Were they what you expected? Were the results of the quizzes similar? Do you agree with them? Why or why not? Do you think such quizzes are useful tools? Which one(s) do you think had the best design? Why? Why do you think you are the political person you are?

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Political Socialization

In the first part of the paper try to identify and discuss your core political beliefs. You may already have a good idea of where you stand politically. There are also internet sites designed to help you place yourself ideologically. Some use a simple scale of liberal to conservative. Others are more complex.

The first site is IDEALOG. This site is part of the web page for a textbook on American Government written by Janda, Berry and Goldman. On this site, you can take a self-test by answering a series of questions designed to help you identify your ideological perspective. You will have to read the introduction and tutorial before you complete the self-test. After completing the questions, the program will also tell you the ideological placement of the average person who has taken the survey on-line, as well as the American public.
Next, try this Political Party Quiz from Pew Research Center designed to show you how your views fit with the political parties and the American public.
Try these quizzes after you have thought about your political views. Report the results.

Were they what you expected?
Were the results of the quizzes similar?
Do you agree with them? Why or why not?
Do you think such quizzes are useful tools?
Which one(s) do you think had the best design? Why?
Why do you think you are the political person you are?
In the second part of the paper, you will apply the general concepts of political socialization to your own life. Assess your own experiences with politics and compare them with the theoretical material in the readings.

Where do you think your core beliefs about politics come from?
Do the theories of political socialization discussed in the class notes or in the text seem to apply to you?
Consider for example:
What is your earliest political memory?
Do you share your parents’ political opinions in whole or in part?
What other influences were important in your own political socialization (school, friends, significant events, etc.)?
How did any of these influences shape your development?
If you’re already thinking that there are few or no issues that you care about, think about that as well. How would you explain why this is the case?

Create an outline for your research essay. Include a well written introduction with its embedded thesis statement. Create a formal sentence outline. Include a works cited for all the sources that you will be using to compose your essay.

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Research Proposal

Direction for Research Proposal
Directions: First create an outline for your research essay. Next, include a well written introduction with its embedded thesis statement. Then create a formal sentence outline. (See the attached example.) Finally include a works cited for all the sources that you will be using to compose your essay.
1. Type your outline in 12 point Times New Roman or 11 point Calibri.
2. Make sure it is a sentence outline.
3. Create a Works Cited, MLA style, or a reference list APA style which will be used to compose your essay.
4. Submit your proposal to the D2L assignment box by the deadline.

In your essay, briefly describe your five choices, how you would portray them in the exhibit, and, most important, why you chose these five historical moments. Develop a unifying theme, or approach the exhibit in whatever way you choose, as long as you are able to clearly argue why they belong in your exhibit.

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Five Critical Moments in Modern American History

Congratulations! You have been chosen as the curator for a new exhibit, “Finding the American Dream: Five Critical Moments in Modern American History,” which will be featured in the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. The purpose of this exhibit is to give museum visitors an opportunity to think about the idea of the American dream through the presentation of five important moments, debates, or controversies in U.S. history from the end of the Civil War through our modern world. What, though, will you choose?

In your essay, briefly describe your five choices, how you would portray them in the exhibit, and, most important, why you chose these five historical moments. You may choose any five moments (broadly defined, as longer events, movements, individuals, etc. are acceptable), develop a unifying theme, or approach the exhibit in whatever way you choose, as long as you are able to clearly argue why they belong in your exhibit. You must also include primary sources in your exhibit. Ultimately, though, the choices are yours to make.

Your paper should be 5-7 pages in length, double-spaced, use proper grammar, and exhibit a sophisticated sense of analysis and critical thinking.

Provide a grounding claim or thesis; illustrate your thinking by citing and close-reading at least two texts from this week’s assigned materials; be organized into proper paragraphs to help organize your thinking; include in-text citations for all textual evidence; and demonstrate how you are working through your own thinking—meaning, that you should not simply repackage things you heard in this week’s lectures.

