...April 10, 2014 American History Final Essay Throughout American history, democracy has been an ever changing system of government; however it is far from perfect. It is constantly shaped by wealth and people of higher power. This played a significant role throughout the early 1800s in limiting the power of African Americans and people of lower socioeconomic statuses. These issues began to rise between the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy from the start of the American Revolution through the Civil War. During this time period, a vast number of changes were implemented into the system of democracy, many of which still remain active today. Democracy created a variety of conflicts between the “Whigs” and the Democrats during the mid-1830s. These battles were fueled by their different beliefs regarding the economic issues of policy, political leaders and different class powers. “Like the Federalist of the 1790s, the Whigs wanted a political world dominated by men of ability and wealth” (Henretta 313). The majority of Whigs were yeomen whites who did not support the power of democrats who were mainly planters (313). These planters were driven by the sole purpose to acquire property and combine man labor with the world’s resources, they did this through slavery. These men believed they possessed the right to replace government if they felt it could not properly protect them and their property (Farless lecture). Most southern planters began to blame their short-comings on...
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...Goldsmiths College History Department Insert you personal details below |Student Number | | |College Email | | |Degree Programme |e.g BA History, BA History/Sociology | |Year of Course | | |Course name |e.g. Concepts and Methods | |Essay Deadline | | |Submission Date | | |Are you dyslexic? | | Essay or Assignment Title Type in box below Guidelines on using this essay template Q. What assignments have to be submitted online? A. Almost all the assignments you do in the History Department will be submitted online via the VLE. We do not accept paper copies of essays. Q. What wordprocessor format should I use for assignments? A. Only two formats are acceptable:...
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...Foodways Research Essay The purpose of this assignment is to conduct an intensive line of research which you will use to produce a 7-9 page essay that informs your reader about the multi-faceted dynamics of a single food item (ingredient, product, or dish) of your choice. This expository essay will mix firsthand experience with research in providing your reader with both an objective and a subjective perspective on your chosen food item. You will research the official history and cultural significance of this food item using scholarly source material and add to this, as applicable, the unofficial or folk history of the dish (stories, rituals, and customs relating to the dish, traditions of preparation and/or consumption). If you have a particular family history relating to this food item, feel free to explore that as well. You will also present a full description, somewhere in your essay, of what the experience of consuming this food item is like – what tastes like, smells like, and feels like on your palate. I strongly suggest that you make a vivid use of figurative language in trying to bring off a vicarious sense of what this experience is like. For this assignment make use of a minimum of five print sources (including at least one article taken from an online database and one book) and one interview source. Some sources you may wish to consider are The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, Bower African American Foodways, and the Credo reference...
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...Consider the importance of essay writing to academic practice in the social sciences, with particular reference to Priest (2007) and Ballard and Clancy (1988). Draw on SSK12 materials and your own experience. In this essay I have stipulated the importance of essay writing in the social sciences outlining knowledge development, bringing fourth the importance of linguistics with the understanding of cultural laws and language within the areas of social science, showing the importance of jargon language with comparisons between two subjects and what is expected from the student in the governing of essay writing. I have also reflected upon essay writing from a teachers perspective, noting the expectations a teacher looks for in essay writing, and adding my perspective with an understanding of the essay cultural system. I have also outlined my experience with the understandings of cultural expectations in disciplines and essay writing concerning linguistics. The importance of essay writing academically in the social sciences is structured in the knowledge internalization, the student writes about the facts that have been a subject of a lecture or read in an article, furthering the knowledge and retention of a given subject, “learning to write essays is empowering. It is learning to take one’s place in the world of ideas” (Priest, 2007). The importance also lies in the intellectual development of a students knowledge...
