History

· What were the main motivations of the Ottoman rulers who decided to try and eliminate an entire ethnic minority within their country?· What was the process the Ottomans went through to round up the Armenians and march them to their deaths? Describe the process of the march and eventual genocide of the Armenians.· Why do terrible crimes against humanity always seem to happen during a war?· How do foreign governments recognize and deal with this event in their relationship with Turkey?

Cartoon Analysis Worksheet Please be sure to follow rubric!Please look at pages 420 and 530 before doing these cartoons. If you remember from my video what acaricature is, then you should be able to some in these cartoons.?Before beginning these cartoons, be sure you understand the difference between Tammany Hall and “Boss” Tweed!Rubric:?W4d1 Complete the following activities:? Read ?pages 450-451 to see the conditions the laborers endured. ? Describe? four conditions laborers endured on a daily basis. ? Write? a short paragraph which includes the ?who, what, when, where and why? of ?one? of the strikes you’ll findlisted in the Quick Study chart by doing a little research outside of the text.? Answer? the following question in a few complete sentences: ? How did the? two major? unions described in the text – The Knights of Labor and the AFL – differ in theirgoals? ?Be SpecificTo summarize, along with your readings today, you will be ?describing ?4 conditions, ?writing? a short paragraph and ?answering? a question.W5d1 Assignment:1. Read pp. 464-467 to gain a better understanding of the arrival of immigrants to the US.2. Then read pp. 467-469 to understand both the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead for these groups.As you think through these contrasts, apply your thoughts to the larger view – God’s perspective.My first thought is Revelation 7:9-10,”After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes andpeoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palmbranches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, andto the Lamb!'”3. What do the responses by Americans toward immigrants reveal about mankind?4. What is God’s perspective of the situation described above, and who will be gathered around Histhrone?

GlobalResearch and read 3 current articles of Africa & Middle East (not older than 3 months).Address some of these topics in your reasearch of those 3 current article : Africa & middle east international trade/ Africa & middle east business environment/ Africa & middle east major components of the physical geography of the respective area. (your choice, any topic above will work, just address some of those topic when you are writing your research for the 3 current articles) and summarize each article in 5 sentences (so total 15 sentence, 1 full page).Use MLA format use a word document and keep the Ulearn similarity index below 30%.1 page

You are assigned to read Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, Chapter 12 titled, “The Empire and the People,” and Howard Zinn & Anthony Arnove’s, Voices of a People’s History of the United States, Chapter 12 titled, “The Expansion of the Empire” respectively. You will find that both works complement one another.Journal ContentThe content of these journals is based on the required readings for the current or past two weeks. The other purpose of this journal exercise is to assess your engagement with the readings.Sample Journal Entry: I often wondered what was the role of Mexican-American women in U.S. history, after reading Ruiz’s work, it became clear that women that looked like me were movers and shakers of social movements equally or greater to men. For example, Luisa Moreno became______.

World War I (1914-1918) started out as a European/Western conflict, but quickly became a truly global war. How and why did regions outside the “West” become involved in the war, and what were their motivations and contributions in the course of the war? After adequately addressing the question in general, illustrate your essay with specific examples from at least three of the following:1. China2. Japan3. India4. The Ottoman Empire5. African colonial territories6. NOTE: excluded from this essay are the United States and other thoroughly “Western” societies like Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.SECOND ESSAY TOPIC (choose your favorite one, from A-E):A. Compare and contrast China from the late 1940s to 1989 with Russia/The Soviet Union from about 1914 to 1991. What factors in each of these countries contributed to A) the initial victory of their communist revolutions, and B) the governmental policies/actions of these communist governments? In summary, C) what were their key successes and failures?B. From 1815 to 1914, the West presented a significant set of challenges to rival states. Describe the nature of these challenges in general terms, then compare and contrast how TWO of the following regions responded to both general and specific challenges of the West.i. Imperial Russiaii. Ottoman Empireiii. Indiaiv. Either China OR Japan (not both)C. Describe and explain how, on the one hand, China grew increasingly impoverished and weak in the 19th and early 20th centuries while, on the other hand, Japan grew wealthier and stronger. (Consider events through the end of World War I).D. What were the major motives for Western-style imperialism,” from about 1800 to 1914? Be sure to define important concepts, and to include specific illustrating examples from at least two of the following imperial regions/powers: Europe, the U.S., and Japan.E. Analyze major trends in “decolonization” in the years after 1945 (post-World War II). Consider a.) how and why territories under previous imperialst domination gained independence, and b.) what political and economic systems they could (and did) choose to adopt, and c.) what some of the major problems and successes were for these countries in the first few decades of their independence. Illustrate your remarks with detailed examples from the history of specific countries in at least two of the following regions:i. Indiaii. Southwest Asia / the Middle East (several countries; use select examples)iii. Southeast Asia (several countries; use select examples).iv. Africa (many countries, use select examples)v. Latin America (several countries; use select examples)NOTE: This essay should be a combination of generalizations (listing a wide variety of trends and explanations for about a page), plus more detailed illustrations from the history of at least two specific countries (about another page). For your specific country examples, an effective method to prepare would be to look up your chosen countries in the index of the textbook and read everything the textook has to say about them in the years after World War II; in some cases, this is a very manageable amount of information.

