Essay Assignment Click link to read Mark Twain’s essay “The Late Benjamin Franklin” Resource: Twain, M. (1983). THE LATE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Post, 255(2), 18-93. Retrieved from Academic Search Complete database. In a 1-page essay, provide an analysis that identifies fallacious reasoning in the story and explain why.
Compare the ways that history is used in the two secondary sources on contemporary Latino immigration. Using primary sources, evaluate the arguments of the two secondary sources.
Debating Contemporary Immigration and the Uses of History For this exercise you have two tasks: Part 1: Compare the ways that history is used in the two secondary sources on contemporary Latino immigration. Part 2: Using primary sources, evaluate the arguments of the two secondary sources. Part 1: Comparing Secondary Sources Compare the views of […]
What is it you admire about Franklin and why?And perhaps, you have mixed feelings about Franklin. Explain that reaction.
Benjamin Franklin What is it you admire about Franklin and why? However, it may be that you do not admire Franklin. If not, why? And perhaps, you have mixed feelings about Franklin. Explain that reaction, then. And regardless of your feelings towards Franklin, which of his many inventions or projects do you see as his […]
Post a discussion in which you argue Franklin’s importance in early America. Consider one or more of the following areas: historic and diplomatic contributions, inventions/innovations, and/or literary contributions.
Topic: Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin is often identified as one of early America’s most influential and interesting persons. Post a discussion in which you argue Franklin’s importance in early America. Consider one or more of the following areas: historic and diplomatic contributions, inventions/innovations, and/or literary contributions. Incorporate at least one quotation that was authored by […]
What did being indentured mean to those who settled in Virginia and the southern colonies, versus those who came as indentured and settled in the northern colonies?
Immigrant Groups Part One: Use five terms listed below in each of your essays; underline them as you use them. Two to three pages for each essay, double-spaced. Terms: Americanization; “asylum theme”; indenturers; American “Wake”; “push”/”pull”/”passage” (one term); ethnicity; nativism; assimilation; “Great Famine”; Federalist Party; Know Nothing Party; Homestead Act, 1862; Immigration Restriction League; “hyphenates”; […]