Paper on a documentary you must watch
You should use the documentary, "American Experience: The Eugenics Crusade" to address the guiding questions for this week's mini-paper.
https://www.pbs.org/video/the-eugenics-crusade-jtaetc/
Topic Questions:
· What are the main arguments of the film The Eugenics Crusade? In more simple terms, what is an author trying to say? What is her/his/their position about an issue? (1 paragraph) (Worth 10 points)
· What are the important terms, concepts used in this reading/viewing? (Concept Synthesis, 1 paragraph) (Worth 5 points)
· Describe the history of the eugenics movement in the United States in no more than 4 paragraphs. (Worth 25 points)
· Guiding Questions for this question:
· When did it start and how?
· Who were some of the influential figures in this movement?
· What happened as a result of this movement in different states of the US?
· What were some of its criticisms and how did it lose steam?
· For this question, you need to find 3 sources to support your answer. All sources can be journalistic, however, you may not use Wikipedia.
Paper Requirements
· Mini-papers should be free of grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors.