.

 

 

 

Each response must be in formal essay form with introduction; developed paragraphs and conclusions. I am expecting each of you to demonstrate your understanding of the English language and to make your responses clear, concise and easy to follow. No short-cuts, numbering, subtitles, abbreviations, or other obstructions from formal English!!!! This applies to all responses from this point forward!! Use the example I provide under Files for guidance!!

Please send one file only with responses to all questions; no multiple submissions!! When I click your name on the tab the entire assignment should be on it. No exceptions.

 

 

Question #1:

a. Summarize the nine most important items covered in the chapter. Be sure to explain the importance of each of the items. Provide an Introduction and a Conclusion.

 

Question #2:

 

a. Which event reminds you the most of an event in your life-time? One or two paragraphs.

 

Question #3:

 

a. In a few sentences, discuss a weakness in the colonists’ cry of taxation without representation?

 

Question #4:

 

a. If you were a poor white in British colonial America on the eve of the American Revolution, would you have been persuaded to fight for the colonists? Explain.

 

FIVE PAGES EXCLUDING WORKS CITED OR REFERENCES AND NO PLAGIARISM AND THE INSTRUCTION IS DOWNLOADED BELOW.

This week we read about American expansion abroad and belief in the “white man’s burden” to civilize backward nations and spread American libertas throughout the world. However, along the homefront, we learned that things were much different. In 1882, the government passed the first legislation that restricted immigration based on national origin and race. By passing the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, the government closed the United States to certain Chinese immigrants for ten years and required every Chinese person entering or leaving the country to carry identification. At the same time, to pacify the concerns of American investors who thought the act might have a negative impact on trade with China, Congress excluded students, teachers, merchants, and diplomats from the act, and in 1888 the Scott Act amended the legislation to bar re-entry into the United States by Chinese residents if they left the country. The exclusion of Chinese lasted until 1943 when China became an American ally against Japan in World War II, at which time Congress repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act. After completing the assigned reading and watching the video, answer the following:

 

What side would you have taken and what can we learn from history about the immigration debates of today?

 

 

Why might have investors been ok with students, teachers, merchants, and diplomats, but not others?

 

 

According to your reading, the Chinese Exclusion Act set a precedent regarding immigration based on race or national origin. In what ways is this still prevalent today.

Here is how the assignment is to be completed:

 

• First, pick a film from the supplemental list that interests you. All the films on this list in some way relate to this class, so make sure that you find one that is interesting and/or enjoyable. The supplemental film list is divided into four lists that correspond to dates during the semester and the three units of the class. Make sure that the movie that you pick comes from the list that is appropriate for that date in which you signed up to write your response paper.

 

• Second, watch the movie and takes notes on it while you watch.

 

• Third, figure out the plot and the overall messages this film makes about Indians even if Indians are minor characters. Why is this film is interesting and how does it relates to what we have been studying in the class? The film does not necessarily have to be precisely relevant to the topic or reading of the week at the time of your write your paper—you can reference topic from weeks previous or the larger themes of the class.

 

• Fourth, think about the ways in which this film meets and/or contradicts the genre conventions we have been discussing? And think about how it might meet or contradict expectations of Indianness?

 

• Lastly, taking all of these things into consideration write your paper, figure out a thesis that allows you to say one thing interesting about this movie.

 

o Here’s how to write you paper: The body of your paper needs to include at least one example of shot selection, one example of editing, and one example of sound that proves the main point (your thesis) that your are trying to make about the movie.

 

o Don’t summarize: I expect analysis not a summary of plot, so only discuss the plot as you are explaining the importance of and as it relates to the examples of shot selection, editing and sound that you are discussing.

 

o Remember:

 

§ Plot/Narrative is the events of what happens in the movie, what and who the movie is about, and who the main characters are.

 

§ Shot Selection is all of the visual elements the director is puts in the scene, how these elements spatially relate to each other and perspective from which the camera is set-up.

 

§ Editing is the order of and relationship between shots, what shots are put next to each other, and what shots are put in what parts of the movie.

 

§ Sound is the sounds effect and music that are paired with a specific scenes/shots.

 

( two pages)

 

 

 

Chose one of those film to watch and write this assignment about it.

 

 

 

The Paleface (1922)

 

The Vanishing American (1925)

 

Northwest Passage (1940)

 

They Died with their Boots On (1941)

 

Fort Apache (1948)

 

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

 

Apache (1954)

 

The Indian Fighter (1955)

 

Run of the Arrow (1957)

 

Tell them Willie Boy is Here (1969)

 

The Mission (1986)

 

Little Big Man (1970)

 

A Man Called Horse (1970)

 

Running Brave (1983)

 

The Last of His Tribe (1992)

 

Black Robe (1991)

 

Geronimo: An American Legend (1993/4)

 

Burry my Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)