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...Sci241 Final In: Science Sci241 Final SCI/241 FINAL Project Personalized Nutrition and Exercise Plan January 13, 2012 Ruby Warner In my family we have a lot of major health problems. The one health problem that most of my family members suffer from is High Blood Pressure. “Blood pressure is the force of blood against the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps blood throughout the body. Many factors affect blood pressure, causing it to change from day to day and throughout the day. We are unable to control some of the factors that increase the risk of developing high blood pressure like being African American, over the age of 35, family history of high blood pressure, or having diabetes, gout or kidney disease, but the good news is that there are some that we can change”!(mckinley.illinois.edu/handouts/blood_pressure_factors.html). In order to maintain a good blood pressure I should have an exercise plan that involves my cardiovascular, I need to exercise at least 2.5 hours a week. These exercises include cycling, walking, and swimming. Also I may want to talk with my doctor to make sure my body is healthy before I start my exercise program. Nutrition is very important in helping to control my blood pressure and helping with not getting this because I have a family history. The way I need to do this is eating well balanced meals. Here is a way to do this. “The DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) eating plan is recommended if your blood pressure is high...
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...strategies employed to promote the circulation of goods as well as the impact of advertising on the creation of new habits and expectations in everyday life. Required Course Texts: Juliet Schor and D.B. Holt (eds), The Consumer Society Reader Joseph Turow and Mathew Mcallister, The Advertising and Consumer Culture Reader *Additional PDFs posted on Blackboard Assignments and Grade Distribution: Participation, Reading Quizzes, and any In-Class Assignments 10% Essay One: Ad Analysis 15% Midterm Exam 20% Essay Two: Branding 25% Final Exam 30% Essay One: Ad Analysis This short essay (500-800 words; 12 point font, double spaced) will offer an analysis of a single print advertisement of your choice. You must situate your discussion of the ad within a historical context (what are some historical trends that set the stage for this form of commercial text?). You must then identify the central trope or strategy being used and explain its rhetorical function. A strong essay will begin to suggest what is meaningful about the advertisement: does it suggest a notable change in how consumers are being “hailed,” does it target a specific audience in a way that might be culturally significant, etc.? Though this is not a “research” paper, you are expected to engage the class texts and dialogue, citing readings where relevant. You will be evaluated on...
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...Shaul Cohen Condon 107G Tel. 346-4500 Office Hours Tuesday 12:00-1:00 OBA scohen@uoregon.edu GTFs Ashley Wall Jennings Office Hours M 1:00-2:00 ajenning@uoregon.edu Christine Carolan ccarolan@uoregon.edu Purpose: This course explores the geography of the Middle East with an emphasis on politics, culture, and regional cohesion. Through a variety of sources including modern literature, film, images of landscape, traditional academic texts and the daily news, we will pursue an understanding of those elements that characterize the region, as well as those features that are distinct and mark different peoples and places. We will examine local, sub-national, national, and international issues relating to identity and status, history, environment, economy and other topics, in an attempt to create a portrait of daily life in the many venues of the region, whether they be urban or rural, coastal or desert, North African or Asian, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Arab, Israeli, Turkish, Iranian, and so on. Our goal will be to use the information available to us to discern patterns in the region that allow us to grasp its richness and complexity, to gain a sense of its past, contextualize current changes, and to anticipate future directions. Resources: For this course we will work from a number of selected writings, and we will also read three Middle Eastern novels. The first, by the Sudanese author Tayib Salih, is Season of Migration to the North, a complex narrative about...
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...Essays for A Level Art, Photography, Graphic Communication objectives • To help you to discover and focus in depth upon an aspect of art and design that fascinates you. • To develop your understanding of art and design history and to see how artists exist and work within artistic and social contexts that help shape their work. • To develop your academic research, writing and referencing skills, in preparation for university and work. • To inspire you and allow you to then make better, more well-informed, practical work, that discusses complex issues and sophisticated concepts. Format • A written and illustrated final outcome of 3000 words with 10% tolerance. • No shorter than 2700 and no longer than 3300. • Fully illustrated by you. • Presented visually. • Related to your practical work • Includes evidence of contextual research; critical analysis; critical interpretation; personal response and engagement; and critical evaluations and judgements • It is an essential component of your A2 year but it is NOT worth more marks than the practical element. Title • Design an essay title that will allow you to make a critical and evaluative conclusion. • Consider the following examples. Which ones will result in the better A level essays? Why do you think this is? Title examples • Lucian Freud: A Study of His Life and Works • Justify the following statement: All photographs are fake • To what extent is PhotoShop the cause of mistrust in...
