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Essay Instructions: You should choose between these two questions and craft the assignment with one of them as a prompt. In general, however, your response should focus on the ways the assigned monograph, novel/poem collection, and film compare, that is how they are different and similar as a representation of the 1960s and/or what each offers for illuminating the particular topic and its related themes.

Your paper should be 5 pages in length, draw on all relevant course materials. Any references to books or movies should use the format explained in the citation guide (also attached to the syllabus).

One suggestion for getting a handle on the multi-part question you choose to answer is to develop a thesis statement (main argument) that responds to the main part of the question and in doing that also allows you to address the other parts. A strong argument of this kind will serve as an anchor for everything else you want and need to say.


A ? How do the two books, Turner?s Sitting In and Nikki Giovanni?s The Collected Poems, as well as the movie, Guess Who?s Coming to Dinner, demonstrate the way the black civil rights movement changed during the 1960s? What significant changes do they show? What was causing those changes?

B ? How do the two books, Turner?s Sitting In and Nikki Giovanni?s The Collected Poems, as well as the movie, Guess Who?s Coming to Dinner, reveal the growing importance of identity to black civil rights activists in the 1960s? How were concerns about identity in line with the civil rights agenda of the 1950s and early 1960s? In what ways did they conflict with those earlier activist efforts?


*Typed, double-spaced with one inch margins. USE FOOTNOTES OR ENDNOTES TO INDICATE SOURCES. In general limit use of direct quotations. Paper better if you paraphrase a statement. Quote only whan you need to call attention to precise phrasing of a source or when you plan to analyze or interpret a passage. No first person. When referring to something in the past, use the past tense. Avoid using the conditional verb tense. Avoid spelling errors, contractions and colloquial speech, sentence fragments and run-ons, unclear meaning, redundancy, commas omitted or in wrong place. Be careful of word choice. Be care ful using pronouns with clear referents, missing apostrophes, punctuation with quotation marks, hyphens, with parallel wording and using sexist language. Material provided by me does not need to be cited

Essay Instructions: Ok my paper is on the Civil Right Movement.

Identify a significant historical event that occurred between 1945 and 2008 that has had positive and/or negative consequences (e.g., the Truman Doctrine, the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, 9/11, the war in Afghanistan, etc.) and defend your selection as a significant contemporary event. The paper should include the following:
• Identify and describe the historical event.
• Analyze the historical and contemporary causes of the event.
• Analyze different historical interpretations of this event.
• Evaluate the positive and negative outcomes of this event.
The final paper should be 8-10 pages in length and use proper APA formatting.

You are required to find 10 references, 5 of which need to be scholarly, and provide annotations for all 10. All references must be cited in APA format. An approximate length for this bibliography is between 1-3 pages. Submit this assignment in a Word document.

Civil Rights Movement

One of the most significant events in history is The Civil Rights Movement. This movement has made a big statement in shaping Americans in working and creating a new foundation. The American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) refers to reform movements in the United States aimed at abolishing public and private acts of racial discrimination against African Americans. In 1966, the rise of the Black Power Movement that lasted from 1966 to 1975. The Civil Rights Movement includes racial dignity, economic and political self-sufficiency, and freedom from white authority. Several scholars refer to the Civil Rights Movement as the Second Reconstruction, a name that is said to the Reconstruction after the Civil War. Also Segregation of white and black children in the public schools of a State solely on the basis of race, pursuant to state laws permitting or requiring such segregation, denies to black children the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment even though the physical facilities and other factors of white and black schools may be equal.

Essay Instructions: There are two topics, i want you write one page per topic.

1.The "integrationist" phase of the civil rights movement.
2.The "black power" phase of the civil rights movement.

Essay Instructions: "This essay has to be about the relationship between the utopian and the practical in the movemnts or thoughts of the 1960's. Your essay should focus on a specific event, movement, text or art work from the period, and discuss the ideas behind your text both in terms of its utopian thrust and its practical effects within the social and cultural milieu of which it was a part".
Above is what my professor said on the syllabus. I decided to write about the Civil Rights Movements on the 60's with all the things my professor wants which I mentioned above.