Do you think Populism as a movement and a philosophy was a success or a failure? 

Do you think Populism as a movement and a philosophy was a success or a failure?

Instructions:

Read the following Discussion question carefully, then submit an original answer.  Your answer should be at least a few sentences to a paragraph in length.  There is no “right” or “wrong” answer, but your opinion should be well-reasoned and based on fact.  (no references needed) this is just an opinion…

Although the Populist Party itself was short-lived, several Populist initiatives were eventually adopted by the federal government.  Do you think Populism as a movement and a philosophy was a success or a failure?  In what ways?

federal government’s relationship with civil rights

federal government’s relationship with civil rights

Compare and contrast the different points of view about the federal government’s relationship with civil rights as seen in Daniel Inouye’s memoir Journey to Washington and the opinion from the Supreme Court case Korematsu v. the United States, 1944. Papers will examine how these sources present different experiences oh Japanese-American during World War II and how they demonstrate the federal government’s oftentimes ambiguous support for civil rights.

The outline is the basic framework for effective written communication. for this heritage paper on aircraft carriers.

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Information: The outline is the basic framework for effective written communication. for this heritage paper on aircraft carriers.

The paper needs to have an I. Introduction

A.Attention Getter: 

B.Motivation Sentence: 

C.Overview Sentence (State Main Points): This essay will cover the background of the aircraft carrier their evolution, and their importance to military culture.

II.Body

A.Main point 1: Background

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Transition sentence from MP1 to MP2: Knowledge of the background of the aircraft carrier the foundation for their importance.

B.Main point 2: Evolution

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Transition sentence from MP2 to MP3: The evolution of military aircraft carriers have made them an important part of military culture.

C.Main point 3: Importance

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III.Conclusion

A.Summary Sentence (Re-state Main Points): This essay covered the background of aircraft carriers, their evolution, and their importance to military’

B.Re-motivation Sentence: leaders should know the history behind military aircraft carriers because they are the caretakers of military history and tradition.

C.Closing Sentence: 

APA format with three to four references double spaced.

If you were a poor white in British colonial America on the eve of the American Revolution, would you have been persuaded to  fight for the colonists?

AMERICA HISTORY

CHAPTER 5 AND THE LINK FOR THE ASSIGNMENT IS (https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/1-1-the-americas).

 

Each response must be in formal essay form with introduction; developed paragraphs and conclusions. I am expecting each of you to demonstrate your understanding of the English language and to make your responses clear, concise and easy to follow.  No short-cuts, numbering, subtitles, abbreviations, or other obstructions from formal English!!!! This applies to all responses from this point forward!! Use the example I provide under Files for guidance!!
Please send one file only with responses to all questions; no multiple submissions!!  When I click your name on the tab the entire assignment should be on it.  No exceptions.
Question #1:
a. Summarize the nine most important items covered in the chapter. Be sure to explain the importance of each of the items.  Provide an Introduction and a Conclusion.

Question #2:

a.   Which event reminds you the most of an event in your life-time?  One or two paragraphs.

Question #3:

a.   In a few sentences,  discuss a weakness in the colonists’ cry of taxation without representation?

Question #4:

a.  If you were a poor white in British colonial America on the eve of the American Revolution, would you have been persuaded to  fight for the colonists?  Explain.

FIVE PAGES EXCLUDING WORKS CITED OR REFERENCES AND NO PLAGIARISM AND THE INSTRUCTION IS DOWNLOADED BELOW.

ccording to your reading, the Chinese Exclusion Act set a precedent regarding immigration based on race or national origin

This week we read about American expansion abroad and belief in the “white man’s burden” to civilize backward nations and spread American libertas throughout the world. However, along the homefront, we learned that things were much different. In 1882, the government passed the first legislation that restricted immigration based on national origin and race. By passing the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, the government closed the United States to certain Chinese immigrants for ten years and required every Chinese person entering or leaving the country to carry identification. At the same time, to pacify the concerns of American investors who thought the act might have a negative impact on trade with China, Congress excluded students, teachers, merchants, and diplomats from the act, and in 1888 the Scott Act amended the legislation to bar re-entry into the United States by Chinese residents if they left the country. The exclusion of Chinese lasted until 1943 when China became an American ally against Japan in World War II, at which time Congress repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act.  After completing the assigned reading and watching the video, answer the following:

  1. What side would you have taken and what can we learn from history about the immigration debates of today?
  1. Why might have investors been ok with students, teachers, merchants, and diplomats, but not others?
  1. According to your reading, the Chinese Exclusion Act set a precedent regarding immigration based on race or national origin. In what ways is this still prevalent today.

Rubric: Workshop Answer Responses

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  Rubric: Workshop Answer Responses

Each responder (the student responding to their classmate’s post) is required to conduct two responses on any of their classmate’s thread posts for the weekly workshop. Minimum 50 words each answer.

