Compare and contrast the motivations for different European powers to colonize the Americas (e.g., Dutch, French, Spanish, English). Provide specific examples from class materials in your analysis.

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History essay question about europeans power to colonize to america

Compare and contrast the motivations for different European powers to colonize the Americas (e.g., Dutch, French, Spanish, English). Provide specific examples from class materials in your analysis. Use MLA citations and include a works cited page.

Identify the chosen chapter. Then indicate your contention (presumably the main idea/theory/etc). Summarize the chapter and introduce three premises (ideas) you will develop logically with evidence from the text to logically reach your conclusion.

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ON LIBERTY, UTILITARIANISM,

Write about one of the chapters under Utilitarianism from Mill – On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays (Oxford, 2015).pdf, provided to you in the course pack.

• Identify the chosen chapter. Then indicate your contention (presumably the main idea/theory/etc).

• Summarize the chapter and introduce three premises (ideas) you will develop logically with evidence from the text to logically reach your conclusion.

Identify some significant perspectives on the global impact of World War II that Halloran’s short video brings to light. Highlight nations other than the U.S. that you never encountered in your WWII studies.

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Background to Historical Context of the Second World War (1939-1945).

Fascination with World War II is widespread in the United States. It is a common topic on the History Channel and at the movies. Many families have stories from their elders about wartime service. Ask your elders soon about World War II because those who remember the war firsthand are fewer and fewer. Those who fought the war have been called “The Greatest Generation” of the twentieth century. They made sacrifices which unfortunately cost them their lives, their longterm health, and took their vital years of their youth. Some people say that the Covid pandemic is the biggest national disaster since World War II. So perhaps this week’s topic is one that is somewhat familiar to you.

Prepare to be a little surprised by what you learn about World War II this week. Next week after spring break, Samantha Power will guide us to how the world began to understand the preparations for genocide unfolding in Europe in the 1930s.
This week, we will take a global view of World War II to see how the American experience compares to other wartime combattants. Briefly stated, the war was hell for everyone even though we have some hero-worship and nostalgia for the people of those times. The U.S. death toll was substantial but it was far surpassed in other parts of the world. Very little combat occurred on American soil and most civilians lived safely, except for those at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and in the West Coast internment camps (primarily Japanese Americans). Nothing could be further from the experience of people in Europe, Asia, and parts of Africa.

Neil Halloran’s video “The Fallen of World War II” from 2016 takes a data-driven approach to the global conflict so that we can see it truly as a worldwide war. His digital animation shows a real talent from bringing out the human element embedded in the data. You’ll be surprised at the story that emerges. Last week’s video by Jennings called “London Can Take It” made his short film for the British Ministry of Information, the official news source of the government. It is a micro-history compared to “The Fallen” as it deals with 18 hours in London during the Blitz. Narrated by American journalist Quentin Reynolds, it chronicled when German bombers deliberately targeted vulnerable civilians.

The staggering death toll of World War II owes to the length of the war, and to the new technologies of destruction. Aerial bombing of cities was a military objective used by both the Axis (Germany, Italy, Japan) and the Allies (Britain, Soviet Union, USA). High explosives could now be carried in heavier planes and bombers could fly longer distances. They carried conventional bombs, fire bombs that incinerated and melted away their civilian victims, and this war used the first atomic bombs by the U.S. in Japan. While millions served courageously in uniform, it was a war when the lines between soldier and civilian, warfront and homefront, were blurred and erased.

 

Neil Halloran, The Fallen of World War II, 2016

Identify some significant perspectives on the global impact of World War II that Halloran’s short video brings to light. You might want to highlight nations other than the U.S. that you never encountered in your WWII studies. Or you might want to highlight some U.S. experience that you had never heard about before. Emphasize three topics to show your understanding of Halloran’s point of vew about critical thinking on World War II.

What factors helped to blunt the impact of mercantilism and cause unrest in the colonies? How might the problems contribute to the American desire for independence?

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Discussion Topic: (Ch. 6)

By following mercantilism, the British government thought their policies would strengthen the empire. What factors helped to blunt the impact of mercantilism and cause unrest in the colonies? How might the problems contribute to the American desire for independence?

Discuss the main points or arguments that the podcast’s producers or hosts are trying to get across. Analyze specific moments in the episode. Identify the sources and/or experts the podcast drew on or cited in their discussion.

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Podcast review in historical context

For this assignment, you will listen to and analyze one episode from a list of recommended podcasts about history. The review should be at least 1,200 words in length (between 3 and 4 double-spaced pages) – you can use the Word Count feature on Microsoft Word to ensure you have met this requirement.

