Review the evidence that leads us to conclude that Africans had a powerful influence on Olmec and Mayan civilizations around four thousand years ago. Choose what you consider the four most important pieces of evidence that persuade you of the African presence in Mesoamerica.
• Explain why you consider each piece of evidence one of the most important.
• Finally, how would you respond to people who deny the evidence?
Has to answer these questions in it
Where are you from?
why did you leave your homeland?
how was your journey to the united states?
what happened when you arrived?
what is your new life like in america? where do you live and what do you do everyday?
what difficulties do you face because of who you are ?
where do you live now?
Chapter 3 of “The African Experience” and watch “Caravans of Gold, by Basil Davidson” video linked below. After watching the video, compare and contrast the Trans- Saharan trade and the Indian Ocean trade with specific reference to their impact on the West African societies and the East African societies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSoZ07LXnKo Read Chapter 4 of “The African Experience” and watch “The Bible and the Gun” by Basil Davidson then answer these questions. What were the reasons for Europe’s interests in Africa? Compare the racial attitudes of the European colonizing powers such as the British, the French, thePORTUGUESE and the Belgians. Here is the link to the “Bible and the Gun” video on YouTube. Copy and paste it into the search bar if you can not click the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNWA2cOS7sg
1.) In what ways did Nixon, Ford, and Carter further the Cold War, or did they reduce tensions between the various combatants? Did their attitudes and policies differ from one another where the Cold War, the war in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America were concerned?
2.) What groups resisted the conservative social agenda in the 1980s? In your view, did the desire for equal rights and opportunities conflict with conservatism?
Essay: Answer the question posed in a well written essay that includes a thesis statement, supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion. What was the impact that the following (Indian/African slavery, mestizaje, mercantilist policies, the bourbon reforms, and the criollo complaint) had on forging a “Mexican” national identity leading to Mexican independence from Spain?
In a well-constructed Essay (Thesis statement evidentiary paras, and conclusion) : How did WWII and the Cold War lead to the rise of ideas of liberation and equality amongst the colonized/ oppressed people of the USA and the world? (In developing your answer consider the use of US propaganda against its enemies during WWII and the Cold War)
Please see below the list of books available through the Library website for your Book Review assignment. The other lists with books for the Book Review assignment include most books that are not online, so ignore those lists.
The books and some dissertations towards the end of the list are suggestions for you to consider and you can do a different book, but check with me first. Remember to check the Book Review Guidelines on eclass. The book review should be about 1,000 words long. No citations needed, unless you use / refer to other works. Check published reviews on History Journals to get the sense of how to write a book review. I will upload a few examples for you to have a look.
Looking forward to reading your reviews!
SakisChristou, Anastasia. Narratives of Place, Culture and Identity Second Generation Greek-American’s Return “Home” . Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006. Print.
Damousi, Joy. Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War: Australia’s Greek Immigrants after World War II and the Greek Civil War. N.p., 2015. Web.
Kontogiorgi, Elisabeth. Population Exchange in Greek Macedonia: The Rural Settlement of Refugees 1922-1930. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Web.
Xenides, J. P. The Greeks in America. New York: G.H. Doran Co., 1922. Print.
Tamis, A. M. (Anastasios M.). The Greeks in Australia . Melbourne, Australia ;: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Print.
Dounia, Margarita. “Your Roots Will Be Here, Away from Your Home: Migration of Greek Women to Montreal, 1950–1980.” ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2004. Print.
Mina, Noula. “Homeland Activism, Public Performance, and the Construction of Identity: An Examination of Greek Canadian Transnationalism, 1900s-1990s.” ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2015. Print.Diamanti-Karanou, Panagoula. “The Relationship Between Homeland and Diaspora: The Case of Greece and the Greek-American Community.” ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2015. Print.
Pendakis, Katherine Laura. “Political Genealogies of a Generation: Kin, Movement and Party in the Greek Diaspora.” N.p., 2015. Print.
Grafos, Christopher Elliot. “Canada’s Greek Moment: Transnational Politics, Activists, and Spies During the Long Sixties.” N.p., 2016. Print.
GUIDELINES FOR WRITING A (HISTORY) BOOK REVIEW
1. Read the book carefully and make notes as you go along, when something strikes you as
impressive, controversial or simply interesting.
2. Sum up what the book is about selecting its most important conclusions.
3. State the nature and purpose of the book.
4. Provide a breakdown of the structure of the book, including any comments on thematic or
chronological structure of the work.
5. Provide a detailed explanation of the thesis of the book.
6. Give a description and analysis of the sources and methodology employed.
7. Write a critique of the work in terms of its argument, style, methodology, employment of
sources.
8. Discuss its relationship to other works in the field (to the extent that you can at this point)
and try to argue how does it differ from other books on the same or similar topics or how
does it agree.
9. Assess the value of the book detailing why and how it is useful or not useful, for the
course you are doing, your program and your education in general.
10. Have another – final and quick – look at the book and see if you missed anything you
consider important on a second reading
Pick 5 of the sources in the reading, explain how early rulers justify & uphold their authority, what are the differences & similarities of rulers claims to power, and can we deduce from the sources what would make a good king?
Read “A More Perfect Union,” “The Negro Project,” and “Eugenics, Race, and Margaret Sanger,” and answer the following question:…………………………
Was Margaret Sanger a heroine representing women’s right to choose or was she a classist and a racist who looked to depopulate the country of the “undesirables?”………………………
Make sure you cite all three above articles with Turabian or Chicago Style footnote citations and Paper in MLA standards***Students must be able to articulately argue the side that they agree with and thoroughly understand the side that they disagree with***
3 pages, 3 sources – was going to write about the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
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