ESSAY ONE: WILSON AND WORLD WAR I

 

ANSWER ANY TWO OF THE FOLLOWING FIVE ESSAYS:

ESSAY ONE: WILSON AND WORLD WAR I :

TELL ME HOW WOODROW WILSON’S MORAL IDEALISM SHAPED HIS FOREIGN POLICY AND LED THE NATION INTO WORLD WAR I. IN WHAT WAYS WAS THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN WORLD WAR I PERHAPS A POLARIZING AND NEGATIVE ONE? TO WHAT DEGREE IS THE WAR RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF PROGRESSIVISM?

ESSAY TWO: ROARING TWENTIES:

WHY DO YOU THINK WARREN HARDING AND CALVIN COOLIDGE WON IN 1920 AND 1924? WHY DO YOU THINK CONSERVATIVE ECONOMIC POLICIES ARE SO POPULAR IN THE 1920’S? WHY, IN SPITE OF CONSERVATIVE POLITICS, DOES 1920’S AMERICA ENDURE A CULTURE WAR?

ESSAY THREE: HERBERT HOOVER AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION:

HOW MUCH DO YOU THINK THE OUTLOOK OF THE LOST GENERATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 1929 CRASH? HOW DO HERBERT HOOVER’S EFFORTS TO STEM THE DEPRESSION FAIL?

ESSAY FOUR: FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND THE NEW DEAL:

TELL ME HOW FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT CAME BACK FROM POLITICAL DEATH TO WIN THE WHITE HOUSE IN 1932. HOW DOES THE FIRST NEW DEAL PREVENT AN ECONOMIC MELTDOWN AND THE SECOND NEW DEAL ATTEMPT TO PROVIDE ECONOMIC SECURITY ? HOW DID THE NEW DEAL BEGIN TO STUMBLE IN FDR’S SECOND TERM? HOW DID THE NEW DEAL CHANGE THE STATUS OF LABOR AND THE WAY AMERICANS VIEWED POVERTY AND THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT?

ESSAY FIVE: AMERICA IN WORLD WAR II:

HOW DID AMERICANS FIRST EMBRACE AND THEN ABANDON ISOLATIONISM AND ENTER WORLD WAR II? WHY WERE NAZI GERMANY AND IMPERIAL JAPAN A MORTAL THREAT? HOW DID AMERICANS TURN THE TIDE AND ULTIMATELY DEFEAT THE AXIS? WHAT ROLES DID WOMEN AND MINORITIES PLAY AND HOW DID WORLD WAR II REDEFINE WHAT IT MEANT TO BE AN AMERICAN? WHY DO MANY SEE WORLD WAR II AS A “GOOD” WAR?

HOW DO I DO THIS ASSIGNMENT?

YOU’LL BE GIVING ME TWO ESSAYS OUT OF THE FIVE. iF YOU DO MORE I WILL GRADE YOUR BEST TWO ASSIGNMENT. TRY TO GIVE ME A MINIMUM THREE PAGES SINGLE-SPACED FOR THE WHOLE ASSIGNMENT { A PAGE AND A HALF FOR EACH ESSAY] YOU WILL NOT BE MARKED DOWN AND LIKELY BE REWARDED FOR WRITING MORE.

USE LECTURE MATERIAL, TEXTBOOKS AND OTHER TEXTBOOKS. AVOID .COM OR .NET INTERNET SOURCES THAT ARE BASICALLY “CHEAT SHEETS”. YOU CAN USE PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS [FIRST HAND DOCUMENTS OR SPEECHES WRITTEN AT THE TIME] OR SCHOLARLY ARTICLES FROM EBSCO HOST. DO NOT USE SOURCES SUCH AS WIKIPEDIA, HISTORY.COM, HISTORY.NET, QUIZLET, COURSE HERO, ETC.

TRY TO ANSWER ALL OF THE QUESTIONS IN A COHERENT ESSAY MINIMUM THREE PAGES, SINGLE-SPACED.

WHAT SOURCES SHOULD I USE? EACH WEEK THE INSTRUCTOR WILL POST A LINK TO HIS RECORDED LECTURES ON THE “ANNOUNCEMENTS” BOARD. THE TEXT OF THE POWER POINT LECTURE NOTES WILL ALSO BE POSTED THERE. TRANSCRIPTS OF THE ZOOM LECTURES WILL BE POSTED ON THE “PAGES” BOARD.

