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You are to write an essay of no more than one single spaced page. You must use standard margins and cite all sources using either MLA or APA, your bibliography may be on the second page. Failure to cite your sources can result in an F for the assignment. The link for submitting your essay … Read more

World History

In  3 page essay, evaluate the arguments and evidence of Laura Spinney’s book Pale Rider.  What were your main takeaways from reading the book?  How well did the author provide global context for understanding the pandemic of 1918-1919?  Specific page references are required, and appropriate quotations from the text are encouraged.

European Socialism History 357 Assignment 1

Instructions: This assignment should be written as a coherent essay of approximately three to four typed double-spaced pages with one-inch margins and carefully reviewed before submission of spelling, grammar, content and style.  The readings for this assignment are:  Eric Hobsbawm, How the Change the World, Chapter 3 Noam Chomsky, A Brief History of Anarchism, 2014 … Read more

what is Enlightenment? Using the information we covered this week from the Scientific Revolution and/or the Enlightenment, what was enlightenment during this period? How do you think it was defined by the people living through this period of major int

Week 6 Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Across Europe The sixteenth century saw the reexamining of classical knowledge in the fields of physics, astronomy, and medicine.  These new natural philosophers looked at classical figures like Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Galen, discarded the theories that did not seem to work, and tried out new ones.  This created an … Read more

What were some of the major problems with society the philosophes (like Voltaire in Candide) attempted to address?

To embrace the Enlightenment was to assert ones membership in an intellectual community committed to expanding its association through reading, print, and other forms of discourse, a community that was both intellectual and social, critical and collective. This was sometimes done in a rigid encyclopedia, or like in Voltaires Candide, satire. With this in mind, … Read more

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Which gains did the movements for racial and gender equality make in the 19th and early 20th centuries? What were the major setbacks they faced?                                                            Please … Read more

Week 7 history discussion

Required ResourcesRead/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: Chapter 9, 10 Lesson Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to the textbook) Option 1: Examine the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1980s. Include the following in your discussion: What were the main reasons for the collapse? What role did the constant state of … Read more

case 7 week

  For this assignment, analyze the space race. What did it mean for the U.S. and USSR during the Cold War? Is the space program still relevant? Is it worth the cost, considering the growing debt? How does the space program benefit the U.S. national economy in general? How does it benefit the world? Is … Read more