Description
Requirements
- Essay Assignments must be double-spaced in Times Roman 12 point font.
- Essay Assignments must be between 800-1000 words long. NOTE: QUOTATIONS DO NOT COUNT TOWARD THE WORD COUNT.
- Essay Assignments must NOT have extra lines between paragraphs.
- Essay Assignments must have one-inch margins on all sides.
- Essay Assignments must include the student’s name, course number, and date , Professor's Name, and Word Count in the upper left hand corner of the first page of the essay.
- In the Essay Assignments, students must cite all ideas, quotations, paraphrases and summaries that are not the student’s original thoughts. Failure cite sources constitutes plagiarism and may result in a zero (0) or in disciplinary action depending on the circumstances.
- Students must use footnotes for their citations.
- Essay Assignments must have a Bibliography.
- Essay Assignments must be the student’s original work and must be original for this class. Submitting someone else’s work as the one’s own work constitutes plagiarism and may result in a zero (0) or in disciplinary action depending on the circumstances.
ESSAY ONE PROMPT
Students will analyze and write on ONE of the three groups of documents below:
CHOICE ONE:
Read:
"Document Project 24: McCarthyism and the Hollywood Ten" from Nancy A. Hewitt and Stephen F. Lawson. Exploring American Histories: A Survey with Sources. Second Edition. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins, 2017. pp. 817-822.
Respond: Was McCarthyism an aberration (something out of the ordinary in American society) or part of a larger and older force in American Society?