Interviewing Experienced Educators
January 4, 2023Understanding Empiricism
January 4, 2023
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Follow these steps to complete this assignment:
1. Review your notes for Isserman and Kazin, “Why Did the United States Fight in Vietnam?” and for my lecture about the Cold War and the Vietnam War (The Vietnam War, Part 1 week). Outline for yourself an answer to this question:
• Why did the U.S. aid South Vietnam?
2. Write the first paragraph of the assignment in response to the question. Your topic sentence needs to be a direct answer to the question and might be: The United States aided South Vietnam for several reasons. You do not have to use this example sentence. To write the rest of the paragraph, you need to supply evidence from the Isserman-Kazin article and from my lecture. To do this you must:
- George Skakel, “One Soldier’s View: Vietnam Letters”
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- Paul Potter, “The Incredible War”
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- Martin Luther King, Jr., “Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam”
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- John Kerry, “Vietnam Veterans Against the War”
Outline for yourself an answer to this question:
• What reasons did opponents of the war give for their opposition to the United States involvement in South Vietnam’s civil war?
- Write the second paragraph of the assignment in response to the question. Your topic sentence needs to be a direct answer to the question. The more of these four critics of the war that you can include in your paragraph the better. As you bring in reasons for their opposition, you must make it clear which of the men is making the argument that you are explaining. You also must make it clear how the reasons fit with your topic sentence. This second paragraph also should be at least five sentences in length, including the topic sentence.
- Type up your two paragraphs and be sure that they conform to these rules:
- The paper is due by 11:00 p.m. on October 27 (November 2 for the Monday evening class)
- Submit your paper in a format compatible with Microsoft Word for Mac 2011. Note: Rich Text Format is a common format that is compatible with this standard. Please avoid using PDF or Apple Pages formats if you possibly can.
- The link for submitting it is under the Writing Assignments section in a folder labeled “Vietnam Assignment.” In that folder is a link labeled “Submit the Vietnam Assignment.”
- If something goes wrong submitting it on Blackboard, e-mail me a copy as an MS Word file before the deadline. Problems with Blackboard are not an excuse to submit the paper late.
- This paper will be graded on a 50-point scale and that score will count toward the 180-point total for the Writing Assignments part of the course grade.
- The grades of all late papers will be lowered two full letter grades (for example, an A paper becomes a C paper if it is late). And I will not accept the papers more than one week late.
- Papers that include passages plagiarized from the Internet, another student’s paper, or any other source will receive a zero (no credit). Papers that use information from the Internet will receive a 20 point penalty.