What advice or guidance can you offer them from your own experience or from information you discover in the secondary literature?

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In your response posts, consider your classmates’ choices and thoughts about the effect of their presentation. Can you identify any bias present of which they might not be aware? What advice or guidance can you offer them from your own experience or from information you discover in the secondary literature? ( bias pdf attached and/or link below) Be sure to offer specific examples and evidence to support your advice and/or guidance.

respond to each post with a paragraph. each response must have a source citation.

How did Canadian war heroes help to shape Canadian identity?

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Pick a Canadian war hero from the List of Canadian Victoria Cross Recipients and write a short biography on one Canadian VC recipient of the First World War. Where was he born? With what unit did he fight? What did he do to earn the VC?
Then, in one or two sentences, answer each of the following questions: what is a war hero? Does Society need them? How did Canadian war heroes help to shape Canadian identity? Have the stories of war heroes had a positive or a negative affect on Canadian society? Why?

Select seven historical facts from each documentary that you believe to be the most important and explain them, providing abundant historical details (dates, names, places, etc).

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Your assignment this week requires you to watch 2 documentaries. See links below.

After watching both documentaries, select seven historical facts from each documentary that you believe to be the most important and explain them, providing abundant historical details (dates, names, places, etc).

Select what you consider to be the ten most important aspects of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s, and list them in a Word document.

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This week’s topic centers on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.

1) Please watch the following documentary at the link below. Then select what you consider to be the ten most important aspects of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s, and list them in a Word document. Please use abundant historical details for each point (names, dates, locations, etc.).

Documentary title: “Eyes on the Prize (Part 1): Awakenings (1954-1956)”

2) Please select the five most important aspects from the attached article “The Troubled History of American Education After the Brown Decision” and list them in the same Word document mentioned above. Use abundant historical facts and details from the article.The Troubled History of American Education after the Brown Decision The American Historian.pdf:

Examine and attempt to explain how class, race, gender were a part of her historical contribution.

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Mum Bet had challenged the documents that proposed the principles in the Massachusetts State Constitution. She had become the first African American woman to file a lawsuit for the freedom in the state of Massachusetts, a lawsuit that she won. Mum new that all men were born equal, free, having certain natural, essential and unalienable rights. She argued that slavery had violated this very important sentiment. Her very important case helped bring end to slavery in Massachusetts and brought a more equal nation to African Americans.
“Mankind in a state of nature are equal, free, and independent of each other, and have a right to the undisturbed enjoyment of their lives, their liberty and property.” The very language is similar to that of the United States Declaration of Independence, and in the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780. Mum Bet found an attorney who helped draft her case, and she fought for her freedom. “The writ of replevin” was a document that ordered the release of Bet and after her release; she had become a domestic worker, and was able to buy her own house where she lived with her children. Her case determined if slavery was constitutional under the new Massachusetts Constitution.
She recognized the legal and moral importance of the words in the constitution and everyone witnessed what those words meant, She became the first woman to be set free under the Massachusetts constitution and she remains an inspiration to all of us who have the rights of freedom and safety in a world.

Write at least one and one-half pages supporting the idea that secession could have been avoided and/or was not necessary.

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Purpose
This essay will ask you to explore the question of whether or not the South needed to secede. You will have the opportunity to read some documents that express the reasons for the South seceding, as well as documents that may indicate that secession was not necessary.

For your essay, you will need to read these documents:
Primary Source: Crittenden Compromise
Primary Source: John Smith Preston on Secession
Primary Source: Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural
Task
In your essay, you need to write at least one and one-half pages supporting the idea that secession could have been avoided and/or was not necessary. You will then need to write at least one and one-half pages supporting the idea that secession was necessary and was unavoidable in the minds of some Southerners. You will also need to look through your textbook and include at least two historical events that support each point of view. To be clear, you will write at least one and one-half pages about secession be avoidable, using the documents and at least two historical events to support this point of view. Then you will write at least one and one-half pages about secession being unavoidable, using the documents and at least two historical events to support this point of view.

What do you think? Was America radically and fundamentally changed between 1760 and 1800?

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Answer the question below:
What do you think? Was America radically and fundamentally
changed between 1760 and 1800?

