Category: History

There are features of the U.S. Constitution that were used in the creation of the Arizona Constitution. One feature is the balance of power between the three branches of government. The legislative branch, executive branch, and judicial branch each have a specific role and responsibilities within the state government.
Create a graphic organizer that explains the functions of Arizona’s legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
Include the following for each branch:
Structure and organization
Responsibilities and oversight
Powers and limitations

Propose a policy change to a major problem or issue in Miami.
This assignment involves writing a clear and compelling two-page letter to an elected official identifying a federal or state policy problem that is meaningful to you, proposing a solution to the problem, and conducting and interpreting research to bolster the letter. In the letter, you must analyze how this problem impacts you personally, people in your community, people in your state, and, if a federal issue, people across the United States. You must recommend at least one legislative solution. You can create your own original legislative solution, or you can support or oppose a portion of a bill that is currently pending before Congress or the state legislature. You must support your solution with data and examples from at least two outside sources (books, journals, reliable internet sources) and discuss why your solution is better than other options. All outside research must be properly cited.
Major problem: Improve public transportation in miami
-build subways
-expand and update metrorail
– build more cycling lanes
one source can be:
https://www.wlrn.org/transportation-development/2023-06-08/miami-dade-transit-mobility

In the article by Gonzales, Kertesz, and Tayac, (2007). Eugenics of Indian Removal… you read about the administrative erasure of the Native American tribes in Virginia. What was the major reason given for the administrative changes to American Indians’ state documents and what was one of the results? Remember that North Carolina had a similar policy regarding the identification of Native American people. Please use page numbers from the article to support your replies and try to answer in 150-words. Your response to a classmate’s post counts toward your participation in this class.
The required reading for this module is Eugenics as Indian removal; Helen Maynor Scheirbeck: Devotion to the People; and the optional reading is The Lumbee Indians of North Carolina by Clarence Lowery (1946).
https://archive.org/details/LumbeeIndiansofNorthCarolina/page/n3/mode/2up

Find a contemporary film (from last 20 years) that you feel was influenced by Expressionism. Include 3 characteristics of Expressionism you believe were used in the film. Post film stills to demonstrate your points. Describe each of the 3 characteristics along with the images you post.
Please include the film stills!

Question 1: Define historiography in your own words.
Question 2: Assess Bagnall, Roman Egypt, chapters 1-3, as a secondary source. Address the following topics:
1. Provide the full bibliographic citation for the work. Follow Chicago/Turabian style.
2. Is the work intended for an academic or a general audience? What are the implications of the audience for the author’s style and scope?
3. What is the main argument of the secondary source? For Bagnall, you may want to address each chapter individually.
4. What primary and secondary sources does the author use?
As you read chapters 1-3, look up the sources Bagnall cites after each section in the book’s bibliography. For this assignment, note the range and types of sources he cites.
You do not need to catalogue each source in your response but please do discuss the kinds of evidence that Bagnall relies upon. These sources may also be useful for you in your own research.
5. Does the author reveal any particular point of view or biases? Please identify them and consider what these may suggest about the weaknesses or strengths of the argument.
A book’s preface often will lay out the author’s personal motives for writing the book.
6. Consider the date and country of publication. Set the authors) very briefly into their own historical context.
How might a book in this moment of time differ from previous books? Keep your response here brief. We will address this more fully in the next class on the post-antique reception of Cleopatra.
7. Are there questions or topics that the author does not address? What can you think of that you wish had been included? Every author has to focus on specific issues in their research but these choices mean leaving out some important things. Are there omissions in Bagnall’s book that you consider important? What are they?

Essay (3-4 pages; double spaced; font: New Times Roman):
Address the following essay prompt:
Analyze and compare the perspectives on the intersection between the past, personal/public memories, and historical narratives presented in Arnon Goldfinger’s The Flat (2011) and Joseph Cedar’s Footnote (2011). Address the degree to which—and the manner in which—the past can (or cannot) be captured and represented in personal memory, public memory, and works of scholarship. Illustrate your analysis with relevant evidence from the documentary and the film.
I am sending a note about the footnotes for the essay.

Please use the following format when citing (with the Chicago Manual of Style) a movie or documentary for the first time in the essay:

Title of Movie or Documentary, directed by Director’s First Name Last Name (Release year; City: Studio/Distributor, release year), medium, timestamp as Hour:Minute:Second-Hour:Minute:Second.

Here is a footnote example for the movie Footnote:

Footnote, directed by Joseph Cedar (2011; New York, NY: Sony Pictures Classics, 2011), Academic Video Online, 0:45:34-1:12:56.

And here is a footnote example for the documentary The Flat:

The Flat, directed by Arnon Goldfinger (2013; New York, N.Y.: IFC Films: MPI Home Video, 2013), Swank Motion Pictures, Inc., 0:45:34-1:12:56.

