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Essay Instructions: This is an Analysis paper between Gold Rush and a novel "Daughter of Joy" Joann, Levy.

To have some proper footnotes
I will not provide the fiction to you.

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The paper itself needs to focus on the book as a reflection of the human experience at the particular historical time it depicts. In other words, your paper needs to analyze the book as a reflection of history and how it facilitates our understanding of the particular historical time and experience it depicts. To accomplish this goal, you need to obviously do some additional research into the historical period and the people depicted in the book. Do not write an English paper that analyzes the book as literature! You also should not retell the story in the book; focus on the analysis. The paper (double-spaced) needs to include the following elements:

• Cover page
• One paragraph introduction with your thesis statement about the book as reflection of history
• Analysis (6-8 pages)
• Conclusion with a reflection on value of book as tool for understanding the past
• Proper footnotes or endnotes (see policy on plagiarism below)
• Proper bibliography


Example: Many of you have probably read John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (which is why it is not on the list), a novel about the Joad family experience as migrants to California during the depression. If I were to write about this book, I would give a very brief historical background to the Great Depression and its impact on average Americans. I would focus the paper on discussing how the Joad family experience reflects the larger Okie experience in California. I would also reflect on Steinbeck’s motivation for writing this book at the time (1930s).

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Essay Instructions: 5 sources that cannot be from the internet or childrens books. 2 citations per page. Only 1 encyclopedia can be used. The research paper needs to show how the california gold rush shaped california for the future.

Essay Instructions: I need 5 pages research paper with at least 4 footnotes and 3 quotations using Kate Turabian's writing manual as a sample of writing style.
The main idea is how Chinese people treated during California Gold Rush in 1850s. It should be focus on historical environment at that time, such as government action during the gold rush period and treat with discrimination base on skin color.

Essay Instructions: Typed double space

style : MLA, Endnote or footnote

bibliography must be Annotated; Few sentences describing how the source helped you in the research paper.

at least one book source

research paper may deal with any topic in California history to 1900; Gold rush or anything else.