There has been a longstanding historical debate over the status of the American Revolution. Some historians argue that the revolution was just the shift of power from the British elite to the American elite, leaving American society essentially unchanged. Others, like Gordon Wood, argue that American society was radically changed if we look at the long term process, not just the immediate years of the war. Wood and his compatriots state that American in 1800 was fundamentally different than it was in 1760.

You must demonstrate your knowledge of the readings from most if not all of the weeks.
Support your arguments with specific facts and examples.
Your essay should be at least 4000 words long.

Reference
GordonS.Wood.TheRadicalismoftheAmericanRevolution.Vintage,1993.ISBN-13:978-0679736882

JamesD.Rice.TalesfromaRevolution:Bacon’sRebellionandtheTransformationofEarlyAmerica.OxfordUniversityPress,2013.ISBN-13:978-0195386943

WoodyHolton.UnrulyAmericansandtheOriginsoftheConstitution.Hill&Wang,2008.ISBN-13:978-0809016433

Compare the clergy of the three main Abrahamic religions

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Papers World Religions West
Each paper should have a thesis (a theory it is trying to prove), and should use several specific examples from various sources, especially primary sources, to support it. The more detailed the better. Sources should be cited, even if not quoting.
Papers should be 5 to 7 double-spaced pages long, and are due on date above.

You may use the textbook and additional secondary sources, but you must also use at least one and preferably more primary sources. I will be grading you on, among other things, how well you use primary sources. A good paper will weave together primary and secondary sources. The text book has many excerpts from primary sources which you may use. Articles and book reviews found on J-Stor or similar sources are far preferable as a source than other internet sources, such as Wikipedia. The use of books is also preferable. See the college librarian about accessing J-Stor. Books may be found in the library, bookstore, etc….

If no primary sources, minus ten points. Quote so I know you used it.

A primary source is a source from the time period. It could be a law, diary, letter, newspaper, memoir, article, among other things from the time period. A secondary source would be a history book or text book.

For example: The Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte (copyright 1818) is a primary source, but

Napoleon: The Last Enlightened Despot, by Janet Sanchez (Copyright 2014) is NOT. It is a secondary source.

Number your pages, double space, and have a Works Cited page or Bibliography, and give it a title (“Paper Number Three” is not a name). Points may be taken off for not doing this.

Grammar and capitalization count, and too many errors will reduce your grade. Note: You should cite your sources and put in WC page even if NOT quoting. Cite within the text of the paper…. (Lets say you have 15 sources in your works cited page—how do I know where you got your information unless you tell me the specific source!!!!!)
Also, cover sheets and WC pages do NOT count towards the page requirement.

The major elements you will be evaluated on include:
1. Statement and quality of thesis
2. Use of evidence from primary and secondary sources
3. Development of a reasonable argument
4. Style, grammar, spelling and capitalization

Paper Topic

30. Compare the clergy of the three main Abrahamic religions

How does your resistance movement/revolution/revolt use or critique nationalism and/or imperialism?

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The second half of our course looks at nationalism and imperialism in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and their long-term effects. The theme for paper 2 is resistance and rebellion. A thesis statement is one sentence that expresses the main idea of a research paper or essay, such as an expository essay or argumentative essay. It makes a claim, directly answering a question. Make sure to label it Thesis statement so I can see it. You can look at any resistance movement or rebellion in the later nineteenth or twentieth century, regardless of whether it was successful or not. Please write a 4-5 page paper, and make sure to address the following question: How does your resistance movement/revolution/revolt use or critique nationalism and/or imperialism? Note that you only need to discuss either nationalism or imperialism, but it is possible for a movement to use one and critique the other, and in those cases you should discuss both. Make sure to use at least 1 primary source and 3 secondary sources, of which 2 must be scholarly.

Choose one of the topics:

Boxer Rebellion

Zionism

Egyptian Revolution of 1919

Arab Revolt

Ba’ath Party

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

White Rose Resistance Movement

Any of the Asian and African independence movements of the 1940s, 1950s, or 1960s

Write a brief reflection (3-4 full paragraphs) thinking about the effects of imperialism on the peoples of Africa and Asia

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Please write a brief reflection (3-4 full paragraphs) thinking about the effects of imperialism on the peoples of Africa and Asia, based on the video/Documentary (White King, Red Rubber, Black Death-Documentary) and primary source documents.(The attachment) Consider economic effects in addition to effects on their lives in general.