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CF 3333 Clash of Cultures

ESSAY ASSIGNMENT: SUMMER, 2012

Instructions

      1.          Your essay is due at noon on Tuesday July 24. 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.

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

3.          Please follow the instructions found in the “Format for Out-of-Class Papers” available on the course web site. Review those instructions and the assignment with care. Your essay should open with a “thesis paragraph” which presents the major ideas of your analysis; it should be a summary of that analysis. The essay should end with a concluding paragraph that briefly reviews the points made.

4.          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. The three authors found in the Corporatism handout should be cited by name bit with no page number.

5.          Your essay should be confined to the assigned readings in Adler, Tocqueville, and, to a lesser extent, More.

Assignment

1.               The general topic for this essay is: Democratic Culture and The Parent-Child Relationship.

2.               Re-read with care the definitions of civilization, culture, institutions, and society found in your SourceBook.  Ponder what Tocqueville has to say on the issues raised by this assignment. Lastly review your notes on Hard Times as you prepare to make the required contrasts.

3.               Then, after working up an intellectual sweat, compose a coherent, well-focused essay in which you do the following:

            analyze the links between democratic culture and the institution of the American family as portrayed by Tocqueville;

            note Tocqueville’s portrayal of the democratization of the role of the father in America;     

            discuss Dickens’ portrayal of to the older, non democratic, role of the nineteenth century British father in his novel Hard Times;

            give consideration as to why all institutions are changed by democracy.