1. Read the Workshop thread post from your classmates with an open mind; think critically about what you will write, and which post you respond too.

2. When responding, use the student’s name and describe the point so that your whole class can follow along.

3. Whether you are asserting agreement or disagreement, provide clear and credible evidence to support your response. Make sure to use points from the textbook or from supporting material you read from other secondary or primary sources.

a. Example: Chris, you make an interesting point about Spanish colonial society. I agree that Spanish colonial society was brutal in its treatment of indigenous groups throughout early America. However, I think this statement can be supported more by connecting what was happening in the Americas and examining how society was in Europe during the Spanish Inquisition. Do you believe that inquisition methods were transferred to the Americas?

4. Avoid using unsupported personal opinions, generalizations, or language that others might find offensive. When in disagreement, keep responses respectful and academic in tone. (Think about Netiquette)

5. Ask open-ended questions rather than questions that can be answered with yes or no. Those types of answers end the conversation, rather than pushing it forward.

Response 1 is to this:

Alex Deluna : Years after the Revolution had ended, there was a heavy burden of debt that had been accumulated through the war which affected many farmers in the area of western Massachusetts. According to The American Yawp reader, political leaders at the time were aware that the debt and struggling economy were direct consequences of the Articles of Confederation providing that the government could not raise revenue and did not create a cohesive nation out of various states. When the government could not protect the farmers of Massachusetts from their creditors and the state was supporting the lenders instead, this infuriated farmers especially when creditors began to threaten them with foreclosures. It was a farmer and also former Revolutionary War veteran by the name of Daniel Shay, who he led Shay’s Rebellion as the matter of taking actions into their own hands in order to demand a stronger national government. American individuals around the nation reacted to the rebellion by creating intense national debate. There was also a lot of fear amongst leaders believing that the nation was nearing anarchy, and that there was a lack of states being capable of maintaining control.

The impact that Shay’s Rebellion had in Massachusetts caused for leaders to quickly take action. As supported through the documents of both primary sources, while Revolutionary general Benjamin Lincoln preferred to take forceful actions against protesters, it was James Madison who responded with the purpose of finding a solution to the problems that the people were facing, and soon offered the Virginia Plan. This plan proposed that the United States would have a stronger federal government and would consist of the three branches of legislative, judicial, and executive. As a response to this plan, a slightly altered form was proposed by Roger Sherman in which was known as the Great Compromise. The Great Compromise took the positions within the branches to a greater extent. With much complexity, revisions, and thoughts of balancing power, a government like no other was proposed through the Constitutional Convention. As it could be determined, Shay’s Rebellion greatly impacted and influenced a major shift in the determination of powers within the state and national government.

Response 2 is to this:

Jorge Garcia : The cause of Shay’s Rebellion was due the lack of financial help the farmer’s had from the government. These farmers served in the American Revolution, after the war no money assistance was proved to them. They all struggled with debt to maintain there land and animals. Daniel shay who formed the rebellion in 1786, had a great impact on the American Republic by putting pressure on the courts and having help voice the matter to the judges. It started off peacefully as the rebellion hoped to get lower taxes and other such things to help them financially. Things became violent at certain times where the wealthy state legislatures were just making money off the farmers started forming militias to fight back at the Rebellion.

The rebellion caused Americans to react and see the view of how the the articles of confederation was not effective and needed to be revised. The political powers of different states eventually came together to revise the articles of confederation to what is now called the Constitutional Convention. Due to not having a strong government it was hard to control the rebellion due to the high numbers of people who joined.

Please use primary source ( textbook) to justify response:

Teaching Materials

Referendums as a Swiss instrument of democracy?

Referendums as a Swiss instrument of democracy?

example:

A referendum permits all citizens, via the petition method, to submit actions of the Legislature to the ballot prior to these turning into law. The referendum also allows the Legislature to submit regulation to the electorate for consent or dismissal. Voting in a referendum is like voting in the general election, the main change is what is expected from voters to enter on their referendum ballot document. In a referendum, voters are expected to enter ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ in the check box opposing each question on the ballot document.

At a national level, referendum is a frequent event in Switzerland where a direct democracy is a crucial element of the political environment. All Swiss nationals 18 and older can vote, even the Swiss nationals listed as living in other countries. This structure of a “direct democracy” obliges any modification to the constitution to be presented to all the people in the form of a referendum. One example of this is the 2001 proposal of Switzerland entering the EU, with a 77% of electors dismissing it. Then in 2002, Swiss voters joined at last the United Nations with a 58.4 approval percentage. What brings a lot of attention from the international community, is the incredible high voter turn out to pass or not referendums, which at instances is much higher than the electors turn out for Political candidates seeking to hold local or national offices. It should not come as a surprise that the Swiss have voted about 306 times since 1848, with 299 proposals approved, and 334 denied. Of course, there is also the risks of the so-called “tyranny of the majority” where some referendum are aimed directly at minorities and how these could get affected, thankfully there some political instruments that can turn this instances around and mend them if necessary.

