Please read the instruction below. This doesn't need any kind of format. I will write the discussion questions for every assign reading below. You have been assigned a reading selection indicated below. Choose any one of the DISCUSSION questions at the end of your assigned reading selection and answer it thoroughly in a paragraph (7-10 sentences minimum) using one cited quote from the text, Acting Out Culture, for support. You must identify the reading selection title and the question you are answering.Assignment 1: Acting Out Culture: Chapter 3--The Ethics of Eating Meat (By Paul Schwennesen)Discussion Question; Schwennesen refers to the practice of eating meat as " biological imperative" (page 178). Do you agree? What attitude toward meat eating doeas this phrase suggest?Add Cake, Subtract Self-Esteem ( Caroline Knapp)Discussion question: Knapp begins her personal account of anorexia by referring to the " lure of staring" (page 188). How do you react to this provocative phrase? In your view, is it possible for something as harrowing and harmful as self-starvation to feel so compelling or desirable? If so, how?The Wages of Sin ( By Francine Prose)Discussion question: Elsewhere in this essay Prose writes, " The so-called glutton is walking rebuke to our self control, our self denial, and to our shaky faith that we watch ourselves, then surely death cannot touch us." What exactly does she mean by this? Do you think she is right? In what ways do we use the images and examples of those body types that regarded in our culture as deficient or abnormal as role models for what not to be ourselves?On Eating Roadkill (Brendan Buhler)Discussion question: What are some of the associations you bring to the term roadkill? And are any of these associations compatible with idea of eating roadkill? Why or why not?Assignment 2: Write a detailed paragraph including one cited quote (author's last name and page number only) for support from the text to write a paragraph in response to the question #2 on page 173 of Everything's an Argument. Paragraph should be (7-10 sentences).Everything's an argument - Question #2 : Write an argument about one factual matter you are confident - based on personal experience or your state of knowledge that most people get wrong, time and again. Use your expertise to correct this false impression. Cited qoute: " There's another side to the story" (Lunsford & Ruszkiewicz, 158)

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.