History

Compare and contrast William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Using only the sources: Google search Miller Center (University Of Virginia). At the top of the page will be a tab for US presidents. Click, and go to the two above listed. Use extended biographies. Dont use lives in brief. Another tab will take you to Presidental Speeches.Scroll down to filter use the same two men. For McKinley use his 1st and second inaugural,1st and second annual message and Speech in Buffalo. For Theodore Roosevelt use the 1st and second annual message, inaugural and 8th annual message. Examine Mckinleys and Theodore Roosevelt lives and presidencies. what do they ficus on in their speeches? what d they say about Americans and their future? What are particular worries?

Papers should be written in 12 point Times New Roman font, double-spaced, with normal margins and include the following information in upper left corner of the first page: name, course, date, word count. Please watch Kingdoms of Africa – Great Zimbabwe, which can be found on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2be1gO36Fs4 In a short, well-written 750 word (approximately 3 pages) essay, please answer the following questions from the information found in the film: Why were the Europeans who discovered these ruins convinced that Africans could not have built them? What would it mean if Africans had built them? What was the attraction of the Swahili coast to traders? What was the most important trade item? Where did it come from? What would the discovery of Rhapta mean? What was the evidence of its location? What is important and/or interesting about the Swahili language?  Were the islanders African or Arabic? What is the proof? Why was the island so important, and how did the climate play into this? What does “Manyikawi” mean? How was it tied to Great Zimbabwe? How do we know? Why was the grass so interesting? How do we know that gold was valuable as something other than as a trade good? Why was the bead game important? What is its significance? What was the social purpose of the walls and passages in Great Zimbabwe? What does this suggest about their culture?

In a brief 250 word essay, Discuss the following question. Choose a Reading from pages 344-345 and explain the importance of this piece of literature for people in Mesoamerican Civilizations. How is it significant? How did it help the people who read it? I have sent the pages so you don’t have to look for the book 🙂

ESSAY INSTRUCTIONS STEPS: 1.    Read Chapters 1-5 of Black Movements in America by Cedric Robinson (linked below) 2.    Read Chapters 1 and 2 of Something Torn and New by Ng?g? wa Thiong’o (linked below) 3.    Watch The Recorded Lectures  (linked below) 4.    Write a 3-5 page essay in response to the prompt below 5.    Your essay must include the following: –       2 in-text citations from Black Movements in America –       2 in-text citations from Something torn and New –       Your paper must be formatted using my template ( Abstract, Critical Review of Scholarship, Discussion, and Further Questions) *see more details about the sections of your paper below.  PROMPT:  How did Africans begin to conceptualize unity in thought and action beyond national boundaries in the face of European and American imperialism?   MORE INFO:   By the mid 19th century, Europeans and those of their former colonies controlled by Whites (e.g. the U.S., Brazil, et. al.) began to systematically dispossess Africans of natural resources (African colonialism) and reconfigure African labor from chattel slavery to debt peonage (Western Hemisphere) in a world system. Improved international communications networks, or what some scholars have called “The Practice of Diaspora,” enabled Africans to begin to see themselves as part of an oppositional African world, even as they struggled against local social, economic, political and cultural racial oppressions in their perspective sites of resistance.   LINKS: –       Black Movements In America file:///C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/Cedric%20Robinson%20-%20Black%20Movements%20in%20America-Routledge%20(1997).pdf    –       Something Torn and New https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/file%20uploads%20/ngugi_wa_thiongo_something_torn_and_new_an_afrbook4you.org_.pdf   –       LECTURES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STuxOsuuPvs&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlF3P2lIWhY&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMWHNDlTS0A&feature=youtu.be   –       HOW TO FORMAT YOUR PAPER file:///C:/Users/Owner/OneDrive/Documents/HowToFormatYourPaper.pdf

General Directions & Reminders: Follow the directions for each section. When you are finished, submit your completed exam essays AS ONE FILE to the Canvas submission page as a word document (doc/docx file) or a PDF file. Remember, follow the Paper Guidelines found in the Master Document List and properly cite anything taken form a source: quotations, summaries, or ideas, as not citing properly may lead to claims of plagiarism. Finally, do not forget to complete the unit quiz; it is often better to complete the quiz BEFORE completing the exam. Special note: The exam essay prompts are often formatted to allow for multiple interpretations, making them somewhat broad and generalized. Despite this, these essays seek to illicit specific answers from students. As such, students should attempt to respond to the essays in a deep and specific manner. Student responses should provide detailed historical examples from the timeframe or genre of the course to support their theses. Section 1 (Analysis and Evaluation): Directions: Write out the full prompt as the TITLE of your essay. Then, using the prompt below, type out an essay that either DEFENDS or REFUTES the prompt, making sure to follow the Paper Guidelines found in the Master Document List. Be sure to pick one side (defense or refutation) in your thesis and support this thesis with detailed historical evidence. You must cite the unit’s Seminar Materials at least once. (50 pts) Professional bureaucracies were the sole reason that both Ancient Egypt and China were able to survive dynastic collapses. Section 2 (Synthesis): Directions: Out of the two questions below choose ONE, write out the full question you selected as the TITLE of your essay. Type out your essay, making sure to follow the Paper Guidelines found in the Master Document List. Be sure that the essay provides a clear thesis that answers the prompt and supports this thesis with detailed historical evidence. You must use at least one academic source. (100 pts) Why do large empires (e.g. Rome, Persia, or China) resist complete destruction or collapse? How did a large empire’s culture facilitate its perpetuation past various forms of political collapse?

Paper Prompt #1   How did planters connect gender, race, and slavery in colonial America? What role did women’s labor have in production? How did African and African American women resist slavery?   Prompt #2   From the following list, choose three regions that we have focused on: The Caribbean Virginia and the Chesapeake South Carolina The North/New York   How did European and Americans approach slavery in these regions? What techniques did they utilize to establish authority? How did the enslaved population resist or adapt to law codes passed to regulate their behavior?   Prompt #3   Taking a material culture approach, analyze the commodities that enslaved individuals produced in the colonial Atlantic World. How did specific crops dictate labor routines? How did specific types of cultivation limit freedom, or provide avenues to assert independence? This essay should use the readings to better understand the rhythms of plantation life.   Papers must be written in 12-point font Times New Roman and double spaced. Please include a title and page numbers. All papers should be formatted to normal one inch margins on each side.   Please use parenthetical citations, such as (Berlin, Making Slavery, Marking Race, 20).

This assignment you have to answer the question in at least 300 words. The Question is: Was the Roman world better off under the emperors (beginning with Augustus) or under the republic?  Explain your answer.

Explain the spread of decolonization in the late 1940s-1960s. Why did it occur so rapidly during these decades?

Book Chapter report, ONLY chapters 7-9 of 100 hundred years of solitude. Submit a paper of at least 500 words After reading this section, we begin to understand the narrative style the author uses to write this novel. Is the novel written in chronologial order? why? or why not? give examples. Who is the hero of this novel? How is magical realism used the novel.

Past Climate: Summarize the paleoclimate history of South Carolina (you may need to summarize the southeast in general, as specific information on just South Carolina paleoclimate is limited) for the past few hundred thousand years. Some reflection question to help guide your discussion: What trends are seen?  What proxies were used to evaluate paleoclimate in the region? How similar or different is the past climate of the state / region to today?