Entries by Sarah Kaelo

Teamwork Reflection:

Write a 250+ word reflection addressing how your position and writing skills have grown over the course of doing your assignment, how you dealt with challenging concepts, and what you can do to further your knowledge in the future. Teamwork Reflection: Give specific examples and details in which you contributed to team meetings (online or […]

How to Write a Thesis Statement for History

For this assignment, you will be drafting your thesis statement and creating a plan for writing your paper through the creation of a full sentence outline. Review the How to Write a Thesis Statement for History in the eText (see attachment) Based on the topic you chose and your instructor approved earlier, draft a one to […]

write a letter to a fictional family member

For this assignment, you will write a letter to a fictional family member; where the family member lives is your choice. You currently live in Colonial America in 1776, immediately after the Declaration of Independence has been announced throughout the colonies. Where you live in Colonial America is your choice. In your letter, you will […]

Is Education a Fundamental Right?

please the following article: Jill Lepore, “Is Education a Fundamental Right?” The New Yorker, Sept. 10, 2018 After reading the article please answer the following questions: 1) What was Doe v. Plyler and how did it come about? 2) Peter Roos, of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund took on the case. What legal precedent did […]

Aside from Watergate, should he be considered a good president?

Richard Nixon served as Vice-President of the United States from 1953 to 1961, and as President from 1969 to 1974.  He was the only person to be elected twice to both the Presidency and Vice Presidency.  In 1969 Americans had joined together in pride over the lunar landing and Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon. Yet Nixon’s […]

Does the person align well with the political party?

Open your physical or email mailbox during a campaign year and you may find hundreds of unsolicited, political handbills funded by individual campaigns, Political Action Committees (PACs), and Super Political Action Committees (SPACs). Handbills may include endorsements and/or condemnation from interest groups, public policy concerns, and snippets of news coverage favorable and/or unfavorable to a […]

Explain the history of Civil Rights in the United States.

Part 1: 1. Explain the history of Civil Rights in the United States. 2. Next, explain what the ramifications were of the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown vs Board of Education. How did this expand civil rights in the US 3. Finally, explain the importance of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting […]

Black Reconstruction in America 1860 to 1880

Paper#1 In his great work, Black Reconstruction in America 1860 to 1880, historian W.E.B. Du Bois wrote this: “One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet so futile. There is no villain, no idiot, no saint. There are just men; men who […]