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The pursuit of happiness

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Please watch the 10-minute video above discussing in more detail the Declaration of Independence. The video breaks down the Declaration in detail. Part of the Declaration explains the phrase “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

Explain what the founding fathers meant with this statement.
Also, discuss what this phrase means to you personally.
Be sure to discuss what happiness means to you and how the government can play a role in your pursuing and achieving your happiness.

Please answer the following questions with a 300-word response.

Requirements: 300-350 words

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Black Lives Matter (BLM) Movement

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Find a news story from anytime in the past year addressing a political or social issue (e.g., the BLM movement; the MAGA movement) that has roots in the historical developments covered in this class. Write an essay (3-4 pages) examining the historical roots of this issue. How did we get here? You must draw from at least 1 assigned reading from each week (at least 5 altogether) and at least 1 assigned documentary film.

Introduce the news story in the beginning of your essay. Then tell me how the story has roots in historical developments covered in our readings.

If you would like to also draw from readings not assigned in this course, talk to me first.

Your essay should be argument-driven. That means it should have a thesis statement in the first paragraph. A thesis is an argument–something that is debatable (not simply a statement of a fact).

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Media history topics

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Purpose: This discussion activity is designed for you to identify a media history topic to study for a research paper and see what kind of information and sources are available (MLO 1). You will propose ideas, and based on feedback from your peers choose a topic to refine into an argument, which is the focus of the next assignment.

Task: Follow these instructions.

1- Identify three media history topics you are interested in pursuing for your historical research project.

2- Provide some information about each one.

3- For each one, visit the University Libraries database or journal websites to see what sources and information are available.

Tell which one you likely will pursue and why.

4- Indicate in one to three sentences what your position or argument might be.

Criteria for success: After completing this assignment and receiving feedback, you will have a more clear idea of what your media history topic will be for your research paper. This will help you for the next step of the research paper, which is described in the next assignment.

Assignment – Final Paper Topic

Purpose: This assignment is designed for you to identify a media history topic to study for a research paper, assess academic sources before incorporating them into the research paper, and propose a research question or an argument for your historical research paper .

Task: Follow the below instructions. Choose a topic

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feminist art movement

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Week 6: Feminism; N. America – Gr. Britain

After reading this week’s content, select 1 question to write about.

1. What does the term, “feminist art” mean to you? Give at least one example and post an image.

2. Discuss the differences between Modernism and Postmodernism as related to feminist art. Give at least one example and post an image.

3. Define “otherness.” Give at least one example as related to our studies this week and post an image.

4. Discuss what is meant by “cultural stereotyping.” Give at least one example as related to our studies this week and post an image.

Remember to cite and reference your work using MLA style. Other quality references may be utilized in conjunction with the posted Resources.
Be sure to respond to your fellow classmates and professor’s questions. Remember that the goal is to find best possible answers to the provided questions.
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After reading this week’s content, select 1 question to write about.

1. What does the term, “feminist art” mean to you? Give at least one example and post an image.

2. Discuss the differences between Modernism and Postmodernism as related to feminist art. Give at least one example and post an image.

3. Define “otherness.” Give at least one example as related to our studies this week and post an image.

4. Discuss what is meant by “cultural stereotyping.” Give at least one example as related to our studies this week and post an image.

Remember to cite and reference your work using MLA style. Other quality references may be utilized in conjunction with the posted Resources.
Be sure to respond to your fellow classmates and professor’s questions. Remember that the goal is to find best possible answers to

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Assimilation

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America is often referred to as “the melting pot.,

America is often referred to as “the melting pot.,” a metaphor for assimilation. Define assimilation and explain the benefits and challenges of assimilating into another culture?

Respond in a 600-word essay,

using MLA format,

text readings Hirschberg, Stuart and Hirschberg, Terry.

Hirschberg, Stuart and Hirschberg, Terry. One World, Many Cultures. 10th ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2018.

