scholarly source that covers the time period of your question. Write a one-page summary of this source; your summary needs to explain the thesis and central evidence that the author uses. Please start your summary by properly citing your source, including author, title, and publication info.  Page 2 Answers this question Find and read one scholarly source that covers the theme/category of your question. Write a one-page summary of this source; your summary needs to explain the thesis and central evidence that the author uses. Please start your summary by properly citing your source, including author, title, and publication info.  Page 3 answers this question Write a one-page analysis that explains what information from these sources you will use to further your research project—what are the new topics you want to explore, and what is the new question that emerges. Please be very careful to fill this one page with really meaningful content; think carefully about each of the tools in our class “toolkit” which means identifying changes, causes and effects, how is relates to my life. and explicitly explain how you are using these tools to help you make connections and ask a better question for the next stage of your research.