Who wrote the documents and why? How do the two documents agree? How do they disagree? Why are the perspectives different? Under what specific historical circumstances were these documents created?

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The purpose of this assignment is to use the primary source analysis techniques you learned in class during the semester to produce a final essay.
Read the two attached primary source documents (below), Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and Malcolm X’s “The Ballot or the Bullet”.

Then write a paper that addresses the following questions:
• Who wrote the documents and why?
• How do the two documents agree? How do they disagree?
• Why are the perspectives different?
• Under what specific historical circumstances were these documents created?
• What groups were the two authors associated with? Consider the conflicting visions of America the two had: why were they acting the way they were? Make specific connections to the documents and explain your thinking
• Which perspective would you agree with more, and why?

Instructions:
Do NOT simply list answers to the above questions. The paper should be in essay format, with an introduction, several body paragraphs, and a conclusion. The questions do not have to be addressed in order, but should be answered throughout the paper. You must provide historical context for the analysis. You can use your textbook and/or reputable internet sites (NOT Wikipedia) for this. However, you must CITE the sources that you use. You will use MLA format to cite sources. [Failure to cite information that is not yours is plagiarism.] If you need help with MLA citation, click on the link below or visit the Writer’s Corner. The paper must be a minimum of 500 words (no more than 800 words). The paper should be double spaced, 12 point font. Format, grammar, spelling and punctuation will be graded. (See rubric for detailed grading scheme). **Note: works cited page and heading are NOT part of the word count. You will submit your paper in Blackboard by clicking the link below. Papers must be either Word documents or a PDF (do not upload Google Docs, Pages, or any other type of word processing document–I cannot open it). Do NOT submit your paper in the “Comments” section.

List and explain the improved methods of domestic transportation in the 19th century. How did these methods of transportation impact Americans’ lives in the 19th century?

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Domestic transportation in the 19th century

List and explain the improved methods of domestic transportation in the 19th century. How did these methods of transportation impact Americans’ lives in the 19th century?

Read the document with speech excerpts from Tecumseh, Black Hawk, Geronimo, Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph, and Sitting Bull and answer these questions:
What can you learn about about the beliefs of the natives based on these excerpts? What seems important to them?
What differences can you detect between native and white worldviews here or in your course readings? How did these differences create conflict?
Based on what you know of Native American history and the differences in culture between natives and whites, do you think there was ever a chance of peaceful coexistence between the two? Why or why not?
What would a better outcome for Native Americans look like in your opinion? How could that outcome have been achieved?

Do you think there is significance and a need for nonprofits engaging in social justice? Why or why not? If so, select a social justice policy issue and explain why it is worthy of nonprofit work.

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Non-profit Issues

Read Chapter 3 – Past and Present Issues with Nonprofit Organizations, pages 23 – 34 in eBook Nonprofit Management: A Social Justice Approach. The authors highlight significance of social justice in historical and modern missions of nonprofit organizations. Do you think there is significance and a need for nonprofits engaging in social justice? Why or why not? If so, select a social justice policy issue and explain why it is worthy of nonprofit work.

Build an ideal government agency or non-profit organization using perspectives learned throughout the semester. Include clear connections between all course learning objectives and module perspectives while engaging in analysis in your paper.

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Module 8 Term Paper

Build an ideal government agency or non-profit organization using perspectives learned throughout the semester. Include clear connections between all course learning objectives and module perspectives while engaging in analysis in your paper.

Who gets to define community needs? How do we define the needs of the communities we seek to serve as public administrators? How do we know what we are trying to accomplish?

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Week 6 Discussion (American Governance)

After this unit, do your responses to the questions of last week hold up? What is different? What ideas remain stable?

Last weeks question and post:

  • Who gets to define community needs?
  • How do we define the needs of the communities we seek to serve as public administrators? How do we know what we are trying to accomplish?

 

Summarize the author’s main argument and explain some of the evidence the author uses to support that argument.

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Review Essays

The review paper will summarize the author’s main argument and explain some of the evidence the author uses to support that argument. Not only are you expected to show that you understand the author’s main points, but you are also expected to analyze those points and the evidence used to make them.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eg10mTRVv0QWZVCf1f46XVaqGdGmiUJz/view?usp=sharing

Reviews are difficult, in part, because they are short (2 pages) but need to provide a great deal of information.  Use the guide below to organize your review:

  • First, you want to begin with a brief explanation of the topic the author is writing about: what is the historical event, time period (be specific), people or group of people that the author is writing about? (Think one or two sentences)
  • Next, you want to present the author’s argument. What is the author trying to prove in the article or chapter? How does the author want to portray the event they are writing about?  Why or how does this event occur?  Also, what is significant about their argument?  For example, is the author countering someone else’s point? Or adding a new perspective we haven’t heard?
  • Then, what evidence does the author use to support their argument: For example, what types of documents? Or interviews? or physical evidence? Whose points of view do these documents reveal? Explain the author’s best example(s)?
  • Finally, include an analysis of your own. What new perspective does the argument provide you?
  • I suggest using 3-5 paragraphs to organize the above information in a 2 page paper.

