Diagnosing Criminal Defendants Prior to beginning this journal, read the article, “Are Forensic Experts Biased by the Side that Retained Them?,” and examine the subjective nature of forensic psychology concerning the evaluation of criminal defendants. In a one- to two-page journal entry:   Evaluate the influences that can contribute to differential diagnoses depending upon which […]

Question 1The purpose of this class is to “explore the architecture, art, history, literature, music,  _____________________ and theater of the Western tradition from Prehistory through the Medieval era.   Question 2Among the general goals of the course is to apply the familiarity with Western culture that we gain to building an understanding of the ______________________________between […]

All events must be between 1865 and 1970 and based on American history. For example, the Holocaust (as important as it is) is NOT an American event.   DO NOT break a major event into its subparts. For example, a war begins with its causes and includes the battles, treaty and results.    Number your […]

The topic of your project should be concerned with the relationship between your life and one single aspect of early Western culture. I realize that this description is incredibly broad, but part of your job will be to narrow this down. Choose a topic that you can research thorough in the time we have, but […]

1. What have you found through your research about your topic (the topic you proposed back on February 17th)?   2. What problems have you run into? For example, are you having trouble identifying good sources? Are you having problems getting your hands on a particularly important source? Are you having trouble deciding what your […]

To what extent did the emancipation of slaves actually transform southern society after 1865? How did emancipation alter the organization of southern politics and labor? How did slaves try to shape their own lives and how did white southerners try to limit them?

Question 1The purpose of this class is to “explore the architecture, art, history, literature, music,  _____________________ and theater of the Western tradition from Prehistory through the Medieval era.   Question 2Among the general goals of the course is to apply the familiarity with Western culture that we gain to building an understanding of the ______________________________between […]

Question 1The type of political system in which power and wealth rested with armed men in control of plots of agricultural land is called ________________.   Question 2In the system named in #1, the people working the land became tied to the land, becoming ____________. Although these peasants were not technically slaves, they were not […]

Question 1The 13th century historian and author of the Al-Muqaddimah was _______________. He held many important political jobs, but is best known today as a founding figure in modern economics and sociology, and for his theory of a “Cyclical Theory of History.”   Question 2The city most closely associated with the beginning of Islam is […]

Question 1The capital of the Byzantine empire was the city ______________________. It was renamed Istanbul when the Byzantine empire was finally conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.   Question 2In 476, the rule of Rome was taken by __________, who claimed the title of “king of Italy”. This signaled the end of the western […]