State whether you agreed and/or were convinced by the article’s argument and analysis. Delineates the research questions/topic clearly.

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Analytical Response Paper 1

Analytic Response Paper Guidelines include the following subheadings & content:

Goals:

Include the research question/topic

Delineates the research questions/topic clearly.,   3.5 pts

Methods:

Research method or mode of analysis

Findings:

  • Evidence
  • Data, empirical material
  • Texts
  • Primary source(s) or cultural production(s) analyzed by the author
  • Arguments & Conclusions presented in article

Addresses the arguments/findings/conclusions thoroughly.

Critique:

State whether you agreed and/or were convinced by the article’s argument and analysis.

Discusses research methods/mode of analysis in detail.    3 pts

Clearly stated whether you were convinced or agreed with the articles argument/analysis.   1 pts

Clarity, Flow, Syntax & Grammar  Total Points: 15

 

The Weimar Republic’s problems were economic in nature. Do you agree? Argue your case.

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Weimar Republic’s problems

The Weimar Republic’s problems were economic in nature. Do you agree? Argue your case.

Define the experience of your family, or a particular family ancestor(s), or someone(s) whose experience you are familiar with, and portray the immigration experience(s) coming from their native homeland, crossing to the U.S., the process of “assimilation”, and what to you was the eventual outcome of this experience(s).

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Hst. 2425: “Coming to America”, Final Essays

Part A. Each student will address four of the following comparatives. First, briefly define what the content of each reading is. Secondly, what relationship do the two readings have with one another? (Each of these readings comes from one of the assigned websites used during our course.) Each written response will be no less than a page in length, typed in font 12, double spaced. Cite your sources and use testimonies where appropriate, just as you did in the midterm essays.

Voyage of the Damned (film) and Admitting Jewish Refugee Children in 1939…… syllabus sources.
Sacco-Vanzetti case and T. R. and the Hyphenates.
Life of Yoshiko Uchida, a Japanese-American Living………(sources) and Japanese-American Museum… syllabus sources
the Marial Boat People and newsreel of Hungarian revolutionaries, 1956.
Fortune Magazine, “New American Economy” [2011] and Immigration Reform, 1986.
Status of U.S. Immigration in 2007 [text] and any of the articles in the past four weeks you would like to use for this comparison.

Part B will be approximately three pages in length, no smaller than font 12, using source citations for the testimonies / readings you use.

Each student will address the following essay question.

Define the experience of your family, or a particular family ancestor(s), or someone(s) whose experience you are familiar with, and portray the immigration experience(s) coming from their native homeland, crossing to the U.S., the process of “assimilation”, and what to you was the eventual outcome of this experience(s). Or if this process is still ongoing, characterize the stage s/he has reached by this point in the experience.

Next, relate that experience to several of the post-July 17th website testimonies you select to use. You may also use the exhibits at the N.Y. City Tenement Museum website if you wish. As well, the Museum of Work and Culture exhibits from the field trip, if you were able to attend the field trip. You may also use the interpretation of the “Fortune 500- New American Economy” article of last week.

If the family experience begins in slavery, then perhaps start with emancipation at the end of the Civil War. Move towards the earliest recollections of how family, or a particular individual, began his/her history on the road to full emancipation and citizenship, with all the attending difficulties in this process.

What historical arguments is making? Pick and choose what historical episodes you think are important to include. What Key Concepts are they utilizing as analytic framework?

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Book Review 2: Walls, Cages, and Family Separation Race and Immigration Policy in the Trump Era

Book Review General Guide

Introduction:
Research question/topic
Argument/thesis

Methodology:
Research method or approach

Historiography:
What historical arguments is Wallace & Zepeda-Millán making (across diff epochs)?
Pick and choose what historical episodes you think are important to include.
What Key Concepts are they utilizing as analytic framework(s): i.e.,?

Primary sources
Cultural production(s) analyzed in the book
Texts
Data
Evidence
Empirical material
Chapter Breakdown (incl ch 1 intro, 2, 3, 4, 5 concl):

Complexity and Contingency-Based on your reading in the webtext, select one of the following topic statements. Your response should be two to three paragraphs in length.

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Complexity and Contingency

Based on your reading in the webtext, select one of the following topic statements. Your response should be two to three paragraphs in length.

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) and the Native corporation system have been good for Alaska Natives.

OR

ANCSA and the Native corporation system have been bad for Alaska Natives.

