How are we dealing with slavery today

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Slavery: How are we dealing with slavery today? Have we sufficiently atoned for what we did to Africans (and now to African Americans)? What impact does it have on our present? Have we come to terms with how this country was developed (using to such a large extent slaves and forced labor)? What do concepts of "race" have on our perception of the world today? What ideology forms the basis of this development? You do not have to answer all these questions like it is a quiz, but some things to think about when you write essay. The Jeffery Robinson lecture would be essential to use for this option.

In order to good essay you will have to draw from the reading or other sources for your material. Please note: Ideology is a part of each topic and you will need to understand what ideology means and how it impacts on your selected topic. You are not limited to what we have read for support, BUT (and this is critical) you must use our reading and video material to a large extent. You may use it as support, or you can use it as a foil to argue against or a combination of both. The important thing is that you use the sources in this module extensively and delve into the implications presented by the material. In order to score an A on the essay, you will need to bring in at least 2 different sources into each paragraph.

A requirement of the essay is that you use in some way all three sources, Loewen, Zinn, and Chomsky. So, as you are doing the assigned reading and videos be thinking about and annotating for your selected theme, or, if you are not at that stage yet, annotate for parts of the reading that you find key to an understanding of the themes we are dealing with. You should familiarize yourself with the Prof Jon Tutorials on annotating online material to better utilize annotation for your essays. The Essay Organization Chart will help tremendously keep track of what you find.

A few words about paragraph length: Everything in an essay needs to be proportional, meaning right-sized for the length of the essay. For a 4 or 5 essay, you would want your paragraphs to be at least 2/3 to a page long. They need to be that long to get in the support you need (at least two sources) and also your own argument. BUT paragraphs should not be much longer than that. You could have a two page paragraph in a 15 essay because it would be right-sized for the project. And you need at least THREE topics to support your argument.

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