Research Project GoalsOne of the central goals of this class is to get you working as historians, developing skills of historical thinking, research, and analysis by creating your own projects. Influenced by the ideas of Brazilian educational theorist Paulo Freire about engaging students as active content creators in their own learning, this project give you the chance you come up with a (class-related) research project that is meaningful to you.Working over the course of the semester, you will design a research project to investigate any aspect of the history of modern Latin American history (any event between 1791 and 2005) that analyzes a range of primary sources as well as addressing how this topic has been studied by other scholars.Your project might focus on topics like Bolivian responses to environmental contamination by U.S. mining companies; Caribbean migrant flows and the creation of reggaetón; the history of Chilean social protest music; indigenous activists during the civil war in Guatemala; or Afro-Brazilian political and social activism. We’ll work together to find something that is both meaningful to you and makes a positive contribution to digital public history.Student Learning Outcomes (based on the AHA Tuning Project): Students will:identify a significant research question about Latin American historydemonstrate their skills of historical research in finding primary and secondary sourcesuse digital public history tools to communicate your knowledge about Latin America to a wider public audience.use sound, images, and narrative to craft a compelling, sophisticated piece of storytellingYour prospectus will serve as the basis for the research project. You’ll communicate your historical analysis two formats: improving a Wikipedia article’s coverage of your topics and through a 5-minute pecha kucha presentation.

A Day Made of Glass 2 – A Portfolio ApproachNow that you have watched the video, answer the following questions:1. Do you think that products presented in the video support Corning’s overall strategy?2. Which products do you think might be cash hogs as they are rolled out to market?For additional supportive information, you might want to explore the most current annual report for Corning and review the Business Description, and Risk Factors sections.1 full page

Describe the events and personalities involved in the progress achieved in breakingthe color barrier in jazz in the 1930s, both on the bandstand and on the dance floor/ inthe audience. What effect, if any, did this have on race relations in the U.S. Use specificexamples of musicians and bandleaders involved in this integration

Voices of ChangeInstructionsIn this assignment, consider the actual words of an important spokesperson for their time. After reading that speaker’s words, use the provided template to write a two page response that shares your thoughts about the work, the historical events happening during the time the work was produced, and the relevance of the work in the present day.complete this assignment, follow these steps:Pick one of the three topic choices below.Use the assignment template to structure your paper on the selected topicComplete the template. Follow the instructions provided in the template to make sure you add all required content.Review the rubric to see how your assignment will be graded on answer quality, logic and organization of the paper, and language and writing skills.Edit your work, making sure you have discussed each bullet point in the template and checking your work for grammatical errors and proper SWS styleTopic Choice 2: Charles Dickens’s Economic Change and Consequences.Select one of the following works to focus on for your assignment. You can find all four options in Chapter 28 of your textbook. Page numbers are indicated in the bullet points below.Sketches by Boz

A) Describe how jazz developed in New Orleans from the fusion of African andEuropean influences from around the turn of the century until the 1920s. What role dithe cultural diversity of the city play in this development in regards to French, Spanish,American, African and Creole cultures. Use specific examples of major jazz figures ofthis period. Use specific examples of stylistic developments that occurred during thistime.