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After submitting your “presentation” on your artist, your work continues! In a departure from previous unit assignments, this assignment REQUIRES responding to your classmates’ blog posts as part of the grade! Specifically, you must post TWICE, to two different classmates’ submissions: in ONE of your responses, offer how your own research and stance supports that student’s argument; in your SECOND response, play the devil’s advocate and argue the opposite position, based on your research. This Discussion Board Research Topic will be worth up to one hundred (100) points, and will be graded based on the following criteria: following all the steps and completing the assignment fully how you present an understanding of the Parthenon sculpted imagery as being representative of ancient Athenians, based on what you learned this Unit from the textbook reading and Unit Lesson file the depth of your research and understanding of the arguments made in regards to the Elgin Marbles the clarity and persuasiveness of your written argument your use of proper spelling, grammar, and tone appropriate for college-level writing Furthermore, your grade will be calculated as follows: Your written presentation on the Elgin Marbles debate = 60 points Your first comment on a classmates’ submission in support of their stance = 20 points Your second comment on a classmates’ submission opposing their stance = 20 points The student 1 essay: In the Parthenon Freeze, in contrast to the mythical themes of the Meteops and pediments, Phidias painted the city’s greatest festival, the Great Panathenaia, in honor of the goddess Athena. The festival is held every four years and lasts for 12 days, with ceremonies, sacrifices, athletics and music. The festival culminated on Athena’s birthday on the 28th of the month of Hekatombaion in the heart of summer. That day, the procession proceeded to the temple of Athena Polias (Archaios Naos, later replaced by Erechtheion) to hand over the new peplos for the goddess’s old xoanon to the priestess. This procession stretches over 160 meters of Parthenon freeze continuous sculptural decoration. The freeze consists of 115 blocks. The total length was 160 meters and the height was 1.02 meters. About 378 figures and gods and more than 200 animals, mainly horses, are presented in this process. Most of the Freeze universe is occupied by groups of horses and tanks. The sacrificial procession is as follows, with men and women in groups of animals carrying ceremonial vessels and offerings. This procession ends with an altar statue of the goddess of xodonon (ancient wooden statue), donated by the people of the Athens people. To the left and right of the peplos landscape sit the twelve gods of Mount Olympos. From the entire freeze that survives today, 50 meters is scattered in the Acropolis Museum, 80 meters in the British Museum, one block in the Louvre, and other fragments in the museums of Palermo, Vatican, Wurzburg, Vienna, Munich and Copenhagen. The pediments were the last part of the building that received the sculptural decoration (437-432 BC), a triangular space formed by the horizontal roofs and the cornice of the hills on either side of the temple. They made up a huge statue in a round, the theme drawn from attic mythology. The eastern pediment above the entrance to the temple shows the birth of the goddess of Athena from the head of her father Zeus in front of the god of the Olympics. The western pediment shows the conflict between Athena and Poseidon claiming the land of Attica, the legendary battle that brought Athena’s victory. I chose Caryatid’s Election as one of the images. This is one of the Elgin Marbles. The six female figures of Election are called “Caryatids”. The pillar itself is a statue of a girl, so it’s kind of artistic. It is a statue of girls carrying offerings in an overhead basket, each with a height of a few meters. However, the currently displayed Caryatid is a replica, and the real thing is on display at the New Acropolis Museum. Currently, the number of exhibits is five. One of the six was the best-preserved individual, but Elgin cut it out in 1803 and took it to England. At that time, in order to prevent the ceiling from collapsing, a wooden stick was placed in the space of one body like a stick, and it is said that the citizens of Athens rioted because of the unsightly appearance. The British side found less value than it is today when the sculptures and works were donated to Britain, and Elgin, with the permission of Ottoman Emperor Selim III, was in Athens, then Ottoman territory three times from 1802. From the Parthenon, a relief mural, later called “Elgin Marbles,” was stripped from the temple and shipped to England. Because at the end of the 18th century when Napoleon was active. In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his expedition to Egypt. The Middle East at that time was under the influence of the Ottoman Empire. In the first place, Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt was to interfere with Britain’s trade with India. Naturally, Britain will also go to aid on the Ottoman side. Earl of Elgin traveled to the Ottoman Empire as a diplomat in 1801 and contributed to the defeat of the French army. He was so grateful to Ottoman for that. However, shortly thereafter, in 1810, Earl of Elgin became the subject of criticism. When the English poet Byron visited Greece, he was disgusted by the traces of the carved relief murals of the Parthenon and described Earl of Elgin as “the curse of Minerva” in his book “The Curse of Minerva”. I criticized it. The problem quickly became famous, and the sculptures he brought back after that became known as the “Elgin Marbles.” In the 20th century, it seems that Greece has issued a request for return, but it has not been resolved. The Greek side insists on Britain that all sculptures and works are a single art. I think the British side should retain sculptures and works. There is also a view that the Earl of Elgin brought it back to England and escaped from the later fire of the Greek War of Independence. If everything is combined into one work, modern times there is a technique to make elaborate replicas, so it should be possible to display it and assemble and appreciate everything. I do not think what Elgin did is a crime. However, as the word aging is used, I feel that it is not necessary to bring old things to the present day and make them a problem. Student 2 Essay: There has been some debate in the ancient art community in regards to the Parthenon Sculptures (also known as the Elgin Marbles), in whether the British Museum should return the sculptures to the rightful place in Greece or should Greece recognized England’s claim to the sculptures by right of conquest, as well as the significance of the sculpture towards Greece. As the sculptures provide ties for the modern Greek citizens to their ancestors, their country’s history, and their religion. With the sculptures away from their home country it can create a stigma and leave negative impacts in its place. The Parthenon sculptures should be returned to their homeland of Greece, the sculptures were created in Greece and have a historical meaning towards the modern-day citizens of the country as their ancestors created the sculptures. The British Museum may have found the sculptures but they had no right to remove them from Greece and they especially have no right to refuse Greece’s request for the return of the sculptures. Sadly enough the British Museum has had a history of stealing artifacts around the globe from ancient civilizations and then refusing to return said artifacts to their rightful countries, as the British Museum believes they have a right to the artifacts due to the fact they found them, they seem to take an immature finders keepers approach towards artifacts regardless to their meaning and significance towards culture and/or country. The British Museum received the Parthenon sculptures from Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, in the early nineteenth century. Lord Elgin received perm ission from the Turkish, who controlled Athens at the time, this agreement has been called under scrutiny over whether or not the agreement had legality, to which the British Museum has stated numerous times that the deal was made in good faith and should still stand, however it was not the Greek government that had made the deal, it was the Turkish who had temporary control over Athens, a country who had no ties to the sculptures gave them away without consulting the people. This is not the first time the British Museum has stolen artifacts from other countries, it has been estimated that “No less than 90% of African cultural property resides in European museums.” And yes despite both France and Italy returning their ill-gained artifacts, England seems to have tightened their grip on them. Not only have they refused to give the sculptures to Greece, but they have also refused to return the Rosetta Stone to Egypt when the country requested it to be returned. The sculptures were originally part of a temple in the city-state of Athens. The temple was dedicated to the goddess Athena and was a symbol of power, wealth, and the culture of Athens. The frieze was decorated to depict the scene of the sacrifice of Pandora to the goddess Athena. The pediments depicted the birth of Athena and showed the competition between Athena and Posideon over which would rule over Athens. Athena won and was declared the Patron of Athens, the goddess was very important to the city-state and was seen as its protector. The Greeks celebrated the goddess for this and prayed to her and offered her sacrifices to accompany their prayers. While sacrifices, both human and animal have ceased to happen for most of the modern-day worship, Athena still has those who pray to her in today’s Greece, and the remains of her temple still have meaning to those individuals as well as others who simply wish to witness what was once the greatest moment of their country’s history.

