Category: History

Read the document that is posted for this week and answer the following questions. Use specific examples from the text as evidence to support your assertions, and use complete sentences. This is NOT an essay; answer each question by numbering the questions. Please type up your answers and either submit an accepted file type or copy and paste it into the textbox. [50 points total]
SOME TIPS:
connect evidence (quotes) to assertions (explain how your evidence supports what you’re saying, don’t just list quotations);
use quotation marks for your quotes;
maximum points cannot be achieved with meeting minimums: if you want the highest points, shoot for more than the minimum required;
most times, more than one piece of evidence is better;
sometimes we can only assert what is NOT true (reasonably connected to the context & evidence), rather than what is true about the speaker or time/place, etc
you can use a quotation more than once (sometimes a quote can tell you multiple things)
Speaker: What do we know about the speaker or author of this source? What are some things you can speculate about the speaker/author from the source? (you may not know his/her name, but you can draw conclusions about him/her and his/her position). What specific examples from within the source provide evidence to support your assertion(s)? [5 pts]
Occasion: When and where was the source created (what kind of historical context can you determine)? Make a guess based on the context or clues within the source (you do not need to guess a year; you can estimate a time period or context). What specific examples from within the source provide evidence to support your assertion(s)? HINT: names, places, technologies, etc can help us place things historically [5 pts]
Audience: Whom do you think is the intended audience of this source (to whom is the source speaking)? What specific examples from within the source provide evidence to support your assertion(s)? [4 pts]
Purpose: FIRST: What kind of source is it? (i.e., a speech, inscription, religious text, legal text, law code, proclamation, letter, treaty, etc [these are NOT the only things the source can be]) What specific examples from within the source provide evidence to support your assertion(s)? [3 pts]
SECOND: Why do you think this source was created? What is its purpose? What specific examples from within the source provide evidence to support your assertion(s)? [5 pts]
[8 pts total]
Subject: IN YOUR OWN WORDS, summarize the source (what is it about?). A good summary will give an overview of the content, breadth, and organization of the source. Your reader should have a good idea of what the source is about by reading your summary. Think about a summary as spoiling the movie plot for your friend who hasn’t seen it. Spoil this source for me! You do not need to quote from the source in your summary, but you should give enough detail to give the gist of what is happening within the source. HINT: a good summary will probably need a few sentences. [8 pts]
Tone: What is the attitude or tone of the speaker and/or source? Are there any emotions that can be detected in this source? What specific examples from within the source provide evidence to support your assertion(s)? [4 pts]
Digging Deeper: What does this source tell us about the people or time in which it was created? Give at least two examples supported by specific evidence from within the source of what we can know about their culture, religion, beliefs, politics, or social structure, etc. What specific examples from within the source provide evidence to support your assertion(s)? Two examples are the minimum. More examples and evidence mean more points. [12 pts]
Making Connections: Give one specific example of how our own society is similar to this one. Give one specific example of how our own society is different from this one. [4 pts]
I am more than happy to look over what you have or meet face-to-face beforehand, but we must do it before noon on Saturday the weekend it is due. This will allow me time to give better feedback and you enough time to make adjustments, if necessary.
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In what ways did the aftermath of World War I contribute to the rise of totalitarian regimes in Europe, and how did these regimes seek to redefine national identity and citizenship?

Using your text, lectures and course materials, you will address conditions covered in the materials for Week 2. Your essay must be a minimum of 500 words and address the following:
Address and explain at least THREE important policies under the Jackson and Van Buren Administrations. What impact did each one have and were they consistent with the values of the new Democratic Party led by Jackson?
You will need to cite your sources in the body of your essay and list your sources below the essay itself. Two sources minimum required. (Your textbook and module sources are acceptable). No title page or abstract required.

Please answer all of the questions Questzalcoatl
How did Quetzalcoatl look physically?
How would you characterize the Toltecs and their culture?
What is significant about the priests of Tula copying the conduct of Quetzalcoatl, according to the text?
What relationship develops between the Huaxtec (Tezcatlipoca in disguise) and Quetzalcoatl once the latter’s daughter has been healed?
How does the Huaxtec win the approval of the Toltecs?
What might be the significance of the Toltec’s inability to remove the corpse of the man they stoned to death, and of their reaction to this failure?
Before Quetzalcoatl leaves for Tlapallan, what does he do with his belongings?
What is ironic about the companions that Quetzalcoatl has with him on his journey between the mountains Popocatepetl and Iztactepetl?
What are the most remarkable things that Quetzalaocatl does on his journey beyond the mountains to Tlapallan?
Please answer all of the questions Huitzilopochtli
Who is Coatlicue related to and how does she become pregnant?
What do Coyolxauhqui and the four hundred gods of the south decide to do to Coatlicue, and why?
What did Cuahuitlicac do for Hutizilopochtli?
What became of Coyolxauhqui after Huitzilopochtli was born?
What did Huitzilopochtli do to the four hundred gods of the south?

