Category: History

Topic: The Role of Women in Arab / Islamic Civilization 
This topic is rich with historical, cultural, and social significance and offers a nuanced understanding of the position of women within these societies By exploring the role of women in Arab/Islamic civilization, you’ll delve into a topic that is both academically enriching and socially relevant, offering valuable insights into the complexities of these societies throughout history and the present day.
If there is a specific topic regarding the role of women in Arab/ Islamic Civilization that you would like to focus on please do so. This topic is generalized and can go in any direction.
Introduction :
Brief overview of the significance of Arab/Islamic heritage.
Importance of understanding the role of women in this context.
Thesis statement outlining the main points of your paper.
Historical Perspectives : 
Exploration of the status of women in pre-Islamic Arab societies.
Impact of Islam on the status and rights of women during the early Islamic period.
Key historical figures or events that shaped the role of women in Arab/Islamic civilization.
Legal and Religious Framework : 
Analysis of Islamic legal principles regarding women’s rights and responsibilities.
Examination of Quranic verses and Hadiths related to women.
Comparison of theoretical rights versus practical application throughout history.
Social and Cultural Context : 
Discussion of the roles and expectations of women in family, community, and society.
Examination of gender segregation, modesty, and gender dynamics in Arab/Islamic cultures.
Exploration of the intersectionality of gender with other factors such as class, ethnicity, and nationality.
Literary and Artistic Representations : 
Analysis of depictions of women in classical Arabic literature, poetry, and art.
Examination of the portrayal of women in contemporary Arab/Islamic media and literature.
Discussion of how these representations reflect societal attitudes towards women.
Challenges and Progress : 
Identification of key challenges faced by women in contemporary Arab/Islamic societies.
Exploration of efforts towards gender equality, women’s empowerment, and feminist movements.
Analysis of the impact of globalization, modernization, and political changes on women’s roles.
Case Studies : 
Select specific examples or case studies to illustrate different aspects of women’s experiences in Arab/Islamic heritage.
Comparative analysis of women’s rights and status in different regions or periods within the Arab/Islamic world.
Conclusion : 
Summary of key findings and insights from the paper.
Reflection on the significance of understanding the role of women in Arab/Islamic heritage.
Suggestions for future research and areas of further exploration.
Criteria :
Content and Comprehension
Organization of ideas (the writing flows smoothly).
Logical presentation (details and events are presented logically).
Use of introductory statements, thesis statement, details and summaries of factual information, examples, argumentation, engaging critically with resources, and ending with a well-written conclusion.
Evidence of critical thinking (especially in handling quotations and resources).
Language and Style :
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeLanguage and style
Clarity: introduction is clear, paper goals, objectives, procedure set up clearly.
Use of academic-style language
Error-free (spelling, punctuation, etc.)
Evidence of proofreading
Resources:
The paper uses proper resources: there is evidence of using academic journal articles, research papers, in addition to other online resources such as media outlets, etc.
The paper uses resources showing different perspectives.
Proper citation and documentation.
Overall assessment:
The paper demonstrates genuine effort and engagement. The overall quality of the paper fits academic standards.
There is evidence of merit: the paper presents information beyond public knowledge.

Your goal in this assignment is to create an innovative and creative assignment for a college-level History course. You need to clearly explain the overview, outcomes, instructions, skills used, and grading structure of the assignment. The final submission needs to be well-edited, correctly formatted, and proofread. You are scored on your creativity, clarity, professionalism, and scope. Although this is a separate assignment, your score replaces the GIP. Therefore, your grade will be recorded in the GIP grade column. 
Submission Instructions
-Create an interesting and innovative assignment that would be suitable for a college-level History course. 
-You will submit your paper through this assignment page on Canvas.
-All submissions must be in .doc, .docx, or .pdf extensions. 
-Submissions must be proofread and edited. Professional appearance and formatting counts!
-This assignment is due on the same date and time as the GIP. 
Formatting and Necessary Fields
1. Your submission must contain, at the very least, these four fields: Overview, Instructions, Objectives/Educational Skills, and Grading Rubric 
2. Fill out the corresponding fields with detailed information. Be descriptive. Give examples, if necessary. 
3. Separate and format the fields to your liking. Make your submission look professional and polished. 
Explanation of the Fields
-Please watch the following video for further clarification of the Overview, Instructions, Objective/Educational Skills, and Grading Rubric.
-Objectives are generally in two parts. The first part is just what will be done. For example,  “The student will do _____.” The second part is the outcome. Here, it is more like, “By doing this the student is using ______ skills.” You can write this however you wish, but make sure to explain what part of the assignment uses which skills. 
-Here is a large, but by no means comprehensive, list of Educational Skills. Your assignment should include quite a few of these:
******time management, critical thinking, group work, public speaking, written skills, verbal skills, planning, multitasking, collaboration, editing, organization, note taking, peer review, source evaluation, data analysis, research, studying, test taking, academic argument, presentation, reading comprehension, statistical analysis, teaching, tutoring, and goal planning*****