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 American history

Prompt
This week, we looked at one of the most troubled times in American history—a moment where it was not even clear America as an idea or nation would even continue. In that regard, though we traveled far and wide in our thinking, it is hard to get around the centrality of Abraham Lincoln’s leadership in this era, and for that reason he looms large. To that end, make a claim about an important or otherwise dramatic contribution in Lincoln’s thought: what does he have to say about the project of American democracy? Do this by selecting one of the Lincoln documents we have for this week and draw connections (similarities, differences, or something else) between it and at least one other text.

In all cases, make sure you are being specific with how you illustrate this claims and these connections by using lots of good evidence from the texts themselves. An excellent answer might, for example, find something in Lincoln’s ideas and juxtapose a document that agrees with him and one that seems to disagree. Don’t forget as you work that the film Glory also constitutes one of our class “texts.”

Requirements
To complete this assignment, you will craft a synthetic response that addresses a central theme of this week’s module. Your response should consist of between sixteen and twenty well-written sentences (somewhere between a page-and-a-half and two pages of material formatted as required);
provide a grounding claim or thesis;
illustrate your thinking by citing and close-reading at least two texts from this week’s assigned materials;
be organized into proper paragraphs to help organize your thinking;
include in-text citations for all textual evidence; and
demonstrate how you are working through your own thinking—meaning, that you should not simply repackage things you heard in this week’s lectures (though the lecture may, of course, inform your thinking in some contextual way).

Feel free to provocatively juxtapose different sorts of texts, or make connections that aren’t the most obvious. So long as you make a clear, arguable claim and support your thinking with direct discussion of textual evidence you can successfully earn full points. After all, our cultural history is open for renegotiation all the time. This is your chance to negotiate that heritage. Additionally, this good thinking about a single week’s materials will serve as excellent preparation of material that might find its way into your final essay in the course where you will thinking about several different week’s texts together.

 

How has Covid-19 impacted workers in the US? India? China? Latin America? How have the bosses in the US and China participated in the use of vaccines in their countries and also around the world? Can capitalists anywhere in the world lead us into a future where a healthy working class is possible? Why? Why Not?

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COVID and vaccines

Write a research essay. AT LEAST 9 paragraphs. Use the resources in the links below. You must use these sources for the essay. You are welcome to quote from other sources AFTER you have used these sources. Answer all of the following questions in your essay:

1) How has Covid-19 impacted workers in the US? India? China? Latin America?

2) How have the bosses in the US and China participated in the use of vaccines in their countries and also around the world?

3) Can capitalists anywhere in the world lead us into a future where a healthy working class is possible? Why? Why Not?

SOURCES ARE LISTED BELOW!!!

I. Causes of Covid-19 Outbreak

1) https://chuangcn.org/2020/02/social-contagion/ (SCROLL DOWN to where the heading “Gilded Age” is visible. Once you get there, the next 5 or 6 paragraphs BREAKS IT DOWN how the economic situation (health care, working conditions, food sources) in China led to the outbreak and spread

2) https://www.brookings.edu/research/ten-facts-about-covid-19-and-the-u-s-economy/ (look closely at this article. It explains how and why the outbreak in the US happened. Look closely. Quote from it in your paper)

II. Impact of Covid-19 on Workers in Different Parts of the World:

1) India: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/27/india-nears-200000-covid-deaths-army-steps-in

2) US: https://www.brookings.edu/research/ten-facts-about-covid-19-and-the-u-s-economy/ (look closely at this article. It explains how and why the outbreak in the US happened. Look closely. Quote from it in your paper)

3) Latin America: http://www.plp.org/challenge/2020/8/28/capitalist-bosses-plague-colombia.html

4) https://portside.org/2020-04-12/scholar-pandemics-and-inequality-peers-americas-future (effects in the US)

