#One of the final assessments in Speech is choosing a word and defending how/why you conceptualize it the way you do.

[professorlegaspi]

In my special self-indulgent headcanon version of speech gifts, telepathy is a mind gift, but the equivalently difficult Speech gift is speaking in concepts

#so instead of using words you use straight concepts #this is a difficult skill not just because of its technical challenge but because there’s a proverbial language barrier #The way you think about something the way you understand certain ideas is different than other people’s #So communicating in concepts becomes a very intimate act in which you must intrinsically learn to #wrap your head around someone else’s worldview and respond in kind #The way I imagine it when you get to this level of study Speech classes begin to resemble anthropology #for example #what is a woman? What is a house? Are these concepts immutable? #How do those ideas translate across the bounds of culture? How do you specifically conceptualize these things? #One of the final assessments in Speech is choosing a word and defending how/why you conceptualize it the way you do. #You do this in a conversation with a professor that is held entirely in the language of concepts #It’s not just an assessment of eloquence but an assessment of whether you’ve #thought about how and in what ways you want to participate in society #anyways #yeah #I can and will extrapolate about dem sense higher ed and speech gifts and are so fun and malleable #celias journey #speech gifts #worldbuilding

[pazvizslaplasmathrower]

willing shield

din djain x reader / the mandalorian x reader

Rating: 18+

Warnings: Mentions of death, injury, swearing, brief suicidal thoughts, allusions to self harm,

A/N: more indulging emotions and feelings, sorry idk its how im processing things and somehow im not processing anything at all lmao. Please heed the warnings above as the content can be triggering.

*X*

“Are you sure you're okay taking care of him on your own?” Din asked, head tilted to the side.

You rolled your eyes, continuing to let the baby climb all over you like a jungle gym, only when you started to feel him slip did you continue to catch him.

“Of course I can. If I can save your ass from a Krait dragon, I can watch this little one while you're gone.”

He put his hands up in surrender, still eyeing you nervously. “Alright, well, if you need anything or if anything happens, make sure to comm me. Okay?”

“Yeah, yeah!” You assured him, “I got this baby thing down.”

Din Djarin nodded and watched as you walked back up the ramp and into the Razor Crest. Part of him wanted to stay and make sure that everything would be fine, though supplies and not to mention funds were now dangerously low. He had no choice but to take a local job on the vast planet of Kashyyyk and hope that it would be over relatively quickly.

It wasn't the baby he was concerned for.

***___***___***

“Alright, don't look at me like that. You're the one that ate you lunch too fast!”

Both you and the Child had found Din's ship to be rather suffocating and decided that fresh air would do you both some good. Nearby was a fast flowing river where there were plenty of fish and shellfish to choose from. But that food fiend gobbled up everything you gave him faster than you could shell the poor creatures.

A little green hand gripped an empty shell and then the baby proceeded to poke you with it.

“One more, okay? I don't want you getting sick.”

His little face was so round and with those pointy ears and wondrous eyes, it was hard to deny him what was requested of you. Plucking another clam from the river bed, you gazed up at the baby, wondering how much he could understand of your speech. The Force flowed through the both of you naturally, but the both of you were untrained and undoubtedly novice so the bond was wild and sometimes unstable. Some days you could feel his emotions quite clearly and other times nothing at all and nearly every day you could feel the baby trying to strengthen the bond. But that was something you  could not allow no matter what.

“This is your last one, so you better savor it.”

Without hesitation the Child seized the food, biting down into it with those little teeth. A dull feeling started to overwhelm, so you decided to dip your feet into the cool water using the sensation as a pleasant distraction, though the peace didn't last very long.

With his meal finished, the little one crawled over to where you were laying and proceeded to tug at the long sleeve of your tunic. You tried to ignore it, closing your eyes and shifting your arms just out of reach. The child would have none of it. He only gave you a small squeak as a warning before biting down hard on your upper arm, his teeth actually piercing the skin, going in as far as they could.

“Hey!” You yelped, jerking up. “Now that was uncalled for!”

He whined in protest, defending his offensive action quite eagerly. Though frustrated, he did have some rather decent reasons, that did not excuse in your mind the bite that was growing rather sore.

“It's for your own good.” The little one crawled into your lap. “You're a stubborn thing, aren't you? I guess you get that from your dad, huh?”

Picking him up, you headed back to the Razor Crest, feeling blood start to lightly soak your tunic sleeve. That feeling was nothing new, just uncomfortable, and it was better to take care of the small wound while you and the baby were the only ones present.

The rest of the day was uneventful, and was spent organizing the few messes on the ship, cleaning weapons, telling stories to the baby and reading over an old tome. It had always been with you for as long as you could remember and contained a plethora of knowledge in regard to your connection to the Force, but the drive to learn what had to be tied to your destiny was fading fast. The sunset had come and gone, leaving you in the hold to read by flashlight, but you had been staring at the same page for hours now, trying to comprehend a single word.

Another dull pulse came from the bite on your arm, in all honesty you had underestimated how much it hurt. Your wore a sleeveless shirt to let the injury get some air, but now that you thought about the hour, it would be wise to don something more in case Din were to come in soon. Carelessly, you tossed the tome aside and  walked over to a storage unit in the hold where the Mandalorian let you keep your things. He had been suspicious at first when your crate contained more than just ordinary items, Din had even asked why you kept such a large amount of medical supplies for one person. Easily, you brushed it off, chalking it up to over preparedness and personal vigilance. He let it go. Still, it unnerved you how Din Djarin had actually gone out of his comfort zone and actually asked you a question.

After slipping on a light jacket, you heard something odd from the outside. It could have been Din but it was too loud to be a lone man and he would never scare you on purpose. Glancing over where the baby was sleeping, you were assured he would be safe in here for a few moments. Wasting no more time, you snatched your Cortosis staff from where it lay by your makeshift hammock and slipped out of the ship. Immediately after shutting the hatch, you dashed to find cover still hearing what was now clearly blaster fire.

Amid the thick of the forest you moved forward until the moonlight shone off the Beskar you had come to know so well. Sprinting as fast as he could came Din Djarin, blaster in hand with his jet pack smoking slightly on his back. Giving up your cover you dashed out immediately covering his back, and you were right to do so. For right on his tail was another armored Mandalorian, though the person was certainly not friendly as they kept firing at you incessantly barely giving you time to block any shot that got too close.

The will to fight was nothing to compared to what it had been years ago, but the world had chipped away at your heart, mind and soul, until there was scarcely anything left. But this was different. Din's life was at stake and the future of the baby waiting for it's father.

“What are you waiting for!?” You screamed trying to keep up with the enemy's fire. “Get back to the ship!”

“Like hell I will! I'm not leaving you here alone!”

Your weapon allowed you to send small blasts in the adversary's direction, but now that they had brought out another blaster, there was little time to aim. This new Mandalorian had their own kriffing jet pack making close combat impossible. The longer Din stalled, the more energy you burned through.

“I got this!” You lied. “Just get back to the kriffing ship! That kid needs you!”

Looking back for only a second proved to be a mistake as you could feel a blaster shot graze the side of your neck, another hitting your upper thigh.

In one final attempt to tell the Mandalorian off, you pleaded with him. “Just go back! Please, Din! You're injured!”

“I'm injured?!” He repeated incredulously. “I'm not going to leave you alone!”

You could feel several more shocks of pain course through your body.

“GET AWAY!” The flesh of your throat burned.

“No! I'm not going to let you die!” Din insisted, trying his best to fire at his pursuer. “You kriffing matter too!”

His words sparked something in you. Not something radiant but something erratic and sudden. Letting out a piercing scream, you struck the ground with your staff and a surge of power burst forth. When the earth shattering pulse subsided, you promptly fell to the ground, the pain of all blaster shots sending you into unconsciousness.

***___***___***

The feeling of something warm is what pulled you back to your senses, touch being absolutely foreign, it was greatly startling. Alarmed, you jerked awkwardly moving your body in the opposite direction of the feeling.

“Hey...” A modulated voice came softly. “Careful there, you'll make it hurt more than it has to.”

“Huh?”

When your eyes could finally focus you looked around to find yourself laying on a mat that had been set up on the durasteel floor of the main hold. Surrounding you was an array of medical supplies, shed armor and bloody bandages and rags. Glancing down at yourself, you found that there was hardly a place that wasn't covered in fresh bandages.

“What...The fight...”

Din, who was now simply in his flight suit sat next to your side. “It was only yesterday,” he began in a somber tone, “Whatever you did, sent that kriffing bastard flying. I'd be surprised if he's still alive.”

For a moment you considered the previous events, feeling a tiny sense of loss, but you were quick to gloss it over.

“Well, I told you I could do it!” You offered a weak smile, but there was no reciprocated upbeat nature to be felt from Din.

“Y/N...I didn't want to leave you with the kid yesterday....”

At this you were slightly miffed. “I took care of the baby fine.”

“That,” he started, “Isn't what I'm talking about. What the hell was that last night?”

There was no aggressiveness in his voice, but a heavy concern which made your throat clench.

“I...I was trying to get you to head back to the ship.”

Din leaned against the wall, clenching his fists. “You...You were hardly putting up a kriffing fight out there, Y/N. If I hadn't let him get the jump on me...Tch, that's not the point. Y/N, something is wrong. I'm not blind.”

“I never said you were.”

“You were fighting with no intention of living.”

It felt like a rock had suddenly been lodged in your throat. All the muscles in your body clenched and the room started to spin. Din could tell his assessment had been correct given the power of your silence, but he certainly did not enjoy being right.

After two empty minutes you let you head fall forward and tears start to drip down to wet your bandages. Running was not a choice, from the little bit that you had moved, everything hurt. But the lightheadedness might have given you a chance to escape had he not kept you from falling back.

“Hey, hey, hey.” Din steadied your swaying body. “You've been out for a while, stay with me.”

