Microsoft Word - Essay Exam.docx

• When referencing sources, employ parenthetical notation rather than footnotes or endnotes. A bibliography is not necessary.

o A correct citation will include the author's first and last name,

the work, and the page number: "And in all the fertile farmlands, / the barren plains, / the mountain villages, / smoke-smeared cities, / we start to MOVE" (Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, "I Am Joaquín," 2).

o For subsequent citations of the same work, only mention the author's last or identifying name and the page number: "But my spirit is strong, / My faith unbreakable, / My blood is pure" (Gonzales, 3).

• Each essay will be submitted as an attachment through Moodle. You will upload each essay to the appropriate assignment box in "Week 8."

Prompts:

1. Postwar American society-especially its affluent suburbs-seemed happy and prosperous. But beneath the surface seethed anger and frustration with a constrictive and suppressive status quo. Such movements exploded during the 1960s and 1970s and included Civil Rights, Feminism, Gay Liberation, Chicano activism, and the youthful New Left. a. Identify and explain the Port Huron Statement's four biggest criticisms of mainstream American society. b. Connect these criticisms to the movements listed above: how does that "New Left" vision relate to those other protests?
2. The upheaval of the Sixties prompted a backlash from large segments of the American public. These voters would include Richard Nixon's so-called "Silent Majority" as well as a resurgent conservative social and political movement.

1. Analyze and discuss the four principal values of the Sharon Statement.
2. Connect those values to the electoral successes of Richard Nixon and other Republicans during the late Sixties and early Seventies.
3. Explain how this conservative reaction relates to the upheaval associated with the movements listed in Essay #1.