After the first reference for the movie and the documentary, in all subsequent footnotes please use an abbreviated version as follows (Title of Movie or Documentary, timestamp as Hour:Minute:Second-Hour:Minute:Second):

Footnote, 0:45:34-1:12:56.
The Flat, 0:45:34-1:12:56.

There are features of the U.S. Constitution that were used in the creation of the Arizona Constitution. One feature is the balance of power between the three branches of government. The legislative branch, executive branch, and judicial branch each have a specific role and responsibilities within the state government.
Create a graphic organizer that explains the functions of Arizona’s legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
Include the following for each branch:
Structure and organization
Responsibilities and oversight
Powers and limitations

Propose a policy change to a major problem or issue in Miami.
This assignment involves writing a clear and compelling two-page letter to an elected official identifying a federal or state policy problem that is meaningful to you, proposing a solution to the problem, and conducting and interpreting research to bolster the letter. In the letter, you must analyze how this problem impacts you personally, people in your community, people in your state, and, if a federal issue, people across the United States. You must recommend at least one legislative solution. You can create your own original legislative solution, or you can support or oppose a portion of a bill that is currently pending before Congress or the state legislature. You must support your solution with data and examples from at least two outside sources (books, journals, reliable internet sources) and discuss why your solution is better than other options. All outside research must be properly cited.
Major problem: Improve public transportation in miami
-build subways
-expand and update metrorail
– build more cycling lanes
one source can be:
https://www.wlrn.org/transportation-development/2023-06-08/miami-dade-transit-mobility

Examine the Declaration of Independence to quote the line that tells, in no uncertain terms, what the “founding fathers” believed about Indigenous people. Explain how this line serves the purpose of settler colonialism.

Below is an outline of what the paper is supposed to look like:
Name
History 1020
Date
Jakob Walter: The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier
This is what your essay should look like. Have your name and the class information in the upper left-hand corner of this page. You don’t need a cover sheet. Have the name of the book at the top of the first page of your essay. Be sure to use 12-pitch type, which is what this guide uses. Be sure to double-space your text, so the lines aren’t all bunched together. Your margins on the sides and top of every sheet of paper should be about the same as those on this sheet of paper. Your essay should be three pages long.
Be sure to begin your essay with an introductory paragraph that explains what you are trying to do. For this essay, you are writing about what it is like to read about an important historical event from the perspective of a low-level participant in that event. Jakob Walter took part as a soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, most notably the disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812. Walter was not an officer. He had no real idea of what Napoleon’s strategic goals were and had no clear concept of what all this fighting and marching was to achieve. (Please be sure to read the entire book, including the Introduction, the Historical Appraisal, the Letters, the Notes, etc. Be aware that Walter did not write all this extra material.)
In your essay, be sure to have a paragraph or two that describes what benefit you got from reading Walter’s account of Napoleon’s campaigns. There is no “right” or “wrong” answer to this. The important thing is that you explain the positions you take. If you think this was a great book that deepened your understanding of warfare in the early 1800s, it is not enough to say just that. You need to give specific examples and talk about things that impressed you in Walter’s diary that led you to this deeper understanding. (If you felt there was nothing of value here, you need to explain why you felt that way.) Your task is to convince me that you have read this book and thought about it.
You may want to use a quote or two from the book. If you do (and you don’t have to) keep the quote you use short and to the point. Here is an example of how to quote. “The impulse to help one another was still quite dulled.” (Walter p. 105) You, and not Jakob Walter, are the person writing this paper. If you use blocks and blocks of quotes from Walter, you are hiding behind his words. This essay is to show your thoughts, not Walter’s.
Have a paragraph or two about the drawbacks of reading Walter’s account of Napoleon’s campaigns. Did his diary raise questions that you wanted answered, but the answers were not found in the diary? How did reading his diary compare to reading a textbook? What would you find more helpful at this stage of your college career? As before, there are no “right” or “wrong” answers. Present your thoughts to me in a clear and understandable way.
Include a paragraph in your paper about the Historical Appraisal and the other material in the book that was not written by Jakob Walter. Tell whether you found this information useful or not, and explain why you think this way.
After you have discussed the pros and cons of the book, have a paragraph or two in which you tell me what you think of Jakob Walter. Before you write this part of your paper, look at the paragraph that begins at the bottom of page 65 and ends at the top of page 66. In it, Walter talks about judging people who are in extreme situations. Write a paragraph that tells me what you think about Jakob Walter, and then have a paragraph that addresses the issue of how you judge people who live in historic eras of extreme crisis. Again, I am not looking for a “right” or “wrong” answer, but I want you to show me how you think and why you came to the opinion you have.
After you have addressed all these issues, it is time for a concluding paragraph. Here you should sum up your response to the book. Did you like it? Dislike it? Briefly go over the reasons why you reached the conclusion you did and end by saying whether you would recommend that this book be used the next time History 1020 is taught.