Art History Assignment
After submitting your “presentation” on your artist, your work continues!  In a departure from previous unit assignments, this assignment REQUIRES responding to your classmates’ blog posts as part of the grade!  Specifically, you must post TWICE, to two different classmates’ submissions: in ONE of your responses, offer how your own research and stance supports that student’s argument; in your SECOND response, play the devil’s advocate and argue the opposite position, based on your research.
This Discussion Board Research Topic will be worth up to one hundred (100) points, and will be graded based on the following criteria:

  • following all the steps and completing the assignment fully
  • how you present an understanding of the Parthenon sculpted imagery as being representative of ancient Athenians, based on what you learned this Unit from the textbook reading and Unit Lesson file
  • the depth of your research and understanding of the arguments made in regards to the Elgin Marbles
  • the clarity and persuasiveness of your written argument
  • your use of proper spelling, grammar, and tone appropriate for college-level writing

Furthermore, your grade will be calculated as follows:

  • Your written presentation on the Elgin Marbles debate = 60 points
  • Your first comment on a classmates’ submission in support of their stance = 20 points
  • Your second comment on a classmates’ submission opposing their stance = 20 points

Art History Assignment

Women’s America: “Documents: Living Through War and Revolution” (8th ed. title)/”Revolutionary Legacies: DocumentsPhiladelphia Women Raise Money Door to Door”; Sarah Osborn,