III. Vaccines and Greed—Is any capitalist nation “good”?

  1. 1) http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/461158/28422799/1617376673133/041421-WEB.pdf?token=XgLDay4I56H1yPOOow5OiQYKSOU%3D
  2. 2) https://www.qiaocollective.com/en/articles/vaccine-internationalism 3) http://www.plp.org/challenge/2021/2/5/capitalism-cant-keep-up-with-covid-19-mutations.html

How was the Supreme Court formed? What powers are granted to the Supreme Court? How does someone get appointed to the Supreme Court? What are the roles and responsibilities of the Supreme Court? How does the Supreme Court interact with the other 2 U.S. government branches? What was the case about? What did the Supreme Court decide? How did that decision affect American society?

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U.S. Supreme Court Worksheet

Part I:

Research and respond to the following 5 U.S. Supreme Court questions. Use academically appropriate websites for your research, and cite your sources. Each response should include at least 50 words, and you are encouraged to incorporate this week’s vocabulary terms into your responses.

  1. How was the Supreme Court formed?
  2. What powers are granted to the Supreme Court?
  3. How does someone get appointed to the Supreme Court?
  4. What are the roles and responsibilities of the Supreme Court?
  5. How does the Supreme Court interact with the other 2 U.S. government branches? Consider the concept of checks and balances.

Part II:

Research the following Supreme Court cases:

  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • Roe v. Wade
  • United States v. Nixon

Answer each of the 3 questions below separately for each case in a minimum of 50 words. Use academically appropriate websites for your research, and cite your sources. You are encouraged to incorporate this week’s vocabulary terms into your responses.

  1. What was the case about?
  2. What did the Supreme Court decide?
  3. How did that decision affect American society?

Describe the causes of the historical event. In other words, what were the underlying factors that led to the historical event? Were there any immediate causes that precipitated the event? Illustrate the course of your historical event. In other words, tell the story or narrative of your event. Who were the important participants? What did they do? Why? How do the perspectives of the key participants differ?

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Trail of Tears

This will be a final project to one I have been working on already. I have uploaded my latest essays that pertain to this final one. You ARE more than welcome to take the information in my uploaded essays to uses in this final essay. Thank you very much for completing this, it is greatly appreciated. Below is the prompt:

Project 2 addresses the following course outcomes:
 Illustrate the impact of historical thinking on personal and professional experiences
 Select appropriate and relevant primary and secondary sources in investigating foundational historic events
 Communicate effectively to specific audiences in examining fundamental aspects of human history
 Utilize historical evidence in drawing conclusions about the impact of historic events on American society
 Apply key approaches to studying history in addressing critical questions related to historical narratives and perspectives

PROMPT
Introduction: In this section of your essay, you will introduce your readers to the historical event you selected. Specifically, you should:
A. Provide a brief overview of your historical event. For instance, what background information or context does the reader of your essay need?
B. Based on your research question, develop a thesis statement that states your claim about the historical event you selected. Your thesis statement should be clear, specific, and arguable, as it will give direction to the rest of your essay.

II. Body: You will use this section of your essay to provide further detail about your historical event while supporting the claim you made in your thesis statement. Make sure to cite your sources. Specifically, you should:

A. Describe the causes of the historical event. In other words, what were the underlying factors that led to the historical event? Were there any immediate causes that precipitated the event?
B. Illustrate the course of your historical event. In other words, tell the story or narrative of your event. Who were the important participants? What did they do? Why? How do the perspectives of the key participants differ?
C. Describe the immediate and long-term consequences of the historical event for American society. In other words, how did the event impact American society?
D. Discuss the historical evidence that supports your conclusions about the impact of the event on American society. Support your response with specific examples from your sources.

III. Conclusion: In this section of your essay, you will discuss the impact of historical thinking. Specifically, you should:

A. Explain why this historical event is important to you personally. In other words, why did you select this event to research?
B. Illustrate how your research of the historical event impacted the way you thought about the event. In other words, how did thinking like a historian change the lens through which you viewed the event? Support your response with specific examples.
C. Explain how a historian would pursue further study of your thesis statement. In other words, if a historian were to continue researching your thesis statement, what would be the future directions or next steps?

