Your essay response will be evaluated on the use of specific detail and success in answering the selected question in its entirety. 1. Describe the emergence of a consumer economy, its impact on American culture and identity, and the ways in which it was embraced and critiqued in the period spanning from the Gilded Age […]

  Take Test: Unit 6 Quiz Content Assistive Technology Tips [opens in new window]  Test Information Instructions Description     Instructions     Multiple Attempts   Not allowed. This test can only be taken once.      Force Completion   This test can be saved and resumed later.               Question 1 To prepare for class, please read: THE “EVACUATION” OF GERMAN JEWS (1942), 136A-137B […]

George Berkeley (pronounced “barkley”), in his subjective idealism, claimed the only things we could be sure of are that we have perceptions and that God must also perceive to explain our common perceptions, and that we could “know” nothing else. The positivists, such as Charles Sanders Peirce and Karl Popper, claimed that we could only […]

Instructions For this assignment, select one of the following options. Option 1: Chronicle Adolf Hitler’s rise from failed art student to political speaker to eventually gain control over Germany. Option 2: Describe Benito Mussolini’s revival of European Imperialism in North Africa and how he came to be Adolf Hitler’s ally. Option 3: Chronicle the rise of extreme militarism in Japan […]

What is the main argument that Del la Casas presents in the reading? Europeans of the time period argued that they engaged in exploration to in engage in missionary work, to convert foreign peoples and to gain fame and wealth for their country. The Native American Hatuey argues that the Spanish were only interested in […]