american history

Remember that the essays are weekly assignments, not Chapter specific assignments.  Each week you will receive a listing of three possible essay topics that will generally fall into one of the following categories:  factual, opinion, 'what if', and newspaper articles. Select one topic for your essay.  For the News Paper article you will be expected to submit an article on a specific historical event from a specific period newspaper.   You will place your completed essay into the drop box in the Essay 3 link before the due date. Barton utilizes the excellent Turnitin plagiarism detection software primarily as a teaching/coaching tool.  The software detects suspicious passages and compares them against previously submitted works.  This allows the student the opportunity to relook their work and make appropriate citations and format changes.  An additional use is that it assists in identifying plagiarism.  Use of the Turnitin software is a requirement in this course.  You are required to submit all essays and the Book/Movie Review through the Drop Box. Additionally, those works must be attached, not ‘cut and pasted’ into the dialog box.  Failure to utilize the Drop Box and the Turnitin software results in a -30% for any resubmission.  There is also an option for the 'Wild Card' essay. You will place your completed essay into the drop box in the appropriate Week Essay link before the due date. Remember that this are mini research papers and that I expect far more research and independent thought than in a short answer fill in the blank style question. The Survival 101 link has additional information on essay preparation. 

ESSAY 1 Menu:

1. Describe how vertical organization could revolutionize your business.  The intent for this exercise is for you to create a fictional but modern operation and fully describe how vertical integration becomes a major part of your business plan. You may reference but not describe Swift or Standard Oil. The intent is to use the process described in Ch 17; not to repeat or report on it.

2. Select and review one of the following Western films or TV series - Deadwood, 3:10 to Yuma, Open Range, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, Shane, Stagecoach, The Big Valley or The Virginian; what makes it History, what makes it Hype and what makes it Hollywood?

3. Write an article for an anti- labor newspaper describing a railroad strike.

4.  Select and Review any Documentary film that deals with subject matter, a figure or a concept from our course dates.  You may only use the ‘documentary option’ twice during the cycle.

ESSAY 2 Menu:  

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1. How and why did America's expanding consumer culture change a woman's life and her role in society?

2.  Write a news paper article reporting on the Chicago Exposition (The White City)

3.  Some historians claim that America became a far more secular society in the late 19th Century and cite Darwin, Social Darwinism and changes in a woman's role as proof.  You buyin' or sellin'?

4.  Select and Review any Documentary film that deals with subject matter, a figure or a concept from our course dates.  You may only use the ‘documentary option’ twice during the cycle.

ESSAY 3 Menu:

1.  If the League of Nations was such a great deal; why didn't the United States ratify the Treaty of Versailles and join?  Are you buyin' or sellin' the idea that it was the Republicans that torpedoed Wilson's 14 points?

2.  What if:  What happens during World War 1 if the United States does remain neutral, does not support the Allies, or enter into the fighting?

3.  Write a news paper article describing the flu epidemic of 1918 - 1919 in 'your home town'.