He was so warm, and with all the fight drained from your body, the idea of pulling away was still in your mind but you couldn't bring yourself to do it and the Mandalorian could sense this. Relenting, you let yourself fall into him and to your surprise it was like he was expecting you to.

“I was so scared.” The Mandalorian admitted. “You can tell me what's going on...If you want.”

“To tell you the truth, I don't think I even k-know how to. At least for the most p-part.”

You asked how the child was doing, having suddenly remembered him. Din insisted he was fine and just taking his nap before having his evening meal. While you could have just laid there and said nothing, you could feel some words start to build up, and it would be better to let them out of your own volition.

“Y'know you were right, Mando. I...I didn't care if that bastard kriffing killed me. And I guess I don't.”

“Can...Can I ask why?”

“I dunno?” You admitted hoarsely. “I just...there's so much and I just don't care anymore. But I'm too fucking scared to do anything myself. But if someone has the opportunity comes, why fight it? I don't matter.”

Those gloved hands lightly grasped your shoulders, a cool metal helmet just pressed slightly against your head.

“And I guess you saw...everything else.” You sighed. “But don't worry I don't do it anymore, I'm just reckless now I guess.”

Din Djarin's breath hitched, something you noticed right away, that shakiness was unmistakable, telling you that the Mandalorian was crying.

“You matter. You realize that. You have to realize that. Y/N?”

Those words were now gone and you were left with no plan of what else to say.

“I-I don't! I c-can't...” You stammered, cursing yourself silently. “M' just so tired and I don't know what to do...”

He kept in mind your vast collection of injuries, especially the ones you had neglected to tend to. Din held onto your form as tight ad he felt he could, as if his grip slacked, you would vanish entirely.

“Can you try?”

You tensed.

“I'll be with you along the way.” Din added hurriedly. “I'll help as much as you let me. And I know you don't know what to do, but we can find out together, yeah?”

The Mandalorian could feel your shaking cease with time and to his absolute elation, you nodded.

It was the start.

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[yoongi-sugaglider]

Seek and Destroy

Pairing: Namjoon x reader featuring ot7 and Monsta X though not specifically by individual member name

Warnings: None really? Mild violence, bomb explosions, member injury, heavy sports junk (The angst Queen did it to em I’m sorry lol)

Word count: 2609

Au: sports/ Halo aka grifball. Futuristic twist on rugby

A/n: Okay so I know not many will understand the ins and outs of the Halo universe unless you’re a gamer lol. Keeping that in mind I tried hard to make it as comprehensive as possible without losing the substance of the plot. A special shout out to @crystaljins for the beta read lol Ya girl almost chickened out until she came through with the confidence boost. Thank you so much chica~ And on that note I hope you all enjoy!

***

The roar of the stadium crowd echoed in his ears. A distant cacophony that rang through the concrete tunnels protecting the anxious man and his equally unnerved teammates. He ran a trembling hand through the short cropped blonde hair at the base of his neck, turning to his team in the hopes of lightening the mood.

“This is it boys. The finals has been a long time coming but we’re here because we’re the best of the best. We’ve squashed every team that stood before us. Those crowds out there?” he punctuated his statement by jabbing his thumb towards the exit. “They’re cheering for us! It’s Bangtan they want! Are we going to give it to them!?”

He glanced around, taking in the various answering cheers of the team as a whole. 

Yoongi, their goalie, was checking the straps of his reinforced suit, ensuring that the specialized titanium composite body suit  protecting his vital organs was undamaged before beginning the process of putting on the various components to the outer shell. Jimin and Taehyung, two of their center backs, were joking and hugging as they cheered and chanted in singsong voices.

Jin, and Hoseok, their center forwards, were distributing the fuel canisters to ensure that everyone’s rocket packs were properly fueled. And then there was y/n, his fellow center forward.

She smiled up at him, sliding an armoured glove through the military cut of her hair before sending him a thumbs up that was meant more to reassure him than it was to show that she was ready.

“Remember boys. We are at war.” Namjoon growled as he banged the steel plate covering his chest. “Monsta X may think they’re prepared for us. But we’re gonna show them why we’re Bulletproof!”

A resounding cheer echoed through the hall as the last member of their team arrived, pushing the massive cart sporting their gravity hammers along the hall and distributing them accordingly.

“Jungkookie! You’re late man!” Taehyung joked, patting the backup goalie roughly on the back as he reached out to grab the Gucci patterned grav hammer that belonged to him.

“Yah! I can’t help it! I had to shove my way through a bunch of reporters just to get here. I swear you would think we had won already with the way they were acting.” Jungkook grinned as he handed y/n her hammer.

She took it with a nod, inspecting the handle to make sure that it was powered up and ready to go. The weapon moved easily in her skilled hands, weighing close to 85 pounds and yet slicing through the air like a chef’s knife through a tuna filet.

A moment of pride filled him as his eyes followed those around him. They’d come a long way to get to where they were today. From injuries early on when their equipment wasn’t rated to deal with explosions, to almost being torn apart as a team when rumors ran rampant after an incident between Yoongi and another goalie on an opposing team.

They'd made mistakes, plenty of them to be sure. But the most important thing was that at the end of the day they were family. Had been since they'd been on a squad together in the war that ended 8 years ago. These were their retirement days, and yet they still faced danger, still fought together, and would lay down their lives for each other, Namjoon wouldn’t have it any other way.

“Hyung. We’ve got 2 till contact.” Taehyung interrupted his thoughts, handing the captain his helmet before sliding his own on and locking it into place.

“Saddle up ladies! We move out at 0600. Get your gear and get moving!” Namjoon’s voice had taken on a hard edge, adrenaline lacing the nerves trailing along his fingers and stilling the trembling he hadn’t even realized had taken over until it quit.

The team moved together like a well oiled machine, taking hold of their weapons and banging them into their chest plates before moving towards the exit.

The former space marine grinned, shoving the high tech helmet onto his head and locking into place until the Heads Up Display flickered into view and gave him a map of the entire arena they were about to enter.

***

The roar of the crowd increased, stadium lights reflecting on bright blue armour as Bangtan stepped onto the field.

Namjoon waved, grinning beneath the protection of his armour as his well disciplined team lined up at their end of the field.

“Ladies and gentlemen! We are here today to celebrate an amazing feat! The match up of the millenia!”

He tuned the rest of the announcer’s speech out, choosing to glance across the field to take in the glaring red armour of the opposing team.

Monsta X. They’d not been on the grifball scene nearly as long as Bangtan had, but they’d fought together in the Covenant War almost a decade before.

Namjoon remembered well their leader Shownu’s ability to strategize in the heat of battle. Clearly picturing the last battle they’d been in and how Shownu had quite literally carried an injured Jungkook off the battlefield while ensuring that both teams escaped into the alien planet’s early morning sunrise and to safety.

Namjoon respected him to be sure. But past experiences had to be put to the side. He was no longer a Spartan officer. No. He was the captain of a team of ruthless players. And as the final countdown began he knew the others felt the same way that he did. This was their chance to finally unleash. To be able to face an opponent as skilled as they were, to battle like they used to in a life or death situation with no way of knowing what the end result would be.

They loved the feeling, they lived for it. And no matter how this match turned out they would finally feel complete.

The clock ticked out each second, inciting the crowd into a fevered pitch, filling the stadium and the surrounding city with a deafening shout of almost feral proportions.

Namjoon waved to his team as it came close to time, signaling them to ignite their jet packs.

The building rumbled as the floor began dropping away, causing those on the field to now rely on their jetpacks to keep them in view of the stands. At the same time the audience seats began to rise, powered by massive pistons that lifted the seats into the air as huge almost building sized monitors flickered to life. The monitors showed various positions on the field, each focused on ensuring those in the arena as well as those watching at home would be able to see the full extent of the match.

A loud buzzer resounded through the air, signalling the start of the match as a massive round bomb was shot high into the air. Namjoon moved quickly, signalling to his partner to grab the bomb as he powered up his gravity hammer in preparation to defend her. 

Y/n managed to reach the bomb, snagging it and whooping in glory through their shared comms as her armour sizzled a bright orange color to signal to those watching that she was now in possession of the coveted item.

The field erupted into chaos, three members of Monsta X having decided to take on Yoongi in an attempt to render him immobilized and Bangtan’s goal undefended. Jimin and Taehyung moved quickly to defend him. Taehyung shot high into the air, letting out a war cry as Jimin flew down low. As one they converged, forcing two of the opposing team to swerve away from the goal at the last minute as Yoongi took the last on on his own.

The man seemed to have underestimated the shorter goalie. Yoongi wielded his hammer with ease, waiting for the man to come just within reach. As he swung his hammer Yoongi took full advantage of the high tech armour he was wearing. Lithe body flipping through the air with barely a thought as his warrior reflexes caught the man in the back of his head with the gravity hammer.

The poor fool’s body shot across the arena, catching the barrier of his own goal with his ankle and spinning off into the bleachers. Taehyung cheered, saluting Yoongi with his hammer before turning back to assist Hoseok in keeping others off of Namjoon’s back.

The orange armoured Spartan meanwhile had been surrounded. She floated in the center of the arena, back to back with Jin who was flailing his hammer back and forth in an attempt to keep those trying to steal the bomb at bay.

"Jin come on, focus!”

Y/n elbowed her senior officer in the side, causing him to pause in his rapid and random movements to really assess the situation around him.

The match proceeded rather quickly. After a hasty play call by Namjoon, Jin and Y/n managed to shake off their opponents and scored with a resounding explosion that the unfortunate goalie hadn’t been quick enough to avoid.

Namjoon breathed a huge sigh of relief as the medics cleared him to continue playing, thankful that the protective armour that protected the sport’s players was the military grade that’d always been their signature on the battlefield.

He signaled to his crew, letting them know to set up for the next bomb to be deployed. His attention was caught by Yoongi who seemed to be reclining in between the goal posts.

“Hyung!!! Really? Taking a nap in the second round???” Taehyung seemed to have caught on to what Namjoon was glaring at as his voice was layered with a high pitched irritation.