Next, revise the statement you have chosen to reflect the complexity of the historical events surrounding this issue. Provide specific examples of how ANCSA and the Native corporation system have had a positive or negative impact—or perhaps both—on Alaska Natives. Further illustrate the complexity of this issue by showing how the passage of ANCSA was contingent on at least three historical events or forces.

Introduce your historical topic and discuss the two ways why this event is related to a current event in the United States. Discuss on why the event is related to the current event in the U. S

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Immigration Ellis Island

Paragraph 1 Introduction > Introduce your historical topic and discuss the two ways why this event is related to a current event in the United States. (3-4 sentences)
Paragraph 2: Reason 1 discussion on why the event is related to the current event in the U. S (5-6 sentences)
Paragraph 3: Reason 2 discussion on why the event is related to the current event in the U.S (5-6 sentences)
Paragraph 4: Conclusion: Summary of your thoughts and ideas about the historical event and future events. (3-4 sentences)

Define the experience of your family, or a particular family ancestor(s), or someone(s) whose experience you are familiar with, and portray the immigration experience(s) coming from their native homeland, crossing to the U.S., the process of “assimilation”, and what to you was the eventual outcome of this experience(s).

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Hst. 2425: “Coming to America”, Final Essays

Part A. Each student will address four of the following comparatives. First, briefly define what the content of each reading is. Secondly, what relationship do the two readings have with one another? (Each of these readings comes from one of the assigned websites used during our course.) Each written response will be no less than a page in length, typed in font 12, double spaced. Cite your sources and use testimonies where appropriate, just as you did in the midterm essays.

Voyage of the Damned (film) and Admitting Jewish Refugee Children in 1939…… syllabus sources.
Sacco-Vanzetti case and T. R. and the Hyphenates.
Life of Yoshiko Uchida, a Japanese-American Living………(sources) and Japanese-American Museum… syllabus sources
the Marial Boat People and newsreel of Hungarian revolutionaries, 1956.
Fortune Magazine, “New American Economy” [2011] and Immigration Reform, 1986.
Status of U.S. Immigration in 2007 [text] and any of the articles in the past four weeks you would like to use for this comparison.

Part B will be approximately three pages in length, no smaller than font 12, using source citations for the testimonies / readings you use.

Each student will address the following essay question.

Define the experience of your family, or a particular family ancestor(s), or someone(s) whose experience you are familiar with, and portray the immigration experience(s) coming from their native homeland, crossing to the U.S., the process of “assimilation”, and what to you was the eventual outcome of this experience(s). Or if this process is still ongoing, characterize the stage s/he has reached by this point in the experience.

Next, relate that experience to several of the post-July 17th website testimonies you select to use. You may also use the exhibits at the N.Y. City Tenement Museum website if you wish. As well, the Museum of Work and Culture exhibits from the field trip, if you were able to attend the field trip. You may also use the interpretation of the “Fortune 500- New American Economy” article of last week.

If the family experience begins in slavery, then perhaps start with emancipation at the end of the Civil War. Move towards the earliest recollections of how family, or a particular individual, began his/her history on the road to full emancipation and citizenship, with all the attending difficulties in this process.

What historical arguments is Wallace & Zepeda-Millán making? Pick and choose what historical episodes you think are important to include. What Key Concepts are they utilizing as analytic framework?

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Book Review 2: Walls, Cages, and Family Separation Race and Immigration Policy in the Trump Era

Book Review General Guide

Introduction:
Research question/topic
Argument/thesis

Methodology:
Research method or approach

Historiography:
What historical arguments is Wallace & Zepeda-Millán making (across diff epochs)?
Pick and choose what historical episodes you think are important to include.
What Key Concepts are they utilizing as analytic framework(s): i.e.,?

Primary sources
Cultural production(s) analyzed in the book
Texts
Data
Evidence
Empirical material
Chapter Breakdown (incl ch 1 intro, 2, 3, 4, 5 concl):

Do you think that the educational system as it is presently functioning in the United States serves students well? Or do you think that it might be more responsive to their needs, if is revamped to incorporate a mix of educational modalities that predominated in colonial America?

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Colonial America

Some things to ponder before you even begin writing this essay: Do you think that the educational system as it is presently functioning in the United States serves students well? Or do you think that it might be more responsive to their needs, if is revamped to incorporate a mix of educational modalities that predominated in colonial America?

Questions you should respond to are written in italics.

