Comparing Your Interpretations With other Students’ Work (Weeks 11-13)
As a result of your work over the last three weeks, you should have gained more understanding of your period. But another goal of this entire study is to be able to place “your” period in a wider timeframe; that is, to see what you have learned about happiness from an even wider historical perspective. Presumably you have already begun doing this through reading and commenting on your colleagues’ work#
The goal of these three weeks is to take on this comparative task in an even more deliberate way: to think about your primary sources and your interpretations of them within the context of one other period that you choose#
For example, you may have worked on documents related to The Colonies and the American Revolution# You may choose to think about what you have learned in comparison/contrast to expressions of happiness during the Cold War# Or you may have examined happiness issues during the period of slavery; you might now choose to compare/contrast what you have learned to images of happiness in contemporary America#
You will do this by completing three activities by the end of week 12:
1#Choose and examine any five primary sources that your colleagues have posted on the new period you have selected# You will thus be studying five documents not related to “your” original chronological period#
2#After examining these new primary sources, read the interpretations that have been offered of them by your colleagues#
3#Write an essay of about 750 words in which you compare what you have learned about happiness in your “new” period with what you had learned about happiness in your “original” period# That is, is happiness described or depicted in the same or in different ways in these two periods? What makes you think so?
As in your earlier essay assignment: Make sure that your writing is as specific as it can be# Remember, this is not about agreeing or disagreeing; it’s about carefully describing and analyzing and offering your own evidence of the similarities and differences in how happiness is treated# #Such evidence could involve finding and examining a key term or phrase or image that is an important clue to your interpretation## Remember to provide your reasons for your interpretations and your conclusions#
here are the links from other students work#####
1#Williams, Heather Andrea# “How Slavery Affected African American Families#” Freedom’s Story, TeacherServe©# National Humanities Center# 2/18/2015
http://nationalhumanitiescenter#org/tserve/freedom/1609-1865/essays/aafamilies#htm
Description: This is an essay written to describe the life of slave families and the challenges they were faced with being owned by another human#
2#http://www#coldwar#org/museum/index#asp
This organization is dedicated to preservation and education on the global impact of the Cold War#
One of their three goals is to:
Establish a reference library and research center to help maintain the historical accuracy of the Cold War#
Margaret O’Mara, a professor of the University of Washington has published work describing impact and the economy of post Cold War effect
Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley
“Uncovering the City Suburb: Cold War Politics, Scientific Elites, and High-Tech Spaces,” in The New Suburban History #Chicago, 2006#,
http://chnm#gmu#edu/courses/schrag/wiki/index#php?title=Suburbanization
3.America Today/ Bill Clinton Era
http://clinton5.nara.gov/WH/Accomplishments/eightyears-01.html
I chose this website because it showed a list of the many accomplishments under Bill Clintons Presidency.
4.Industrialization/Capitalism and the New Deal
History.com Staff.Industrial Revolution. Retrieved February 20, 2015, from http://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution
This website article contains a in depth description of life during the industrial revolution, including what the quality of life was during that point in time.
5.Industrialization/Capitalism and the New Deal
A website that I found called “The Rise of Capitalism” offers information through a video and literature on the legal system changes, the two revolutions going on #political and economic# which forced and transformed the look and character of the country through capitalism, industrialization, and democracy.
“A biography of america: The rise of capitalism”. #2000#. Retrieved February 16, 2015, from
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog07/index.html
