Western Tradition Since 1500

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Summary:Write two one-half page essays (300-400 words) and two one page essays (500-600 words). You will submit all 4 essays together as one document. Use Times New Roman, Font 12, one-inch margins. Write your essays in a Word document or similar program. If using Word please eliminate the space between paragraphs by going to Home to Paragraph (click on little arrow at the bottom right of the Paragraph tab) and check "Don't add space between paragraphs."Put your name and the title "Exam I" on the top line. In your text, do not repeat the question at the beginning of the essay, simply put Question A1 or Question A2, etc .. Do not plagiarize. If you use information from outside the textbook you need to cite that information. If you copy word-for-word something even from the textbook it must be in quotes and cited. Do not use long quotations, rather you should paraphrase and condense information and ideas from sources.Question A. Select one of the following two topics and write a one-half page (300-400 words), single-spaced, font 12, one inch margin essay.1. Describe and explain the development of western religious history from 1500 to 1600. In your conclusion write a short note about one of the following historical personages that you best identify with or most disagree with and explain why you either agree or disagree with that person's beliefs: Huldrych Zwingli, Katherine Zell, Jan of Leiden, Menno Simons, Thomas More, Mary Tudor, Margaret of Angouleme, Catherine de Medici.2. Describe and explain the development of the western political tradition by comparing France and Great Britain from 1603 (Death of Elizabeth I) to 1689 (Glorious Revolution). In your conclusion write a short note about one of the following historical personages that you best identify with or most disagree with and explain why you either agree or disagree with that person's teachings, beliefs, and/or actions: Jacques Bossuet, Thomas Hobbes, Francoise d'Abigne (Mme de Maintenon), Cardinal Richelieu, Mary II of England, Jean Baptiste Colbert, Ninon de Lenclos, Peter the Great, Frederick William (The Great Elector)Question B. Select one of the following two topics and write a one-half page (300-400 words), single-spaced, font 12, one inch margin essay.1. Describe and explain the development of western religious and philosophical thought from the 1715 (Great Awakening) to 1795 (Directory begins). In your conclusion write a short note about a historical personage you best identify with or most disagree with and explain why you either agree or disagree with that person's beliefs: Mary Wortley Montagu, Voltaire, George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Reid, George Berkeley, Fanny Burney, David Hume, Hannah More, Immanuel Kant2. Describe and explain the development of the western political tradition by comparing France and Great Britain from 1754 (Beginning of the Seven Years War) to 1793 (Death of Louis XVI). In your conclusion write a short note about a historical personage you best identify with or most disagree with and explain why you either agree or disagree with that person's beliefs and/or actions: Robert Walpole, Abigail Adams, Maximilien Robespierre, Charlotte Corday, Louis XVI, Germaine de Stael (also known as Madame de Stael), Marquis de Lafayette, Marie-Therese Rodet Geoffrin (also known as Madame Geoffrin), William Pitt the Elder, Jacques Necker.Question C. Select one of the following two topics and write a one-page (500-600 words), single-spaced, font 12, one inch margin essay.1. Describe and explain the various reasons for Britain's industrialization during the 18th and early 19th centuries (chapter 20). Include ideological reasons that inspired the British (that is, many countries had the same material resources but their people were not driven to industrialize like the British). Discuss and analyze a historical personage involved in business, technological advancement, or economic theory of the 18th century that you admire or despise, such as Adam Smith or Jean Marie Jacquard, James Watt, etc.2. Discuss the progress of industrialization in Germany. What effects did the Napoleonic invasions have on the German economy? What roles were played by the Prussian government and the German middle classes?Question D. Select one of the following two topics and write  a one-page (500-600 words), single-spaced, font 12, one inch margin essay.1. Trace the process by which France, having lost an emperor and received a constitutional monarchy in return, ended up with another Emperor Napoleon. Cite events leading to the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, and account for the great popularity and election victory of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte.2. Describe no less than three of the different ideologies discussed in chapter 21 (Romanticism, Nationalism, Liberalism, or Socialism). Include in your essay which ideology you either best identify with or most disagree with and explain why. Write a short note (50-100 words) about one of the following historical personages: Alphonse de Lamartine, Adolphe Thiers, Franois Guizot, Odilon Barrot, Marie-Amlie de Bourbon, Louis-Mathieu Mol, Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Louis Blanc, Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Jacques Charles Dupont de l'Eure, Arman Barbs, Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal), Prosper Merime, Louis Veuillot, Louis Eugne Cavaignac, Marie Caroline Ferdinande Louise de Naples et de Sicile, Lazare Carnot, Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, Etienne Cabet, Honor Daumier, Flicien David, Delphine Gay, Ferdinand Flocon, or Armand Marrast.

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