HIST
Answer the questions below in three separate essays.
Use the assigned readings (sources) to craft your responses. Do NOT use outside sources. You will not receive credit if you resort to outside sources, even if you cite them.
- LONG ESSAY: Assume that you are invited to write a short entry on the non-Western civilization of your choice for a students’ encyclopedia. Given the specifics of the genre, such entries must be clear, precise and focused. Limit your discussion to the following:
- Location (and its consequences).
- A defining cultural characteristic.
- A key historical event or personality prior to the 19th
- Two crucial developments during the modern era (one in the 19th c, one in the 20thc).
- An assessment of its encounter with the West.
To the writer, you should choose ((China empire)) see the outline THAT i GIVE TO YOU
Guidelines
Please read the guidelines below before you start writing your exam. The issues listed under each essay will be used as grading criteria for the content section.
LONG ESSAY. The essay should be based on the information in non-Western civilization. As you select the key features/events to discuss, keep in mind the role of geography and religion in shaping that civilization.
Do NOT summarize! DISCUSS means INTERPRET, so you should provide:
– reasons (why is that particular issue that you have chosen a defining feature? why is that particular personality or event significant?)
– explanations (how and why things happened? what was the course of action?)
– outcomes (what were the short- and long-term consequences? why does it matter to us today?)
If you just bring together data without any analysis, you will end up with an inadequate historical essay. The information entered in our report is there to guide your argument. Use it critically!
Suggested max. length: 3-4 pages
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2-SHORT ESSAY ONE: Read carefully Gandhi’s appraisal of the West in his pamphlet Indian Home Rule. Do you agree or disagree with his views? Explain why. What do you think he means by the assertion: “This [Western] civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed”? What is your definition of the West?
Guidelines
Please read the guidelines below before you start writing your exam. The issues listed under each essay will be used as grading criteria for the content section
2-SHORT ESSAY ONE. Your essay should:
– briefly present Gandhi’s views on the West and set them in their historical context.
– explain why you agree or disagree with him & engage his claim that Western civilization is self-destructive.
– define the West according to your own understanding (N.B. This section requires you to give an informed opinion on the West as a historical concept. Base your definition on what we have studied in this class. Do not write some vague description of what you “feel” the West is or is not).
You may write this essay as a response-letter to Gandhi, but make sure you tackle the points mentioned above. Suggested max. length: 2 pages
The Ottoman Society of Liberty is the only section we have to use in the file In the Wake of the Great War
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3-SHORT ESSAY TWO: Briefly compare and contrast the definitions of the state provided by Lenin in The State and Revolution and Mussolini in Doctrine of Fascism. How socialist and fascist states are different from the liberal state, and why do both authors reject capitalism and democracy?
Guidelines
Please read the guidelines below before you start writing your exam. The issues listed under each essay will be used as grading criteria for the content section
3-SHORT ESSAY TWO. Your essay should indicate an understanding of the following concepts: Lenin’s “dictatorship of the proletariat;” Mussolini’s “the state creates the nation;” liberalism; capitalism; democracy.
Suggested max. length: 2 pages
Essay Format
The essays should be typed, 12 point font, double-spaced, 1 inch margins all around. Your name should appear on all pages. A title page is not needed.
The exam is . You will submit both a hard copy to me and an electronic version to Turnitin.com. Further instructions will be given in class. Please note that I will not grade any exam that has not been submitted to Turnitin.com
