Using detailed references to particular passages in one of our assigned fictional Southern/Gothic readings so far, analyze and discuss how the text you've chosen operates as a "Gothic text" (i.e. how and why serve as a Gothic story). And how does its treatment of Gothic themes and elements reflect specifically concerns of the American […]

Read and respond to Boreuski's This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. Base your analysis on the themes and concepts from the readings and lectures. Provide evidence for any arguments you make with quotes and paraphrases accompanied by in-text citations and a Works Cited page. Any outside sources must be properly cited. The assignment […]

 All students are required to respond to other student posts each week The goal here is to ENGAGE in respectful dialogue – be supportive of each other, even as you are critical of each other’s ideas.     Gabe:    1) In a single sentence IN YOUR OWN WORDS (IYOW), provide an OVERVIEW of this section. This […]

Discuss the economic and political causes leading to WWII. Base your discussion on the themes and concepts from the readings and lectures. 500 or more words

 Using the example of the horse sacrifice, explain the development of ideas of ritual from the Vedas, Brahmanas, and Upaniṣads.  Use examples from the texts to support your claims.  ExcerptsfromManu1.pdf SacrificeintheBrahmanas800-500BCE.pdf RenunciationintheUpanisads.pdf RigVeda.pdf HinduSocialOrganizationandValues1.pdf

 Read THE HOLOCAUST READER, PART V (Response and Testimony: At The Center of the Whirlwind) 1) In a single sentence IN YOUR OWN WORDS (IYOW), provide an OVERVIEW of this section. 2) For each chapter (19-21), provide a THESIS sentence and THREE specific pieces of evidence to support your thesis – what is each writer’s […]

 RESEARCH OUTLINE (bullet points)   Below is the topic, 6 sources, 3 questions and my thesis draft TOPIC: Does humanity learn from history? The Holocaust – Three key lessons for Humanity Six sources Dirzo, R., Ceballos, G., & Ehrlich, P. R. (2022). Circling the drain: the extinction crisis and the future of humanity. Philosophical Transactions of […]

Assyria or Persia:  Utilizing only evidence from the assigned readings and videos and citing that evidence, in your analysis which strategy of imperial power was more effective in antiquity?  Why?  Thinking about Justice:  Utilizing only evidence from the assigned readings and videos and citing that evidence, select two different passages from the assigned reading in […]

 Why did Reconstruction fail? Who was president and why was he a failure in regards to Reconstruction? Should the Southern leadership have been punished? You can refer to the Disenfranchisement section of your lessons in week two. 

World War I was an unprecedented period in world history. World War I (“The Great War”) toppled empires, created new nations, and sparked tensions that would explode across future years. On the battlefield, gruesome modern weaponry wrecked an entire generation of young men. The United States entered the conflict in 1917 and was never again […]