American History Judith Ortiz Cofer Summary

The conflicts in this book mainly revolve around Paul and Erik Fisher. One conflict in the book is when Paul confronts Erik for making fun of the death of Erik’s football teammate, Mike Costello. Another conflict is when Paul is not allowed to play soccer at his new school due to being legally blind. Another conflict is when during one of Paul’s classes a sinkhole occurs and sucks up most of the portables. Another conflict is that when Paul transfers to a poor school called Tangerine Middle School he does not get along with his new teammates, Victor and Tino. Another conflict is that while houses in Paul’s neighborhood are being fumigated they are being stolen from. One last conflict is that Paul witnesses Erik order his friend Antoine to kill Tino’s brother Luis with a

a. The global warming and extinction of megafaunal animals allowed agriculture to be born. From this agriculture came inequalities in the social structure due to specialized labor. For the Eastern Woodland Communities, the social inequalities from the agriculture created classes with a chief at the top. They demonstrated power by conquering other tribes in warfare. This was the first time in history when birth determined leaders and upperclassmen.

Susan Clark faced conflict in 1868 when she was refused admission to Washington School, an all white school in Muscatine, Iowa. Victory was achieved when the case was appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court who decided school segregation was unconstitutional. This landmark school desegregation case set the stage for the future of school integration in the United States.

History is the framework of every nation. It describes what life was like in a nation, hundreds perhaps thousands of years previously. With history, many citizens are able to examine what lead to a crisis in a nation such as the Stock Market Crash of 1929 or the Civil War in the 1800s in the United States of America. Likewise, the moments of growth and economic success are looked at. From these past endeavors, the people can examine what went wrong and what went right and determine how they can stop themselves from making similar mistakes or act in a way that has been proven to work. In Eve Kornfeld’s “Creating an American Culture 1775-1800,” many different areas of national identity are discussed, including the beginnings of documenting the history of America as an independent nation. This was especially hard for Americans to create a singular national identity because there was bias in the early works, the different colonies or states were extremely diverse, and many intellectuals had different perspectives on the American identity.

The origin of James McKinley’s book was written just a little more than ten years after JFK’s assassination. It is a book compiled of the accounts of 12 famous political figures in American History. In Assassination in America, the purpose of the reading is to examine the complex circumstances surrounding the assassination by recreating the background and drama encompassing the murder. The value of Assassination in America is that it was written just ten years after Kennedy’s assassination, so one is able to recall details more precisely, giving a more accurate account than a book written fifty years after the event. The limitations of McKinley’s book include the fact that his book not only includes details about Kennedy’s assassination, but also the accounts of other well-known assassinations in our history.

Arthur M. Schlesinger once stated,“Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.”As seen through Schlesinger's book The Cycles of American History really defining throughout the book how America has changed throughout each chapter answering a question or managing to go in depth throughout the chapter. As seen in Chapter 1, the title being “The Theory of America: Experiment or Destiny?” Throughout that chapter as seen on page 10 where Schlesinger states, “The Founding Fathers saw the American republic not as a divine consecration but as the test against history of a hypothesis. Yet the very faith in experiment implied the rejection of the classical republican dogma that time guaranteed decay.” (10) The Founding Fathers imposing a government that would last centuries: as seen through the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. However, as see on page 11 Schlesinger states, “Washington, said Andrew Jackson in his own Farewell

1949--> Columbus unleashed 200 troops w/ 20 on horseback to terrorize the natives b/c he was upset he couldn't govern

A seemingly peculiar choice, Vowell chooses to disclude from her book the infamous assassination of John F. Kennedy. Vowell recognizes the event in her book, but only so much as to compare the eerie similarities between Kennedy’s and Lincoln’s assassinations. Vowell chooses only to explore three of the four assassinations because she believes Americans already possess a solid understanding regarding the Kennedy assassination, as it occurred in a time period of heavily improved media and television. As seen throughout the book, Vowell’s purpose is more than simply entertaining, but also to grant readers unknown information. Vowell assumes that Americans do not have enough of an understanding about their own history. The omission of the most recent, highly-documented tragedy is a clear statement by Vowell that the Kennedy assassination is already well known

During the pre-revolutionary period, more and more men worked outside the home in workshops, factories or offices. Many women stayed at home and performed domestic labor. The emerging values of nineteenth-century America, which involves the eighteenth-century, increasingly placed great emphasis upon a man's ability to earn enough wages or salary to make his wife's labor unnecessary, but this devaluation of women's labor left women searching for a new understanding of themselves. Judith Sargent Murray, who was among America's earliest writers of female equality, education, and economic independence, strongly advocated equal opportunities for women. She wrote many essays in order to empower young women in the new republic to stand up against

The assassination of JFK was a historic moment in US history because he was the president of the united states and he had been shot on his way to a speech in Dallas, Texas. This always shows us what can really happen and how people are crazy. He had ended up dying in the hospital that he had been rushed to. At the time JFK had been the president and after he died his brother ended up being the president and had been assassinated as well.

Over the past few weeks of class, we have covered the first five chapters of our textbook, written by George Brown Tindell and David Emory Shi called, “America, A Narrative History.” Each chapter told the reader a narration of the history of America, as opposed to an expository version of America’s history. Each chapter had its own main idea over a portion of history, along with many details that cover the importance of the main idea. As a reader, one may obtain a deeper appreciation for the country 's history, prior to entering the class on the first day. The most important aspect of history, besides the battles that are fought, is the different cultures that make up today’s modern America.

“You are what?!” Most of the time wherever I go, the same tone follows me; a cross between shock and disgust.

All three of these conflicts help explain why certain characters in this novel act the way they do around others. The conflict provided by Stevenson is also used to assist with setting up the theme of the book.

The most important conflict in the book was when the 14 year old mother, Claire gives birth to a boy. The usual course of birth starts out by “implanting that you are certified vessel” (pg9), but the story took different course of plot by moving the birth from natural to Cesarean. Doctors who realized this “medical difficulties” (pg16), decided to assign the boy to a family: the Jonas the Receiver's family.This point on, the story started to move toward the main conflict, of the boy who have all grown up to find his birth

Tragedy has the ability to simultaneously bring people together and push them apart. Well, such is essence when Judith Ortiz Cofer, the writer of “American History,” explores the theme of tragedy while she dwells upon the day tragedy struck the world. A numerous amount of people in her community were devastated by the unexpected death of former President John F. Kennedy, as they agreed with his stance against racial discriminations and prejudice. However, Cofer lacks the understanding of discrimination towards her culture, race, and gender. Rather than collectively facing the tragedy of JFK’s death, she is more taken by her own tragedy; being shunned by the mother of her neighborhood crush, Eugene. Recognizing that Cofer is ignorant to