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Essay Instructions: In essays of at least 500 words each (about 2-pages double-spaced), address five of the following six essay topics. Your essays should properly cite all of your sources, including textbooks and any other sources you may use.

1. Analyze the workings of the sharecropping system, and explain why many African Americans preferred it to wage labor; explain why so many sharecroppers ended up destitute and tied to a plantation.

2. Analyze the main factors that impelled black people to leave the South, and the main factors that drew them North between 1914 and 1929. Explain why the Great Migration is considered a ?watershed? (a turning point) in African American history.

3. Compare and contrast each of the following in light of the historical period in which they appeared: the ?New Negro? movement, Marcus Garvey and the UNIA, and the Harlem Renaissance. Analyze the relationships among them and explain why they appeared almost simultaneously, and why New York was so important to all of them.

4. Explain the various ways that the Great Depression and World War II affected African Americans in the South, North, and West, countryside and the city; analyze their main responses to this economic disaster.

5. Explain the philosophy of nonviolence as articulated by Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders of the civil rights movement in the context of the Cold War and resurgent Southern segregationism, and evaluate how successful it was as a strategy for in the many struggles that occurred between 1956 and 1966.

6. Analyze Black Power as a phase of the freedom movement and as a political outlook; explain why it emerged after 1965, how it differed from the civil rights phase of the movement, and its overall impact on African American life and history in the last four decades of the economic stagnation and political crisis.

Essay Instructions: In essays of at least 500 words each (about 2-pages double-spaced), address five of the following six essay topics. Your essays should properly cite all of your sources, including textbooks and any other sources you may use.


1. Analyze the workings of the sharecropping system, and explain why many African Americans preferred it to wage labor; explain why so many sharecroppers ended up destitute and tied to a plantation.


2. Analyze the main factors that impelled black people to leave the South, and the main factors that drew them North between 1914 and 1929. Explain why the Great Migration is considered a "watershed" (a turning point) in African American history.


3. Compare and contrast each of the following in light of the historical period in which they appeared: the "New Negro" movement, Marcus Garvey and the UNIA, and the Harlem Renaissance. Analyze the relationships among them and explain why they appeared almost simultaneously, and why New York was so important to all of them.


4. Explain the various ways that the Great Depression and World War II affected African Americans in the South, North, and West, countryside and the city; analyze their main responses to this economic disaster.


5. Explain the philosophy of nonviolence as articulated by Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders of the civil rights movement in the context of the Cold War and resurgent Southern segregationism, and evaluate how successful it was as a strategy for in the many struggles that occurred between 1956 and 1966.


6. Analyze Black Power as a phase of the freedom movement and as a political outlook; explain why it emerged after 1965, how it differed from the civil rights phase of the movement, and its overall impact on African American life and history in the last four decades of the economic stagnation and political crisis.

Essay Instructions: In essays of at least 500 words each (about 2-pages double-spaced), address five of the following six essay topics. Your essays should properly cite all of your sources, including textbooks and any other sources you may use.

1.Analyze the workings of the sharecropping system, and explain why many African Americans preferred it to wage labor; explain why so many sharecroppers ended up destitute and tied to a plantation.
2.Analyze the main factors that impelled black people to leave the South, and the main factors that drew them North between 1914 and 1929. Explain why the Great Migration is considered a “watershed” (a turning point) in African American history.
3.Compare and contrast each of the following in light of the historical period in which they appeared: the “New Negro” movement, Marcus Garvey and the UNIA, and the Harlem Renaissance. Analyze the relationships among them and explain why they appeared almost simultaneously, and why New York was so important to all of them.
4.Explain the various ways that the Great Depression and World War II affected African Americans in the South, North, and West, countryside and the city; analyze their main responses to this economic disaster.
5.Explain the philosophy of nonviolence as articulated by Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders of the civil rights movement in the context of the Cold War and resurgent Southern segregationism, and evaluate how successful it was as a strategy for in the many struggles that occurred between 1956 and 1966.

Essay Instructions: UNIT 2 ESSAY: SHARED STRUGGLES
This is meant to be an expository paper.

Prompt-
How have the various foreign immigrant groups to California share similar struggles in their quest to become American citizens?

Explanation-
Using the reading, find three struggles that foreign immigrants face in coming to California in the hopes of becoming a citizen. For a struggle to be a shared similarity between two groups, it must be present in at least two distinct cultures. The three struggles you choose to write about will become three of your four body paragraphs. Your fourth body paragraph will be the "concession:" the paragraph where you discuss a struggle that is a difference between cultures.

Specifics-
Introduction:
-Use either a directly stated thesis or personal narrative and thesis
-Write thesis in parallel structure
Body Paragraphs:
-3 Comparison / 1 contrast
-Follow say/show/so structure
-Provide a clear topic sentence
-integrate quotes from two readings
-provide academic context for both quotes
-discuss the connections
Conclusion:
-pull your essay together
(without repeating your intro or thesis)
-leave your reader something to consider
(with out writing empty questions)
-be poetic

Format:
Follow the MLA format for the overall document, integrated quotes, and a works cited page. Follow the standard rules of English grammar (of course!)