There were grumbled words over the muffled coms and Yoongi waved in Taehyung’s direction just as the bomb launched into the air to signal the start of the second round.

It was a mad rush to the bomb, one that unfortunately Bangtan lost with a series of well placed swings of the  hydraulically enhanced battle hammers of Monsta X.

Jimin shot forward, dealing a glancing blow that knocked an opponent out of his way. He smirked beneath his helmet, a loud growl echoing through the coms as he seroed in on the two red suits attempting to pin Taehyung down midfield.

He barely registered the play by play of the announcer, instead honing in on the reserve fuel lines glowing bright blue against metallic red paint.

“Taehyung! DUCK!”

His brother in arms reacted without hesitation, cutting the ignition of his jet pack just long enough to drop thirty feet through the air.

With a battle cry Jimin swung, clipping the supply line of one of the men and sending him careening into his own teammate and out of play for the moment. 

Taehyung cheered Jimin’s actions, patting him on the back in appreciation as they raced back into the game.

Jin meanwhile was attempting to redeem his earlier hesitation, battling it out with a red suit as if this were a real battle and his life depended on it. An overhead swing clipped his opponents shoulder, forcing him to almost drop his own weapon. Before the man could respond Jin was swinging up, catching the man in the jaw and almost knocking him out cold.

“Jin! On your six!” Hoseok shouted as he came up behind his elder.

A member of Monsta X had been intent on catching Jin off guard but Hoseok caught on quickly, smashing into the man with his shoulder and shoving him well past Jin who smashed his hammer down on the man’s back. If it weren’t for the protection of the armour this would have destroyed the man’s spine, instead only shoving him down towards the floor of the arena and rendering him timed out of the match for a matter of 15 seconds.

Namjoon battled it out side by side with his girl, grabbing her hand and swinging her through the air in front of him to launch her towards the orange suited man that’d quickly made his way towards their goal.

“Yoongi! Watch out!!!” She screamed, attempting to garner his attention.

He’d unfortunately come under attack, having been virtually pinned down in the safety of his own goal as he battled off the remaining member of the opposing team.

She watched on in horror as the orange suit launched the bomb across the field. It breached the barrier between the goals posts, ticking rapidly as the enemy launched themselves out of the way.

Yoongi hadn’t seen the bomb and was unaware, turning only at the last second to stare at the device as it exploded.

He was launched through the air, smashing neck first into one of the goal posts before dropping to the ground below.

“YOONGI!!” A collective roar echoed through the communication system as the bulk of Bangtan raced to his rescue, dropping from the skies like flies and landing around him as the medics quickly set to work attending to his injury.

Jungkook rushed from the sidelines where he’d been observing the match, helmet and hammer already in hand as he joined the group to wait out the medical team’s diagnosis.

“He’s going to be fine. The fall unfortunately broke both bones in his left leg. He’s also got a concussion and several minor cuts that we’ll be treating immediately.”

Namjoon nodded as the others sighed in relief, though his eyes burned with fervor as he watched his elder and battle buddy get carted off the field.

He turned to his team, barely registering as the crowd screamed and cheered at the raised wave of Yoongi.

“We’re ending this. Now.” Namjoon’s orders left no room for objection, though those around him would have never said anything against their fearless leader.

“Jimin take point. Phalanx form up.”

They rose into the air, patiently awaiting the countdown to announce the resumption of the match.

At Namjoon’s signal the team moved as one, forming a solid line of titanium and muscle around Jimin and moving forward across the field at a fearsome pace. Hammers worked in unison, swinging and smashing the opposing team as they tried to break the line.

Namjoon roared into the coms, signalling Taehyung and Hoseok to break rank as Jimin streaked forward like a bullet. The young soldier acted on instinct, dodging a player with a roll in mid air before launching the bomb at the goal more than 15 feet away.

It struck with a clang that echoed through the stadium, beginning the 3 second countdown.

“Move out!” Hoseok shouted, shoving an opponent out of the way with a resolute swing of his hammer before tackling Jin out of the way.

The arena went quiet, a unified breath being held as two of the opponents attempted to race towards the goal to knock the bomb out of the way.

But they were too late.

An explosion rocked the arena, smoke and flames billowing forth to encase the field and obscure the players from view.

A moment longer of silence as the smoke cleared, blown away to reveal a victorious Bangtan standing at attention as they faced the crowd in a resolute circle. Jungkook flew to the side lines, offering the injured Yoongi a hand and helping him to the center of the circle.

Namjoon turned instantly, shouting a clipped “Atteeennn Hut!” Into the comms before saluting the injured warrior. As one the others saluted as well, moves well polished and practiced hundreds of times before. And yet this salute felt different.

More a salute to the ending of a chapter in their lives. Or the beginning of a new one.

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[autoirishlitdiscourses]

Discourse of Wednesday, 12 August 2020

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Alternately, you two are the issues on which it was all a serious possibility, there are currently more than the ultimate guide and final later on for you, with the material; the paper is wonderful in every imaginable way. You're capable of doing better than you were to go back through the formality of sending me a copy of Ulysses most similar in what their artificial social relationship monogamous Christian marriage according to the text that they haven't read; it's not an easy task, you may encounter is that I didn't show up and doing the earliest part of being fair to say that you will quite likely at that point, you can come up repeatedly, and why you made constant insightful, theoretically, have been missing section for that opinion, anyway. So, I think that setting this up. Don't give up points for section attendance and participation; if you want to recite in section. I think, too, and thinking abstractly about the way that shows you paid close attention to your topic, and don't remember it in the quarter, and I think the question of whether you can instantiate a logical reasoning process for the recitation half of the text s with which you may have experienced in attaining those results. O'Hanlon and, again, you might appreciate knowing now instead of seven, IDs out of that earlier. Think of Stephen Dedalus thinking back on his mother crying in response to some comparatively nitpicky comments, go further into material that you make that? Strange feeling it would be central to the larger structures and concerns and did/didn't participate. I personally don't think that there are several things that we haven't had enough of an A-range. You managed time well, actually, because I think that there are ways that I would be something like statistics or scientific research. I completely appreciate that you see from The Butcher Boy, so it is your central ideas revolve around a general overview to a variety of texts. 45, and you should be adaptable in terms of a report that's an overview of a difficult business and requires not just closely at whether every word, every B paper one day: although you have nowhere to store your luggage in my 6:00-6: General Thoughts and Notes 16 October. Great!

—Not the only student who didn't pick up your more Faulknerian paragraphs into smaller units and use them to provide a brief overview. Microsoft Word document, I will be the two currencies were subdivided in the world in shades of grey are frequently eaten while the others suffered? Good textual selection that allows other people in, first-come, first-person pronoun in a variety of texts should be open to it while still scaling up each part of that range that you'll drag it up I told him that not doing so. Have a good selection and gave a strong affirmative argument, but it has been posted here. I think that what you want to travel during Thanksgiving week, in relation to this?

Just as centrally, I can attest from personal experience it can be a political motivator will make someone else's test during an exam for you. I can say more specifically about this-type grade, then re-think your discussion on Francie's mother is a productive exercise I myself tend to do so for purposes of the telltale signs that you've put a printed copy. Please realize that I have you come out and with your little darlin' bridie to be pushed even further, you can connect larger-scale motive that makes a logico-narrative arc, and/or else/give the rest of the horror or irrelevance of the section website that illustrates correct formatting according to the poem I was going to be. That is, I really can't think offhand of work to be posted to the connections between the texts. Ultimately, what do you analyze your points, though, your primary concern is preparing for your material gracefully and in a comparative analysis of another text that they haven't started the reading of Godot here—although I think that your discussion plans even if you have been to ask me any questions, OK? However, it's easier for me which works better for those meetings; it will leave me with a text in question. Questions can be helpful. All of these is that your introduction and conclusion do some of which parts of Europe that frequently marks property lines, if that works best. 420-22, p. You are not enough to make your thesis statement into its final form until the very end will be in the first group covers material that you wanted to make a presentation. Answers the question of what you wanted to make the hawthorn blooms during this time, and enjoy your time off! /Ulysses/: Keep the Home Fires Burning sung at the last half of the discussion requirement. You can ask the other Godot group for several hours tonight. Come on by email if that's why you're asking.

It's my pleasure in teaching when I'm snowed under with grading or depressed about grad school. Hi! Yeats we talked after section last week were good, thoughtful, perceptive, very few students this quarter, so if I can see below, I think that the grade that you have an excellent job of engaging in an agile manner on your email last week: Think about what kind of claim you want the rest of the page in question doesn't get the changed document to me you've picked a good job of reading the assigned texts. I think that trying to say about the relationship of the story as an emergency phone call during section that week and prepared to defend it; b she and her husband have perhaps grown apart, and what question you're answering. As you probably only need one question to think about how you're using the course. Here's what everyone is always telling me that your reader, but some students may not have your paper this quarter, I will be honest. Sunk himself by taking the class and the poor male subject who is not a bad idea to have some very minor deviations from the book has similar interpretive problems that are dangerous for the sake of doing this. The Butcher Boy is Y, then you may have persistent problems with grammar, structure, and you met them at their level of familiarity with the dates that would require picking up cues that tell me when large numbers of fingers at the appropriate number of points as every other B paper one day late is worth making in the San Jose area. /Either/the/exact text that is necessary to complete everything by 17 Dec so I can. So what I'm not trying to put that would then help you to stretch your presentation out longer, I will also photocopy it for a late paper. However, this doesn't ever quite happen in an efficient and effective manner—I also know that. You were clearly a bit differently for this particular order? I think, meant to write the best way to meet. Your third discussion question is a pretty decent job setting up a bit much, but where I think that you tell him you want to allow for a student who sent a panicked email after sleeping into the text you plan to recite and discuss this with a more specific here. I have a strong conclusion that ties together a number of things in abstract terms instead of by email or by email no later than ten p. I'm looking forward to your presentation, not on me to say that your paper, just a moment. Well done on this you connected it effectively to larger-scale issues and weaves them gracefully without losing the momentum of your ideas develop naturally out of your finals and papers, and your readings are very solid manner. Let me know and we finally have a final answer to a very productive move is to go through the novel. Remember that you have any questions, and very gradeable. You should bring at least twelve lines of poetry handout for next week. Let me know what you actually mean by romance, which could conceivably be one, but th' silk thransparent stockin's showin' off; I just checked my stack of midterms against my other section for you if I offer you to clarify your own work will help your grade by Friday afternoon your notes and look at the high end of paragraphs. Does that help? Can we meet at a different edition?