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...Cultural History Essay Essay: 100 points Length: 8-10 pages (2000-2500 words) Sources: 8-10 sources from a variety of places, each source must be represented in the paper by either a direct quotation or a paraphrase. There should be close to an equal number of direct quotations and paraphrases. Due Date: April 5th Description: This essay is more complex than the research project but it should also be more fun. For this assignment you need to choose the topic you will write about. But this topic must have both Personal and Cultural significance. That is, you need to find a topic that means something to you personally and a topic that you can do research about. You must write about something that has a history with you personally and something that has a history within our culture. When you write your essay, you will need to relate your history with this object. This will be the personal narrative portion. This should make up between 2 and 3 pages of your overall essay. Then you need to discuss the cultural history of the subject—how it was first discovered, who invented it, how it got to America, and then bring it all the way up to today. You can research things like cigarettes, pop, fast food, guitars, cars, or beer even—anything you want. You just have to be able to tell a story about the subject, research it, and connect your story to that research part of the essay. The difficult...
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...English 205 Research Project-Spring 2014 Assignment (adapted from Ways of Reading, AW 1) One way to work on Patricia Nelson Limerick’s essay, “Haunted America”, is to take the challenge and write history—to write the kind of history, that is, that takes into account the problems she defines, the problems of myth, point of view, fixed ideas, simple narrative selective storytelling, misery. You are not a professional historian, you are probably not using this text in a history course, and you don’t have the time to produce a carefully researched history, one that covers all the bases, but you can think of this as an exercise in history writing, a mini-history, a place to start. Consider the following as a place to start: Go to your college library or, perhaps, the local historical society, and find two or three first-person accounts of a single event, ideally accounts from different perspectives. Or, if these are not available, look to the work of historians, but historians taking different positions on a single event. (This does not have to be a history of the American West.) Even if you work with published historians, try to include original documents and accounts in your essay. The more varied the accounts, the better. Then, working with these texts as your primary sources, write a history, one that you can offer as a response to “Haunted America.” Suggestions for writing: Stage the work out into several drafts, writing first from one position or point...
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...question on the GCSE English Literature exam paper. It is perhaps the more demanding of the tasks on the paper, because unlike the question on the prose, in this section you are being asked to compare four poems simultaneously throughout your answer. In the exam you should spend one hour on this section of the paper. Given the greater demand of the task, your response to the poetry is worth more marks than the response to the prose. In order to perform at the highest level on this paper, it is important that you develop a nuanced and sophisticated comparative written style. However, this is achievable if you adopt a systematic approach to ordering and writing your responses. It does, however, demand considerable practice prior to the final examination. What is the Examiner looking for in a response to the Poetry? The exam is designed to test your ability to do the following things: Can you respond to the poems critically, in detail, and sensitively using textual evidence? Can Can you explore language, structure and form contribute to the meaning of texts? Can Can you compare the ways that ideas, themes and relationships are presented in the poems by selecting Can pertinent details from the texts? In other words you need to: Write a detailed and nuanced comparison of the poems considering how the language and form contribute to the overall meaning of the poems, and the relationships, themes and ideas that the poets are trying to present to the audience...
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...Gerena Final Project- My Writing Portfolio English Comp. 101 Prof. Cody June 27, 2015 I have decided to enter writing assignments 1, 2, and 5 into my writing portfolio as a part of my final project. I chose these three specific essays because each essay relates to me in a unique way regarding my life experiences. I feel that I capture my audience’s attention in such a personal way that they desire to hear more. My personal writing comes from a vantage point about a particular subject in an expressive aim. The content of my writings are equipped for people who are more advanced in life; compared to those who haven’t had experience to support a family, finances, or particular employment. My writings apply to the expressive aim of writing and have comparable lacks. In my future writing processes, I plan to sum up my essays with less redundancy and more content. I learned to touch on the major points of my writings without presenting new information into my conclusions. While reviewing my essays, I realized that I continued to repeat the same errors but made the effort to not double speak when creating my words and thoughts. Given the corrections, I was able to make improvements to my writings so that they will have a continuous, but steady flow avoiding lessening the value of the subject at hand. Throughout the review process of my writing assignment 1, I was able to learn how to conduct APA Style within in my essays. Although my...