IV. Provide a reference list that includes all of the primary and secondary sources you used to investigate your historical event and support your thesis statement. Ensure that your list is formatted according to current APA guidelines (or another format, with instructor permission).

V. Communicate your message in a way that is tailored to your specific audience. For instance, you could consider your vocabulary, your audience’s potential current knowledge of historical events, or lack thereof, and what is specifically important to the audience.

What types of activities did female patriots undertake in the service of American independence? Describe and discuss the role that society in the 1770s expected elite white women in the colonies to play. Based on these expectations, what kinds of activities did elite white female patriots undertake in support of the war effort?

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Write a formal essay in which you respond fully, carefully, and accurately — following ALL of the guidelines explained above — to the writing prompts/questions below. Make sure that your essay is organized so that, in addition to an introductory paragraph and a concluding paragraph, there are separate paragraphs for your responses to each of the prompts below.

What types of activities did female patriots (that is, supporters of independence from England) undertake in the service of American independence? (Assigned pages in chapter 6 + video clip + primary sources 6.7, 6.9)

Describe and discuss the role that society in the 1770s expected elite white women (that is, women of wealth and “good family”) in the colonies to play. Based on these expectations, what kinds of activities did elite white female patriots undertake in support of the war effort? (Assigned pages in chapter 6 + video clip + primary sources 6.7, 6.8, 6.9)

In what ways did patriot women create new opportunities for themselves and contribute to the war and to American independence? (Assigned pages in chapter 6 + video clip + primary sources, 6.8, 6.10)

What dangers or limits did women face during the war? (Assigned pages in chapter 6 + video clip + primary source 6.6)

Compose and submit a Research Paper Proposal. The Proposal, in addition to a title page containing the student’s name, course and section number, and date – and of course, a title for the project.

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Research Paper Proposal Instructions

As part of the Research Paper assignment for this course, students will be required to compose and submit a Research Paper Proposal. This Proposal, in addition to a title page containing the student’s name, course and section number, and date – and of course, a title for the project (you’d be surprised at how often I see title pages without any actual title), will consist of the following information:

A brief description of the chosen paper topic – a thesis statement, in a brief paragraph.

A short (minimum of 1 to 2 paragraphs, may be longer) description of how the student intends to structure the paper.

A listing (in outline form) of the supporting arguments and sub-arguments (or areas for research) that are intended to support the thesis.

A bibliography listing at least at least ten scholarly sources. These may be books, journal articles, primary sources or archives to be consulted. The final paper may use more, but ten serious scholarly sources is the bare minimum for a project like this.

Note that this information does not need to be complete, or a “final version” for the proposal – a major reason for doing a project like this is to learn more about it as you work on it. But you do need to present me with sufficient material to show me you understand the topic and the sources available for it. The paper is a work in progress, so it is expected to evolve to some degree while being worked on.

Explain the U.S. Congress’s structure and makeup. Describe the differences between the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Describe how bills become laws. Define the powers granted to the U.S. Congress and the president in the U.S. Constitution. Explain the checks and balances of power between the U.S. Congress, the president, and the judiciary.

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U.S. Congress and The President

The relationship between the U.S. Congress and the president
The changes and challenges in the United States from the time of the Founding Fathers’ original vision until the present day

Write a 350- to 525-word essay discussing the function of and relationship between the U.S. Congress and the president. There is an optional Congress and the President Template available to download and use for formatting this assignment.

In your essay:

Explain the U.S. Congress’s structure and makeup.
Describe the differences between the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
Describe how bills become laws.
Define the powers granted to the U.S. Congress and the president in the U.S. Constitution.
Explain the checks and balances of power between the U.S. Congress, the president, and the judiciary.
Define the president’s role and responsibilities.
Discuss the evolution of presidential power.