Category: History

What similarities and differences did you find between Ortega y Gasset’s conception of mass society and Lenin’s view of a communist society? How would each address the concept of freedom within mass society?

1. What similarities and differences did you find between Ortega y Gasset’s conception of mass society and Lenin’s view of a communist society? How would each address the concept of freedom within mass society?

What does the book tell us about how people saw the world when it was written?Did you see any problems or weaknesses in the text.?

Aloha Betrayed Book Review

What does the book do well? What doesn’t it do well?
What message about the past is the writer trying to tell us?
What does the book tell us about how people saw the world when it was written?
Did you see any problems or weaknesses in the text.?
What questions were raised as you read the text?
As part of this you should do some quick research on the book’s author(s), and how their identity might affect the book’s portrayals as well.

 What was the nature of the pig behavior in colonial North America? How did seventeenth-century Native Americans view livestock, especially pigs? Why so, and to what effect?

Discussion Reply about Animal & Society

What was the nature of the pig behavior in colonial North America? How did seventeenth-century Native Americans view livestock, especially pigs? Why so, and to what effect?

Explain the meaning of Henry Kissingers quote “One of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war

Guerrilla Warfare

Need a 5 paragraph essay explain the meaning of Henry Kissingers quote “One of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

The conventional army loses if it does not win” Then apply the message behind the quote to the conflicts between the French-Vietnamese, the US and

Vietnamese and one other conflict from American history.
This is for a freshman in high school doesn’t need to be extravagant.

Why does the author believe that Pocahontas wanted to be in the marriage even though we do not have her testimony? What motivations does Townsend think Pocahontas might have had when agreeing to marry Rolfe?

Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma

Using Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, you will need to write an essay of at least 750 words answering ALL of the following questions using specific evidence from the book to support your answers fully.

Discuss Pocahontas’ childhood.

How did she fit into Powhatan’s larger family structure? How was she perceived by the English as opposed to her own people?

How is her personality described?

Discuss the first settlers who came to Jamestown. What was their purpose in moving there?

What were their first interactions with Powhatan/ the Powhatan Confederacy like? How did the colonists/ Natives make use of each other- what were each group trying to get from the other? Would you characterize their relations as more positive or negative during this early period? Why?

Discuss John Smith. Why was he so important to Jamestown? What was his relationship like with Powhatan?

What was his relationship with Pocahontas like? Did he and Pocahontas seem to view their relationship in the same way?

Discuss the relationship that Pocahontas had with John Rolfe. How does he (Rolfe) describe his feelings for her?

Why does the author believe that Pocahontas wanted to be in the marriage even though we do not have her testimony? What motivations does Townsend think Pocahontas might have had when agreeing to marry Rolfe?

Why does the author believe that Pocahontas decided to go to London? What was her experience like there?

How does she show her own agency while there? Do you think that the trip was what she and the other Natives was expecting of England? What do you think it showed them about the English/ colonists?

Discuss the relationship between Opechankeno and the colonists.

What drove his anger towards them? How did this drive the decision towards the attack towards the colonists in 1622? Would you agree that this attack was ultimately beneficial towards the colonists? Why or why not?

Do you think we have too high an expectation for our presidents? Why do we expect our presidents to do so much? Do the journalists share the blame? Do the presidents themselves?

We do seem to expect a lot from our presidents. Why is that? We elect them and give them a report card after their first 100 days in office.

The expectation that they should be able to fix the economy or solve an international crisis in just a few days seems to be something dreamt up from a Hollywood screenplay.

Do you think we have too high an expectation for our presidents? Why do we expect our presidents to do so much? Do the journalists share the blame? Do the presidents themselves?

When they run for the office they make sweeping promises that fail to consider the constrictions of the office, but then every candidate for every office does that – even the local dog catcher. Where does Congress or the Courts fit into the public perception of the presidents’ power?

Do different presidents’ have different powers? Furthermore, when we consider our expectations of the office, are we imagining a president living in an older era? If we factor in the new globally connected and socially connected world, must we re-evaluate our expectations as to whether presidents can accomplish their agendas? Is there anything that can be done to make a president more successful in achieving his promises?

Have we ever had a president who has successfully met the public’s expectations? Or does it take time out of office for the public’s opinion of the president’s performance to change? For example, people are re-evaluating the presidency of George H.W. Bush. The public and historians are concluding that the Bush  Administration was one of the better administrations in recent history.

What term best characterizes Early Modern Europe from 1450 to 1715? The Age of____________ ,  have to answer that question and pick a specific term to use for that time period.

Writing prompt 2

What term best characterizes Early Modern Europe from 1450 to 1715?
The Age of____________ ,  have to answer that question and pick a specific term to use for that time period.

Discuss whether you think that drug use and violence were a result of the boomtown, wide-open frontier aspect of the Comstock, or just the normal problems of a 19th-century city. Is this view of women and girls as prostitutes, drug addicts, and owners of opium dens how women are usually portrayed during this period?

Reading Response 9

For this response, you will look at the seedier and more violent side of the Comstock.

Read the following 4 items (3 of the items are from chapter 4 of Uncovering Nevada’s Past ): “The Virginia Evening Chronicle reports on Opium on the Comstock”, the article about Julia Bulette at this link (Links to an external site.) “Julia Bulette’s Probate Records”, and “Mark Twain’s Description of the Execution of John Millian, 1868.”

In 250-500 words, discuss whether you think that drug use and violence were a result of the boomtown, wide-open frontier aspect of the Comstock, or just the normal problems of a 19th-century city. Is this view of women and girls as prostitutes, drug addicts, and owners of opium dens how women are usually portrayed during this period?

What are the book’s strengths and weaknesses (FYI: “The book is boring,” “the book is too long,” and/or “the book is difficult to read” are unacceptable weaknesses.)? Support your statements with specific evidence from the text.

Nature’s Metropolis

Write a scholarly review of Nature’s Metropolis. Be sure to evaluate Cronon’s argument(s), methodology, and use of primary sources. What are the book’s strengths and weaknesses (FYI: “The book is boring,” “the book is too long,” and/or “the book is difficult to read” are unacceptable weaknesses.)? Support your statements with specific evidence from the text.