Impact of the Industrial Age and the Rise of Capitalism
Impact of the Industrial Age and the Rise of Capitalism: This course will take you through huge chunks of human history from the Paleolithic era through the Vietnam War and into our postmodern world. Your course project will culminate in an eight-ten page paper. Your research paper will require a minimum of five academic-scholarly sources. Both in-text citation and an end reference page as specified by the APA style sheet are required. Scrupulous documentation plus high originality, analysis, insight, and fresh applications of ideas are highly prized. Mere reporting, describing, and finding others’ ideas are discouraged, and plagiarism is grounds for failure. Your paper is to be 70-80% original and 20-30% resourced (documented via turnitin.com). Details and milestones follow.
Suggested Topics of Investigation JUST CHOOSE ONE
Here are suggested topics, which you may elect to use or not use. If you wish to work outside of these suggestions, be sure to clear your project with your professor.
Compare and contrast society during the early Renaissance in Europe to contemporary society
Compare and contrast human understanding of the nature of revenge prior to and after the creation of Hamlet
Analyze the themes, imagery or interpretation of The Waste Land and describe how one or more of these are found in contemporary society
Evaluate the work of Artemisia Gentileschi Renaissance Artist and interpret why she is considered an early feminist
Analyze views of women’s reproductive solutions in the 19th Century and interpret their historical and contemporary impact.
Distinguish the essential differences between the major thought of Plato and Aristotle and use the information to illustrate the impact of philosophy on contemporary views on a given them (life, freedom, power, equality, and more)
Examine views of warfare and battle throughout the ages and provide an interpretation that explains the evolution of the faceless war
Analyze the impact of the Industrial Age and the rise of capitalism and discuss the key features of both and their influence on contemporary society
Investigate the history of slavery and discuss the ways in which this history impacts contemporary society
Milestones
Proposal – Week 2 (50 points)
Create a proposal of 2 pages that references one academic scholarly source for the research project you intend to complete. This project should engage at least one academic source, should include an introduction and thesis to the best extent that you know it at this point in time, and should locate a central controversy that requires deft and subtle handling. Be sure to adhere to APA style for in-text citation and final reference page. (No cover page is needed.)
Guidelines for the Proposal
A proposal offers a detailed and full description of your project (as best you know it at the time of writing) in no more than 2 pages. To succeed, students will need to find at least one source of information related to their topics. Students may work with their professors to identify areas of inquiry or may accept a topic and focus from the list. Understand that you are making a best effort to describe your project early on, but allow yourself to be open to growth and change as you conduct research and focus your intentions.
Good annotations make for excellent papers. You are required to annotate five academic scholarly resources in Week 4. A scholarly resource is written by an academic scholar, holding a Ph.D. or other terminal degree, is published in a multi-volume, peer-reviewed journal, and has ample references of its own. Successful annotations begin with your introduction (to the best extent you know it at that point in time), capture publication details, briefly summarize a text, locate key terms, find controversies to analyze and evaluate, and assist in the creation of new knowledge. These are needed NOTE These will be used to complete the annotated biography later
Answer preview
Impact of the Industrial Age and the Rise of Capitalism
In recent years, I have learned that over the past centuries, there have been several things that have shaped the way people leave and work. Most among them have been the industrial age and the rise of capitalism. These two have been able to change the manner in which the people live in the current world and also the way they interact with other people (Clark, 2014). The industrial age began in Europe, and so did capitalism. These two have spread to all corners of the globe. The contemporary society has improved significantly especially for the standards of living and this has been a result of the industrial age and the rise of capitalism…
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