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INSTRUCTION SHEET for Assignment 2–with key details:  HIS105_Assignment 2_Instructions_Dr_Stansbury.docx WRITING GUIDE for Assignment 2: HIS105_Writing_Guide_Assmt_2.docx   (tip:  print this out) SOURCES AND TIPS sheet for Assignment 2:  Sources and Tips for Assignment 2_HIS105.docx Assignment 2: Economic Approaches in the Age of Industrialization (1870-1940) Due Week 6 and worth 120 points In Assignment 2, we ask you to choose one of two topic choices listed below on the […]

Write on the following topic: Topic 1: As an epic journey to Hell and back, The Inferno clearly traces its ancestry, in part, to The Aeneid. As an “autobiographical” record of a spiritual struggle, it also has equally obvious roots in Augustine’s Confessions. We come to this book, then, uniquely well-versed in its literary antecedents. Where do you see the influence of The Aeneid in Dante’s poem? Of Confessions? Your response should be […]

Write on one (1) of the following topics: Topic 1: Based on the texts by Kafka and Eliot, (writing on one or the other or both), discuss how the writers seem critical of modern culture, as they portray modern man as a self-conscious functionary who fears an acute loss of spirituality and identity, as well as the ability to achieve […]

In my lectures on Carlos Bulosan’s America is in the Heart, I discussed the idea of America and the way in which writers have argued that America’s promise of freedom and equality needs to be more fully achieved for everyone living in America. Using Bulosan’s text and either James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” or Philip Roth’s “The Conversion of the Jews,” please discuss how the two […]

Write essay answers (you will need at least two or three paragraphs each, maybe more) for each question based on the readings and the texts. No citations are necessary. Please give examples and do not give vague answers. Provide details to back up your arguments. How were Mexican muralists influenced by the 1910 Revolution and other uprisings and what were […]

1) In a paragraph or two, discuss the main differences between early modern colonialism and 19th-century imperialism.  Draw on any of the materials from this module (SEE ATTACHED chapter, primary sources, and the video).  Discuss at least three differences. 2) In Heidi Gengenbach’s Chapter “Tattooed Secrets: Women’s History in Magude District, Southern Mozambique” from Bodies in Contact, what role did tattooing play […]

Imagine that you are writing a letter to a historic figure from a period of Western Civilization that we studied (roughly 1600-1960).  It would be someone that you like.  What would want to say to this person?  Are there things that you would like to ask this person?  Is there something that you’d like to know about this person that […]