Essay3

Essay #3 Prompt

Due: As a hard copy Monday, May 9 between 9:00 a.m. and noon in Jason’s office (226 Burton). An online digital copy should also be uploaded to Moodle by noon on May 9. If you’re turning the essay in early and I am not around, just give your stapled paper copy to the person at the front desk in 206 Burton Hall and they will put it in my mailbox. No late papers will be accepted for this final essay. Finally, if you want your final essay returned to you with comments in the summer, please include a self-addressed envelope when you turn in the essay. I will then mail you the essay with comments over summer break after I’ve turned in grades.

Format: A typed, double-spaced essay of 4-5 pages. Times New Roman, 1” margins, 12 pt. font. Write your name and “Essay 3” on the first line of the essay. The second line should be the first sentence of the essay. Four full pages is the essay minimum. Five full pages is the essay maximum. Please number your pages.

Guidelines:

Although I discuss the essay in terms of “sections” do not actually have section headings. Instead, I want you to write the paper as a cohesive whole which transitions from section to section using the topic sentences of paragraphs, not section headings. Here are the requirements for each section of the paper:

• In the first section of the essay, using Chapter 7 in Gerstle, Chapter 8 in Gerstle, the Epilogue of Gerstle, and document 20 in the course reader, answer the following questions: Why did the Rooseveltian Nation collapse? Once it collapsed, what visions of the American nation did the left, liberals, and conservatives advocate to take its place?

• In the second section of the essay answer the following questions: Why does Gerstle criticize what he terms “hard multiculturalism”? Given that “hard multiculturalism” grew out of black power movements, how specifically does Assata Shakur respond to Gerstle and positively argue for such a position in her Autobiography?...