Apprenticeship programs

Many young people in Colonial America took part in apprenticeships; they learned a trade as they worked alongside experienced crafts persons. (Note: Nobody is indicting that these apprentices were necessarily treated well. Some might have been abused on many levels.)

Might updated apprenticeships be more responsive to the needs of students than are the educational programs now operational in America’s cities? Might they send students on their way to a career while they are still in high school? Might apprenticeship programs sponsored by unions grant participants a chance to earn while they learn?

In answering these questions do some research on apprenticeship programs which are currently being made available to students and on apprenticeship programs as they existed during Colonial times. Use both the text and outside resources as you collect pertinent information.

Home Schooling

Families in colonial America were largely responsible for educating children (text 21). During more modern times, home schooling became an increasingly more popular option when schools were shuttered during the pandemic and online learning proved less than optimum.

Advocates for this educational modality maintain that it has multiple advantages. It provides students with a curriculum that is tailored to their particular needs and also frees them up to spend time on projects or work opportunities that might benefit them more than would sitting in a classroom. And it, likewise, allows students to avoid the bullying and social pressures than can make their school days unpleasant. Do you think that it can live up to the promises proponents make for it?

In answering these questions do some research on the apprenticeship programs and the home schooling efforts which are being offered to today’s students and on these educational modalities as they existed during Colonial times. Use the text, outside resources, your personal observations plus dialogues with others as you collect this essential information.

In response two peers, reflect on their revised statement. Describe the ways you find it shows the complexity of the event,and provide a suggestion for how they can further develop the statement or the supporting examples.

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Complexity and Contingency

In response two peers, reflect on their revised statement. Describe the ways you find it shows the complexity of the event,and provide a suggestion for how they can further develop the statement or the supporting examples.

#1
I selected option one for this discussion topic: The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), and the Native corporation system has been good for Alaska Natives. Based on the web text for this topic, I believe the ANCSA was good for the Alaskan Natives. The settlement agreed that the Natives would receive 44 million acres of land and a cash payment of $962.5 million. The ANCSA benefited native and non-native people with a program called The Alaskan Permanent Fund which collects 25% of the oil royalties and distributes a dividend to event qualified Alaskan. Also, all natives who were alive in 1971 were able to enroll in one of the corporations and qualified for 100 shares of stock. This settlement, in my opinion, was fair, and it gave the natives land along with stock and an annual dividend. They did not seem forced out of their native land, as seen in the Trail of Tears. Based on the reading, all parties benefit from The Alaskan Settlement Act.

The events contingent on the passing of the ANCSA were the purchase of land from Russa in March of 1967 when the Atlantic-Richfield Company discovered oil in 1968 and the Alaska Federation of Natives making sure there was a fair agreenment for the land.

#2
The Alaska Native Settlements Act and the Native corporation system was better for Alaska Natives than the settlements/treaties in the past. There were lots of benefits for the Alaskan Natives, they received 44 million acres and a cash payment of $962.5 million and they were also able to negotiate these terms, not like in the past where they got nothing and had no negotiating power. Even more historic than the size of the ANCSA settlement was the way it was structured a radical departure from the traditional model of Native reservations in the Lower 48, in which the federal government holds Native lands in trust. Instead of establishing reservations ANCSA set up a system of Native corporations to administer the land and invest the monetary settlement for the benefit of Natives (Thomas, 1986).

I do believe this had a positive impact on Alaskan natives especially compared to how they were treated in the past. However, there were some implications. In recent years, many Natives have questioned the extent to which the corporation system might be supplanting some tribal structures and weakening ties to Native heritage. Economically this settlement really helped the Natives, but cultural it may have weakened their heritage and culture.

my response to this discussion

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Caitlin Soto posted Aug 17, 2022 2:47 PM
The statement “in preparation for Cherokee removal, state and federal officials” were inspired solely by the desire to seize the native’s land does not present a full picture of why the Cherokee people were chased out of their lands. This native land was not the only one that inspired the government officials. My revised statement is that the federal and state governments wanted to chase the Cherokee people because their territory had natural resources like cotton, which led to an important cash crop then. It was also filled with gold, and their land was also used as an excuse to chase the Cherokee people out of the rich deposits since it could be very difficult for them to get and farm the land and gold with the natives there. The approach I would take in my research topic would be to compare how President Jackson ignored the Supreme Court ruling in Georgina that said that the people’s states could not interfere with the native tribals and the amendment that gave men from Africa America the right to vote. (Bens, 2018)