History

After completing the assigned readings, media clip, and PowerPoint lectures for this Module, draft your 500-word Discussion Board essay in response to the below query.  Moreover, when drafting your response, remember that you are required to use and reference specific details from the Module’s assigned readings, media clips, and/or PowerPoint lectures to support the points you make in your essay. Moreover, you will need to draft a separate brief reply to the essay of at least two of your classmates.  Module 3 Discussion Board Query:  What were some of the dynamics of the early nineteenth century that underlay the alliance between abolition and women’s rights movements? What stresses fomented discord among these allies? For more information on African American History read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_history

Students should cite ·  The Textbook Clayborne Carson et al. The Struggle for Freedom ·  Any documents, documentaries, or weblinks   And, any notes that you take during the class lectures or via Powerpoints. In general, source citations for this class should be formatted according to MLA format (for a good website that covers MLA style, try the MLA Formatting and Style Guide at the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University – type “Purdue OWL” into Google).  However, in order to keep things simple, here are some basic guidelines to follow when citing sources within your essays for this class:1. Please use in-text and end of text citations in your work (see examples below); 3. Do not provide a citation for every sentence, even if you are paraphrasing extensively. Instead, if all the information in a paragraph is from one source, just provide one in-text citation at the end of the paragraph; 4. You need to provide the last name of the author whose work you are using (i.e. Carson or Thompson, not Clayborne or Sharita). 5. You MUST make an effort to give credit to those whose work you are using.  Failure to do so is considered plagiarism, and will have a negative impact on your grade. In-text citations: MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text. The author’s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your  SITE VISIT  This assignment requires students to visit a historical site (historical home museum, Civil War battlefield, Park, monument etc.) and produce a Powerpoint presentation that highlights the site. You are welcome to safely visit a historic site in person. However, you can find a site that will provide you with information (photographs, history of the site, information about the person, place, or event etc.) online and create a Powerpoint presentation with the information you found on the website. For example, The Frederick Douglass House highlights the Washington, DC home of historical figure Frederick Douglass. You can also garner ideas about local sites (Prince George’s County, MD) by going to  http://www.pgparks.com/1883/Sites-Museums. You should produce a short Powerpoint presentation (minimum of 10 slides) that emphasize what you learned from visiting the site. Consider these questions, what/who was highlighted? What did you learn from the site? What did they do well in developing the site/website? What could they have done better? Would you recommend this site/website to learn about this person or event? Please include photographs and any other visual  For more information on The Struggle for Freedom read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_for_Freedom_and_Democracy_Day

The Civil War was fought because of slavery and the breakup of the Union. The Southern slave owners would argue that they were ?ghting to keep states’ rights, meaning they were dependent on a slave economy and believed they had the right to keep their livelihood, as they knew it. Northerners and President Lincoln entered the war initially to keep the Union intact. However, war aims would evolve and, with that, northern soldiers would ?ght to emancipate slaves. By 1862, the war turned into a hard war and only the destruction of the enemy’s forces and unconditional surrender would end it. Agreeing to the unconditional surrender, though, did not mean reconstructing the Union would be simple.  Keeping these factors in mind, compare and contrast wartime Reconstruction, presidential Reconstruction, and congressional (radical) Reconstruction. What were the key di?erences among the three phases? Were there any similarities in the phases?  PRIMARY SOURCES  14.4 John Beauchamp Jones Observes The Deterioration on the Confederate Home Front (1863–1864) 15.2 Mississippi Black Code (1865) For more information on Southern Slave Owners read this:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States#Black_slave_owners

In the interview and scholarly article, Professor Joseph Nye discusses the role and use of soft power and its impact on the global political scene in the post World War II era. For this assignment, please write a discussion post that addresses all the questions below.  Your post must be at least 350 words.  1. In your own words, how would you define soft power?   2. In this course, we have read about and watched clips on multiple conflicts and social movements.  Examine the role of soft power in any of those events we have covered in this course thus far. (Do not use the events discussed in Nye’s interview or article). 3. Describe how you see soft power being used in the United States today (there are dozens of contemporary examples, so, please, be creative!  Pull up any major news site, and I’m certain that you will see aspects of soft power in use).  B Suggestions: Transition your ideas clearly from paragraph to paragraph and sentence to sentence.  In other words, don’t just answer one question then jump to the next without providing a clear, logical transition.  For more information on World War II Era read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

The Black Death was one of the most disastrous demographic collapses in history. Read the following primary sources and answer the following questions. What conditions allowed it to spread so quickly, and what were the significant social consequences of the outbreak? For more information on Black Death read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death

This assignment requires students to visit a historical site (historical home museum, Civil War battlefield, Park, monument etc.) and produce a Powerpoint presentation that highlights the site. You are welcome to safely visit a historic site in person. However, you can find a site that will provide you with information (photographs, history of the site, information about the person, place, or event etc.) online and create a Powerpoint presentation with the information you found on the website. For example, The Frederick Douglass House highlights the Washington, DC home of historical figure Frederick Douglass. You can also garner ideas about local sites (Prince George’s County, MD) by going to  http://www.pgparks.com/1883/Sites-Museums. You should produce a short Powerpoint presentation (minimum of 10 slides) that emphasize what you learned from visiting the site. Consider these questions, what/who was highlighted? What did you learn from the site? What did they do well in developing the site/website? What could they have done better? Would you recommend this site/website to learn about this person or event? Please include photographs and any other visual  For more information on Historical Home Museum read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Historical+Home+Museum&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go&ns0=1

Write a 1000 word paper on How the food in the Bible and in the Roman Empire played an important part on our rituals and customs of today. 1) Must use the book – “Ascetic Eucharists: Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals” by Andrew Mcgowan. 2) Must use the page numbers and include them in the Related Source page. 3) Can use other sources but the book listed above is the main source. For more information on Roman Empire read this:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire

Write an essay comparing Rousseau with Hobbes  Must be 7-8 full pages double space For more information on Hobbes read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes 

According to Collins, the book of Ruth is about levirate marriage.  He is wrong, however. What is levirate marriage?  Where does the Bible describe such a custom?  What is its purpose?  And how does the book of Ruth not illustrate it? Further, if not levirate marriage, what custom or provision does the book of Ruth positively describe? For more information on Levirate Marriage read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levirate_Marriage

What were the main arguments pro-slavery southerners used to defend the institution of slavery against accusations that slavery was barbaric and backward? What were the limits of these arguments (in other words, how were these arguments less than convincing)? For more information on Pro-Slavery In The South read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proslavery