Reading

Through Women’s Eyes: Ch. 3

Women’s America: “Documents: Living Through War and Revolution” (8th ed. title)/”Revolutionary Legacies: Documents” (9th ed. title): “Philadelphia Women Raise Money Door to Door”; Sarah Osborn, “The bullets would not cheat the gallows . . .” (8th ed.)/”Woman of the Army” (9th ed.); Rachel Wells, “I have Don as much to Carrey on the Warr as maney . . .”; “Grace Galloway, Loyalist”; Linda K. Kerber, “Why Diamonds Really Are a Girl’s Best Friend: The Republican Mother and the Woman Citizen” (8th ed. title)/”Republican Mothers and Women Citizens” (9th ed. title)

Exercise: Primary Source Analysis

Analyze (by answering the questions below) ONE of the primary documents. See “Document Choices” below for the options. Use only the sources assigned for this class to answer the questions as thoroughly as possible. Provide citations for your information. For this assignment you do not need to include citations in footnote format–but do include the author, source, and page numbers of your evidence in parenthesis at the end of your answer.

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Document Choices

“Philadelphia Women Raise Money Door to Door”; Sarah Osborn, “The bullets would not cheat the gallows . . .”; Rachel Wells, “I have Don as much to Carrey on the Warr as maney . . .”; “Grace Galloway, Loyalist”

Questions:

1 (3 point). What is the title of your document and who is the author?

2 (1point). When was the source composed?

3 (1 points). Who was the intended audience?

4 (1 points). What is the purpose of the source?

5. (1 points). How do the author’s gender and socioeconomic class compare to those of the people about whom he or she is writing?

6. (5 points). What is the historical context in which the source was written and read? Draw from chapter three textbook information of Through Women’s Eyes AND the essay by historian Linda Kerber from Women’s America in your answer. Do more than identify place and time. If, for example, you choose the document “Philadelphia Women Raise Money Door to Door,” you would want to give an overview of the kinds of activities that women were participating in during the Revolution. Be sure to provide citations that identify specific pages of the specific texts of TWE and WA for your information.

7. (3 points). What unspoken assumptions and biases does the text contain? Use specific examples and be sure to provide citations for your information.

8. (10 points). What is the significance of this primary source? In your answer, thoroughly discuss what the source reveals about women in the time period (do not make connections between the document and the present). Draw from your document, TWE, and the Kerber essay in WA (draw rom all three of these sources). Be sure to provide citations that identify specific pages of the specific texts for your information. Regarding significance, consider the larger question of the impact of the Revolution on women’s lives. For example, some historians argue that the Revolution led to an improvement of women’s status and opportunities, while other historians (such as Kerber) claim that relative to men, women’s status and opportunities declined. Does your document show that the American Revolution increased or decreased opportunities for American women? Did the American Revolution expand or constrict the roles of American women? Did the American Revolution improve or decrease the status of American women?

How Am I Doing?

 Part 2: How Am I Doing? Balancing School and Life – My Quality of Life Self-Care Plan. The purpose of developing this Plan is to set a framework and a plan to maintain wellness and to stay motivated and engaged throughout your Program. Doing this will help you achieve success during your coursework and as a professional nurse. The goal of the project is to help you become self-aware and reflective as a means of identifying personal self-care strategies that will increase your energy and help you manage your stress. The Project will give you a chance to learn how this is accomplished as you will be doing similar work with clients during the Program and as a professional nurse to assist them in the same way. Share in a 2 – 3 page paper, the following:

  1. Re-look at your Quality of Life Self-Care Wheel scores. Have they changed? If so, in what ways.
  2. Think about your current levels of tension and stress. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the highest level, what is your score? Now think about the strategies you identified. Describe how well you have put them into action. If you have not been able to implement them, identify why and what you can do to overcome this.
  3. Identify any new strategies that you think will “fit” better and describe why.
  4. Minimum length 2-3 pages not including cover or reference. APA formatting
  5. ( please add at least 2 sources. thank you.)

AMH- D7

Where should we place the blame?  Economists believe the Great Depression was caused by the weaknesses in the 1920s economy, but the person whose name will be forever linked to the depression is President Herbert Hoover.  Personally blaming him for the crisis, Americans started to call the shantytowns set up by unemployed people “Hoovervilles.”

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– http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/teachers/lesson_plans/pdfs/unit9.pdf

After you have completed your readings post your response to only ONE of the following questions.

  1. Hoover’s presidency will be forever shadowed by the Great Depression.  Is it fair to blame Hoover’s actions or inaction for the Great Depression?
  2. Should we compare Presidents Hoover and President Roosevelt’s attempts to deal with the depression?

