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Book: COMING OF AGE IN MISSISSIPPI

And if you did not read the book, don’t even bother to check in. I will be able to tell right away and I plan to trash your responses hard if you dare try to B.S. your way past me

•    Write a response of reasonable length that addresses all parts of each question. Use multiple examples from the book to support your response and prove you indeed read and understood the book. Don't just rely on one example only; make use of a wide variety of examples to make your points clear, unambiguous, and indisputable.  

1)    Does Anne hate black people? Is she justified in her hostility or is it misplaced? Why were some African-Americans more willing than others to support the Civil Rights Movement? What are the tensions that existed within the black communities that often pitted one group against another?

2)    What were the most significant barriers and challenges that movement workers like Anne Moody encountered in their struggle for Civil Rights? In other words, what made achieving success so difficult?

3)    Did Anne’s activities in the NAACP and SNCC provide fulfillment, or frustration, or a sense of accomplishment? Why did she join these organizations? 

4)    What is Anne's attitude toward Christianity? Does it change as her life progresses? How does she feel about the black ministers leading the demonstrations?

5)    How does Anne feel about Medgar Evers? Why is Anne critical of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? Why is Anne skeptical of MLK's commitment to non-violent resistance? 



6)    How does Anne’s gender – the fact that she is a woman – affect how she relates to other people and how other people relate to her? To what extent does her being a woman shape her experiences in the movement? Describe a few examples from the text where her gender became an obstacle for her. 

7)    Why did the movement put such emphasis on the voter registration campaign? By securing blacks the vote, what were activists hoping to achieve? Why was it so hard for them to achieve their goals?

8)    What was the atmosphere of Mississippi like for a civil rights worker? In what kind of an environment did they work? How did this atmosphere take an emotional toll on Anne? What about the physical toll the movement took on Anne - describe that with examples too.

9)    One commentator has remarked about Coming of Age in Mississippi, “The relationship between fear and power is at the center of this book. Only by overcoming the former does one achieve the latter.” What does he mean by this? Provide examples from the text. 

10)    How did this book change or enhance your understanding of the Civil Rights Movement? What new insights did you learn about the personal lives of the black activists who worked and struggled in the movement? What kinds of obstacles did activists have to deal with that you never knew were issues until reading this memoir?

11)    When and how does the reader begin to see Anne Moody’s political consciousness begin to emerge? Why and when does she become interested in helping the movement? 

12)    What kind of support systems were in place for civil rights workers like Anne Moody? Who did they have in their private lives to rely on, if anybody? Or did most of them “go it alone”? Who did Anne have to rely or depend on to help her through her darkest days as a Civil Rights worker? 

13)    In what ways did Anne Moody’s childhood experiences prepare her for a life of activism in the movement? Be sure to bring up more than one or two examples.

14)    In what specific ways does this book shatter the myth that ALL black Americans pulled together in unity to support and work in the movement? Be sure to bring up many examples. 

15)    How does Anne feel about white people? What about her white allies in the movement? Does Anne hate white people?  

16)    Why do you think Anne Moody wrote this memoir? Who do you think was her intended audience? Why? Use examples for the text to make your case.    

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Analysis of Chinese American Historical Society Southern California, write a brief 500 word entry about your topic, and a powerpoint presentation about your topic.  Inspired by the People’s Guide to Los Angeles and the new project on the People’s Guide to OC, this is an opportunity to profile a significant neighborhood site and to analyze the location in terms of the themes for this class.  How does your location illuminate Chinese American experiences in Orange County or Southern California more broadly.  How does the history of the locale explain its current significance?  Your paper and entry will help inform a current project.This course explores the history, culture, and contemporary life experiences of Chinese Americans.  Through lectures, readings, discussions, and films, we will examine topics such as immigration, community and family formation, work lives, educational experiences, political engagements, cultural representations, and the identities of people of Chinese ancestry in the U.S. I already write down the introduction for this project, you can observe some points or sentences from my intro. I will upload some picture for the project.

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Research the Chinese American Historical Society Southern California, make a PowerPoint presentation about this topic.  Inspired by the People’s Guide to Los Angeles and the new project on the People’s Guide to OC, this is an opportunity to profile a significant neighborhood site and to analyze the location in terms of the themes for this class.  How does your location illuminate Chinese American experiences in Orange County or Southern California more broadly.  How does the history of the locale explain its current significance?  Your paper and entry will help inform a current project.This course explores the history, culture, and contemporary life experiences of Chinese Americans.  Through lectures, readings, discussions, and films, we will examine topics such as immigration, community and family formation, work lives, educational experiences, political engagements, cultural representations, and the identities of people of Chinese ancestry in the U.S. I already write down the introduction for this project, you can observe some points or sentences from my intro. I will upload some picture for the project.

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Students will choose three (3) of these documents and describe how they shed new light on, or made you rethink a historical theme in a different way.  In other words, how did they make you view history differently.  Be sure to thoroughly discuss each document, and explain why or how it affected your understanding of that historic event.  The paper should be short and to the point (around 2 pages/roughly 500 words).  Ideally, the three documents should relate to one particular historical theme.  Historical themes can be either broad or specific.  Some themes that could work for this assignment are: The African American Experience American Foreign Policy American Imperialism American Politics Women's Role in American Society Minorities in America Growth of the State Economic History These are but a few suggestions, and are certainly not the only ones that would work.  If you have concerns regarding a specific theme, or are confused about the assignment, feel free to e-mail the instructor.