Reading Questions on ‘Metaphysical and Theological Ideas of the Nahuas’
Please answer all of the questions.
At the beginning of their comments, do the tlamatinime seem humble or proud?
Whom do they speak for, and why do the tlamatinime do what they do?
Why are they “disturbed…[and] troubled”?
According to these wise men, what do the gods do for humanity?
What do the tlamatinime have to say regarding the beginning of the gods and man’s worship of them?
What do the tlamatinime say regarding the teachings of the Spanish priests?
Reading Questions on ‘Philosophy, Education and the Aztecs’
Please answer all three questions “From the heavens they come” poem
1. Using the reading as your guide, what do you think Cuetzpalin is saying in the first seven lines of the poem?
2. Using the reading as your guide, what do you think Cuetzpalin is saying in lines 22-28?
3. Using the reading as your guide, what do you think Cuetzpalin is saying in lines 29-36?

The Spanish Conquest – Fact & Fiction’
I would like you to simply single out at least one item of information for discussion that you found interesting?
please use video below

Explain the complexities of slavery using the readings attached (e.g., Transatlantic Slave Trade, etc.) and the Catholic Church (e.g., Martin Luther, etc.).

***I need the term paper Bibliography only at this time.
The paper will be completed in three stages:
1. Draft bibliography. Worth 50 points. Due by midnight Saturday (Eastern Time) at the end of Week 3 of the course.
2. Draft paper. Worth 100 points. Due by midnight Saturday (Eastern Time) at the end of Week 6 of the course.
3. Final paper, which includes revisions to both the text of the paper and the bibliography. Worth 150 points. Due by midnight Saturday (Eastern Time) at the end of Week 9 of the course.
An integral part of the course will be the writing of a term paper 5-6 pages long. In the paper the student will examine a topic arising from the course material, such as the forces that drove a particular change in American society or they ways in which American society or the lives of Americans changed as a result of some particular historical event or development (such as one of the World Wars or the influx of immigrants in the late 19th century).
The Term Paper calls for you to use and cite at least (2) primary sources, and (4) secondary sources. It is important, therefore, to be clear about the distinction between primary and secondary sources.
For submitted bib., you need to separate primary from secondary and give full info on sources such as author, publ, date, and how accessed. Urls do not take place of full bib. entry. Style should follow that of University of Chicago.
Let’s suppose, for example, that you were writing a paper about immigration in the 1880s and wanted to set about gathering the ten required sources for your paper. Under the guidelines of the grading rubric for the assignment (and please read those guidelines carefully), you would need to assemble at least two primary sources. The remainder may be secondary sources.
A primary source is a document that comes directly from the time period being studied or a document that was produced by someone who had direct involvement in that period’s events. Primary sources generally include letters, journals, government documents, photographs or newspaper articles from the immediate time period of the events under discussion.
A diary or letters or a memoir written by someone who emigrated to America in the 1880s would be considered a primary source. So would government records from the 1880s showing numbers of immigrants arriving at, say Ellis Island in New York Harbor or Angel Island in San Francisco Bay. An article about the new immigrants published in the New York Times during the 1880s also would be considered a primary source. Many primary documents are available online through the Library of Congress, the various presidential libraries, and major public or university libraries.
Books and articles published in later decades that discuss immigration in the 1880s would be considered secondary sources.
One final reminder: Do not use Wikipedia as a source, nor any other web site that is not in the .edu or .gov domains, unless you have received specific prior approval from the instructor.

Research paper of approximately 35 pages in total length–similar to a journal article that follows the guidelines for developing a historical research topic, question, problem, and working hypothesis as laid out in Part I, Chapter 2 of Turabian.

Part I: Foundations of Race and Ethnicity
1) How is Takaki’s history of Native Americans important to the understanding of
the sports mascot controversy?
a. Please answer in 1-2 paragraphs.
b. Be sure to quote course materials only (cite both Takaki’s chapter and
Brown’s interview with Michael Kraus and Xanni Brown).
c. Please include at least 2 quotations with citations.
2) Using course materials only, what is the relationship between institutional racism
and Black American experiences?
a. 1-2 paragraphs, quote course materials only
b. Please include at least 2 quotations with citations
3) Using course materials only, how do Chicana/x/o and Latina/x/o people
humanize themselves? (Please see materials on humanization)
a. 1-2 paragraphs, quote course materials only
b. Please include at least 2 quotations with citations
4) Using course materials only, explain how Asian Americans have been “othered”
in our society.
a. 1-2 paragraphs, quote course materials only
b. Please include at least 2 quotations with citations

I WILL PROVIDE LINKS THAT YOU NEED TO USE FOR THE ANSWERS, NO OUTSIDE SOURCES!!!
Part I: Foundations of Race and Ethnicity
1) How is Takaki’s history of Native Americans important to the understanding of
the sports mascot controversy?
a. Please answer in 1-2 paragraphs.
b. Be sure to quote course materials only (cite both Takaki’s chapter and
Brown’s interview with Michael Kraus and Xanni Brown).
c. Please include at least 2 quotations with citations.
2) Using course materials only, what is the relationship between institutional racism
and Black American experiences?
a. 1-2 paragraphs, quote course materials only
b. Please include at least 2 quotations with citations
3) Using course materials only, how do Chicana/x/o and Latina/x/o people
humanize themselves? (Please see materials on humanization)
a. 1-2 paragraphs, quote course materials only
b. Please include at least 2 quotations with citations
4) Using course materials only, explain how Asian Americans have been “othered”
in our society.
a. 1-2 paragraphs, quote course materials only
b. Please include at least 2 quotations with citations
I WILL PROVIDE LINKS THAT YOU NEED TO USE FOR THE ANSWERS, NO OUTSIDE SOURCES!!!