American representative democracy

For American representative democracy to function as intended, a citizen (principal) has to select a good representative (agent) to act in their stead and pursue the citizen’s interest (s). Reciprocity is a key element in this relationship. Broadly speaking, what would agents/representatives need to know about the principals/citizens in order to represent their interest well? Are there certain characteristics that would make someone better suited to serving as an agent/representative? What are the responsibilities of the citizens or principals in this relationship?

American Culture Reaction Video

TOPIC: American Culture Reaction Video

In this assignment, help me to write the response in words only in about 400-500 words

After reflecting on the depiction of American culture in the reading “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” by Miner from Topic 1, record a 5-8-minute reflection video about American culture.

1. Your video should start with 1-2-minute reflection on your reaction to the article and how it depicted American culture.

2. Then take about 2 minutes to describe a communication pattern, practice, ritual, or event in your culture as it might be seen from an outside observer (not one that is addressed in the article). Explain how this communication pattern, ritual, or event is connected to a U.S. cultural worldview or values.

3. Next, spend 1-2 minutes describing how this pattern, practice, ritual or event has changed throughout history.

4. Finally, spend 1-2 minutes, briefly share your evaluation of these changes as beneficial or detrimental to U.S. culture. When evaluating the change as beneficial or detrimental, include at least one verbal citation of a credible or authoritative source that supports your evaluation.

CTCD- HIstory Research Paper

Note: Before beginning this assignment, read through information contained in the Scholastic Honesty link on the course menu to the left.
The core assignment of this course is a documented research paper (1200-1700 words in length, approx. 4-6 pages double-spaced, 12-point font).

  • The paper should support a thesis statement with information gained from research or investigation.
  • The paper will not be just a report presenting information but will be a paper that carefully examines and presents your own historical interpretation of the topic you have chosen and your interpretation of the information you have gathered.
  • The paper may include consideration of problems and solutions, definition of key terms, or may refute arguments against your thesis statement.

It will be important to choose a topic of interest to you.

  • Approach this assignment with an open and skeptical mind, then form an opinion based on what you have discovered.
  • You must suspend beliefs while you are investigating and let the discoveries shape your opinion. (This is a thesis-finding approach.)
  • Once you have found your thesis, write the paper to support it.

You will use some of the following critical thinking skills in this process:

  1. Choosing an appropriate topic, limiting the topic.
  2. Gathering information, summarizing sources.
  3. Analyzing and evaluating sources.
  4. Defining key terms.
  5. Synthesizing information, comparing and contrasting sources.
  6. Testing a thesis, making a historical argument, using refutation.
  7. Amassing support for a position.
  8. Documenting sources

Because this may be a longer paper than you have written before and a complex process is involved, it is recommended that you complete this paper using the following steps:

  1. Choose a topic related to chapters covered in The American Yawp, (Chapters 1-15) that you would truly like to explore and that you are willing to spend some time on. Your chosen topic should be focused. Pose a question that you really want to answer. You may want to begin with more than one topic in mind.
  2. Do some preliminary reading on the topic(s). You may begin with the textbook, then further explore the information available. Refine your topic. Summarize your topic, your interest in the topic, the questions you want to answer, and a hypothesis you want to test.
  3. Gather information from a variety of sources. Use a minimum of four sources for your paper, and at least one must be a primary source.
    • Primary sources are contemporary to the times under investigation.
    • An example of a secondary source is our textbook, though the textbook also contains excerpts of primary sources, which you may use as a source in your paper.
  4. Outline the results of your research and the plan for your paper (you are not required to submit the outline).
  5. Write the final draft and be sure to include a Works Cited List, and use the correct MLA documentation style.

Grade Rubric
INTRODUCTION & THESIS: Includes a clear thesis statement, an assertion or position. Topic is original and manageable in a short research paper. /15
FOCUS AND DEVELOPMENT: Body of the essay focuses on this thesis and develops it fully, recognizing the complexity of issues and refuting arguments in opposition to the thesis. /20
SUPPORT AND SYNTHESIS: Uses sufficient and relevant evidence to support the thesis (and primary points), including facts, inferences, and judgments. Quotes, summarizes, and paraphrases accurately and effectively–appropriately introducing and explaining each quote. /25
RESOURCES: Shows a clear understanding of the sources; has evaluated each source and used it appropriately. Uses a wide variety of sources reflecting significant research. /10
CONVENTIONS: Uses MLA format correctly; includes internal citations and a Works Cited list; is free of errors. /15
CORRECTNESS AND STYLE: Introduces the topic in an interesting way; shows critical thinking and depth of understanding; uses appropriate tone; shows sophistication in language usage and sentence structure. /15