The Great Depression caused untold suffering for millions of Californians and eventually led to the creation of many social and jobs programs and banking regulations, including social security, the California Conservation Corps, and the Federal Dsposit Insurance Corporation (to protect your banking deposits):Discuss?
4.4 History in Court: The Progressive Era – Part 1
The history of politics and government in California has been a story of constant efforts to make government, starting at the most local level, more responsive to the people it serves.
The most significant period of reform in California was the Progressive Era, commencing with Hiram Johnson’s election as governor in 1910:Discuss?
Choose at least three social problems or domestic issues today that have the largest impact on society. The paper should contain three detailed paragraphs, one for each problem or issue. Explain and support your answer with current issues (for example, immigration, public safety, education, health care, drug abuse, conservation, poverty, women in the workforce, or increase in out-of wedlock births).
According to Collingwood, what makes History a ‘science,’ but how does it differ in its methods from those of the ‘exact sciences’?
How does Collingwood define ‘historical knowledge’ and ‘historical inference’, and how does ‘historical inference’ differ from methods of reasoning in the ‘exact sciences’?
What are Collingwood’s criticisms of ‘scissors-and-paste history’, and what methods should the historian adopt in the research and writing of history?
Required Reading: Week #11 Handout HST 300, Scientific and Idealist History in the 20th Century, historian (iii). R.G. Collingwood, extracts from The Idea of History. On Collingwood’s career in your essay introduction you can cite Hughes-Warrington, Fifty Key Thinkers on History, entry on Collingwood, pp. 40-48.
Why did migration to early modern London prompt so much concern?
Discuss migration to london using the following sources.
Jeremy Boulton: ‘London 1540-1700’ in Peter Clark (ed). The Cambridge Urban History of Britain (2001). ONLINE
Ian Archer, ’Government in early modern London: the challenge of the suburbs’ in P. Clark and R. Gillespie (eds.) Capital Cities (2001) ONLINE
Jeremy Boulton, Neighbourhood and Society, (1987), chapter 8 (Dynamics of a local community), 272-3 ONLINE
M. Pelling and P. Griffiths, ‘Disease, agency and the urban environment’ and ‘Household and neighbourhood’ in P. Clark (ed.) The Cambridge Urban History of Britain (2000), vol. II, pp. 209-233 ONLINE
P. Slack, ‘Metropolitan government in crisis: the response to plague’ in A. L. Beier and R. Finlay (eds.) London 1500-1700. The Making of the Metropolis (1986) ONLINE
Laura Gowing, Domestic Dangers, (1996), 12-22 ONLINE
J.F. Merritt, ‘Introduction: Perceptions and Portrayals of London 1598-1720’ in Imagining Early Modern London, pp. 1-24. [On Moodle only]
P. Slack, ’Perceptions of the Metropolis in Seventeenth-Century England’ in Peter Burke, Brian Harrison, and Paul Slack (eds.), Civil Histories: Essays Presented to Sir Keith Thomas (2000) ONLINE
J.F. Merritt, The Social World of Early Modern Westminster (2005), esp. 237-243; 285-293 EBOOK
Paul Griffiths, Lost Londons: Change, Crime and Control in the Capital City 1550-1660 (2008), pp. 67-76, section on ‘little worlds’, ordered as EBOOK. If not available, use this link:
Ian Archer, The Pursuit of Stability (1991), pp. 182-85 EBOOK
Andrew Wear, Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550-1680 (2000), 160-63, ch. 7 ONLINE
How and why was there a sexual revolution in the late twentieth century? In what ways were its effects unevenly felt—and why?
Is Same-sex marriage a civil rights triumph or simply Neoliberal Homonormativity? Can we go a little bit further? That every step of the way it is affirmed that the other person is comfortable.
How do you determine consent? Should the consent be verbal? Is a nod or a look in the eyes enough? Must it be evidenced or sign a contract? Now it becomes very.
What are the article’s greatest strengths and weaknesses?
What leaves you less than convinced?
What impresses you about the article?
Do you concur with the article? Why or why not?
How does the article compare to the other articles for the week?
How does the article compare to all else that we have read across the term?
Does the article make a major or minor contribution to the field?
Answer the following four questions after reading the passage included. Here is the link :
https://app.discoveryeducation.com/learn/techbook/units/ccf3149c-1413-4866-9d3d-8d84c964177f/concepts/671eb380-d7ca-4f31-8464-0e807838f52f
Why do you think the United States got involved in the distant war between Iraq and Kuwait? Do you think President Bush was right to step in?
What do you think should be the purpose of U.S. foreign policy?
Why do you think the United States is known as a global “superpower”? How does the first Persian Gulf War support this idea?
Can you think of other times when the United States has been involved with international disputes or issues? Do you think this is part of the job of the United States? Why or why not?
“There Is No New Black Panther Party”: The Panther-Like Formations and the Black Power Resurgence of the 1990s
What is the author trying to say?
What was the question the research is attempting to answer?
What is the methodology being used to answer the question?
What conclusion did they research; did they answer their question?
American diplomacy during the second world war 1941-1945 by gaddis smith:Discuss?
Write an essay that talks about African American women progress throughout history and describe how that progress has benefited the economy.
