Second Research/Reading/Writing Exercise Spring 2016
Seventy-five points possible, due Wednesday March 30
Your name ____________________________
You are on the honor system, meaning that while it is fine to discuss the assignment with others, you need to identify evidence and craft your answers independently.
Any written work must conform to the rules of academic honesty. PLAGIARISM (stealing someone else’s written work and claiming it as your own) is remarkably easy to identify and will be punished to the fullest extent allowable under the academic fraud policies of the University and the Department of History, Philosophy, Religion, and Legal Studies. I will provide specific guidelines for any written assignments. If you are not sure what constitutes academic dishonesty, read The Eagle: Student Handbook, or ask your instructor. The MSU policy is located at http://www.moreheadst.edu/units/studentlife/handbook/academicdishonesty.html
I WILL LOOK VERY UNFAVORABLY ON ANSWERS THAT MERELY TRANSCRIBE THE WORDING DIRECTLY FROM YOUR READING OR CUT AND PASTE or COPY LANGUAGE FROM AN EXTERNAL LINK. YOU NEED TO PARAPHRASE CONTENT FROM YOUR SOURCES, (THAT IS, DETERMINE THE ESSENTIAL MEANING IN THE PASSAGES YOU USE AND EXPLAIN THEM IN YOUR OWN WAY IN YOUR ANSWER.) IT IS FINE TO USE DIRECT QUOTATIONS FROM YOUR SOURCES TO SUPPORT YOUR ANSWERS,BUT IT IS NOT FINE SIMPLY TO COPY EXTENDED QUOTATIONS AND NOT EXPLAIN THEIR MEANING IN YOUR OWN WORDS.
You may answer directly on the question sheet OR answer on separate paper, but you need to turn in the questions and TYPED answers. Please staple the pages together.
Be sure you answer in complete sentences when the question requires it. BE SURE to identify your evidence source/s, including page numbers (if available) in a parenthetical citation, i.e., (Protest Movements, 83), or (class notes, March 14, 2016). FAILURE TO CITE SOURCES WILL RESULT IN A PENALTY FOR THE EXERCISE.
Sources for this exercise, all posted at Blackboard
Protest Movements of the 1970s
McCarthyism before McCarthy(article entitled ‘The Dress Rehearsal for McCarthyism)
The Movies and the Red Scare: ‘The Hollywood Ten’ (article entitled ‘The Hollywood Ten in history and memory
‘Norma Rae’ co-workers, a 1979 book review
Crystal Sutton: the Real Norma Rae, obituary
Very short reading on ‘The Real Norma Rae’
Race and Labor, by Dorian Warren
Slides for Second Written Assignment
From class notes and McCarthyism before McCarthy (actual title of the article is ‘The Dress Rehearsal for McCarthyism’) and The Movies and the Red Scare: The ‘Hollywood Ten’((article entitled ‘The Hollywood Ten in history and memory)
1.According to Carol Smith, why did some faculty members in the 1930s join the Communist Party? (Two points; cite the source and page number)
2. What did Max Yergan teach, and why was he denied reappointment at City College of New York in 1937? (Two points; cite the source and page number)
3. Carol Smith notes that the ideology of anti-communism weakened the labor movement and “progressive political culture” in the 1940s and 1950s. She sees another ideology as threatening public higher education now. What is that ideology, and why does Smith believe it is a threat? (Two points; cite the source and page number)
4. Write a short essay of at least 75 words identifying Elia Kazan and explain why his 1999 lifetime ‘Oscar’ award was controversial. (Four points; cite the source and page number)
5. True or False: Edward R. Murrow’s colleague at CBS News, Don Hollenback, was the target of a vicious smear campaign by a journalist named Jack O’Brian. ______________ (one point)
6. True or False: Arthur Eckstein (The Hollywood Ten in history and memory) concludes that American Communists were not influenced in their policy positions by the Soviet Communist leaders in the USSR. ______________ (one point)
7. Which member of ‘The Hollywood Ten’ included anti-capitalist messages in scripts he wrote for a British television series called ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood?’ (Two points; cite the source and page number)
From the Blackboard documents on ‘Norma Rae’
8. What is the title of the 1979 book by Mimi Conway which includes interviews with J. P. Stevens textile workers in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina? Why did book reviewer Gary Fink claim that the “rare union victory” over J. P. Stevens, dramatized in Norma Rae, was only a “qualified” victory, not (at the time of the book review) a complete one? (Three points; cite source and page number)
9. True or False: Crystal Lee Sutton, the real life Norma Rae, claimed that actress Sally Field misrepresented her work for a union at J. P. Stevens. (Two points; cite source)
10. What was the name of the union that won the right to represent the workers at Sutton’s workplace and for which she later became an organizer? (Two points; cite source)
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From Protest Movements of the 1970s: The Long 1960s) (Be sure to cite page numbers for all your answers)
11. The gay rights and anti-busing movements of the 1970s had vastly different philosophies and goals. Yet, as Simon Hall points out in his article, they had one significant tactic in common. What was that? (two points)
12. The beginning of the gay rights movement is usually associated with the Stonewall Riot of 1969. Hall disagrees with this assessment. What evidence does he offer to argue that Stonewall, while of course significant, was not the beginning of the gay liberation movement.You can earn up to five points with a short essay answer, using your own words to paraphrase Hall’s analysis.