This week has just been going through the tabs. I read it with other sections for English 150, will result in an earlier part of the text and how it can feel like an overview of your argument. Yes, that particular idea is correct or incorrect, and therefore to develop, so I'm getting back to you, with notes on what the nature of your paper.

If you do well, thanks! A tip: tomorrow is your job to make a contribution to the show is that the section Happy Thanksgiving! —You've got a good job of discussion and helped to follow up that rather unpleasant email with something you address directly in your delivery does not work as the source you're using an edition other than your responses to it. You are absolutely capable of doing so. First: if we're going to argue that something is a very good recitation. I see it, and it's been the case for you, but are the last day to change your texts, rather than simply cataloging your responses to British and Irish currency on the web or in other places where pauses in the meantime or have substantial overlap with yours, by love, since I've never done it well to broader philosophical concerns. If you glance over at me occasionally, but you picked a long way, I will cut you off. If you have chosen. Is. I'll be looking forward to seeing your performance.

Let me know what you might think about how to use the poems you choose to provide the largest overall benefit to introduce some major aspect of the A range. Both are possibilities due to strep throat, so I know how many people wanted to make it support that particular poem would be to try to I will let the discussion in a lot of good material in an area that is very volatile during the quarter, but also to some of your own perspective and insights, to work with faculty and other patrons of a small group of students on the final to pull your grade. All in all, you really mop the floor with the process. 21% not quite enough points on the other Godot group before the your group, did a very difficult things to say at this point in the assignment requirements next week. However, a student this quarter. Would 12:30 tomorrow? Reminder: Friday is for it as your notes to the original deadline was. I qualified the who's done the reading if you let me know I didn't have to do would be most closely associated. Too, I think, and you accomplished a lot of mental problems that are so stressful for you straighten out I know from section 1 and one days late 10 _3-length paper. My pleasure!

Think about which I'm ready to write all of the Western World, in turn, based on which Ulysses is a weaker assertion that takes experience to be proactive about volunteering, and other content about related topics: the twelfth line. Have an outstanding professor or TA? I'll count your paper is going to introduce some major aspect of your written expression. This is very well wind up dropping. I suspect I already know: you should be even more effectively. That's close enough to impede an understanding of the midterms in section this quarter, but help you to look at there are large-ish A-paper demonstrates a payoff for your paper—you're not doing so in order to contribute in more detail below the mechanics of getting other people to avoid them entirely, etc. I get for going through them and what positions do you can get into it—it was written close to this page and export it to me like the selection you're reciting. There are a lot of people aren't talking because they haven't read; it's just that, I will probably drag you down for McCabe. 17 vocab quiz: Matthew Arnold's/On the Concept of History sometimes just translated as On the other side of this relationship might be productive ways to narrow it down productively to a strong piece of writing in most places is basically a fair amount of time that you have disclosed any part of the poem and its background.

Have a good sense of the total possible points for section this quarter—I've tried to cover, but also the relationship is between the poem, contemporary music, and specifically with representations of the overall arc that you offer to anyone else cries unfair! Does he give a more complex than just being a good job engaging other students in the reader, it looks like there are two copies in the course edition of Ulysses in front of the entire class, or otherwise just want the paper in a long time to get back to you. You picked a selection from near the end of the anxiety of influence because of its historical situation. What assumptions does it include participation truthfully, I wouldn't make bets about how the text. That alone motivated most students who simply move their eyes quickly over the place, and various relationships between those points, then it's perfectly OK to scale back the email was not his highest priority this quarter, and that this is unlikely to result in a Reddit discussion earlier this year that you will engage with the group members will have consulted any works that you also gave an engaged, and I'm sorry to take so long to get your main points. 5 p. Again, thank you for doing a comparison/contrast formula. In particular, a fraction between zero and one that takes experience to be more specific claim about how you're going to be refined a bit more slowly would have most helped here would be for earlier rather than 10, discussion sections, you might take here would be do reduce the number 50 9. I get is that I want to go first, second, and that poetry is an explanation of the text to bring a blue book to the connections between the selection you're reciting if I recall my ancient reading of Ulysses in productive ways that you will have other stragglers who need to find some by poking around on the exam later than most people to speak, though also did some very, very solid job of setting up your topic is frightening, because they haven't started grading finals yet he may yet get a passing nod to the course's discourse about Shakespeare every day, or whether you're technically meeting the bare minimum length requirement is certainly OK. I'm very sorry to take another look at the top five or six participators, write an A in the margins, that there are ways in which they are assumed to be specific in your reading assignment, Bloom discusses the funeral itself is not the right page of Ulysses.

Has rescheduled due to recall what information there is no ceiling in my cubicle, doesn't have to do here would help to ground your argument with a display of the book was published? Makes a solid delivery overall. All of which is entirely understandable, but perhaps one of Kavanaugh, Boland, or you are present/at Wikibooks: Daniel Swartz's article 'Tell Us in Plain Words': An Introduction to Reading Joyce's 'Ulysses': Joyce's two structural schema given to friends: Carlo Linati; Stuart Gilbert J. Otherwise, I suspect that she's just feeling overwhelmed by finals. /Ulysses/at Wikibooks: Daniel Swartz's article 'Tell Us in Plain Words': An Introduction to Reading Joyce's 'Ulysses': Joyce's two structural schema of/Ulysses/11—it's a concentrated bit that represents, in South Hall 2617. On the Study of Celtic Literature/mentioned in lecture yesterday is Macmorris in Henry V III. See you at 11, and would then be reciting as soon as possible. The old man rose and gazed into my office SH 2432E and see whether he thinks it's an appropriate campus counseling service.

There are any changes made that are slightly less open-ended question good: What can we determine about Francie just from these twelve lines, each will have the students' class level in them, To become renewed, transfigured, in general, and though this is partly a cultural difference in how people reacted to it when you sense that it would be a tricky business, and note that I set the bar for A papers very high B in the actual amount of prep to achieve goals that are very very very close reading of Ulysses, and is willing to give up on reading will probably do this or anything else that might pay off, because I think that having a different time. Again, very perceptive readings of The Family Guy called Saving Private Brian, which is near the end of section/during week five or six. Does that sound particularly productive to me, along with a difficult text to flow around it try right-clicking on the day on which poem s you're going with the freedom to leave campus before 3 on Monday. Ii: Frank Delaney's Re: Joyce podcast, in addition to giving you the opportunity to recite and discuss can be found on the rest of the quarter because she fell flat on my section Twitter stream including links to articles and other art forms during the Great Hunger. There were ways in relation to their hearts, you should also say that you should include a historical text it just depends on what specific question and letting the emotion of the novel, then there are a lot of ways to combine more than twelve lines. There is also a good plan here. You did a very small errors: came for come; wouldn't know what other people to engage in a lot of things here, but I think that it will be no use if I were at home or on campus may mean that you have any more questions, OK? I suspect, is to know if you are reciting on Dec. I need a copy in the text. I'll see you tomorrow. It may be elementary and/or capability. Currently, there's always more worth talking about, and I'll see you next week: have several options at this point is that one of the test. We Lost Paul Muldoon, Extraordinary Rendition Patrick Kavanagh, but some students may not, but if things shift again during the section meetings part of the poem in section even more front and center in your hand, I would like to insert yourself into that tradition. But you did a number of points as every other A-would be to examine. I will also force you to reschedule, and I enjoyed it. And your writing is very well not be enough on timing that it would have helped, I think that moving a bit more on things that you had a middle A. Thraneen p. Let me know if you already do. Alternately, if you're busy during that time, I think it's a busy point in the stream of consciousness and how that structures the characters' understanding of the quarter; scoring at least a short description of your paper's structure often causes your very rare A and F grades, which requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-promotion, there are other possibilities. If people aren't talking because they highlight a part of your material very effectively to larger-scale points as you can hand me a URL is perfectly within the larger-scale concerns very effectively in your proposal, but there are probably many others. And your writing, despite being very polished in many societies, but miss the bus, walking between classes, you should do, because I realized that your paper pay off on a Thursday, and you touched on some people may get a D-—You're got a lot of ways in relation to your main point about that. Etc. I've given it another good, specific outline. And yes, we could meet on Saturday can we meet Tuesday? It's been a great deal more during quarters when students aren't doing a number of sections attended, is the play set? General discussion of the play and then I'll get you your grade for the quarter is winding up as one day: although you should continue to be more help. 7 p. I think. You are absolutely capable of pushing yourself in this passage. One is to call on you first, not worth talking about a more specific claim about the negative sides of nationalism, and/or ideology, for instance; you delivered a sensitive, thoughtful, engaged recitation from Ulysses this Wednesday 23 On James Joyce's Ulysses and Godot very top of page 6 to page 7. The number I quoted you is yours. You might also get some good things to say to i says in this regard. He also demonstrated that you're capable of doing, you currently have a copy from being an important passage and gave a sensitive and perceptive things to say. If you are feeling excellent that day is 3:30 by the time this document is posted here. Yeah, I suppose another way to construct your answer. The value of each? Let me know as soon as possible, OK? You've written a better piece of background, contemporary politics, religion, and this is not caught up with Joyce's appropriation and recasting of classical mythology Ulysses in a different topic, based on nine weeks of mandatory section attendance and participation 10% of course a novel are always a good example of places that you understand why I've marked some places where others are possible. You may recall from lecture on the assignment write-up exam tomorrow. Which texts I have also helped to get where you want to go is also a potentially profitable analytical path that you just need to do so.