The rest of Europe, and the US show some sort of shyness towards making referendums a definitive tool in their democratic systems, and while there are good precedents, there is still not a widely positive consensus on the topic.

Word count: 301

Source: Beach, Dereck. Referendums in the EU. 2018

Is a referendum doomed by “the tyranny of the majority”?

example:

Well, in my opinion, any democracy can, at some point lead to a “tyranny of the majority”, where the vast majority of the people can dictate legislature for decades, but, they most important element to consider, is not what opinion the majority have, but how diverse that majority actually is, because in countries with small numbers of immigrants, ethnic groups or even almost null racial disparity, it clearly puts those groups at a disadvantage.

The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Salem

This week you will be reading a chapter from After the Fact called, The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Salem. It focuses on the growing pains that many communities in the colonies were facing (they were no longer the same as when they were founded), and in the case of Salem these tensions exploded into the violent persecution of witches.

In this chapter the authors of the book want to address:  how do changes in science/knowledge (like the develop of Psychiatry) change historian’s understanding of the past?

PLEASE SEE THE CHAPTER IN THE ATTACHED PDF. It will be below the questions that you will answer after reading the chapter

So first you need to read chapter 3, and then answer the following 3 questions:

  1. What started the hysteria? Who was involved and affected by the events that followed the initial accusations?
  2. What were the pros and cons of pleading guilty to witchcraft?
  3. What aspect of the Salem witch trials did Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum study? What were their findings, and how did this affect the interpretation of the events in Salem?

Each answer should be a few paragraphs long and fully answer all parts of the question.

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What are some formal properties of African American language?   

What are some formal properties of African American language?

The Story of English:  Black on White”

Write 2-3 pages (at least 500 words.  Write double spaced in essay format. Cite Haviland with page numbers and refer to the video by its title.

Below is the video guide (again) and the essay question for this assignment.

Video Guide

The video illustrates many of the topics in Chapter 5 on Language and Communication.

  1. What      are some formal properties of African American language?      (Descriptive Linguistics)
  2. How      and where did African American English begin?  How has the language      changed through time?  (Historical Linguistics and Culture      Contact)
  3. How      do class, race, gender, age, occupation, and region influence the talk of      the social groups in the video? (Sociolinguistics)
  4. How      do speech patterns relate to identity and educational issues?

5. In what ways are issues about how we talk political?

  1. What      are your reactions to the local context of the video? (Philadelphia in the      past)

how does the author describe their current view of the United States,  its taxation system, job opportunities, freedom of religion, and governmental checks and balances?

Please answer the following questions by posting your answers below. Respond to each of the following questions with a few sentences per answer. Your analysis should be well thought out, finely edited, and informative. Think of this as weekly practice for your examination writing. Grading rubric found in upper right-hand corner of this assignment by clicking the “three dots.”

Chapter 5: (20 points with standard rubric)

1) By reading the Italian experience of migration, in what ways did the Italian community retain their culture, and in what ways did they adopt an Italian-American ethnicity? Discuss.

2) The Greeks, Jews, and Armenians are called the diaspora people throughout history, migrating away from their homelands due to various factors and pressures around them. Focusing on the Greeks and Armenians from this chapter, what events prompted these people to rethink their circumstances? Once they decided to migrate, did they retain their culture and heritage within their community?

3) European immigrants had to live in a duality, between Old World traditions and their New World  surroundings. In what ways did these people have to redefine their ethnic identities?

Primary Source Mini-Assignment: (10 points for participation/analysis)

After reading the PDF file titled “Crossroads to be Faced,” a primary source memoir of an individual who is calling out to the world to consider whether to come to the United States, please answer the following questions. Answers do not have to be large paragraphs for these questions, however must analyze and answer the questions meaningfully.

1) How does the author describe the “Old Country,” the way of life, taxation, forms government, overall lifestyle, etc.?

2)  In contrast, how does the author describe their current view of the United States,  its taxation system, job opportunities, freedom of religion, and governmental checks and balances?

3) After reading this excerpt, do you feel that the author truly believes their own words and is writing from overflowing patriotism,  or is perhaps writing for a newspaper/journal of some sort to spread U.S. exceptionalism throughout the world as propaganda? Essentially, do you believe this is a personal memoir or a promotional public piece?

Note: Please use evidence from at least TWO articles, primary sources, or videos posted in this week’s Canvas module to supplement your answers. Two sources for all questions may be used, not necessarily two per question. Please either bold or cite your sources within your answers!