Requirements:

  • Length: About 2 pages, or 500 words
  • Format: Times New Roman/12pt font; double spaced; 1-inch margins; page numbers
  • Authors and page numbers must be cited when writing about their ideas or using their words. Please see the MLA style guide for in-text citations.  Also list the source at the end of your review in a Work Cited page using the above guide.

 

Evaluate the reasons why the Americans were able to win the American Revolution. Evaluate political changes the Constitution created for the new nation.

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UNIT 2 EXAM

DIRECTIONS: You will choose TWO of the topics to identify a total of FIVE terms. For the THIRD topic for which you did not identify any terms, you will answer that topic’s essay question. You will use all three topics. Two for identification, one for the essay.

PART 1—IDENTIFICATIONS. Choose FIVE terms / people TOTAL to identify. Choose the five terms from TWO of the topics—no more than three from any one topic. Describe them using who, what, where, when, why, how as appropriate. Be sure to use facts / details. Also tell the term’s significance, importance or connection to something else. The connection does NOT need to be to one of the other terms. You should write 6–7 sentences for each identification. 7 points per term / 35 points total.

PART 2—ESSAY. Choose ONE essay to answer from the ONE Topic you did not use for Part 1. Be sure to have a thesis with topics and a judgment, topic sentences for the body paragraphs and a conclusion that refers back to your thesis judgment. 65 points.

NOTE: Evaluate—make an appraisal by weighing the strengths and weaknesses or by weighing the different elements.

To evaluate something, it might help to think about a scale of 1–10. Or, think about what a teacher does when a teacher evaluates / grades an assignment.
When you evaluate and look at the various topics, give a judgment about which topic contributes the most, is more significant or important. WHY is that topic more significant or important?

Topic 1 American Revolution
Evaluate the reasons why the Americans were able to win the American Revolution.

Topic 2 The New Nation
Evaluate political changes the Constitution created for the new nation.

[NOTE: what had changed / what was different from governments they had had before the Constitution?]

Topic 3 The Early Republic
Evaluate the reasons the United States went to war against Great Britain in 1812. Who supported the war? Who was against the war

Provide a thorough assessment of the American Search for New Frontiers in the periods between 1890 and 1920. Identify and describe the meaning of the American frontier and explain the factors that led to the closing of the frontier in 1890.

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Exam 1

Topic Questions:
Provide a thorough assessment of the Socio-Economic Transformations that transpired in the United States in the late 19th Century. First, explain the social and economic changes that took place in the Northern region of the country (Northeast and Midwest), focusing on the factors that led to the rise of the modern industrial city as well as the different social classes and groups that inhabited, their strategies for assimilation, and the urban culture that emerged within the city. Second, explain the transformations that transpired in the US South after the Civil War which changed dramatically this region from the traditional forms of social and economic organization into a more modern-industrial society. Third, describe in detail the process by which the United States brought modernity and development to the western territories by fostering the creation of settlements, economic enterprises, transportation systems, foreign immigration, and the acculturation of Native American groups through the Reservation.

Topic # 3: In Search of New Frontiers
Provide a thorough assessment of the American Search for New Frontiers in the periods between 1890 and 1920. First, identify and describe the meaning of the American frontier and explain the factors that led to the closing of the frontier in 1890. Second, explain why Americans (and Europeans) felt compelled to expand the frontiers overseas to spread Modernity & Christianity, and in which ways these attempted to transform the traditional cultures of the world. Third, explain how factors dealing with Industry and Commerce also propelled Americans to search new frontiers abroad. Fourth, explain why Americans searched for new frontiers in Latin America and the ways they transformed both the economies and cultures of those countries. Fifth, explain the process by which the US annexed certain islands in 1898 and how these new territories also represented new American frontiers.

What do you think Eric Foner has in mind when he says that the “frame of mind” the Great Awakening encouraged “would have significant political consequences?

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Great Awakening encouraged

What do you think Eric Foner has in mind when he says that the “frame of mind” the Great Awakening encouraged “would have significant political consequences?

Write an essay with chart provided that -Analyzes the difference in the demographics of the American People and the members of the 117th Congress.

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Congressional Demopraphics

1.Write an essay with chart provided that
-Analyzes the difference in the demographics of the American People and the members of the 117th Congress;
-Assess what impact, if any, the difference in the demographics of the American people and the demographics of the 117th Congress have on the types of policies that are created.
-Make certain to support your assessment with relevant supporting evidence from both the textbook and other scholarly sources.
-Cite your sources using APA citation format both in text and at the end of your paper on a separate reference page.

Links to where the sources should come from:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/03/10/the-changing-face-of-congress/
https://openstax.org/books/american-government-3e/pages/preface?message=retired
https://www.house.gov/
https://www.senate.gov/