What happened during the developmental stages? How did it impact their development? What stage was the most critical for the person? Were there people in their lives at critical stages that shaped their development?

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Social Work

Students will write a Life History Paper on a public figure (Ida b wells) . Students will write a theoretical analysis of the person’s development and behavior across the life courses (childhood and infancy, adolescence, young and middle adulthood, late adulthood). Students will discuss how each life course (childhood and infancy, adolescence, young and middle adulthood, and late adulthood have impacted the life of the public figure.

Theories to be selected for this assignment:

▪ Feminist Theory

These question should help guide you

  1. What happened during the developmental stages?
  2. How did it impact their development?
  3. What stage was the most critical for the person?
  4. Were there people in their lives at critical stages that shaped their development?

The requirements for this assignment are met by:
Note: For each section, place headings within the paper.

Identify and discuss how one idea, one event, and one social value in modern German history played a role in the Nazi movement.

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National Socialism

National Socialism hardly developed in a vacuum. It took shape borrowing from and reacting to a host of ideals, movements, aesthetics, and images circulating since the early 19th century. Citing at least 8 separate primary source documents and 2 secondary sources from Weeks 2-8 in our course, identify and discuss how one idea, one event, and one social value in modern German history played a role in the Nazi movement.

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.

Explain the impact on Australia of the Japanese attacks on Darwin and Sydney Harbour.

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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.

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.

To what extent do these gaps in Wagner’s evidence blunt the persuasive power of The Skull of Alum Bheg? In other words, how much of his overall argument rests on pinpointing Bheg’s identity and tying the skull now in Wagner’s possession to that particular individual?

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From the first, scholar Kim A. Wagner freely acknowledges that he has not been able to uncover any historical reference to Alum Bheg outside the handwritten note accompanying his putative skull, let alone verify that said skull belonged to this specific shadowy sepoy. To what extent do these gaps in Wagner’s evidence blunt the persuasive power of The Skull of Alum Bheg? In other words, how much of his overall argument rests on pinpointing Bheg’s identity and tying the skull now in Wagner’s possession to that particular individual?

Explain the differing positions between federalism and anti-federalism in the debates over ratifying the U.S. Constitution during Virginia’s Ratifying Convention in 1788. How did these differing viewpoints concerning the role of the federal government.

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Federalism and anti-federalism

Explain the differing positions between federalism and anti-federalism in the debates over ratifying the U.S. Constitution during Virginia’s Ratifying Convention in 1788. How did these differing viewpoints concerning the role of the federal government.

Write a paragraph of what the difference in the two documents is. How does the “South Carolina Exposition and Protest” differ in its argument from the “Kentucky Resolution”?

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Kentucky Resolution section) and South Carolina Exposition and Protest

Task
For this essay, you will need to read “Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (1798)” (but only read the Kentucky Resolution section) and “South Carolina Exposition and Protest”.

In your essay, you should:

Write an introduction outlining the basic argument of state powers versus national powers. You may want to turn to the Constitution itself to find material.
Write a brief summary of why each document was written. What is the historical context of the documents? You will probably want a paragraph for each document.

Write a paragraph of what the two documents have in common.

Write a paragraph of what the difference in the two documents is. How does the “South Carolina Exposition and Protest” differ in its argument from the “Kentucky Resolution”?

Write a conclusion that answers whether or not a state should have the ability to nullify a national law, and if so, under what circumstances? If not, why not? This last paragraph will be your opinion, but remember do not use “I” in any form. State your opinion as if it were fact.

Demonstrate critical understanding of the contours and phases of this period of Islamic history, and its key personalities, events and institutions and to show analytical awareness of the terminology, discourses and debates surrounding this period of history.

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Muslim History

To write a critical review essay of 1,500 words in which two readings on Islamic history are compared and analysed.

1. Demonstrate critical understanding of the contours and phases of this period of Islamic history, and its key personalities, events and institutions and to show analytical awareness of the terminology, discourses and debates surrounding this period of history.

2. Demonstrate developed insight into the historiographical and interpretive complexity of the textual traditions through which knowledge of this period of Islamic history in its various phases is revealed.

Who was Robert Emmet? What did he stand for? Why did he make this famous speech from the dock in 1803? How well do we know him? What impact has he had on the politics of memory in Ireland? How would you measure the success of his rebellion?

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Robert Emmet Assignment

Robert Emmet, a young United Irishman who led a short-lived, ill-fated rebellion against Britain in 1803, is often seen as a poignant, tragic figure in Irish history, particularly in Irish nationalist narratives. Who was Robert Emmet? What did he stand for? Why did he make this famous speech from the dock in 1803? How well do we know him? What impact has he had on the politics of memory in Ireland? How would you measure the success of his rebellion? Using the sources provided here (one primary source, two secondary sources), write your own assessment of Robert Emmet and his place in history. Bring all the skills you have learned in doing W5+H exercises to your interpretation of his speech. Think about the arguments that Elliott and Whelan make in their articles and the evidence they put forward about this moment in history. Then, come to your own conclusions about Emmet as a historical subject.