13. Hall points out that the burdens connected to adapting to school busing fell disproportionately on which Bostonians? (two points)
14. What did GLF stand for? What was the GLF? When and where was it founded? What was the context of its founding ?(At least four sentences for threepoints; cite your source)
15. You are familiar with writer John D’Emilio, who wrote the appreciation of Bayard Rustin you read early in the semester. D’Emilio contributed to this article in several ways. In what ways did D’Emilio contribute to Simon Hall’s article? (Three points)
16. Ron Formisano is a retired history professor from the University of Kentucky. What was the full title of his book used by Simon Hall, its place of publication, and its date of publication? (Two points)
These questions are from Dorian Warren’s article The American Labor Movement in the Age of Obama: The Challenges and Opportunities of a Racialized Political Economy.
17. Warren states that “A more recent study finds that employers illegally fire pro-union workers in thirty-four percent of union election campaigns.” Write a complete citation of the source Warren used to support this statement. (Two points)
Each of the remaining answers (17-25) is worth one point. You are required only to COMPLETE EACH SENTENCE EXACTLY AS WRITTEN by Dorian Warren. Be sure to cite page numbers.
18. In the postwar era, unions’ share of the American workforce dropped from over 30 percent of workers in the 1940s and 1950s to . . . . . . . .
19. It is no accident that the lowest union density rates in the U. S. since the 1920s . . . . . .
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20. The decline of the manufacturing sector and the rise of the service sector—-predominantly consisting of women, immigrants, and people of color—-along with continued racial and demographic changes, . . . . . .
21. From the moment the 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) was ruled constitutional after its passage, workers’ rights to organize, bargain collectively, and strike . . . .
22. Over the past three decades, employers have become much more aggressive at violating workers’ rights to organize under a much less protective labor law regime which , . . . .
23. “The tragic irony of postwar African American history,” he [Josh Sides] continues, was that “the decline in industrial employment began just as . . . . “
24. CBAs are legally binding agreements, usually struck between a private developer and a coalition of community organizations, labor unions, and environmental and other advocacy groups, under which community members pledge support for a development project in return for tangible benefits, such as .
25. Yet these successes also perpetuate the uneven geographic development of the American labor movement. They may advance the goals of racial and economic equity in Blue America, but until and unless . . . .
ANALYSIS AND OPINION QUESTION, 25 POINTS
You must use at least two sources you find on your own (NO WIKIPEDIA; CHOOSE YOUR SOURCES CAREFULLY.)—one for each competing point of view– and explain the competing arguments. Then, write a personal “op-ed” expressing your view/s on the issue, based on evidence and your own values. Any point of view is of course fine, but the more specific evidence you use the more convincing your argument will be. The entire essay—-analyses of the sources you use and your op-ed—should be no less than 500 words, for 25 points.
Write you essay on ONE of the following three issues:
1. Some Christians and Christian ministers claim that gay marriage violates the teachings of the Bible, and should not be legal. Other Christians and Christian ministers claim that gay marriage does not violate the teachings of the Bible, and should be legal.
2. Some Americans claim, or claimed in the 1950s and 1960s, that the anticommunist crusade of Senator Joseph McCarthy and his supporters was justified even if it was sometimes excessive. Others argue, or argued in the 1950s, that the methods of the anticommunist ‘movement’ were just as threatening to Americans’ rights and freedoms as communism itself.
Option 3 is on the next page
Some people claim that labor unions are unnecessary to protect workers and in fact are a threat to the individual liberties of workers. Others claim that labor unions are necessary to protect workers’ individual and collective rights because of the nature of modern economic society.
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