Amparo B. Ojeda’s “Growing up American: Doing the Right Thing” (p. 234)
Stephen Chapman’s “The Prisoner’s Dilemma” (pg. 256)
Piers Hernu’s “Norway’s Ideal Prison” (pg. 264)
Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel “Individualism as an American Cultural Value” (pg. 272)

Elizabeth W. and Robert A. Fernea’s “A Look Behind the Veil” (pg. 280)two outside sources to support your opinion

Requirements: 600-word

don’t forget to use two outside sources to support your opinion and one or two sources from the reading i provide in my question

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America and globally

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Historical awareness informs various aspects of our lives. We live in a time of rapid change, and we often think more about the future than the past. However, studying history can help us better understand our own lives in the context of the places we live and society in general. In America, specifically, the government is informed by its citizens. If the ideals of society shift, that shift will eventually move throughout the different levels of government, effecting widespread change.

For the projects in this course, you will select a historical event that has impacted American society in some way. You may select an event that was discussed in the course, or you may select your own event, with instructor approval. You may consider using the event you chose to work on in your Perspectives in History class, if that event is something you wish to investigate further through this assessment. In Project 1, you will develop a plan for an essay on this historical event. The plan will include a brief description of the selected historical event and the resources you will use in your research. In addition, you will identify an audience for your essay and decide how to communicate your information to this audience.

In Project 2, you will write an essay analyzing the historical event you selected, examining its impact on society as well as its impact on you personally. Project 2 addresses the following course outcomes:

 Illustrate the impact of historical thinking on personal and professional experiences

 Select appropriate and relevant primary and secondary sources in investigating foundational historic events

 Communicate effectively to specific audiences in examining fundamental aspects of human history

 Utilize historical evidence in drawing conclusions about the impact of historic events on American society

 Apply key approaches to studying history in addressing critical questions related to historical narratives and perspectives

Your historical analysis essay should answer the following prompt: Analyze the historical event you selected, using your writing plan as the basis for your analysis. The following critical elements will be assessed in a 4- to 6-page word processing document.

I. Introduction: In this section of your essay, you will introduce your readers to the historical event you selected. Specifically, you should:

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Gynecologist complaining

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Include both case studies in your post.

Your initial post should be at least 700 words, formatted and cited in current APA style, 7 edition, with support from at least 2 academic sources within the last 5 years. Please use the materials provided.

You should respond to at least two peers by extending, refuting/correcting, or adding additional nuance to their posts. Each response should be 150 words, all replies must be constructive and use one reference. The information for the peer responses will be provided on Thursday and is needed in a term of 12 hr.

Hematopoietic:

J.D. is a 37 years old white woman who presents to her gynecologist complaining of a 2-month history of intermenstrual bleeding, menorrhagia, increased urinary frequency, mild incontinence, extreme fatigue, and weakness. Her menstrual period occurs every 28 days and lately there have been 6 days of heavy flow and cramping. She denies abdominal distension, back-ache, and constipation. She has not had her usual energy levels since before her last pregnancy.

Past Medical History (PMH):
Upon reviewing her past medical history, the gynecologist notes that her patient is a G5P5with four pregnancies within four years, the last infant having been delivered vaginally four months ago. All five pregnancies were unremarkable and without delivery complications. All infants were born healthy. Patient history also reveals a 3-year history of osteoarthritis in the left knee, probably the result of sustaining significant trauma to her knee in an MVA when she was 9 years old. When asked what OTC medications she is currently taking for her pain and for how long she has been taking them, she reveals that she started taking ibuprofen, three tablets each day, about 2.5 years ago for her left knee. Due to a slowly progressive increase in pain and a loss of adequate relief with three tablets, she doubled the daily dose of ibuprofen. Upon the recommendation from her nurse practitioner and because long-term ibuprofen use can cause peptic ulcers, she began taking OTC omeprazole on a regular basis to prevent gastrointestinal bleeding. Patient history also reveals a 3-year history of HTN for which she is now being treated with a diuretic and a centrally acting antihypertensive drug. She has had no previous surgeries.

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African American civil rights movement.

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Assignment Goal: A five-page essay that analyzes an important historical primary source document or artifact in order to answer a historical question about a keyword, and utilizes at least one historian’s writing about it. Historians create secondary sources, and the essay gets secondary source credit ONLY if they are quoted for interpretive or evaluative statements. The essay can use facts from secondary sources, but to gain credit in the essay the quote used must be a statement of analysis, a showing of cause (causality), an interpretation, a position on a historical dilemma, or a claim that the keyword was beneficial or harmful to America.