A question we can help you to answer 

Kennedy’s Assassination

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Lack of housing in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Pick any 3 from fellow 6 topics. Please divided to 3 part and mark it which topic it is.

Key topics:
Change and continuity in Occupation-era Japan
The postwar conservative political consensus
Protest in postwar Japanese history
Mass popular culture and its relation to economic and social change
Women in postwar Japan
Historical memory in Japan and East Asia 

Evaluation of answers:
- A poor answer will fail to include information and arguments relevant to the question, or
will contain information that is entirely irrelevant to the question. (F)
- A below average answer will contain some relevant information. The answer may be
inadequate in length, and may address the question obliquely rather than directly. (D)
- An average answer will describe some features of change. It will be satisfactory in length
and will address the question directly. (C)
- A good answer describes the changes accurately and includes most of the significant
features, and may offer some explanation for the changes but the explanation may be
missing some important dimensions. (B)
- Excellent answers will do what a solid answer does, plus offer a well-considered
explanation for why these changes took place. (A)

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Q1: What were the relationships of nationalism and imperialism in the last half of the 19th century and the causes of WWI? How did they change and affect the world ?

Q2: Discuss the political, social and economic events after WWI and how they set the stage for WWII.

Answer each question separately and with 2-3 detailed paragraphs. Please be extremely detailed with outside sources. 

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1. Although it certainly should include specific notes and details re the actual story, it should not be limited to a summary of the plot, i.e. what happens in the story.  Rather your reactions to those notes and details.
   
   
   B. It should include your specific questions regarding the fragmented quality of the story, what isn't clear and what's left out, along with responses to (if not potential answers to those questions).  For example: the creation and the transformation of Enkidu is fascinating, as well as puzzling; but, so what?  What might this aspect of the story tell us about this most ancient tale -- and our own past as evolving human cultures -- specifically the examples and characterizations of human feeling and behavior.  Enkidu's feelings?  Humbaba's true character?  Saduri's advice?  Ninsun's reaction to Gilgamesh's venture into the Cedar Forest?
   
   
   C. It should include links or references that reflect some research into traditional commentaries or reactions to the stories.  All critical responses not your own should include links to their sources.  The number available on the Internet re this story appear to be unlimited, and I've included several under External Links.
   
   
   D.  As to it's length:  pages of electronically prepared posts somehow do not compare well to published pages, so length is going to depend on your ability to be concise.  However, even with concise paragraphs, there would have to be at least a half dozen significant posts -- or what would be several otherwise double-spaced pages of regular text.  [A final note: we're working with established Word texts, with it's traditional rules, here.  Not coded text messaging.  Spell-Grammar-Usage apps are recommended.]
   
   
   D. Finally, though it might be posted in several parts as you move along through your study of the text, before it is submitted for a grade it should be organized in a way that reflects your final "take," understanding, or critical assessment of the text -- just as you would do for a portfolio. 

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Passamaquoddy Tribe of Indian Township, Maine Website (http://www.passamaquoddy.com.)

Passamaquoddy Fact Sheet (http://www.bigorrin.org/passamaquoddy_kids.htm)

Passamaquoddy Video: Learning about the Passamaquoddy Tribe (https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEVjY5R3lY7uoATZsnnIlQ?p=passamoquaddy&fr=yhs-mozilla-002&fr2=piv-web&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-002#id=8&vid=eb776bc6c48601af2b9da8aec146ac78&action=view.)



What is the historical importance of this tribe?

Discuss at least 3 aspects of Passamaquoddy life, such as:

Pre-Colonial type of clothing, homes, lifestyle, important events, people, modern life, court cases with the U.S. government

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Please read: 
- Misa, Chapter 2
- Richard W. Unger, “Dutch Herring, Technology, and International Trade in the Seventeenth Century,’ The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Jun., 1980), pp. 253-280, available in the Readings Folder on JSTOR at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2120179
- Wiebe E. Bijker, “The Oosterschelde Storm Surge Barrier: A Test Case for Dutch Water Technology, Management, and Politics,” Technology and Culture, Vol. 43, No. 3, ‘Water Technology in the Netherlands’ (Jul., 2002), pp. 569-584; Available in the Readings Folder and on JSTOR at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25147960

Discuss: In chapter two, Misa writes that "The emergence of specialized ship designs in the Netherlands was another early signal that the Dutch understood how to bring technology and trade together in pursuit of commerce." In Part I of your essay this week, connect an example that Misa offers to support his claim with one that Unger discusses in his essay on Dutch Herring.  How does this help us to understand the relationship between the Dutch successes and other social, economic, political or cultural trends at that time? In Part II of your essay, discuss how Bijker's story is, or is not, a modern continuation of the relationship between technology, geography, commerce and other aspects of Dutch society.

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What can you tell about the relationship between children and their parents in colonial times?