Document based paper:
Using the Paper Template, craft a 2-3 page (600-700 word) essay that addresses the questions below. Use at the documents from Weeks 8-9 to provide evidence for your answers.
1. How did the West see itself as superior to the other cultures and civilizations of the world? What kinds of things did the West have that other parts of the world didn’t? What, in turn, did Westerners give themselves permission to do with these things? Use the Week 8 documents to answer this question.
2. By the time that World War I breaks out, is Western Civilization really that “civilized?” Use the Trench Poems and Jünger’s Storm of Steel to make your argument.
Attached, you will find three separate documents. Each document must be used two separate times to answer these questions, for a total of 6 citations. These should be simple, parenthetical citation of direct quotes or paraphrased information from the documents in the document book attached. For example:
Young observed that the poor condition of farmers weighed down the country, writing that “the farmer is in the lowest state of poverty; the land is miserably cultivated, and the nation suffers as severely as the parties themselves.” (Young, Travels in France, 650).
[Name]
HIS 102
Prof. Name
Analysis Paper III
Format:
• 12-point font
• Times New Roman
• Double-spaced
• Default margins
• Top-left corner with name, class, instructor, and assignment (see above)
Essay Structure: Every good college-level essay should have a clear introduction, body, and conclusion. No more than 2-3 sentences, the introduction sets up the real “meat” of the paper; if we were to use a food metaphor, it would be the little chef salad that comes before the main course. You don’t want to give away your main arguments in the intro, but you do want to gesture toward it in a way that keeps the reader interested. The body does all the argumentative “heavy lifting,” laying out your responses to the essay prompt in a clear, concise manner over several paragraphs using direct evidence from the historical documents. Finally, the conclusion should reiterate your main points and cap off the paper.
Length: These papers can be as long as you want them to be, but I’m mostly looking for papers in the range of 2-3 pages, or 600-700 words (including citations). Anything shorter than that will have difficulty addressing the prompts adequately.
Grading: These papers are a chance for you to exercise critical engagement with the course material we’ve discussed in class. As such, I will be grading the papers on that basis, as well as basic grammar, spelling, and syntax.
Citations: For these short essays, I’m looking for a simple, parenthetical citation of direct quotes or paraphrased information from the documents in our document book, Perspectives From the Past. Citations should have a brief version of the document name and the page number that you’re getting the quote/information from.