HIST 117 GCC Industrial Transformation in the North Thesis Paper Part 1
https://docs.google.com/document/d/120jiOfUNVMGyFj2zzRpHCNCfWmk05so9PsOVnWQ_rkI/edit answer the questions in 2-3 sentences ,
Part 2
Initial Post
Prompt: Compare and contrast what it meant to be “Americanized” for Winnemucca and Zitkala-Sa?
When you approach a “compare and contrast” essay, always make a list of similarities and differences. Based on those lists, pick one list to use for your essay.
1. Think of 3 topic sentences.
Remember that topic sentences give the point of the paragraph, in other words, they give the topic of the para.
For example:
Ed Sheerin writes his own songs based on his life growing up in Great Britain.
Sheerin writes love ballads and also includes rap lyrics in some of his song repertoire.
Duets with Taylor Swift and Beyonce have made Sheerin popular across several genres of music.
The topics are that Sheerin writes songs, sings love and rap songs, and performs with big headline artists.
2. Think of a thesis statement/argument.
Remember that the thesis statement relates the topic sentences together in an argument that addresses historical forces.
For example:
Ed Sheerin is the most talented and diverse artist of his generation.
Note that I have not repeated the topics; I have thought and related together the topic to create an argument in thesis statement form.
You must provide a short parenthetical citation for every response to a source as you would in a RW. For example, (Scott, 1055).
Peer Posts
Next, respond to two of peers by commenting on their thesis statement and the effectiveness of their argument.
Be thoughtful in your peer responses, pointing at specific things in their responses; in short, say a bit more than “good observation!” 🙂
1- 1. Topic Sentences:
The price of being Americanized was abandoning cultural customs for Winnemucca and Zitkala-Sa.
Native women were sexualized and demoralized by non-Indian men to the point where they abandoned their traditional gathering cycle.
Native women often married Non-Indian men in order to broaden kin ties for resources.
Thesis: As white men continued to expand into territories harboring natives, customs and social perceptions of Natives followed with aid from social and economic forces; thus, leaving Native women vulnerable to rape culture and oppression.
2-Thesis: Due to the capitalistic drive of American society and the quest for expansion, the cultural norms of what it meant to be “American” were enforced on the Indigenous people of America; where they were forced to live through years of oppression living through poverty, sexual, mental and physical abuse.
The Winnemucca and Zitkala-Sa were targeted and driven through poverty by European society due to the Native American people being seen as “wild creatures” and “culturally inferior and economically marginal”(Dubois, et al., 348)(Winnemucca 229).
The Native American women were sexualized and “vulnerable to exploitation” as well as seen as “savages” and “animals” that needed to be transformed into “docile” and “industrious” beings (Winnemucca 232)(Dubois, et al., 348-349).
The indigenous people of color “adapted” to survive the mental and physical abuse where they not only lost their “spirit” and “voice” but their “freedom” as well (Winnemucca 234)(Dubois, et al., 347-348).