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Link (Links to an external site.) Your third discussion assignment involves the conditions of the modern city in the late 1800s. In this assignment you are to become a city dweller in the east cost cities at this time. You are going to describe the conditions of living in the city at this time. You are to read Chapter 5 section on the modern city and the lecture on the modern city and the Baydo essay in the Reader- Birth of Urban America. Finally you are to read:https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45502/45502-h/45502-h.htm (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.) for conditions in the city at this time through the eyes of reformer Jacob Riis. You will use some of this Riis material in your description of life in the east coast city of the late 1800s.

Finally you are going to tell which city problem today do you find to be the # 1 problem of modern city living. You are going to agree or disagree or comment on TWO student choices for this problem.

Enjoy life in the city of the late 1800s and there are obviously many modern city problems to choose from.
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Write a thesis that explains the issue(s) you will analyze.
Use the book to provide historical context for the film.
If relevant to your topic, what issues did the film not address about the era in which it was made that you believe are important. Provide information from the book in your discussion of those issues.
If relevant to your topic, what symbolism, metaphors, etc. do you see in the film?
If relevant to your topic, how did the values of the time shape the making of the film? You need to be able to support your arguments about the values of the time with information from the book, not just state what you believe the values of the time were.
Do not limit yourself to the suggestions I have provided here.

These papers are not book reports/film summaries.  Avoid lengthy summarization – I have read the books and watched the films; I do not need to be told what they are about.  Use summarization only as necessary for evaluating the books and films.

You must cite the books properly.  History majors must use Chicago Manual Style.  Students majoring in other disciplines may use the citation style appropriate to that discipline.

Film Bare Knees and the PDF for the books will be added shortly 

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Watch: Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro, Acts I and II (Met Opera on Demand, 1998)

Question:
1.    How do the first two acts of Le nozze di Figaro reflect general characteristics of late eighteenth-century opera buffa?

2.    Using the text/translation and a score, sketch out the first part of the second-act finale (up to the arrival of the gardener Antonio), showing all the different shifts in style as well as key and signature changes. Explain how these musical changes and shifts fit with the drama.

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Watch: Idomeneo, Act I (Met Opera on Demand, 1982); La clemenza di Tito, Sesto’s first-act aria “Parto, parto, ma tu ben mio” (Met Opera on Demand, 2012)

Questions: 
1.    How does Mozart differentiate the two female heroines of Idomeneo in their introductory arias? 

2.    What are the main differences between the forms of the arias from Idomeneo and that from Tito?

3.    In what ways does the first act of Idomeneo incorporate ideals of Gluck’s reform operas?

Please average 550 words for each of the three questions.

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Susan B. Anthony's life from the day she was born till the day she died. What did she accomplish? What challenges did she face? What impact did she have on the world?

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Explain the events and circumstances that led to the construction of the berlin wall

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Discuss the concept of Divine Right. How did the Absolute Rulers of France, England, and other Western European nations during the 16th century change the forms of governing? Why did the European monarchs tend to imitate the French Model?

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Using both the textbook (Chapter 8 has a detailed discussion about slavery) and Twelve Years a Slave, discuss fully the lives, work, and conditions of slavery in antebellum Louisiana. You must include working and living conditions, the slave trade, religious values of both enslaved Africans and the white masters, and methods of resistance. To get full credit, you need to include examples from the Solomon Northup book and the textbook to illustrate your points. The paper must be 4-6 pages, double spaced, 12 font, standard margins. Please understand that you′re writing an essay. I don′t want you to just answer the questions I′ve asked-put it together in essay form. It is REQUIRED that you include sigificant quotes from the Northup book and the textbook. When you are quoting directly from the book or using it as a source, you need to put the page numbers in parentheses at the end of the quote or sentence. Please do not use overly long quotes and only quote when it illustrates the point that argument you are making. Do not use quotes to complete a thought in a sentence. In addition, if you use a source to provide information that you don′t have in your head, you need to cite your source. So don′t just use citations on direct quotes. To write the paper, you can only use the Northup book and your textbook as sources. I do not want any online sources used for this paper or I will take off a significant number of points. Please also remember that, for all papers and Discussion Board posts, I want YOUR words. Plagiarism is not acceptable.

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Page 483 of the textbook is attached. Please consider and answer the first question that's posed under "Focus Questions." (Only the first question.) Namely, "What features of Japan or China bear on their lack of progress from commerce to industry?" Between the 1400s and 1800s, China, for example, was quite commercially dynamic, as chapter 18 describes. And yet an industrial revolution never happened. So, what this question means is: based on your reading of the chapter, please speculate on what you think the most important reasons for the absence of this industrial breakthrough might have been. You should focus on China rather than Japan, but you might get a higher grade if you briefly discuss Japan as well. Your answer should be about two or three pages double-spaced, and should be based on what you've read in the chapter.

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In 1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy, James Horn poses this question:
“Did slavery and racial prejudice gradually evolve in Virginia during the half century following the arrival of the Angolans, or did de facto enslavement of Africans begin in 1619?”

While Horn argues that racial slavery began in 1619, Taylor contends this was “not predetermined but a product of colonization,” which follows closely to Bailyn’s claim that racial slavery had “no prior design.”
This assignment asks you to take a side in the debate. To do so, you will have to carefully evaluate each author’s claims and evidence, pointing out their relative strengths and weaknesses, in support of your argument.

Conclude your paper with some broader implications of race and the founding of American democracy.
Support your argument with specific evidence from class readings only. Be sure to include a separate works cited page at the end of your paper (this page does not count as the total length of your paper).

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‘Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.’ 
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/1611_Genesis-1-3 

Purpose of assessment: 
1. Identify the assigned primary source document of which the above quote is part (Genesis Chpt. 1-3) 2. analyze the historical context in which that document was produced and 3, explain any long-term influence that the document may have had. In your analysis be sure not to focus exclusively on the quote itself, but rather the entire assigned document of which the quote is part.

Writing instructions:
Paper must be five pages long and written in accordance with the MLA format.
Always write in 3rd person.

Thesis/introduction: identify the source of the quote and sum-up what you will be presenting in the body of the paper

Body of paper: Historical Context. Using specific supporting evidence drawn from the three components of the course, analyze the historical environment of which the document is a component. Such things as authorship, chronology, reasons for composition, historical events influencing the document, etc. may be discussed.

Body of paper: Long Term Influence. Analyze what historians think are the long term influences of the document upon Western Civilization. Identify and explain different points of view that may exist(ex original sin/gender roles). Using specific evidence for support, explain whether you agree or disagree with any of those historical interpretations.