Step One: Moving from Keyword to Primary Source

Choose one of the numbered keywords found in the Keyword list for Chapters 24-30, and locate the passage section in American Yawp that discusses that keyword. This is your topic background, but you need to find a TEXT or other document (audio, video) or artifact (artwork, object) that will serve as the focus of your essay.

Example: A student named Fiona chose the keyword “Great Recession” and reads the American Yawp text about it in Section V of Chapter 30. The textbook says that a major cause of the recession was a government law entitled the “Commodity Futures Modernization Act”. Yawp also says this law “exempted credit-default swaps—perhaps the key financial mechanism behind the crash—from regulation” (30.V.ii). Fiona focuses on the question, “How did such a law cause the hardship of the Recession?” She decides to find out. She decides the main primary source text is the CFM Act itself. Now she needs to find out how this law allowed banks to collapse, people to lose their homes or jobs, and soon after put the burden to repay the lost money on average Americans instead of forcing banks to take the loss.

Step Two: Moving from Primary Source to Secondary Source

Locate an essay or book written by a historical scholar that analyzes the primary source as one of its features. Use the Queens College Library search engine to locate this source. DO NOT USE YOUR WEB BROWSER SEARCH ENGINE. You will not get credit for this essay if you do not use at least one peer-reviewed academic article or book-length study of your topic. You may use multiple secondary sources for this essay, but at least one must be an academic study that, somewhere in its content, interprets and examines your primary source.

Any secondary source used must be over 3000 words in length (approximately ten printed pages).

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Organizing principle of American history.

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A Short Paper Assignment allows you to demonstrate your research skills to your instructor and to receive feedback that will benefit you when you write research papers for future courses. With this assignment, you will learn how to do proper research and write a short paper.

Your topic must be the the same topic approved by your instructor in Week 3.

This short paper is at least three double-spaced pages of text (Times New Roman, font size 12) and you must consult a minimum of two academically credible sources. Your bibliography and citations may be in APA, MLA, or Chicago Style format. Students majoring in history must use Chicago Style format.

The short paper needs to be turned in through the assignment section for grading. If you use any of the information from your sources word-for-word, you must cite the source by using endnotes, footnotes, or parenthetical citations. If you read the information and write it in your own words and it is not common knowledge, then you must cite the source because you are paraphrasing someone’s information.

The short paper must include a cover page with your name, course number and course title, instructor’s name, and date.

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Economic and political relationships.

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The term paper (which takes the place of a final exam): this assignment requires you to pretend are offering advice to the new King Charles II or his privy council in 1660 and you must do so by drawing upon the history which you have absorbed in our course this semester. You may offer advice to the new king or his council on any subject or theme you wish, but your paper must make detailed reference to the contents of at least one of the primary source documents which have been provided for discussion this semester. Your paper should also clearly draw upon material from our textbook (Tombs). In addition, your paper can draw upon any other readings provided for this course (eg the optional readings or articles provided to supplement weekly reading). I can also upload additional readings on specific topics if you request them (and I can find suitable readings on that topic!).

We will cover the 1650s in the final module of our course (Topic 10 in Week 15), but here is some background information which will help you to contextualize the term paper in advance of Week 15:

In January 1649, Charles I was executed after losing two civil wars and the monarchy in England and Ireland was abolished (the story in Scotland was a bit more complicated). The puritans who supported the parliamentary side in the Civil Wars of the 1640s had already ensured that the Church of England was also dis-established. England, and later Ireland and Scotland, were governed by an English republic, effectively based upon the power of the army and dominated by puritan-style religion. Between 1653 and 1658, this English Republic (known as the Commonwealth) was dominated by a military strongman, Oliver Cromwell, who was given the title of Lord Protector. However, after Cromwell’s death in 1658, the republic rapidly fell apart. This is why the monarchy was revived in 1660 (“the Restoration”) and Charles I’s eldest son was invited back from exile overseas to become Charles II. This makes 1660 a very interesting time: the experiment with republicanism and puritan religious policies had failed, but Charles could not directly challenge most of those associated with the republic if he wanted to restore national unity and build support for himself as king. The very word “Restoration” itself also suggested a return to political normality (after a very abnormal twenty years!) and a revival of England’s traditional (ie historical) practices and values.