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...HIS 115 Entire Course Week 1-9 Includes All DQs, Checkpoints, Assignments, Capstone and Final Click link below to Purchase Entire Class: http://hwguides.com/HIS-115-Entire-Course-Week-1-9-Includes-All-DQs-Checkpoints-As-66.htm HIS 115 U.S. History to 1865 Week One: The Geographic Revolution CheckPoint: European Societal Changes Assignment: North American Civilization Paper Week Two: Settlement in the South and North Discussion Questions CheckPoint: Compare and Contrast Matrix Week Three: On the Road to American Independence CheckPoint: Great Britain and the Colonies Assignment: Seven Years’ War Paper Week Four: The American Revolution and a New Government Discussion Questions CheckPoint: The Confederation Government Table Week Five: Toward Nationalism CheckPoint: Hamilton’s Financial Program CheckPoint: War of 1812 Assignment: Western Expansion Presentation Week Six: Economic and Political Transformation Discussion Questions CheckPoint: The Bank War Week Seven: Social Structure and Transformation in the North and South CheckPoint: Class Structure and Slave Culture Assignment: Perfection Era Paper Week Eight: Expansionism, Sectional Conflict, and Civil War Discussion Questions CheckPoint: Civil War Matrix Week Nine: Civil War Impact on American Society Capstone CheckPoint Final Project: Historical Timeline and Essay HIS 115 Week 1 Assignment - North American Civilization Paper Assignment: North American Civilization...
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...Carleton University Department of Political Science Winter 2016 PSCI 3600B International Institutions Thursdays - 11:35am to 2:25pm Please confirm location on Carleton Central Instructor: Office: Office hours: Telephone: e-mail: James Milner Loeb A629 Thursdays, 3-4pm and Fridays, 10-11am (or by appointment) (613) 520-2600 x2211 James.Milner@carleton.ca Please use your Carleton e-mail address or the e-mail function of cuLearn to send an email to the instructor or TA and always include the course code in the subject line. First class: Last class: 7 January 2016 7 April 2016 NOTE: No class meeting on 18 February 2016 due to Reading Week cuLearn: On-line components of this course will be managed through cuLearn. Please visit the cuLearn site at least once a week to receive the most current information pertaining to the scheduling of the course and required readings. Course objectives: International institutions have come to play an increasingly important role in global politics in the last century. Arguably the most prominent of these institutions is the United Nations (UN). Established in 1945 and in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the UN’s Charter set out the rights and obligations of Member States, and pledged to: “save succeeding generations from the scourges of war”; “reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights”; promote “respect for the obligations arising from treaties”; and “promote social progress and better ...
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...in a physicians library. The book, however, also reveals the dangerous secrets of WWII and the Nazis. The essay reveals how Williams, a supporter and illustrated for the book, had to deal with the criticisms and past history of such book. Through out the story, Williams was criticized about the origins of the book. Pernkopft’s was a known Nazi and this book was thought to have been based off of the bodies of deceased Jews from the holocaust. This sparked much criticism in this field making the book taboo. Williams was asked to finish a few final pages of such book. Because of this, he undergoes an internal argument of sorts with himself to assess the book and whether he should denounce the “blindingly beautiful” illustrations of the novel because of its past history. The essay is divided into different sections, each of which tells a different story. Each transition switches the perspective of the story told from David William, a 58 year old teacher, Pernkopf’s, author of the book and Franz Batke a scientist. With each section, a different part of the story is revealed and helps transition the next event. One section might explain the thorough and graphic nature of Pernkopf’s book while the next will explain William’s uses or reaction to such realism. This aspect of the essay proved to help explain key points of the story that would have otherwise not flowed with the essay. However, this style often times led to confusion in...
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