From These Beginnings (Volume 2, 8th Edition) is a series of mini-biographies of ten historical personalities Mark Twain, Jane Addams, Gifford Pinchot, Henry Ford, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr., Richard Nixon, Elvis Presley, Betty Friedan and Ted Turner.
Your Assignment: Read the following chapters, and answer the following questions (taken from For Consideration at the end of each chapter):
1.Henry Ford (Chapter 4)
a.What techniques did Henry Ford incorporate to turn his small automobile company into the giant Ford Motor Company?
b.In what ways was Henry Ford a symbol for the age of the 1920s? How does Ford epitomize the ambivalence of many Americans regarding modernity?
c.Like many other industrialists, Ford opposed government intervention to ease the ravages of the Great Depression. In their view, what were the causes of and solutions for the economic downturn?
2.Martin Luther King Jr. (Chapter 6)
a.Two schools of thought on achieving advancement for black people dominated late-19th and early 20th century America. Compare and contrast the philosophies and practices of Booker T Washington and William EB Du Bois.
b.Legal decisions and nonviolent resistance proved successful during the 1950s in promoting black civil rights. Identify and discuss some of the watershed events of that decade.
c.By the 1960s, Kings nonviolent resistance was challenged by younger African Americans who believed his methods outmoded. Why did these militant individuals reject King? Does Kings philosophy still have merit in the early 21st century?
3.Betty Friedan (Chapter 9)
a.What experiences compelled Friedan to write the Feminine Mystique? What is the feminine mystique in Friedans view?
b.The mid-1970s was the zenith of the womens movement. Why was this? What were some of the landmark events of the period, and what happened to the movement in the 1980s and 1990s?
4.Choose any other chapter (a different chapter, a fourth chapter), read it and answer any 2 questions under For Consideration.
Your Assignment: Read the following chapters, and answer the following questions (taken from For Consideration at the end of each chapter):
1.Henry Ford (Chapter 4)
a.What techniques did Henry Ford incorporate to turn his small automobile company into the giant Ford Motor Company?
b.In what ways was Henry Ford a symbol for the age of the 1920s? How does Ford epitomize the ambivalence of many Americans regarding modernity?
c.Like many other industrialists, Ford opposed government intervention to ease the ravages of the Great Depression. In their view, what were the causes of and solutions for the economic downturn?
2.Martin Luther King Jr. (Chapter 6)
a.Two schools of thought on achieving advancement for black people dominated late-19th and early 20th century America. Compare and contrast the philosophies and practices of Booker T Washington and William EB Du Bois.
b.Legal decisions and nonviolent resistance proved successful during the 1950s in promoting black civil rights. Identify and discuss some of the watershed events of that decade.
c.By the 1960s, Kings nonviolent resistance was challenged by younger African Americans who believed his methods outmoded. Why did these militant individuals reject King? Does Kings philosophy still have merit in the early 21st century?
3.Betty Friedan (Chapter 9)
a.What experiences compelled Friedan to write the Feminine Mystique? What is the feminine mystique in Friedans view?
b.The mid-1970s was the zenith of the womens movement. Why was this? What were some of the landmark events of the period, and what happened to the movement in the 1980s and 1990s?
4.Choose any other chapter (a different chapter, a fourth chapter), read it and answer any 2 questions under For Consideration.
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