+Say/Show/So structure is...
Say= Main Idea basically (topic sentence)
Show= Supporting details (quotes)
So= So what? This is when you create the context (discuss quote)
This is VERY BASIC outline of how the body paragraphs should be, please go more in depth than this. Remember this is an EXPOSITORY PAPER, just explaining.

+For a direct thesis...
It should transition from a few sentences of immigration struggles then to a thesis.

+The thesis should be in a style of "Although... x,y,z"
Here is just an EXAMPLE (DO NOT USE THIS ONE): Although immigrants face different hardships in traveling to California, when they arrive they share struggles of x, y, and z.




+Here is what short stories you will have to read and pull quotes from for each paragraph:
Body Paragraph #1- Shared struggles of Iranian & Mexican (Identity conflicts)
Women and the Family in Iran/ Maid in LA/ Invisible Men/ Iranian Women and Gender Relations in Los Angeles/ Individual and Political Freedom/ Acculturation and Changes in Gender Roles/ The Impact of Migration/ My Latino Heart/ Of Cholos and Surfers/ Immigrants of California/ Contra Costa Times, Revamp Immigration

Body Paragraph #2- Shared struggles of Iranian women & Chinese women (Gender conflicts)
The World of Our Grandmothers/ Iranian Women and Gender Relations in Los Angeles/ Women and the Family in Iran/ Acculturation and Changes in Gender Roles

Body Paragraph #3- Shared struggles of Iranian & Vietnamese (Generational conflicts)
Vietnamese Youths No Longer Look Homeward/ Individual and Political Freedom/ Women and the Family in Iran/ State Needs a "Time-out" from Mass Immigration

Body Paragraph #4- Different struggles of Iranian & Mexican (Reasons for leaving the homeland)
Proofs/ The Great Migration: Immigrants in CA/ Maid in LA/ Invisible Men/ Women and the Family in Iran/ Individual and Political Freedom/ Acculturation and Changes in Gender Roles/ Iranian Women and Gender Relations in Los Angeles/ Immigrants of California/ Contra Costa Times, Revamp Immigration







+Here is my own BASIC outline of what the body paragraphs should consist of/revolve around (DO NOT USE EXACT SAME WORDING AS ME, & SHOULD CONSIST OF MUCH MORE DETAIL THAN THIS):

Body Paragraph #1- Shared struggles of Iranian & Mexican (Identity conflicts)
-Women from struggle to find identity and balance homeland culture and new Americanized culture
-Mexican women and men try to discover what to call themselves, as well struggle with trying to balance their homeland culture and new americanized culture

Body Paragraph #2- Shared struggles of Iranian women & Chinese women (Gender conflicts)
-Iranian women struggle with Identity and being independent, men dictate everything; women are meant to cook, clean, take care of children etc.
-Chinese women are considered to be prostitutes just merely stepping outside of their houses at all. They are treated like property and have no say in what men/their fathers tell them to do.

Body Paragraph #3- Shared struggles of Iranian & Vietnamese (Generational conflicts)
-Younger Vietnamese Americans do not know about war or what the older generation went through. They are struggling to still know where and how they came from Vietnam to American. Parental conflicts usually arise, due to the youth is slowly but surely becoming americanized hence the "1.5 generation" while the parents typically go unquestioned in traditional Vietnamese culture.
-Younger Iranian Americans do not know much about the revolution or what the parents went through exactly. Parents are typically very strict and custom to Iranian culture but, when coming to America with their youth there is this constant struggle of the parents and youth to find this happy medium of being Americanized yet still following their traditional homeland culture.

Body Paragraph #4- Different struggles of Iranian & Mexican (Reasons for leaving the homeland)
-Many Iranians left because of the revolution. Some left because of the government and how religion was becoming involved. Many women especially left to have an identity and have freedom.
-Many Mexicans left for a better life, or for more opportunities to get a job. Some needed to leave so they could get money and send back some to their families. Others left for children as well, so they could have a better education and live a better life here in America.





IMPORTANT!!
I HAVE TAKEN SNAP SHOTS OF ALL THE SHORT STORIES SO YOU MAY READ THEM YOURSELF AND/OR PICK OUT QUOTES. THEY ARE ON THREE MICROSOFT WORD DOCUMENTS IT IS TOO LARGE TO UPLOAD HERE. PLEASE EMAIL ME ASAP ON HOW TO EMAIL YOU THIS INFORMATION ENABLE TO DO THE PAPER.

THERE WAS ONLY ONE SHORT STORY I FOUND ONLINE NEEDED FOR THIS ESSAY, HERE IS THE LINK TO IT: https://www.msu.edu/user/carterca/yu.htm


I tried making this as easy as possible and providing as much information as I could, hope it helped!
Thank you!