Please read the article(letters) I attached and answer the questions :
    Who wrote these letters?
    When?
    Where?
    To whom were they written?
    Why?

Please write 1 – 2 clear paragraphs about the following:

What difficulties and successes did William and Sophie experience as immigrants?  What do the letters reveal about their gender roles? Did they write about different topics?  Give some examples or quotes.

Please write 1 – 2 clear paragraphs about the following:

What can you determine from these letters about the relationships the Seyffards had with other people living in their area?  With non-Germans?  With other Germans?  What types of interactions did they have, and why?  Did Sophie and William have different types of interactions with others?

Please select one letter you think provides interesting historical information about the experiences of the Seyffardts and/or their neighbors.  Give the date of the letter, who wrote it, and explain why you chose it in a paragraph.  Give at least two examples, details, or quotes to help explain your analysis.

Readings: TWE, Chap. 1, 25-33, and Chap. 2, 48-59, and YAWP Chap. 3, 54-61.

This is a formal paper that “connects” at least one specific theme or issues in the readings to a contemporary issue or experiences in your life today.

After completing the notes on all the readings for that day you will then select at least one of the themes/issues in the readings to connect to something in the present.  This can be a current event or a personal experience, but you must provide examples and analysis to link the current issue directly with the readings.

LINK TO THE TEXTBOOKS
TWE – file:///C:/Users/julia/Downloads/TWE.ColonialRaceandSlavery%20copy.pdf
YAWP – http://www.americanyawp.com/text/wp-content/uploads/Locke_American-Yawp_V1.pdf

For this discussion please read the following:  “What is Ethnohistory?” and Suny – “Back and Beyond: Reversing the Cultural Turn?” –> both of these pieces will give you an excellent introduction to the emergence of the New Cultural History.  Then, turn to the example of the New Cultural History as used by a historian –> Clendinnen: “Yucatec Maya Women and the Spanish Conquest – Role and Ritual in Historical Reconstruction”. Also review the link in the Week 4 introduction to the Pittock Mansion (in Portland, Oregon) to see an example of the Social History approach used in a museum setting.

As many of you are starting to realize, getting at the historical experiences of non-elites is essential for a fuller understanding of the historical past.  This week we look at a new approach that sought to illustrate the historical experience of the “common person” – the Cultural History approach (but keep in mind that you can also use the Cultural History approach to look at elites).

As you think about these approaches, consider the following questions; address them in your initial post this week:

1. What is the Cultural History approach about?  Look to Suny and “What is Ethnohistory?”. How does the inclusion of anthropological approaches help the historian understand “culture” better? (look to his discussion if Clifford Geertz). What sort of historical topics would the Cultural History approach help us better understand?

2. According to Suny, what are some of the challenges of this approach?

3. How did Inga Clendinnen use the Cultural History approach in her examination of Mayan women?What did the Cultural History approach explain that more materialist/structural approaches might have missed in an examination of Mayan women? Note:  one thing you should think about with her piece is how can she talk about the experiences of Mayan women during the colonial period, when they themselves did not leave much in terms of primary sources about their lives?  This addresses earlier concerns many of you had about the scarcity of sources left by non-elites – what are the sources Clendinnen uses, and how does she “read” these sources to understand the historical experience of Mayan women?  As you read this piece, look closely at the footnotes -where do her sources come from?

4. What is the Social History approach about and how is it different from the Cultural History approach? How is it used by the curators at the Pittock Mansion to show visitors what the material conditions of life were like for the wealthy in Portland in the late 1800s?

Post your initial post here. Then come back and respond to at least two more of your peers’ initial posts along with any questions addressed to you. Please ask lots of questions in this discussion, especially if things remain fuzzy for you.

Include:
– the alliance system (triple alliance and triple entente)
– imperial rivalry
– the arms race
– assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the chain of events after that

also include
– the Balkan wars
– imperialism
– nationalism

Please follow the instructions below carefully as this is exactly how i would like my paper to be written.

Choose ONE primary source related to Middle East history between 1700 and 1914. Primary sources are those created during the period under investigation and could include documents, state papers, laws and legal treatises, speeches, travel accounts, census data, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, literary works, photographs, paintings, and other cultural artifacts. Please provide a photocopy of the source, unless it is an entire novel or another lengthy source in which case you may provide only the citation. It should NOT be a source we are reading in this class.

Present this source in your paper by answering the questions: What is the genre? Who is the author? When was it composed? Who is the intended reader? Why was it composed? The last question is the most important and should entail a discussion of the context in which this source was generated.

The paper is a presentation of the source, and therefore need not state a thesis and argue a particular position. Rather, the source itself is the subject of the paper and you want to provide the reader with the information necessary to understand the source and suggest how this information influences how we should interpret the source and what it adds to our historical understanding.

The essay should be 4 double-spaced pages (not including the source itself), with endnotes fully citing any reading that you quote or to which you refer. A full citation includes for a book: author, title, place of publication, publisher, date of publication, and page number(s); for a journal article: author, title, name of journal, volume and number, date, and page number(s).

You may pick a primary source from the website below: 

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/islam/islamsbook.asp#The%20Western%20Intrusion

Grade Rubric. Use a minimum of six sources for your paper, and at least one must be a primary source

INTRODUCTION & THESIS: Includes a clear thesis statement, an assertion, or position. The topic is original and manageable in a short research paper. /points 20

FOCUS AND DEVELOPMENT: The 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. /points 30

SUPPORT AND SYNTHESIS: Uses sufficient and relevant evidence to support the thesis (and primary points), including facts, inferences, and judgments. This is accomplished through direct quotes and/or paraphrases used accurately and effectively –appropriately including introducing and explaining each citation.  Meets the minimum required number of sources of 6-8. /points 50

LENGTH REQUIREMENT: The length requirement for this documented research paper is 1500-2000 words in length or 6-8 pages double-spaced, Times New Roman 12-point font. Note: The 6-8 pages do not include the Cover page or the Works Cited pages.  Note: Before beginning, this assignment, read through the information under the topic Scholastic Honesty. In particular, pay attention to the prescriptions concerning plagiarism. /points – 50

RESOURCES: Shows a clear understanding of the sources; has evaluated each source and used it appropriately.  /points10

CONVENTIONS: Uses MLA format correctly; includes internal citations and a Works Cited list; is free of errors. /points 10

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. /points 30

TOTAL: /200

The prompt is “What were the most important factors that encouraged Anglo-Americans and new immigrants to settle the West? What were the most important impediments to their efforts?” It has to articulate a thesis and only has to be 250 words. The main thing is it has to provide evidence/details from the note guidelines I have provided below.