Grading Rubric
-Since this is an optional assignment with lenient grading, I am keeping the rubric fairly simple. When it comes to making your rubric for this assignment, though, you should carefully consider how you place the points. The GIP is worth 200 points (this replaces its score), so the scoring rubric will equal that amount. Please do not just copy this rubric. Think about it and create your own. 
Your grade on this assignment comes from how well you complete these four directives: creativity, clarity, professionalism, and scope. Each has equal weight of 50 points. 
Creativity: The uniqueness, originality, innovation, and/or stimulation your assignment.
Clarity: How well you explained the overview, instructions, objectives, and grading rubric of the assignment. 
Professionalism: Proofreading, formatting, and overall editing of the assignment submission.
Scope: The detail, information, and general boundaries of the assignment. How well your assignment incorporates various Educational Skills. 
These categories are subjectively scored. Each will receive points ranging from 0 – 50. Here is a breakdown of these points:
A: 45 – 50 points. An excellent submission in this category. Exceeds expectations. Great insight and ideas, very well written, engaging, thought-provoking, and/or original. 
B: 40 – 44 points. A good submission in this category. You explained your points, the submission was well-written and largely free from errors, there was extra information, and innovative ideas. 
C: 35 – 39 points. A satisfactory submission in this category. You completed the assignment to, at least, the minimum standards. Your submission was decently written, there may be a few grammatical and syntax errors, but, for the most part, it was proofread and professional. Satisfactory ideas and originality. 
D: 30 – 34 points. A  poor submission. You submitted the assignment but it had several issues and/or errors. This could include incomplete fields, irrelevant information, basic ideas, etc. 
F: 0 – 29 points. You know why you received this. 

PROVIDE FOUR SUCCESSES AND FOUR FAILURES – 
Analyze the effects of historical, social, political, economic, cultural, and global forces of this period of UNITED STATES history.
Essays should use normal margins, 12-pt Arial or Times New Roman font, and double-spaced; your essay should be about 1000-1300 words in length; your essay should be in paragraph form with an introduction paragraph containing your thesis statement (or argument), body paragraphs, and a conclusion. 

HISTORY FROM HOLLYWOOD
Many of our upcoming Discussions about American History since 1877 connect to the themes and plot lines of famous films produced by Hollywood. For this Discussion, you need to find a film that focuses on an actual historical event rather than simply being set in the past.  (Think Selma or 12 Strong rather than Once Upon a Time in Hollywood or The Dirty Dozen.)
For this informal discussion, you are welcome to use some of the more popular websites and online sources that we would normally stay away from. In this regard, you can pursue imdb.com and other websites as you formulate your post.
For this discussion:
1. Find an historical film that covers a period in history relevant to this course, 1877-present.
2. Briefly describe its plot and/or famous scenes and/or actors/actresses.
3. And finally, in what ways did the film accurately/inaccurately depict the past. 
Below are some examples of the types of films you should be looking for. 
Types of Films
12  Strong
13 Hours
All the President’s Men
American Sniper
Apollo 13
Argo
Black Hawk Down
Bonnie and Clyde
Born on the Fourth of July
Bound for Glory
Bridge of Spies
Charlie Wilson’s War
Cinderella Man
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
First Man
Gates of Heaven
Geronimo
Ghosts of Mississippi
Hamburger Hill
Hidden Figures
Iron Jawed Angels
Lone Survivor
Malcolm X
Mississippi Burning
Nixon
Norma Rae
Patton
Pork Chop Hill
Selma
Sergeant York
Snowden
The Aviator
The Big Short
The Doors
The Insider
The Longest Day
The Post
The Right Stuff
The Wolf of Wall Street
Tora, Tora, Tora
Tucker
We Were Soldiers…
Wind Talkers
World Trade Center

he said it can be about anything about this time period. can talk about the music, why it’s such a great era, what happened during this time, what events went on, what kind of music style, ect! 4 pages please!!!!! 3 sources! one online and two different ones that aren’t online! I’m going to finish the last page on my own explaining why it’s my favorite!!
thanks!!!!

Historical events are often the subject of media like movies, television, or books. For many of us, what we know about history we learned from these media types. But what do we really know? What do these media forms tell us about what happened in the past and to whom? For this discussion, you will choose an example of a media type, such as a movie, TV show, book, or graphic novel about a historical event or a historical person, and then address the following discussion prompts. 
For your initial post, address the following:
identify at least two specific examples of how the time period for the historical event is represented in the media type you chose (movie, TV show, book, graphic novel, etc.). 
Whose perspective of the historical event is portrayed?  
Describe how this perspective shapes the story of the historical event.  