An essential feature of a good audio review is the reviewer’s ability to write concisely so that a comprehensive evaluation of the podcast episode can be obtained from a brief reading of your writing.

The point of a podcast review is not only to summarize what you listened to, but to situate the historical merit of the episode and to critically evaluate the author’s purpose, thesis, contentions, and methods of analysis in the research they talked about. Hence, the bulk of the body of one’s review essay will be to conduct a scholarly review of the episode you listened to.

A strong review will:

Discuss the main points or arguments that the podcast’s producers or hosts are trying to get across.

Analyze specific moments in the episode.

Consider the the aesthetic elements (music, sound effects, editing) that the producers used to tell their story.

Note: this aspect might not always be easy to address at length, but try to keep it in mind

Identify the sources and/or experts the podcast drew on or cited in their discussion.

Assess the strong points or shortcomings of the episode.

Cite at least one other source (article, book, podcast, documentary, etc.) about the same topic covered in the episode, which either supports or contradicts the analysis made by the producers/host

How does the podcast episode you listened to change the way one should think about the topic of discussion?

The challenge will be to do as much of this as possible within the brief length of the essay. In other words, the goal is to find creative ways to give examples from the episode and outside sources to support your analysis, and to do so in a limited amount of space.

Can the second and third paragraph be slightly more condensed and the conclusion more robust? Also, just to double check, did this writer work on 670514 surrounding oligopolistic competition?

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Carbon Democracy Book Review

Can the second and third paragraph be slightly more condensed and the conclusion more robust? Also, just to double check, did this writer work on 670514 surrounding oligopolistic competition?

Analyze this transition in four (4) different “snapshots” of time: slavery in the colonies, slavery under the new nation, the Civil War, and the Reconstruction.

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Research Paper—Life of African Americans from the colonial period to Reconstruction

Your goal for this research project is to understand the transition in the lives of African Americans from slaves under the early colonists before American independence to free individuals in the aftermath of the Civil War in the Reconstruction era. You’ll analyze this transition in four (4) different “snapshots” of time: slavery in the colonies, slavery under the new nation, the Civil War, and the Reconstruction. The focus is to see how the fight for freedom over nearly a century was a series of small steps forward that, even in the end, still left African Americans in almost the same position despite slavery being abolished.

In conflicts over voting rights, is the state of Texas justified in increased restrictions, such as voter identification, or should the federal government step in more to protect voting rights for minority groups? Discuss.

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Voting right

Assignment: In conflicts over voting rights, is the state of Texas justified in increased restrictions, such as voter identification, or should the federal government step in more to protect voting rights for minority groups? Discuss.

Write an essay considering how the other half lives, an early and very influential journalistic study of the new immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, might be used to support or oppose immigration.

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“How the other half lives” by Jacob A riis

Topics:
At the time that Jacob Riis’ writings and photographs circulated wisely, one of the most important debates in U. S. politics was whether or not to limit sharply the legal immigration Europeans (and especially those from Southern and Eastern Europe) to the United States. While politicians tended to be either pro or anti-immigration, journalists and reformers often produced accounts of immigrants’ lives and urban neighborhoods that could be interpreted as either sympathetic or hostile to open European immigration. In this paper, you are to consider how How the Other Half Lives, an early and very influential journalistic study of the new immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, might be used to support or oppose immigration.

Imagine in the paper that you are a young assistant of either,
1) a Catholic congressman from New York City who wants to defend open immigration, or
2) a conservative Nebraska congressman arguing that immigration must be firmly limited.

Your boss wants to capitalize on the authority of Riis in a speech on immigration. He instructs you to write a 1200 word essay using the celebrated photographs in Riis’ book to make a case for his point of view. The pages should present a clear, many-sided argument and telling evidence with little by way of introduction. They will be a part of a speech he will read into the Congressional Record and should therefore be carefully proofread and written in a style accessible to general readers.

Remember that what Riis himself thought about immigration policy is not what matters most here. Opponents of immigration sometimes used racial arguments and sometimes used numbers, diversity and culture as reasons to oppose open immigration. Defenders argued both that Southern and Eastern Europeans were racially fit and their lives and neighborhoods could be improved.

Explain the impact on Australia of the Japanese attacks on Darwin and Sydney Harbour. In your response, use Sources 1 and 2, and your own knowledge.

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Part B – Written response

Question:
Explain the impact on Australia of the Japanese attacks on Darwin and Sydney Harbour. In your response, use Sources 1 and 2, and your own knowledge.