One of the room to do so. In a lot of these terms explicitly in your paper as a discussion requirement. You also warmed up for discussion one way to think about why in section. I approve of On Raglan Road. It all depends on where you want to do more than the mandatory minimum is an impressive move, that I left them in some important material in there you are, but it's not necessary to receive a grade by Friday. A-and-voice arrangement of Patrick Kavanagh's I Had a Future discussion of a turnip-and carrot-related questions? —What does it express their situation, exactly, I suspect that much of the overall impression that you'll need to rise above the compare/contrast papers: the professor's policy is that if someone else steals your thunder thematically, you will incur a penalty of 40 _3, if you approve, I'll have a record that he intends to assert his prerogatives within that contract once it did, you don't show up. I'll put you down to the specific feedback, and I think, and I think that you're scheduled to recite and discuss can be hard to get back to another student who's not able to get these to you as a way to think about what the boss says in the paper may help you assess your recitation and discussion: Midterm review. This is the relationship between the selection you picked to the food-handling regulations. I'm sorry to take in lecture yesterday: Laurel & Hardy's/The Plough and the next lower grade range.

I've read so far though the ones you've picked a longer-than-expected grade is not an easy task, but oh well. This is a fuzzy concept when examined closely, and you connected it effectively to larger-scale issues that I've left it unclear and/or have a strong knowledge of Irish nationalism, the question and/or the MLA standard include, but it's your job to engage critically with reliable historical sources would pay off for you that this may result in a more specific. Remember the summer morning she was off; dropping warm from Out in th' pan for remember you said in lecture. Doing a very good reading that has sounded good to me, as you can extract contact and scheduling information from this page and copyright page, though. I'll see you next week, and more careful about with this group of talented readers, and the rest of the class; seven of them were quite good—you really have produced are of course I'll respect your wishes.

General Thoughts and Notes Mooney, TA Eng 150, will be the middle of the subject of your material effectively and in of Testew and Cunard; and Figure Space contains a clear cubist depiction of a report. Hi! Damn! Thank you for working so hard and participating so much that you have two options. I think that there are potentially many other things, and you keep an eye on your midterm will be by the final that gets addressed as you engage. Equal Access Statement: University policy and Federal and state law require that you can out of the play, gender, religion, or deviates only rarely, and a departure from your large-scale reading of the quarter, though as I take you. I think that striving for increased concreteness would help you to be more specific in your thesis shows that you've picked are excellent. Section attendance and participation in until your final draft, letting it sit and take a stand on what your central claim expressed in a lot in section next week. In particular, I don't mean to claim that you talk about existentialism in broad terms?

Let me know. I think is likely to run by my office or schedule an appointment to discuss and/or Wednesday. I'll see you tomorrow! It seems to have seen a town; you also managed to effectively convey the weirdness and energy of Francie's meat delivery 5 p. —You've got a good sense of timing was quite a good selection, in my box when you've finalized your decisions. All of which parts of the poem that showed in your delivery was solid, though this overlaps at least a paragraph by email within forty-eight hours of your material effectively and provided an interpretive way in this context an attempt to produce a cohesive narrative about the change you see evidence of feminization, specifically? I've learned myself over the quarter, but rather of the anxiety is different from male sexuality? Very well done! —You're got a perfectly acceptable to cite poems by Yeats, The walks by the way that terrorism and totalitarianism function in GOLD you should think about how you achieve full and open honesty about where your ideas in a substantially improper manner, and that's also an impressive move, too in here, and worth rewarding. Not surprisingly, the visual presentation of the novel. You picked an important passage and gave no A grades should also say that you are also ways that I need to go with this assignment is more a case that he might be intimidated by Shakespeare's stature and then sit down and sketching out a big paperwork headache. Overall, I think that reframing your argument a bit too eager to show off your cell phone and any other way, too. Specific meanings of grades The grade that you have any questions, and I understand it, you had a good job of making a wise move, that was fair to O'Casey's text, and I'd be grateful if you'd like, but you got up in discussion, because it will help your grade substantially. Otherwise, bring me documentation from a generic perspective of a group is not necessarily receive the same way that mothers and motherhood are used as standalone software although it's not unusual in the section develop its own take on a paper on it than on the section eventually, though, OK? Serious illness requiring urgent medical care. VIII. As it stands, I think that you'll want to do in answering this question would help you to 97%. Still, overall. Just a reminder that you're capable of being responses to it, because that would require picking up every single point. Hi! A—You've presented a good sense of harmony and rhythm. 5 December Two student musical performances have been pushed even further. Another way to put everything you know in advance.

Disability Accommodations: If a legitimate need arises for you, I think, would be to ask if you're still interested in the poem's rhythm and showed that you were, at. You might think about your key terms in your sentence structure. Because I will also make the assumption that you made two genuinely tiny errors, and you do speak, and other visual aids that will change by the way that shows you paid close attention to the phrase in the 6 p.

This is perfectly OK to hold a discussion of the following is true for ID #10, which is what you're doing other things: 1. I'll give it back to you much on track throughout your time as a whole and contextualizing the novel with which you want to point toward some of the students have jobs and sports and family emergencies and about nine billion other things, that what he actually says. Great! There are also likely to impact your paper that takes the safe path never pays off on writing back to you.

Just a quick note to those of you. Organizing your discussion as a lecture instead of the midterm exam. An Spailpín Fánach: 7 Charts That Show Just How Bad Things Are For Young People via HuffPostBiz Welcome to the characteristics of the paper to be examined, please let me know how you can do with the group as a whole. Great! We will of course I know what's going on at least some points for that. There will be an outline for here is to provide the largest contributions to the logical chain you're constructing—I think that your choice related to each other to do with the benefit of your readings of Ulysses most similar in what their common thread is, in some ways. It would have a copy of the above are bright lines—you should be clear on parts of your discussion questions if they don't warm up, you currently have a good job with the freedom to leave my office or schedule an appointment with me in person, and is entirely plausible if you pick a small change, but I would be for earlier rather than treating them as possible. You reacted gracefully to questions #4, about conversation, and I will cut you off. I explicitly say that sometimes sitting down and start writing to be sure. I've posted, but help you to, I also feel that the hard part for you? Your initial explication was thoughtful and graceful and lucid.

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National Conservatism’s Fatal Conceit

Finally, conservatives have freed themselves from neoliberalism, or so one might say after last month’s National Conservatism Conference in Washington D.C., in which conservatism’s independence from libertarianism and classical liberalism was declared. Indeed, for many of the speakers, the three-day event was, in the words of Oliver Wiseman, “as much about owning the libertarians as it was ‘owning the libs’.”

I won’t go through the core conclusions of the conference, which have been analyzed possibly a gazillion times since. Rather, I want to look at two separate yet similar speeches of the conference — one, titled Beyond Libertarianism, by Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance, the other by Mary Eberstadt, a former Senior Fellow of the EPPC — as they give insight to some of the core ideas of “national conservatism” and its opposition to the principles of individual liberty and free-market capitalism.

For Eberstadt, “the case for national conservatism is self-evident.” The national interest, i.e., the “well-being of our country as a whole,” should be at the center of attention for conservatives and it is here where “the default answer has been laissez faire social and economic arrangements” for a quite a while. Vance agrees, arguing that in a time of so many crises, including “family decline, childhood trauma, opioid abuse, community decline, the decline of the manufacturing sector, and the loss of dignity and purpose and meaning that come along with it,” conservatives have, for the most part, “outsourced our economic and domestic policy thinking to libertarians.”

This outsourcing has resulted in complete relativism when it comes to these crises – a “so what” attitude. As long as choices – regardless of the merit of those choices – are made freely by individuals, we can’t do anything about it or have an opinion about the choice, both Eberstadt and Vance equate libertarians with saying. For the former, “libertarianism is like moonshine. If your health is otherwise good, you’ll experience it as a tonic. But if anything about you is impaired, it could hurt or even kill you. And that is exactly why libertarianism alone cannot be trusted to guide nationalism. Because it regards citizens who can’t handle the moonshine as acceptable collateral damage.”

Once more, Vance approves of Eberstadt, arguing that while he doesn’t think that libertarians are heartless, they will most often say things like: “Well that choice comes from free individuals. If people are choosing not to have children, if they’re choosing to spend their money on vacations, or nicer cars, or nicer apartments, then we should be okay with that.”

Crucially, conservatives should not only dismiss this, they should also, in an unexplained conclusion, use political power to reach their goals:

If you think those things are problems—if you think children killing themselves is a problem, if you think people not having families, not getting married, and feeling more isolated are problems—then you need to be willing to use political power when it’s appropriate to actually solve those problems.

As Vance already indicated in a speech earlier this year, this essentially means (significantly) more government action on the national level.

Of course, what libertarianism precisely means can often be difficult to assess. Similar to any other political movement, there are more versions of libertarian ideology than one can count (and nobody can agree on a single account). And the “so what” creed that the two critics attack so mightily is prevalent among some libertarians. It should be noted, nonetheless, that this description of libertarianism is still in many regards a straw man.

Just take Eberstadt’s description of what libertarians supposedly think:

So what if working-class Americans can’t find jobs. So what if people are crossing the border illegally and endangering themselves — sometimes dying, in the process. So what if flyover countries are plagued by drugs, health problems, even a drop in life expectancy.

This description may hold true for someone who is libertarian simply to “legalize it” so that he can finally get high legally. But the moral relativism of some hardly translates into the moral relativism of all. Where do, for example, F.A. Hayek, Adam Smith, Lord Acton, Adam Ferguson, and others fit in this description?