Essay Portion
1. ______/5 2,000-2,400 words in length
2. ______/5 Clear thesis statement that address Native group’s historical significance
3. ______ /5 Introduction
4. ______ /10 Historiography paragraph  draw from your paragraph response
5. ______/5 Conclusion
6. ______ /20 Specific textual evidence and analysis throughout that relates to thesis
7. ______ /5 Clear source citations
8. ______ /10 Paragraph topic sentences
9. ______ /10 Grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and editing
Writing Process Portion
10. ______ /2.5 Meeting with Prof. Kelley about essay topic
11. ______ /2.5 Active participation and attendance at information literacy workshop
12. ______ /15 Annotated Bibliography grade (see separate rubric below)
13. ______ /2.5 Writing conference with Professor Kelley
14. ______ /2.5 Participation in peer review workshop
______/100 Total

For the Research Prospectus/Outline Assignment and Critical Thinking Essay Assignment you have free reign to choose a topic matter that is historically relevant to Later US History and fits our class time frame of: 1865 – Present.
Outline/Prospectus:
It will help you organize your thoughts for a critical thinking essay which would have been written using the (Kate Turabian format)-please note you will not be required to write this essay, however, your Research Prospectus/Power Point assignment needs to clearly show and organize all thoughts as if you would write the essay. In this assignment you will need to develop a critical thinking/analytical question (based on any of the material covered in class, ask a ‘how or why type of question’), make sure you are able to find academic sources minimum 2 primary and 3 secondary sources. You will provide a brief response to the question. From the question and brief response you will develop a thesis statement. You will present 3 major points of support and 2 corresponding subsections for your major point of support. (Subsections allow you to enter into greater detail of important information within the major point of support. Sometimes a major point of support cannot go into detail because your argument might go off on a tangent, thus subsections allow you to focus on those points without detracting from your major point of support). Lastly you will develop a conclusion which is the same idea in the thesis statement but restated differently.
*** for this part you can give it to me in writing and I will transfer to powerpoint. 
Essay:
1 Essay  (must be in Turabian format, must include minimum 2 primary sources and 3 secondary sources all academic, be minimum between 3-5 pages not including bibliography, have minimum 3 quotes with accompanying footnotes (maximum 5), quotes cannot exceed 2 lines of text and must be enclosed in quotation marks with corresponding subscripts to the footnote per Turabian footnote guidelines. Essay must also include a Turabian style bibliography. 

please watch the film “The Murmuring” 1995 directions- How to Write an Effective Film Analysis Think of a film analysis as a series of short, well-organized paragraphs, each representing a specific part of your overall assessment. Above all, you must place the film in terms of historical context and argument. To this end, begin by organizing your thoughts about and responding to some of the following questions: (1) How does the film engage with the larger topic of domination and defiance in twentieth-century Korea in terms of subject matter? (2) Does the director accept, reject, or reframe academic interpretations about the topic, as presented in class lectures and weekly readings? (3) Does the film offer new evidence, examine the topic from a different angle, or provide a new interpretation of the topic? How does the film narrative make you feel as a viewer? and (4) Are the director’s assumptions about history reasonable and/or persuasive to you? Why or why not?
In thinking about these questions, try to evaluate the relationships among characters, the nature of the film making, and/or the effectiveness of the film as a historical medium. In this regard, you may choose to discuss some of the following questions: (1) What is the film maker seeking to accomplish by presenting different characters, especially in their interactions with one another? (2) How does the story of the film develop (i.e., how do the beginning, middle, and end relate to one another in creating a “narrative arc”)? (3) How do camera angles or other visual techniques contribute to what you would consider the film’s primary message? and (4) How do these cinematic techniques compare with those of textual arguments?

Requirements are outlined in the pdf, please read it fully and carefully. You must include title page with our debate question and our thesis. Must write a 2300-2500 word research paper proving our thesis. Must also include a annotated bibliography, with just a 3-4 sentences for each source you use, all requirements are in the pdf. 
Our question is: Has the portrayal of women in Indian cinema since the 1950s contributed to progressive changes in gender roles within Indian society?
Our thesis is: Despite the traditional portrayal of gender roles in early Indian cinema, the progressive evolution of female characters since the 1950s has significantly influenced societal perceptions and contributed to a gradual, yet meaningul changes in gender roles within Indian society.
You must write clear, understandable, use simple language, transition words. Read all the instructions carefully, ask me any questions.