Final Exam Essay

Humanities

Final Exam (400 points)

Due Friday, January 18 by 11:55pm

**Submit all three essays together in one document**
TIP 1: Read each question carefully and outline your essays before you begin to write. Proofread

your exam multiple times and make sure you fully answer each part of the prompt.

TIP 2: For this exam you may use your readings, reading notes, and lecture notes. You may not use ANY sources from outside this course in preparing your essays—no websites, dictionaries, outside books or examples, or summaries or reviews of course readings.

TIP 3: When incorporating lecture material you do not need to cite my lectures directly—they are now part of our shared body of knowledge. Do not write “As Professor Lane said”—just present the material in your own words.

TIP 4: Whenever possible refer to specific course readings and concepts (include author & page number in parentheses when using quoted material). The more your essay demonstrates your familiarity with course readings and themes, the higher your grade will be.

TIP 5: These essays should represent your own individual knowledge and efforts. You may discuss your ideas with classmates (and with the professor) and proofread one another’s papers but the ideas presented in your paper should be entirely your own.

Style, Format, & Citations:

Papers should be typed, double-spaced, and use 11-12 pt. font and 1” margins. Essays should fully respond to the prompts and use tone and language appropriate to scholarly work.
Start each essay on a new page. From the Insert menu, select Pages, then Page Break to start a new page; don’t just press the return key again and again
Provide a title for every essay (not just “Essay #2”).
On the first page of your exam (and only on the first page) at the top, single-spaced, include your name, the course number (AMST 301), my name, and the date.
Include page numbers. Seriously, it drives me crazy when you don’t.
First person voice (“I”) is perfectly fine for this paper.
Italicize book titles. Put article or chapter titles in quotation marks. Use a text’s full title the first time you introduce it. Refer to authors by last name only after the first time you mention them. Remember—nonfiction books are not novels!
Use parenthetical citations when citing books or articles—note where the period goes: o Directquotes:“Thedogwashungry”(Smith23).
o Indirect quotes: The dog in the story was in search of food (Smith 23).
You DO NOT need a Works Cited page or Bibliography for these essays.
PROOFREAD CAREFULLY for standard use of grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

AMST 301 Winter 2019 Professor Lane

SHORT ESSAYS (100 points each): Short essays should EACH be approximately 2 pages long. You must answer either question 1a or 1b; everyone must answer question 2.

Choose to answer either A or B below.
1. Please explain, in your own words, what “intersectionality” is and why it is important to the study of American culture. I would like you to then explain how the concept of intersectionality helps us understand the experiences of African American domestic workers in the mid-20th century, using at least three specific examples from The Maid Narratives, with page numbers.
2. What is paternalism (define in your own words)? How did this concept shape the relationship between white employers and black domestics in the Jim Crow south? What were some of the negative results of this paternalistic way of thinking and behaving? Please use at least three specific examples from The Maid Narratives, with page numbers.
The second-wave feminist movement was actually comprised of many different groups using different methods to fight for different forms of gender equality. Choose three feminist issues discussed in the readings and/or film and for each issue explain: 1) what feminists were fighting for or against; 2) what steps they took to advance their cause; and 3) how successful their efforts were. You must cite both the documentary Makers and at least two course readings from the section on feminism (use page numbers for all quotations from readings; when quoting the documentary just include the film’s name in your sentence or in parentheses after the quotation). At some point in your essay make sure you define feminism or what it means to be a feminist in your own words. (Note: The question asks you to discuss three feminist issues, not three individual feminists.) **SEE NEXT PAGE FOR LONG ESSAY PROMPT**

LONG ESSAY (200 points): This essay should be approximately 3-4 pages.

Resistance is a tricky concept; it can take many forms, some subtle and some direct. What different forms of resistance have the groups we’ve discussed employed over American history? (Remember, sometimes different members of the same group resist in different ways, so be specific and don’t overgeneralize.) Discuss at least three examples of resistance from this course, each from a different time period we studied. (If you choose to discuss an example from the second-wave feminist movement you must cover different topics than you did in essay #2.)

For each example, be sure to explain: 1) What time period you are discussing; 2) Who was doing the resisting; 3) What they were resisting; 4) What form their resistance took (e.g., what they did or did not do); and 5) How effective their resistance was. In your conclusion, please discuss which form or forms of resistance you believe have been the most effective or significant in shaping American culture. You need to cite at least three different course readings or videos in this essay (with page numbers, unless you’re discussing a film or video).

Note: Your long essay should have an overarching argument, one that connects all of the examples you provide. That argument should appear somewhere near the start of your paper (usually in the introduction) and should be supported by each of the examples that follow.

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