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Paper #3: Thirteen Days

Due date: December 8th

What were the most influential factors impacting President Kennedy’s decisions during the Cuban Missile Crisis? To answer, think about the following possibilities, including domestic factors (Congress, public opinion, elections, interest groups, public officials) and international factors (the balance of power, the impact of international organizations). As you discuss this also examine the possible choices open to Kennedy, the concerns of the impact of each option, and how and why the final choice was made. What are some lessons we can learn today from the decision-making process during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Expectations for the assignment: Please give specific examples from the Thirteen Days text to demonstrate your answers. You may also utilize other class material to substantiate your ideas. But be sure to give credit to the author for the ideas and information you use. This is true whether you use a direct quotation or paraphrase ideas.

Essays should be between 4 -5 pages long, 12p font, pages numbered and stapled and properly cited.

Citation Instructions:

You may use parenthetical citation, footnotes or endnotes, just be consistent throughout the paper. All papers must have an alphabetized bibliography at the end. Note, journal/newspaper articles and essays from edited volumes should appear in quotes, titles of newspapers, journals, and books should be italicized or underlined. You should always have a publication date for material.

Examples:

1. Parenthetical citation. Within the text of your paper you should have the author’s last name, year of publication, and page number where the cited material can be found: (Ng 1998:7). Then the full citation should appear in your bibliography: Ng, Margaret. “Why Asia Needs Democracy: A View From Hong Kong” in Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner (eds.) Democracy in East Asia (Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press) 1998. Notice here that the author of the article is credited, not the editors of the book. Always give authors credit for their work!

2. Footnotes or endnotes. Within the text of your paper there should be a numerical note, then at the bottom of the page, or at the end of the paper the full bibliographic information should appear. For example: Ng, Margaret. “Why Asia Needs Democracy: A View From Hong Kong” in Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner (eds.) Democracy in East Asia (Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press) 1998:7. If you refer to this article again in your paper it may appear in subsequent footnotes/endnotes in a slightly shortened form: Ng, Margaret “Why Asia Needs Democracy” p. 7.

All papers should have a bibliography as well!