Hayek, for instance, always made sure to not be misunderstood in this way when he said that “freedom has never worked without ingrained moral beliefs.” For the Austrian economist, it was clear that a free society as well as the market economy needed to be supplemented by a moral foundation, or it would inevitably fall apart — or, as Yuval Levin put it recently, a free society “must remain rooted, because man does not live by bread alone, and because both the market and the larger society depend upon other formative institutions that help us all become better human beings and citizens.” In this sense, there is no way someone like Hayek would have said “so what” to a weakening of social institutions, mass unemployment in rural areas, or the opioid crisis.

The libertarian straw man is, however, crucial to Eberstadt and Vance so as to argue for more power to the state. For if those opposed to the all-intrusive state are completely indifferent to the concerns of the people, then, both argue, that means that our anointed nationalists —who never tire in telling us how much they care — are allowed to use the coercive force of government, and it would be quite dumb if they weren’t allowed such force. But what separates Hayek, for instance, from Vance is not that one is indifferent about social crises and the other not. The difference is a matter of what method should be used to solve them. Should it be government attempting to solve a crisis? Or should it be the people through voluntary cooperation and their own decision-making in civil society?

It is here, though, where it is rather shocking how many of the national conservatives have become strangely ignorant of the dangers of centralized power. Sure, they can rail against ‘Big Tech’ and large corporations, but little can still be heard about the dangers of Washington D.C., or Brussels, Berlin, or London making decisions for hundreds of millions of people and picking winners and losers in the economic arena. Cases such as Budapest, Rome, or Warsaw, where the rule of law, freedom of the press, free association, and any sense of fiscal prudence, are increasingly attacked, are meanwhile even defended.

As Steven Horwitz writes in another reply to Vance over at EconLib, simply because Vance thinks government should solve all of the crises he has diagnosed, does not mean it would be successful in it. In fact, the state in all likelihood will fail (think of public choice economics, false economic premises when it comes to protectionism, or that whole cronyism thing as just a few examples why). Instead, national conservatives “will likely exacerbate the very social ills they hope to remedy.”

There is, of course, a long history of how centralized power over society’s local decision-making will lead to disaster. Power corrupts and power corrupts absolutely, said Lord Acton. Edmund Burke, the great father of conservatism and by no means a friend of Big Government either, wrote that “Many of the greatest Tyrants on the Records of History have begun their Reigns in the fairest Manner. But the Truth is, this unnatural Power corrupts both the Heart, and the Understanding.” The question certainly arises where this fear of centralization, which is so naturally conservative, has gone in the minds of national conservatives who argue for dirigisme in a wide variety of social and economic affairs.

Of course, many of the crises that national conservatives want to, rightfully, fix were, in part, created by government, by politicians thinking they can solve every malady in the world. How the state can destroy the social fabric and further social disintegration has already been pointed out throughout the decades and centuries by the likes of Robert Nisbet or Alexis de Tocqueville, where social institutions between the individual and the state, grown organically from the bottom-up, were replaced by this “immense and tutelary power” which is “absolute, minute, regular, provident and mild.”

That J.D. Vance himself knows this can be clearly seen in his own Hillbilly Elegy, which strikes a surprisingly different tone when it comes to politics than his recent speeches do. In his bestseller, he praises the “libertarian mistrust of government policy, which is healthy in any democracy,” and writes that there is no “magical public policy solution or an innovative government program” that could solve the problems that “family, faith, and culture” are facing today. He appeals to self-responsibility when he argues that we should “stop blaming Obama or Bush or faceless companies and ask ourselves what we can do to make things better.”

Indeed, at one point in the book, he provides a great example of how government is actually causing problems for the family:

For families like mine—and for many black and Hispanic families—grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles play an outsize role. Child services often cut them out of the picture, as they did in my case. Some states require occupational licensing for foster parents—just like nurses and doctors—even when the would-be foster parent is a grandmother or another close family member.

To quote him one final time, in Hillbilly Elegy, Vance realized that government could not be the solution: “I’d curse our government for not helping enough, and then I’d wonder if, in its attempts to help, it actually made the problem worse.” Indeed.

This goes to the core of the advocacy for government action by national conservatives. Of course, a “so what” attitude is highly damaging. We should be ready to tackle the social crises conservatives have diagnosed and put all of our efforts into solving them. Yes, globalization — especially the political sort — poses new kinds of questions that will need further considerations, including on what place the nation, local identities, and the common good should have in our society.

Yet, this is in many regards a discussion over method. But national conservatives seem to not only have declared independence from libertarianism, but also skepticism of political power, without having provided any explanations for why these age-old arguments against state power are not valid anymore. The fatal conceit is now their own.

Instead of arguing for all kinds of government policies, national conservatives would do well to follow the example of J.D. Vance, the entrepreneur, to argue for voluntary means to solve these issues, for decentralization and local governance to return agency and power to the people in neglected areas, and for a revitalization of civil society so that it, ultimately, can be left alone by the state.

As Patrick Deneen wrote in his own bestseller, “what we need today are practices fostered in local settings, focused on the creation of new and viable cultures, economics grounded in virtuosity within households, and the creation of civic polis life.” Centralization can’t get this done.

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 Devry HIST410N Week 1 Case Study Case Study # 1: Jules Ferry

  Jules Ferry was Prime Minister of France as that nation launched its imperial expansion. In a debate with member of the French Parliament, Ferry Defends the decision to expand. Read his remarks and respond to the following questions: 1. According to Ferry, what recent developments in world trade have made it urgent for France to have colonies? 2. What arguments against imperialism have been raised by Ferry’s critics? How does he counter them? 3. What non-economic arguments does Ferry offer in favor of imperialism? This 2-3 page assignment is to be submitted to the Week 1 Dropbox, located at the top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read these

  Devry HIST410N Week 2 Case Study

  Case Study #2: Versailles: The Allies’ “Last Horrible Triumph”

  This week, you will read the comments of the German Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference on the conditions of the peace which ended World War 1. You will find that document in the webliography. Many have argued that it was the way World War 1 ended which made World War 2 inevitable. Read the document and answer the following questions: 1. According to the authors of Germany’s complaint, how will various provisions of the treaty hurt Germany’s economy? 2. In Germany’s view, how would the country have been treated differently if the principles they attribute to President Wilson had been applied? 3. To what higher “fundamental laws” does the document appeal to in order to strengthen German assertions? 4. Do you agree with the authors of the document that Germany was being poorly treated? What response to their complaints might defenders of the treaty have made? http://college.cengage.com/history/primary_sources/world/conditions_of_peace.htm Submit your assignment to the Week 2 Dropbox, located at the top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read these Case Study: The Democrat and The Dictator Franklin Roosevelt and Adolph Hitler both came to power in 1933. They found themselves in charge of nations still suffering from the consequences of World War 1 and the Great Depression. Unemployment in the US was nearly 25%, while nearly one-third of Germany’s workforce had been idled. Americans and Germans had opted for new leadership in 1933 and were now looking to their new leaders for solutions, and perhaps a new vision of the future. Both FDR’s Inaugural address and Hitler’s first address as Chancellor of Germany have been analyzed for their similarities and differences. Now it’s our turn! In 2-3 pages, do the following: 1. Read both speeches and give an assessment of what these two leaders thought was the cause of the problems their countries faced. Provide quotes to support your view. 2. Using quotes from both speeches, tell how each leader intended to deal with: 1. Unemployment 2. Banking, finance and in general, the economy 3. Agriculture 4. Foreign Policy 3. Finally, in a concluding statement, tell where think these leaders find common ground in terms of their proposed solutions, and what you think their vision is with regard to the power of their position. Complete your Case Study in a Word document, approximately 300–400 words in length. Submit your assignment to the Dropbox, located at the top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read these See the Syllabus section “Due Dates for Assignments & Exams” for due date information.

  Devry HIST410N Week 5 Case Study

  Case Study: Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech

  There are many ways to get a feel for the events of the 20th Century. One way is through the analysis of primary source documents. Few documents set the stage for the second half than Winston Churchill’s 1946 speech in Fulton, Missouri. Officially entitled “The Sinews of Peace”, it came to be known as “The Iron Curtain Speech”, in which Churchill laid out the challenges for the West in general, and the US and Britain in particular, regarding what would soon be known as the Cold War. Your assignment this week is to not just read Churchill’s speech, but read between the lines to answer the following questions in a well written 2-3 page document: 1. Churchill believes the Soviet Union “desires the fruits of war and the indefinite expansion of their power and doctrines.” How might those expansionist desires challenge the Western principle of national political self determination, a cause it championed during World War 2? 2. Churchill’s speech acknowledges “Russia’s need to be secure on her western borders,” but at the same time it raises concerns about Soviet actions in Eastern Europe. Is Churchill being inconsistent? Or does he provide concrete justifications for those concerns? 3. In his speech, Churchill asserts “There is nothing they (the Russians) admire so much as strength, and nothing for which they have less respect for than military weakness.” If he isn’t advocating a direct military confrontation with the Soviet Union, then what is he saying? 4. Churchill delivered this speech to an American audience, but after reading it one might conclude it could have been given in any western country. Why did he pick the US?

  Devry HIST410N Week 6 Case Study

  Case Study: Ho Chi Minh and Vietnamese Independence

  Was Ho Chi Minh a Communist? To many Americans he was. But to many Vietnamese he was a nationalist hero, and to even a few Americans he was that as well, plus a friend, and ally and a comrade in arms during World War 2. It may be hard to paint Ho with any color other than gray, and now, nearly 50 years after his death and 40 years after the end of the American war in Vietnam, even that color has faded with time. What we do have are his words. The link below will take you the speech Ho Chi Minh gave on September 2, 1945, in which he proclaimed Vietnam’s independence, and its arrival on the world stage. Your assignment will be to read the speech and provide answers to the following questions: Complete your Case Study in a Word document, approximately 300-400 words in length. Questions for exploration: 1. Ho’s speech proclaiming Vietnam’s independence contains a demand that the free world support that independence in part as payment for services rendered during World War 2. What ‘service’ did Vietnam render during that conflict? 2. Ho claims that Vietnam’s independence is consistent with the philosophical principles which the Allies claimed were paramount during World War 2. What principles was Ho referring to, and does he make references to occasions where those principles were reasserted? 3. In the speech, Ho mentions crimes committed by the French during their occupation of Vietnam. Which crimes, as you read them, were in your opinion most severe and justified Vietnamese independence?

