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Using specific examples and AT LEAST FOUR quotes from A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn (CHAPTERS 6-12 ONLY), give specific examples of how Zinn’s history surprises or reinforces what you know of the United States, and if you think the U.S. has changed for the worst […]

The Jonestown Massacre was a cult related mass suicide taking place during the 1970s, revealing the darker side of fringe social groups taking root in US society. How do you think Jim Jones was able to manipulate so many individuals and eventually lead them to commit mass suicide? Do you […]

If Indigenous cultural traditions are intended to create, fortify, and rebuild relationships in an ongoing cycle of producing life (not ending it), how does historical Canadian policies, practices, or events challenge this tradition of relationship building? Choose ONE specific Indigenous community and how ONE Canadian policy, act, or proclamation that […]

RESEARCH PAPERS: Use the links provided to answer the research assignments. Your response should be at least 250 words in length. Type your response and save it as a Word document. The assignment will be submitted through Turnitin and will be checked for plagiarism, so be sure to use your […]

Part 1: Some of the more characteristic doctrines of the Enlightenment focused on the power and goodness of human rationality: 1) Reason is the most significant and positive capacity of the human; 2) reason enables one to break free from primitive, dogmatic, and superstitious beliefs holding one in the bonds […]

One of the most difficult aspects of teaching History to students who are not History majors is getting them to understand that History is not about static dates and events from the past. History is quite alive and fluid and the events of the past often have irreparable impacts on […]