MEH Assignments & Class Work

January 20 – 23, 2009.

Starred Items Should be in Your Notebook on Friday, January 23, 2009.

You must email your completed assignments as a single, appropriately-titled MS Word

document, using the provided template (work submitted in any other format, or titled
incorrectly, will not be accepted and will be marked as a zero), to Dr. Ratliff by 3:00 pm on
Friday, January 23, 2009.
Failure to meet this requirement will result in a one-letter-grade deduction on your work if submitted at
3:01 pm on Friday; a two-letter-grade deduction if submitted at any time on Saturday; a three-letter-grade
deduction if submitted on Sunday. Your assignment will not be accepted after 3:00 pm on Sunday. NO
EXCEPTIONS.

Monday, January 19, 2009: - Martin Luther King Day – No School.

o At some point in your life, you should read “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and “The Drum Major Instinct.”
During your contemplative vacation, why not get those essential readings out of the way, today? Clicking
the pictures below will take you to these documents.

Letter From The Drum

Birmingham Jail. Major Instinct.

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”–
Martin Luther King, Jr

Tuesday, January 20, 2009:

Logical Fallacy #18 – Biased Sample – 25 points.
Two Parts
A. A brief explanation of Biased Sample.
B. One example of Biased Sample in common usage.
Reading Checks, 19.3 – 10 points.
German Unification – Bismarck and realpolitik – 10 points.
 You’ll be divided into three groups and tomorrow your groups will present a lesson to the
class on the three “Wars of Unification.”
 The Danish War.
 The Austro-Prussian War, 1866.
 The Franco-Prussian War (1870-1).
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 Resources:
Bismarck:
Bismarck and Unification
Otto von Bismarck Biography
Otto von Bismarck – The Iron Chancellor
Who's Who: Otto von Bismarck
Bismarck, Otto von
Otto von Bismarck and German Unification
Bismarck’s Unification of Germany
The German-Danish War of 1864:
The German-Danish War of 1864
The First War of Schleswig
Second war of Schleswig
The Austro-Prussian War
The Austro-Prussian War
The Austro-Prussian War and Third War of Italian Unification
The Austro-Prussian War – Encyclopedia.com
Harper’s Magazine Coverage of the Austro-Prussian War
MIT Lecture Notes on the Austro-Prussian War
The Franco-Prussian War
A War Correspondent in the Franco-Prussian War
The Franco-Prussian War
The German Conquest of France, Part 1 of 3…
The Franco-Prussian War, Columbia Encyclopedia
About.com catalogue of the Franco-Prussian War

Wednesday, January 21, 2009:

German Unification Presentations.
Tomorrow, we’ll discuss nationalism during this period. The aide in our discussion, think about those
things that define your national heritage: symbols, songs, literature, law, historic figures, &c. Come to
class with those things in mind and be prepared to discuss them with the rest of the class. You may bring
something to show and discuss, if you wish.

Thursday, January 22, 2009:

Italian unification – compare and contrast Italian unification with German unification. What was the
difference between Garibaldi and Bismarck? In what ways was their processes of unification similar? In
what ways were they different? – 10 points.
Review for test.

Friday, January 23, 2009:

Exam – The First Industrial Revolution & Unification

Important Reminders
Exam – The First Industrial Revolution & Unification – Friday, January 23, 2009.
Research project rough draft due – Thursday, February 9, 2009.

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