Category: Humanities : American Studies

The three assignments are linked, focusing on the same assigned reading from your text (your choice of which one), with the documented essay submitted first, then the synthesis essay, then the oral presentation.  You will choose a selection from your readings that you can “link” to a modern work—perhaps a book, a movie, an episode…

Using the information from the class lecture, poem analysis, and cartoon analysis, answer the following question:  How does the White Man’s Burden political cartoon and Kipling’s poem relate to imperialism? Answers to the question above should be at least 1 paragraph in length and use at least four specific pieces of evidence from either the poem or…

Synthesis Essay with primary and secondary sourcesDirections: For this assignment, students will write a documented essay that answers the question below.  To develop the essay, students will identify two primary sources (one from your textbook’s assigned readings) and a contemporary critic (which you should already have from the documented essay assignment) (100 points). Directed Question for essay:  What do you find most…