A. do some research online to answer the following questions. Find 1-3 sources and cite them correctly using APA format. You must still write your post in your own words--do not take text directly from your sources.What are some of the issues and debates in the news media regarding immigration, either in the US specifically, or worldwide? What current events in immigration are happening right now? How is immigration framed in politics?B. For your assignment this week, you will write a 2-3 page (double-spaced) paper supported with evidence from the sources provided in Lesson 7. Follow the below pre-writing steps before writing your essay.You need to cite 2-3 sources from Lesson 7 in APA format for this assignment.After working through the materials in Lesson 7, consider whether you think that globalization has positive or negative effects on different culture(s) and on diversity.Gather specific reasoning, details, and quotes from the sources provided in Lesson 7 to support your stance on globalization.Write a 2-3 page (double-spaced) essay in which you argue a specific claim about globalization, drawing from the resources provided in Lesson 7 to support your claim. For example, you could choose to agree or disagree with one of the perspectives in the sources, or you could argue for globalization being overall positive, overall negative, or somewhere in between. Structure your paper using the below guideline:INTRODUCTION (1 paragraph): Start your paper by defining globalization in your own words and explaining why it is an important issue. Include a thesis statement where you make a specific claim about globalization and culture/diversity. Provide a roadmap where you map out your paper and list the subpoints you will elaborate on in your body paragraphs.BODY (3-4 paragraphs): Divide your body into 3-4 paragraphs according to subpoints that support your thesis, and place them in a logical order. Use reasoning, details, and quotes from the sources in Lesson 7 to support your claims. If you look up any additional sources, you must cite them correctly using APA format. You MUST reference 2-3 sources from Lesson 7 even if you do look up additional sources.CONCLUSION (1 paragraph): Restate your thesis. Explain how the information in your paper can be applied moving forward.Globalization is the process of increasing international connections across the globe, through technological advances in communication and transportation. We live in an increasingly globalized world. Globalization involves people, products, and information traveling across cultures and national borders. Globalization occurs in at least three areas:Economic globalization, which occurs through international business and finance;Political globalization, which occurs through political cooperation and influence between different countries, andSocial globalization, which occurs through the exportation and importation of ideas, information, media, and culture.STEP 2: GLOBALIZATION, CULTURAL IMPERIALISM, and AMERICANIZATIONGlobalization has advantages and disadvantages and affects different communities differently. It is controversial, because it can have negative impacts on local communities, and because it operates within already existing hierarchies, in which certain groups and countries have more power than others.Watch the following video on "cultural imperialism," a debatable concept that interprets globalization as certain cultures dominating and even destroying others. Take careful notes. Type up your thoughts on how convincing you find this concept, and whether you think globalization has overall positive or negative effects.Watch Western Cultural ImperialismCarefully read and look at the map showing the presence of American companies McDonald's and Starbucks across the world, attached below. This map reveals how much economic and social influence the US has across the world, through the exportation of these companies and products worldwide.Then, carefully read this article on the economic dominance of American companies globally.Type up your thoughts on how dominant the US is economically and culturally, and what you think that means for whether globalization is overall positive or negative. Is it ethical for American companies, already the richest in the world, to profit further from the citizens in other, poorer countries? Is "globalization" really just another word for "Americanization?" Should one culture take over and subsume others?STEP 3: THE "GLOBAL VILLAGE"Some scholars have challenged the idea that globalization brings us together and helps us communicate across difference. Watch Take careful notes. Type up your thoughts on how convincing you find this argument.STEP 4: ARCHIVE WHAT YOU LEARNED Save your notes as the seventh entry in your journal. Specifically, note which of these perspectives on globalization you find most convincing, and why. Does globalization have an overall positive or negative relationship with diversity?

Write a 750-word response to the following prompt:The period between 1865 and 1918 is known by many names, including Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era. In this essay, you will offer a new name for this period. If you were writing a textbook or teaching a college course, what would you call this era in U.S. history? Your new terminology should be applicable to the entire 1865-1918 period (or at least as much of it as possible).After introducing your alternative term for the period, the majority of your essay should focus on explaining and defending your choice, using primary sources from class as your evidence. In formulating your answer, you should address the experiences of three different individuals/groups from the first third of this course (modules 1-4). Be sure to explain how your new term for the 1865-1918 period relates to the historical experiences of each of these individuals or groups.Be as specific as possible and be sure to use the assigned readings to defend your answer. Your answer must quote and cite at least three different primary documents from the required reading for Modules 1 through 4.Instructions:Your answer must quote and cite at least three different documents from the required reading for Modules 1 through 4.Be as specific as possible, and be sure to use the assigned readings to defend your answer.Answers that are too short or too long (more than 50 words in either direction) will lose points.Your answer will be checked for plagiarism using Turn-It-In.Your answer should be based on material covered in class lectures and in the assigned reading for this course. DO NOT CONSULT OTHER SOURCES. I do not want to know what Google tells you about this topic. All the information you need to answer this question can be found in the assigned reading and in your class notes.Some tips on formatting and length:750 words is not much! It’s about three double spaced pages (1” margins, 12 point font).Be brief, especially in your introductory paragraph. Get right to your argument, don’t waste words describing everything we’ve covered in the course. There’s no need to make sweeping statements like “Since the beginning of U.S. history....”The prompt asks several different (but closely related) questions. You do not need to answer each and every one of them, but you should try to address most of them (at least in passing) in your essay.Suggested format: 75 words: Introductory paragraph that ends with a clear thesis statement (that is, your argument and your answer to the question asked in the prompt).200 words: body paragraph 1, which should contain your first example and a quotation from your first document.200 words: body paragraph 2, which should contain your second example and a quotation from your second document. A transition paragraph between paragraphs should address the similarities/differences between your first and second example.200 words: body paragraph 3, which should contain your third example and a quotation from your third document. A transition paragraph between paragraphs should address the similarities/differences between this example and your first two examples.75 words: a concluding paragraph that compares your three examples and reiterates (not word-for-word!) your thesis from the introduction.You MUST introduce and contextualize your quotes. We’ve read dozens of documents this term. You must tell your reader what document you’re quoting. GOOD: Southern African Americans had their own definition of freedom. “We claim freedom as our natural right,” black residents of Nashville stated in a petition, “and ask that in harmony and co-operation with the nation at large, you should cut up the roots the system of slavery.” As these petitioners noted, the work of freedom remained incomplete, even after emancipation.BAD: Southern African Americans had their own definition of freedom. “We claim freedom as our natural right, and ask that in harmony and co-operation with the nation at large, you should cut up the roots the system of slavery.”The second example is extraordinarily confusing for your reader. Who are you quoting? Are these your words? Introduce your quotes, and then explain them in your own words.You should also try to avoid extended quotations. In almost all circumstances, you shouldn’t be quoting more than one or two sentences at a time. When you’re trying to quote a longer passage, intersperse your own words as necessary. When I see paragraph-length citations I start to worry that you’re just trying to fill up space…Historians use Chicago Manual of Style, Humanities format. Use footnotes, not parenthetical/in-text citations.Cite the documents from Eric Foner’s Voices of Freedom as follows:Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Home Life,” in Eric Foner, ed. Voices of Freedom, Vol. 2, 6th Edition (New York: W.W. Norton, 2020), 14-17.You do not need to cite my video lectures. Consider these to be common knowledge shared by the class.Submit your document as a Microsoft Word file – or a similar word processing file. Do not convert the file to a PDF.Late papers will lose 1/3 of a letter grade per 24 hours (i.e. A- becomes B+, C+ becomes C).Please include a word count on your paper.