CF 3333 Clash of Cultures

Your essay is due at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, 6 November. Late papers will be accepted, but will penalized one letter grade for each day after the due date (e.g., B to C). No exceptions to this policy will be granted unless there is a legitimate (documented) excuse. Papers must be handed to your instructor.

Your essay should be no more than six pages in length.

Please follow the instructions found in the “Format for Out-of-Class Papers” found on pages xi-xii of the SourceBook. Review those instructions and the assignment with care. The “Liberalism” handout should be cited thusly: (Hallowell).

Your essay should open with a “thesis paragraph” which presents the major ideas of your analysis; it should be a summary of that analysis.

Define the terms you use. Be sure to explain important terms, concepts, and ideas to support your major points with specific factual and/or documentary evidence, e.g., citations.

Your essay must be confined to the following sources: assigned readings in Adler, DeGouges, and Tocqueville and the film based on Dickens’ Hard Times. You need also to confine yourself to a discussion of the period that produced DeGouges, Dickens, and Tocqueville.