History

Briefly summarize/discuss the readings and describe your personal reactions/opinions (commentary) about the readings and topic (if there is more than one reading assigned, you should discuss all the readings).  Papers should show evidence that you did all the readings (you should not just write about your own opinion based on your general knowledge of the topic or respond to only one or two specific things that the readings happen to mention).  Good reading response papers should do more than merely summarize the readings.  Your reading response paper will be graded based on the following criteria: a) Content (45% of grade): Is the student using and/or referencing material from the readings? b) Reaction (30% of grade): Is the student expressing a thoughtful response/opinion/commentary about the reading/topic? c) Organization and writing (25% of grade): Is the paper well-organized and written?

1. Read Song of the Sainted.doc AND Andrew Carnegie.doc.  2. Please answer the below questions:  A. What do both the documents tell us about the 1800s?  B. According to the lecture and “Song of the Sainted,” what challenges did factory workers face in the 1800s?  Please provide and analyze two quotes to support your arguments.  C.  According to “Andrew Carnegie,” what specific roles do the wealthy play in society? Please provide and analyze two quotes to support your arguments.

History 101 – Fall 2020 Response Paper #1 Based on a reading of William McNeill’s Plagues and Peoples Respond to the following in essay form.  Responses should total not less than 1250 words.  A footnote has been included as a guide.  Failure to follow a standardized citation form is slothful, especially given word-processing assistance. What are “macroparasites?”  What are “microparasites?”  How does “modulated macroparasitism” operate?  In what environments are microparasites most significant?  What are some of the ways that these two types of parasites interact? What does McNeill mean in the following quote: Looked at from the point of view of other organisms, humankind therefore resembles an acute epidemic disease, whose occasional lapses into less virulent forms of behavior have never yet sufficed to permit any really stable, chronic relationship to establish itself. Does McNeill believe that the advances of modern medicine have banished microparasitism from the human condition? Respond to one of the following: -How did the expansion of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth century alter the disease environment of Eurasia?  -How does McNeill’s narrative encourage us to reinterpret the “Fall of the Roman Empire” in the fifth century and Justinian’s effort to reconstitute it in the sixth century?

Instructions: Drawing from the reading by Oscar Martinez, “Mexican Americans,” write a reflective paragraph 250 words) answering the following questions: 1) Explain the typology of Mexican people and ethnic identity in the U.S-Mexico borderlands and discuss the different characteristics and identities described by Martínez. Provide examples from the readings. 2) Why do you think there are so many types of ethnic identities? Reflect on your own ethnic identity and discuss what has shaped your identity. Do you relate to any of the profiles described? If so, how? If not, why?3) Discuss your own thoughts and ideas about the relevance of ethnic identity in a person’s self-image.

Well, I’ve got a western for you to see, one of the most famous to come out of Hollywood, “Stagecoach”, which made a start out of John Wayne. And then I’ve got a documentary about the man who made it, John Ford, the filmmaker who more than any other created what we call the “Mythological West.” I want you to watch them both and then write me two pages relating Stagecoach to the Ford documentary. What does Stagecoach say about The West? Is it an optimistic vision, or a pessimistic one. What do we conclude about the major characters? Is there a happy ending or an unhappy ending?

What do you make of personifying the homeland in Zamora’s “El Salvador.” What effect does the apostrophe have?

(The Code of Hammurabi).  What is the historical context of this primary source?  What was the religious basis for the Code of Hammurabi?  What does a careful reading of the Code of Hammurabi tell you about how Mesopotamian society was structured and how it functioned? Discuss at least 3 examples or sets of examples from the Code to support your thesis.  What is the historical significance of this primary source?

Answer theses questions and read the file to get answer to the questions  Why were three (3) the following persons significant: Copernicus, Tycho Brake, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galileo, Francis Bacon, and Isaac Newton. What were some ideas of Montesquieu and Rousseau? Briefly explain their importance.

In one cohesive post, (Use paragraphs only, not numbers or bullets)  answer the following questions based on your reading: What was Dr. Finger’s point about the changes that took place among Native Americans BEFORE the coming of the Europeans? How did trade with the Europeans affect the Indians of North America? In describing the Indian tribes of North America, Dr. Finger stressed what he called “Indian heterogeneity”. What did he mean by this? What was the “middle ground”? Why were the outcomes of the French & Indian War and then the American Revolutionary War such critical turning points in Tennessee Indian history?

1. Watch the below film on the Massacre at Wounded Knee:  2. Please critically answer the questions below in complete sentences, being as specific as possible. These questions are in sequential order.  A. Based on the film, how were Native Americans treated on reservations at this time?  B. According to the film, why did the Ghost Dance appeal to Native Americans?  C. Based on the film, what was Big Foot attempting to do?  D. According to the film, how did Wounded Knee become a massacre?  E. What can we learn from the Wounded Knee Massacre?