Topic Proposal For Final Writing Paper
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Final.docxDirections
For your reaction paper, choose one of the following topics from this Module’s reading and discuss the relevance of the topic in the 21st century:
· Slavery
· The Harlem Renaissance
· Jim Crow
· The Black Arts Movement
Questions to consider as you write:
· Why is the topic important to study?
· What impact do you believe it has on people today?
· What positive or negative impact do you see because of the concerns expressed in your chosen topic?
· How does it add to your understanding of African American struggles and/or contributions?
Requirements:
· 500 Words
· Your work must be formatted in MLA
· Provide documentation when quoting from the assigned text(s).
· A Works Cited page must be included
· See Resources & Services for MLA information. Scroll down to the MLA Basics section.
· No outside sources may be used.
· Submit your file in .doc or .docx
· Your work must be submitted by the date and time on the course schedule of the syllabus. Please try to submit your work ahead of deadline in case of technical issues.
https://www.britannica.com/art/African-American-literature/The-rise-of-the-New-Negro#ref232355
http://www.oercommons.org/courses/remembering-jim-crow/view
https://www.britannica.com/art/African-American-literature/The-Black-Arts-movement
https://bconline.broward.edu/d2l/le/content/462167/viewContent/11946450/View
https://bconline.broward.edu/d2l/le/content/462167/viewContent/11946459/View
Your initial post must be a minimum of 150 words. Your response to your classmate must be a minimum of 75 words.
**You are encouraged to respond to more than one peer, but your primary peer response must meet the word count.
Choose one of the following questions:
1. Discuss the sentiments of Phillis Wheatley as expressed in her poem "On Being Brought from Africa to America" and that of the spirituals. Do you believe Wheatley’s gratefulness for her condition is warranted despite not being free? Should she have expressed a longing for freedom as her fellow Africans and African Americans did as they sang spirituals?
2. Explore Horton's feelings about liberty as captured in the following lines from his poem "On Liberty and Slavery":"
Oh, Liberty! thou golden prize, So often sought by blood— We crave thy sacred sun to rise, The gift of nature’s God!"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45465/on-being-brought-from-africa-to-america
https://bconline.broward.edu/d2l/le/content/462167/viewContent/11946486/View
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52307/on-liberty-and-slavery
AML2600 AFRICAN AMERICAN LIT ONLINE 663908
Directions
The purpose of slave narratives was to provide a testament against the horrors of slavery and provide a call to action to have slavery abolished. Discuss 2-3 compelling arguments against slavery made in the assigned readings by Douglass or Jacobs.
Requirements:
· 500 Words
· Your work must be formatted in MLA
· Provide documentation when quoting from the assigned text(s).
· A Works Cited page must be included
· See Resources & Services for MLA information. Scroll down to the MLA Basics section.
· No outside sources may be used.
· Submit your file in .doc or .docx
· Your work must be submitted by the date and time on the course schedule of the syllabus. Please try to submit your work ahead of deadline in case of technical issues.
NO OUTSIDE SOURCES PLEASE !!!!!!
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/202?msg=welcome_stranger
https://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/jacobs/jacobs.html
Your initial post must be a minimum of 150 words. Your response to your classmate must be a minimum of 75 words.
**You are encouraged to respond to more than one peer, but your primary peer response must meet the word count.
Discuss the unique female perspectives about slavery as offered by Jacobs and Truth, and why it was, and still is, necessary to differentiate between male and female experiences during slavery.
https://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/jacobs/jacobs.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb4Jn4eiMdg&feature=emb_title
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/sojtruth-woman.asp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-HfiryNoXY&feature=emb_title
Your initial post must be a minimum of 150 words. Your response to your classmate must be a minimum of 75 words.
**You are encouraged to respond to more than one peer, but your primary peer response must meet the word count.
Explore the theme of Christian hypocrisy in Douglass’s narrative. Why do you believe it was important for him to note this? What does his account say about atrocities committed in the name of religion that are still pervasive today?
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/202?msg=welcome_stranger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su-4JBEIhXY&feature=emb_title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc1RbUxQv4E&feature=emb_title
Your initial post must be a minimum of 150 words. Your response to your classmate must be a minimum of 75 words.
**You are encouraged to respond to more than one peer, but your primary peer response must meet the word count.
Choose one of the following questions:
1. Discuss the philosophies of Washington and DuBois as they pertain to black progress. Share which solution you believe was the most applicable and why, and/or how both philosophies have equal merit.
2. In Wells-Barnett’s chapter, “The Black and White of It”, she discussed the role that race plays in crime. Describe the hypocrisy she outlined and how it compares to current discussions about race and crime in America.
3.
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/letter-to-j-r-barlow/
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14975/14975-h/14975-h.htm#THE_BLACK_AND_WHITE_OF_IT
https://www.britannica.com/art/African-American-literature/The-late-19th-and-early-20th-centuries#ref232353
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tfVpHYyDcY&feature=emb_title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LdWQJ3vAio&feature=emb_title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiyQFG6uHgg&feature=emb_title
Your initial post must be a minimum of 150 words. Your response to your classmate must be a minimum of 75 words.
**You are encouraged to respond to more than one peer, but your primary peer response must meet the word count.
Mr. Ryder was faced with the dilemma of acknowledging a part of his past that, in the eyes of society, was incompatible with the new life he created. Share if you agree or disagree with Mr. Ryder’s decision regarding Liza Jane. Does the same dilemma of relationships and social status occur today? How?
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11057/pg11057-images.html
