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Environment in History:  How did environmental factors play a significant role in this week’s period of study?  Select and explain two different environmental aspects from the assigned videos and readings.  Which was more important?   Purpose in Life:   Select one or two passages from Gilgamesh that present Mesopotamian perspectives on how best to live.   Contrast … Read more

HIST 3881 Discussion questions.

Please answer these questions 3-4 paragraph and it can be in your own words.  Please do good work and answer with complete sentences  13. What was the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy Ferguson? How did it interpret the Fourteenth Amendment? How did it impact the lives of blacks? Summarize John Marshall Harlan’s dissent.  14. Why … Read more

Rome and China

After reading Chapter 3 and the  material at the websites, and viewing the videos, please make a 250-word  initial post that answers the following questions about the primary  sources: What values do Plutarch and Confucius  promote? What similarities and differences do you see in their moral and  educational philosophies? How are those similarities and differences … Read more

African American History

  Complete a book review on a topic from the course (Black Patriots). Use ECSU library database to find your book. Students must include the following elements in the book review: What is the book about? How does the book fit into African American history? What is the author’s thesis? What is the theme of … Read more

discussion

  1) Read the provided YAWP readings. 2) Read the articles provided.  3) Watch the videos provided.  4) Read pages 817 – 822 and 854 – 857 of the US History online textbook.  Using the instructions above, the provided learning materials, and your own research: 1)    Choose one of the resources provided to you and … Read more

vidioe analysis

   Instructions: · First, summarize the movie, its events, and main characters.  · Second, determine if the movie is historically accurate by first researching the event(s) yourself.  · Third, what did you learn about these events that you did not know previously? · Fourth, provide a critical analysis of the movie. Would you recommend the … Read more

week 6 holocausts

Read THE HOLOCAUST READER, PART IV (Whose ‘Final Solution?’ Revisiting Intentionalism and Fundamentalism) 1) In a single sentence IN YOUR OWN WORDS (IYOW), provide an OVERVIEW of this section. 2) For each chapter (14-18), provide a THESIS sentence and THREE specific pieces of evidence to support your thesis – what is each writer’s MAIN argument, … Read more

Religion AREL Question

Take two of the six religions that we have studied so far (Indigenous North American religions, Indigenous African religions, Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism) and compare and contrast their world outlooks, historical development, and their way of life.  How are they similar?  How are they different? 

Perspectives in History Project

 Climate Change; The Chernobyl accident  Directions Read these directions and the rubric criteria and reach out to your instructor if you have any questions before you begin working on this project. Many of the steps below will require you to reference and utilize the work you have done in previous modules of this course. You … Read more

MMW1

1. “The Supreme Io and the Creation of the World,” by Maori, and the “Yoruba Creation Narrative,” by the Yuraba people, are similar in the ways how societies believed in higher beings creating everything as well as the existence of something being present before the creation of humans such as bodies of water, higher beings, … Read more