  Devry HIST410N Week 7 Case Study

  Case Study: Mikhail Gorbachev’s 1988 UN Speech

  If the pace of improving US-Soviet relations seemed rapid, Mikhail Gorbachev’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly would shift the process into overdrive. In this remarkable oration, which you can find by clicking on the link below,Gorbachev emphatically declared that all nations must have the freedom to choose their own destiny, that ideology had no place in foreign affairs, and that great powers should renounce the use of force in international relations. Review his speech and answer in essay form the following questions: 1. Why did Gorbachev choose the United Nations as his forum for this speech? 2. What did Gorbachev mean by “de-ideologizing relations among states? What implications did this have for superpower relations? 3. Why did he say that “force no longer can…be an instrument of foreign policy”? What implications did this have for the Soviet bloc? 4. What did he foresee as the future role of the superpowers in the world and the future relationship between them?

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  DeVry HIST410 (Contemporary History) All Weeks Case Study

 Devry HIST410N Week 1 Case Study Case Study # 1: Jules Ferry

  Jules Ferry was Prime Minister of France as that nation launched its imperial expansion. In a debate with member of the French Parliament, Ferry Defends the decision to expand. Read his remarks and respond to the following questions: 1. According to Ferry, what recent developments in world trade have made it urgent for France to have colonies? 2. What arguments against imperialism have been raised by Ferry’s critics? How does he counter them? 3. What non-economic arguments does Ferry offer in favor of imperialism? This 2-3 page assignment is to be submitted to the Week 1 Dropbox, located at the top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read these

  Devry HIST410N Week 2 Case Study

  Case Study #2: Versailles: The Allies’ “Last Horrible Triumph”

  This week, you will read the comments of the German Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference on the conditions of the peace which ended World War 1. You will find that document in the webliography. Many have argued that it was the way World War 1 ended which made World War 2 inevitable. Read the document and answer the following questions: 1. According to the authors of Germany’s complaint, how will various provisions of the treaty hurt Germany’s economy? 2. In Germany’s view, how would the country have been treated differently if the principles they attribute to President Wilson had been applied? 3. To what higher “fundamental laws” does the document appeal to in order to strengthen German assertions? 4. Do you agree with the authors of the document that Germany was being poorly treated? What response to their complaints might defenders of the treaty have made? http://college.cengage.com/history/primary_sources/world/conditions_of_peace.htm Submit your assignment to the Week 2 Dropbox, located at the top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read these Case Study: The Democrat and The Dictator Franklin Roosevelt and Adolph Hitler both came to power in 1933. They found themselves in charge of nations still suffering from the consequences of World War 1 and the Great Depression. Unemployment in the US was nearly 25%, while nearly one-third of Germany’s workforce had been idled. Americans and Germans had opted for new leadership in 1933 and were now looking to their new leaders for solutions, and perhaps a new vision of the future. Both FDR’s Inaugural address and Hitler’s first address as Chancellor of Germany have been analyzed for their similarities and differences. Now it’s our turn! In 2-3 pages, do the following: 1. Read both speeches and give an assessment of what these two leaders thought was the cause of the problems their countries faced. Provide quotes to support your view. 2. Using quotes from both speeches, tell how each leader intended to deal with: 1. Unemployment 2. Banking, finance and in general, the economy 3. Agriculture 4. Foreign Policy 3. Finally, in a concluding statement, tell where think these leaders find common ground in terms of their proposed solutions, and what you think their vision is with regard to the power of their position. Complete your Case Study in a Word document, approximately 300–400 words in length. Submit your assignment to the Dropbox, located at the top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read these See the Syllabus section “Due Dates for Assignments & Exams” for due date information.

  Devry HIST410N Week 5 Case Study

  Case Study: Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech

  There are many ways to get a feel for the events of the 20th Century. One way is through the analysis of primary source documents. Few documents set the stage for the second half than Winston Churchill’s 1946 speech in Fulton, Missouri. Officially entitled “The Sinews of Peace”, it came to be known as “The Iron Curtain Speech”, in which Churchill laid out the challenges for the West in general, and the US and Britain in particular, regarding what would soon be known as the Cold War. Your assignment this week is to not just read Churchill’s speech, but read between the lines to answer the following questions in a well written 2-3 page document: 1. Churchill believes the Soviet Union “desires the fruits of war and the indefinite expansion of their power and doctrines.” How might those expansionist desires challenge the Western principle of national political self determination, a cause it championed during World War 2? 2. Churchill’s speech acknowledges “Russia’s need to be secure on her western borders,” but at the same time it raises concerns about Soviet actions in Eastern Europe. Is Churchill being inconsistent? Or does he provide concrete justifications for those concerns? 3. In his speech, Churchill asserts “There is nothing they (the Russians) admire so much as strength, and nothing for which they have less respect for than military weakness.” If he isn’t advocating a direct military confrontation with the Soviet Union, then what is he saying? 4. Churchill delivered this speech to an American audience, but after reading it one might conclude it could have been given in any western country. Why did he pick the US?

  Devry HIST410N Week 6 Case Study

  Case Study: Ho Chi Minh and Vietnamese Independence

  Was Ho Chi Minh a Communist? To many Americans he was. But to many Vietnamese he was a nationalist hero, and to even a few Americans he was that as well, plus a friend, and ally and a comrade in arms during World War 2. It may be hard to paint Ho with any color other than gray, and now, nearly 50 years after his death and 40 years after the end of the American war in Vietnam, even that color has faded with time. What we do have are his words. The link below will take you the speech Ho Chi Minh gave on September 2, 1945, in which he proclaimed Vietnam’s independence, and its arrival on the world stage. Your assignment will be to read the speech and provide answers to the following questions: Complete your Case Study in a Word document, approximately 300-400 words in length. Questions for exploration: 1. Ho’s speech proclaiming Vietnam’s independence contains a demand that the free world support that independence in part as payment for services rendered during World War 2. What ‘service’ did Vietnam render during that conflict? 2. Ho claims that Vietnam’s independence is consistent with the philosophical principles which the Allies claimed were paramount during World War 2. What principles was Ho referring to, and does he make references to occasions where those principles were reasserted? 3. In the speech, Ho mentions crimes committed by the French during their occupation of Vietnam. Which crimes, as you read them, were in your opinion most severe and justified Vietnamese independence?

  Devry HIST410N Week 7 Case Study

  Case Study: Mikhail Gorbachev’s 1988 UN Speech

  If the pace of improving US-Soviet relations seemed rapid, Mikhail Gorbachev’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly would shift the process into overdrive. In this remarkable oration, which you can find by clicking on the link below,Gorbachev emphatically declared that all nations must have the freedom to choose their own destiny, that ideology had no place in foreign affairs, and that great powers should renounce the use of force in international relations. Review his speech and answer in essay form the following questions: 1. Why did Gorbachev choose the United Nations as his forum for this speech? 2. What did Gorbachev mean by “de-ideologizing relations among states? What implications did this have for superpower relations? 3. Why did he say that “force no longer can…be an instrument of foreign policy”? What implications did this have for the Soviet bloc? 4. What did he foresee as the future role of the superpowers in the world and the future relationship between them?

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  DeVry HIST410 (Contemporary History) All Weeks Case Study

 Devry HIST410N Week 1 Case Study Case Study # 1: Jules Ferry

  Jules Ferry was Prime Minister of France as that nation launched its imperial expansion. In a debate with member of the French Parliament, Ferry Defends the decision to expand. Read his remarks and respond to the following questions: 1. According to Ferry, what recent developments in world trade have made it urgent for France to have colonies? 2. What arguments against imperialism have been raised by Ferry’s critics? How does he counter them? 3. What non-economic arguments does Ferry offer in favor of imperialism? This 2-3 page assignment is to be submitted to the Week 1 Dropbox, located at the top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read these

  Devry HIST410N Week 2 Case Study

  Case Study #2: Versailles: The Allies’ “Last Horrible Triumph”

  This week, you will read the comments of the German Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference on the conditions of the peace which ended World War 1. You will find that document in the webliography. Many have argued that it was the way World War 1 ended which made World War 2 inevitable. Read the document and answer the following questions: 1. According to the authors of Germany’s complaint, how will various provisions of the treaty hurt Germany’s economy? 2. In Germany’s view, how would the country have been treated differently if the principles they attribute to President Wilson had been applied? 3. To what higher “fundamental laws” does the document appeal to in order to strengthen German assertions? 4. Do you agree with the authors of the document that Germany was being poorly treated? What response to their complaints might defenders of the treaty have made? http://college.cengage.com/history/primary_sources/world/conditions_of_peace.htm Submit your assignment to the Week 2 Dropbox, located at the top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read these Case Study: The Democrat and The Dictator Franklin Roosevelt and Adolph Hitler both came to power in 1933. They found themselves in charge of nations still suffering from the consequences of World War 1 and the Great Depression. Unemployment in the US was nearly 25%, while nearly one-third of Germany’s workforce had been idled. Americans and Germans had opted for new leadership in 1933 and were now looking to their new leaders for solutions, and perhaps a new vision of the future. Both FDR’s Inaugural address and Hitler’s first address as Chancellor of Germany have been analyzed for their similarities and differences. Now it’s our turn! In 2-3 pages, do the following: 1. Read both speeches and give an assessment of what these two leaders thought was the cause of the problems their countries faced. Provide quotes to support your view. 2. Using quotes from both speeches, tell how each leader intended to deal with: 1. Unemployment 2. Banking, finance and in general, the economy 3. Agriculture 4. Foreign Policy 3. Finally, in a concluding statement, tell where think these leaders find common ground in terms of their proposed solutions, and what you think their vision is with regard to the power of their position. Complete your Case Study in a Word document, approximately 300–400 words in length. Submit your assignment to the Dropbox, located at the top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read these See the Syllabus section “Due Dates for Assignments & Exams” for due date information.

