Tag: American culture

What do you think is shared amongst the majority of Americans in terms of culture (meaning those ideas, beliefs, values, and behaviors that are both shared and learned amongst a group of persons…)?

What is American Culture?

1. What do you think is shared amongst the majority of Americans in terms of culture (meaning those ideas, beliefs, values, and behaviors that are both shared and learned amongst a group of persons…)?

2.  provide a video clip or other interesting link to support your idea/s. You can also talk about subculture. (This is a category that implies that while everyone may feel part of American culture, they are also part of various subcultures – part of a group that is recognizable from the outside because it shares such things as ideas/beliefs/behaviors. Subcultures can be religions, ethnicities, or smaller things like skateboarding or street racing, but they must be recognizable to the outside because they share things. Skateboarding is a subculture that often is youth, can be any gender or ethnicity, has stereotypical behaviors such a breaking laws or smoking pot, has lingo and clothing that is exclusive to its participants, etc.)

Analyze if the South should have been treated as a defeated nation or as rebellious states.Analyze the impact of the Compromise of 1877 that ended Reconstruction on African-Americans.

Week 4 Discussion 2: Reconstruction and the Compromise of 1877

Analyze if the South should have been treated as a defeated nation or as rebellious states.

Explain how the American culture and society changed in the North versus the South during Reconstruction.

Analyze the impact of the Compromise of 1877 that ended Reconstruction on African-Americans.

Your response paper should include a concise summary of each assigned reading, it should put each author’s argument into your own words (frequent quotations are discouraged) and briefly explain how they support them and conclude with your personal assessment of the readings.

American Culture

Your response paper should include a concise summary of each assigned reading, it should put each author’s argument into your own words (frequent quotations are discouraged) and briefly explain how they support them and conclude with your personal assessment of the readings. If there are multiple readings for a given week, you need to incorporate all of them (even the Primary Sources marked with a “P”) into your response papers.

Missing readings will result in point deduction. Response papers must be typed using 12-point Times New Roman font, double-spaced with 1-inch margins, and carefully proofread.

What specific factors, people, and events make your career development different from any other person? For example, how has your career development been differentially affected by

Analyze your career association

The purpose of this assignment is for you to personally analyze your own career socialization.

What factors, influences, and events have shaped your own career development?

This paper should capture a personal and career analysis of your life form the values, attitudes, and behaviors that you have developed up to this point in your life.

What specific factors, people, and events make your career development different from any other person? For example, how has your career development been differentially affected by

1) your early childhood experiences,

2) your parent of family values,

3) societal influences in school, the media, and overall values of the American culture

, 4) your personality,

5) socioeconomic, race, class, ethnic, and religious factors,

7) specific events or transitions in your life, and

8) psychosocial, emotional, and psychological barriers/problems.

Your paper should specifically address many of these areas.

Your content is your own knowledge about how you have been socialized.

Personal reflection, discussion with others, and a conscious awareness of your past and present are prerequisites for completing this assignment.

Papers are to be typed (double space, 12 pt font)

Discuss their evolution between 1820 and 1860 and their importance in the period before 1860.

The five aditional institutions are family, religion, politics, economics, and education

The five aditional institutions are family, religion, politics, economics, and education. Discuss their evolution between 1820 and 1860 and their importance in the period before 1860.

You should be able to use the information you gain from your discussion posts this week to help. Remember this was a period of significant growth and changes in our culture.

Each of these institutions experienced growth in importance in our society and as part of the ‘American culture’.

Use the information from your reading and any individual research you may have done. Remember to cite any references used.