IN ADDITION TO THE ONLINE MATERIALS FURNISHED BY THE INSTRUCTOR, STUDENTS ARE TO ALSO USE MATERIAL FROM THE TEXTBOOKS MENTIONED ABOVE, INCLUDING TEXTBOOKS OF THEIR CHOOSING.

WHAT ABOUT INTERNET SOURCES? THESE NEED TO BE USED WITH CAUTION. SOME INTERNET SOURCES ARE SCHOLARLY AND ACADEMIC, SUCH AS THOSE FOUND ON EBSCO HOST. PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS FROM WEB SOURCES, SUCH AS A SPEECH BY A PRESIDENT OR TEXT OF A LAW, ARE ALSO FINE. MANY, HOWEVER, ARE NOT. WIKIPEDIA, HISTORY.COM, HISTORY.NET, QUIZLET, COURSE HERO AND MOST ANY .COM OR .NET ARE NOT SCHOLARLY. USING THEM IS THE EQUIVALENT OF USING A “CHEAT SHEET” IN PLACE OF AN ASSIGNED BOOK. THE INSTRUCTOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO DEDUCT POINTS FROM AN ASSIGNMENT USING UNSCHOLARLY WEB SOURCES. MORE POINTS MAY BE DEDUCTED IF THESE, OR ANY OTHER SOURCES ARE PLAGIARIZED [SEE “ACADEMIC HONESTY” BELOW].

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO CITE ALL YOUR SOURCES TO AVOID CHARGES OF PLAGIARISM [SEE “ACADEMIC HONESTY”] BELOW. A SOURCES CITED PAGE IS ALSO IMPORTANT IF YOU USE ANY BOOK, ARTICLE OR SOURCE YOU NEED TO CITE IT. YOU NEED TO TELL ME WHERE YOU GOT IT FROM. OTHERWISE IT’S CONSIDERED PLAGIARISM!

HOW DO I SUBMIT MY HOMEWORK? IT IS TO BE UPLOADED TO “ASST TWO DUE 11/18” ON THE CANVAS “ASSIGNMENTS” BOARD. PLEASE UPLOAD YOUR ENTIRE ASSIGNMENT IN A SINGLE FILE.

ACADEMIC HONESTY

THE BIGGEST PROBLEM AN AVC INSTRUCTOR OFTEN FACES IS THAT OF ACADEMIC DISHONESTY IN THE FORM OF PLAGIARISM .

WHAT IS PLAGIARISM? IT IS INTENTIONALLY OR UNINTENTIONALLY TAKING SOMEBODY ELSE’S WORK AND PALMING IT OFF AS YOUR OWN.

MANY STUDENTS DO THIS UNKNOWINGLY, BUT SOME DO IT KNOWINGLY AND INTENTIONALLY, HOPING THAT THEY WILL NOT GET CAUGHT. THE CONSEQUENCES CAN BE SEVERE. GERMANY’S BRILLIANT DEFENSE MINISTER HAD TO RESIGN IN 2011 BECAUSE HE PLAGIARIZED HIS PHD THESIS. HE USED LOTS OF MATERIAL FROM OTHERS WITHOUT CITING HIS SOURCES!

AVC’S ACADEMIC DISHONESTY POLICY STATES:

“PLAGIARISM IS PLAGIARISM WHETHER THE MATERIAL IS FROM PUBLISHED OR UNPUBLISHED SOURCES. IT DOES NOT MATTER WHETHER IDEAS ARE STOLEN, BOUGHT, DOWNLOADED FROM THE INTERNET, OR WRITTEN FOR THE STUDENT BY SOMEONE ELSE-IT IS STILL PLAGIARISM. EVEN IF ONLY BITS AND PIECES OF OTHER SOURCES ARE USED, OR OUTSIDE SOURCES REWORDED, THEY MUST STILL BE CITED. TO AVOID PROBLEMS, STUDENTS SHOULD CITE ANY SOURCE(S) AND CHECK WITH THE INSTRUCTOR BEFORE SUBMITTING AN ASSIGNMENT OR PROJECT. STUDENTS ARE ALWAYS RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY PLAGIARISM IN THEIR WORK. AN INSTRUCTOR WHO DETERMINES THAT A STUDENT HAS CHEATED OR PLAGIARIZED HAS THE RIGHT TO GIVE AN “F” GRADE, OR NUMERICAL EQUIVALENT, FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OR EXAMINATION. AVC RESERVES THE RIGHT TO UTILIZE ELECTRONIC MEANS TO INVESTIGATE POSSIBLE ACADEMIC VIOLATIONS. ENROLLMENT IN ANY CLASS IMPLIES STUDENT AGREEMENT AND CONSENT THAT ALL ASSIGNMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO SUBMISSION FOR TEXTUAL SIMILARITY REVIEW TO AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE. VIOLATION OF CLASS ASSIGNMENTS, EXAMINATION RULES, E.G., COMMUNICATING OR TRANSFERRING INFORMATION TO ANOTHER STUDENT, USING ANY MATERIALS SUCH AS BOOKS, NOTES, ETC., OTHER THAN THOSE EXPRESSLY ALLOWED FOR THE EXAM, LOOKING AT ANOTHER STUDENT’S EXAM, ETC.”

THE WORST FORMS OF PLAGIARISM INVOLVE:

PURCHASED ESSAYS WRITTEN BY SOMEONE ELSE.
“POOLING” EFFORTS ON WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT, BASICALLY COPYING FROM ONE ANOTHER.
CUTTING AND PASTING ENTIRE ASSIGNMENTS, PAGES, PARAGRAPHS OR EVEN SENTENCES FROM OTHER SOURCES WITHOUT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
BEGINNING IN 2024: ESSAYS COMPUTER GENERATED IN FULL OR IN PART THROUGH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [AI].

OTHER FORMS OF PLAGIARISM INVOLVE:

CUTTING AND PASTING PASSAGES WITHOUT QUOTATION MARKS AND WITHOUT CITING THE SOURCE.
PARROTING: PARAPHRASING PASSAGES, TWEAKING SOME WORDS HERE AND THERE, BUT LEAVING THE ESSENTIAL STRUCTURE THE SAME, WITHOUT CITING THE SOURCE.
PARROTING: PARAPHRASING PASSAGES, TWEAKING SOME WORDS HERE AND THERE, BUT LEAVING THE ESSENTIAL STRUCTURE THE SAME, WITH CITING THE SOURCE.
SIMPLY TAKING FACTS OR IDEAS NOT COMMONLY KNOWN AND PRESENTING THEM AS YOUR OWN WITHOUT CITING THE SOURCE.

HOW DO WE AVOID PLAGIARISM?

WHEN YOU UPLOAD YOUR WORK TO THE ASSIGNMENT BOARD, IT AUTOMATICALLY UPLOADS TO TURNITIN. TURNITIN GENERATES A SIMILARITY REPORT AND FLAGS THE PERCENTAGE OF SIMILARITY WITH MILLIONS OF OTHER DOCUMENTS ON THE WEB. IT ALSO FLAGS THE PERCENTAGE IT PERCEIVES GENERATED BY AI. SOME LOW PERCENTAGE SIMILARITIES DO NOT NECESSARILY INDICATE PLAGIARISM. MAKE SURE:

THAT YOU AVOID PARAPHRASING AND PUT THINGS IN YOUR OWN WORDS AS MUCH AS YOU CAN.
ANY QUOTES YOU USE ARE IN QUOTATION MARKS “” AND ARE NO MORE THAN A SENTENCE OR TWO LONG.
DON’T USE TOO MANY QUOTES IN AN ESSAY ESSENTIALLY MADE UP OF STRUNG TOGETHER QUOTES.
ANY FACT [SUCH AS STATISTICS] OR IDEA BORROWED FROM ANOTHER SOURCE MUST HAVE A CITATION IF IT IS NOT COMMONLY KNOWN.
ALL QUOTES OR CITATIONS MUST HAVE A FOOTNOTE, ENDNOTE OR OTHER CITATION SUCH AS THIS [YAWP, 23], [LEWIS, LECTURE, FEBRUARY 9, 2024].
PLEASE PLACE ANY CITATIONS IMEDIATELY AFTER THE PASSAGE IN QUESTION AND NOT BUNCH THEM TOGETHER AT THE END OF THE ESSAY OR ASSIGNMENT.
REMEMBER TO REREAD THE POLICIES ON PLAGIARISM AND AI ON THE SYLLABUS.