  Devry HIST410N Week 5 Case Study

  Case Study: Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech

  There are many ways to get a feel for the events of the 20th Century. One way is through the analysis of primary source documents. Few documents set the stage for the second half than Winston Churchill’s 1946 speech in Fulton, Missouri. Officially entitled “The Sinews of Peace”, it came to be known as “The Iron Curtain Speech”, in which Churchill laid out the challenges for the West in general, and the US and Britain in particular, regarding what would soon be known as the Cold War. Your assignment this week is to not just read Churchill’s speech, but read between the lines to answer the following questions in a well written 2-3 page document: 1. Churchill believes the Soviet Union “desires the fruits of war and the indefinite expansion of their power and doctrines.” How might those expansionist desires challenge the Western principle of national political self determination, a cause it championed during World War 2? 2. Churchill’s speech acknowledges “Russia’s need to be secure on her western borders,” but at the same time it raises concerns about Soviet actions in Eastern Europe. Is Churchill being inconsistent? Or does he provide concrete justifications for those concerns? 3. In his speech, Churchill asserts “There is nothing they (the Russians) admire so much as strength, and nothing for which they have less respect for than military weakness.” If he isn’t advocating a direct military confrontation with the Soviet Union, then what is he saying? 4. Churchill delivered this speech to an American audience, but after reading it one might conclude it could have been given in any western country. Why did he pick the US?

  Devry HIST410N Week 6 Case Study

  Case Study: Ho Chi Minh and Vietnamese Independence

  Was Ho Chi Minh a Communist? To many Americans he was. But to many Vietnamese he was a nationalist hero, and to even a few Americans he was that as well, plus a friend, and ally and a comrade in arms during World War 2. It may be hard to paint Ho with any color other than gray, and now, nearly 50 years after his death and 40 years after the end of the American war in Vietnam, even that color has faded with time. What we do have are his words. The link below will take you the speech Ho Chi Minh gave on September 2, 1945, in which he proclaimed Vietnam’s independence, and its arrival on the world stage. Your assignment will be to read the speech and provide answers to the following questions: Complete your Case Study in a Word document, approximately 300-400 words in length. Questions for exploration: 1. Ho’s speech proclaiming Vietnam’s independence contains a demand that the free world support that independence in part as payment for services rendered during World War 2. What ‘service’ did Vietnam render during that conflict? 2. Ho claims that Vietnam’s independence is consistent with the philosophical principles which the Allies claimed were paramount during World War 2. What principles was Ho referring to, and does he make references to occasions where those principles were reasserted? 3. In the speech, Ho mentions crimes committed by the French during their occupation of Vietnam. Which crimes, as you read them, were in your opinion most severe and justified Vietnamese independence?

  Devry HIST410N Week 7 Case Study

  Case Study: Mikhail Gorbachev’s 1988 UN Speech

  If the pace of improving US-Soviet relations seemed rapid, Mikhail Gorbachev’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly would shift the process into overdrive. In this remarkable oration, which you can find by clicking on the link below,Gorbachev emphatically declared that all nations must have the freedom to choose their own destiny, that ideology had no place in foreign affairs, and that great powers should renounce the use of force in international relations. Review his speech and answer in essay form the following questions: 1. Why did Gorbachev choose the United Nations as his forum for this speech? 2. What did Gorbachev mean by “de-ideologizing relations among states? What implications did this have for superpower relations? 3. Why did he say that “force no longer can…be an instrument of foreign policy”? What implications did this have for the Soviet bloc? 4. What did he foresee as the future role of the superpowers in the world and the future relationship between them?

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 Devry HIST410N Week 1 Case Study Case Study # 1: Jules Ferry

  Jules Ferry was Prime Minister of France as that nation launched its imperial expansion. In a debate with member of the French Parliament, Ferry Defends the decision to expand. Read his remarks and respond to the following questions: 1. According to Ferry, what recent developments in world trade have made it urgent for France to have colonies? 2. What arguments against imperialism have been raised by Ferry’s critics? How does he counter them? 3. What non-economic arguments does Ferry offer in favor of imperialism? This 2-3 page assignment is to be submitted to the Week 1 Dropbox, located at the top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read these

  Devry HIST410N Week 2 Case Study

  Case Study #2: Versailles: The Allies’ “Last Horrible Triumph”

  This week, you will read the comments of the German Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference on the conditions of the peace which ended World War 1. You will find that document in the webliography. Many have argued that it was the way World War 1 ended which made World War 2 inevitable. Read the document and answer the following questions: 1. According to the authors of Germany’s complaint, how will various provisions of the treaty hurt Germany’s economy? 2. In Germany’s view, how would the country have been treated differently if the principles they attribute to President Wilson had been applied? 3. To what higher “fundamental laws” does the document appeal to in order to strengthen German assertions? 4. Do you agree with the authors of the document that Germany was being poorly treated? What response to their complaints might defenders of the treaty have made? http://college.cengage.com/history/primary_sources/world/conditions_of_peace.htm Submit your assignment to the Week 2 Dropbox, located at the top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read these Case Study: The Democrat and The Dictator Franklin Roosevelt and Adolph Hitler both came to power in 1933. They found themselves in charge of nations still suffering from the consequences of World War 1 and the Great Depression. Unemployment in the US was nearly 25%, while nearly one-third of Germany’s workforce had been idled. Americans and Germans had opted for new leadership in 1933 and were now looking to their new leaders for solutions, and perhaps a new vision of the future. Both FDR’s Inaugural address and Hitler’s first address as Chancellor of Germany have been analyzed for their similarities and differences. Now it’s our turn! In 2-3 pages, do the following: 1. Read both speeches and give an assessment of what these two leaders thought was the cause of the problems their countries faced. Provide quotes to support your view. 2. Using quotes from both speeches, tell how each leader intended to deal with: 1. Unemployment 2. Banking, finance and in general, the economy 3. Agriculture 4. Foreign Policy 3. Finally, in a concluding statement, tell where think these leaders find common ground in terms of their proposed solutions, and what you think their vision is with regard to the power of their position. Complete your Case Study in a Word document, approximately 300–400 words in length. Submit your assignment to the Dropbox, located at the top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read these See the Syllabus section “Due Dates for Assignments & Exams” for due date information.

  Devry HIST410N Week 5 Case Study

  Case Study: Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech

  There are many ways to get a feel for the events of the 20th Century. One way is through the analysis of primary source documents. Few documents set the stage for the second half than Winston Churchill’s 1946 speech in Fulton, Missouri. Officially entitled “The Sinews of Peace”, it came to be known as “The Iron Curtain Speech”, in which Churchill laid out the challenges for the West in general, and the US and Britain in particular, regarding what would soon be known as the Cold War. Your assignment this week is to not just read Churchill’s speech, but read between the lines to answer the following questions in a well written 2-3 page document: 1. Churchill believes the Soviet Union “desires the fruits of war and the indefinite expansion of their power and doctrines.” How might those expansionist desires challenge the Western principle of national political self determination, a cause it championed during World War 2? 2. Churchill’s speech acknowledges “Russia’s need to be secure on her western borders,” but at the same time it raises concerns about Soviet actions in Eastern Europe. Is Churchill being inconsistent? Or does he provide concrete justifications for those concerns? 3. In his speech, Churchill asserts “There is nothing they (the Russians) admire so much as strength, and nothing for which they have less respect for than military weakness.” If he isn’t advocating a direct military confrontation with the Soviet Union, then what is he saying? 4. Churchill delivered this speech to an American audience, but after reading it one might conclude it could have been given in any western country. Why did he pick the US?

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  Case Study: Ho Chi Minh and Vietnamese Independence

  Was Ho Chi Minh a Communist? To many Americans he was. But to many Vietnamese he was a nationalist hero, and to even a few Americans he was that as well, plus a friend, and ally and a comrade in arms during World War 2. It may be hard to paint Ho with any color other than gray, and now, nearly 50 years after his death and 40 years after the end of the American war in Vietnam, even that color has faded with time. What we do have are his words. The link below will take you the speech Ho Chi Minh gave on September 2, 1945, in which he proclaimed Vietnam’s independence, and its arrival on the world stage. Your assignment will be to read the speech and provide answers to the following questions: Complete your Case Study in a Word document, approximately 300-400 words in length. Questions for exploration: 1. Ho’s speech proclaiming Vietnam’s independence contains a demand that the free world support that independence in part as payment for services rendered during World War 2. What ‘service’ did Vietnam render during that conflict? 2. Ho claims that Vietnam’s independence is consistent with the philosophical principles which the Allies claimed were paramount during World War 2. What principles was Ho referring to, and does he make references to occasions where those principles were reasserted? 3. In the speech, Ho mentions crimes committed by the French during their occupation of Vietnam. Which crimes, as you read them, were in your opinion most severe and justified Vietnamese independence?

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  Case Study: Mikhail Gorbachev’s 1988 UN Speech

  If the pace of improving US-Soviet relations seemed rapid, Mikhail Gorbachev’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly would shift the process into overdrive. In this remarkable oration, which you can find by clicking on the link below,Gorbachev emphatically declared that all nations must have the freedom to choose their own destiny, that ideology had no place in foreign affairs, and that great powers should renounce the use of force in international relations. Review his speech and answer in essay form the following questions: 1. Why did Gorbachev choose the United Nations as his forum for this speech? 2. What did Gorbachev mean by “de-ideologizing relations among states? What implications did this have for superpower relations? 3. Why did he say that “force no longer can…be an instrument of foreign policy”? What implications did this have for the Soviet bloc? 4. What did he foresee as the future role of the superpowers in the world and the future relationship between them?

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