Dogs in the U.S. households History Research Paper
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Hi. This research paper is for my "Sex, Love, Family: Relationships in Recent American History and Pop Culture" class's final project. I uploaded all the research paper's prompt, guidelines, and grading criteria. In this research paper, I have chosen "Dogs" to be my topic. You will find a), b),c),d),e),f) steps in the research paper instruction. I have completed a), b),c) steps. I will copy and paste it into a word document and upload it for you. Notice that I have completed the bibliography for the sources in this research paper. This bibliography is just my suggestion, if when you are writing this paper, you found better historical sources. You can choose yours and then write the new bibliography. Please!!! Please!!!! Read the guidelines and follow it carefully!!!! This final project is very important to me! Thank you so much! If you have any concerns or questions please send me a message. We need to communicate. It would be the best if you can send me a rough outline/ draft in the next 2,3 days. Appreciate it!
HI303 Multimedia Essay Guidelines and Grading Rubric
THESIS (30 points)
Is there a clear argument guiding the essay? Is it historical (rather than political, philosophical, etc.), arguable (something with which someone else might reasonably disagree), and provable (something for which supporting historical evidence can be marshaled)?
To ensure your thesis leads to a clear and interesting argument, ask: If you had to give a lecture to the class about your topic, what would you want your listeners to comprehend?
To ensure your thesis is historical, make sure it answers: What are the origins of your topic and how specifically has it changed over time?
To ensure it is arguable, make sure there is a reasonable counterargument to your thesis?
To ensure it is provable, confirm that the evidence you present in the essay relates directly to the thesis and backs up your claims.
EVIDENCE and ANALYSIS (20 points)
Have you gathered an array of useful secondary sources (scholarship about your topic written by others looking back at the history) and illuminating primary sources (documents created in the time period you are studying)? An outstanding research essay will draw evidence from at least ten well-chosen sources, roughly two-thirds of which should be primary sources. Be extra cautious about using internet sites, especially as secondary sources. Are they reputable sources?
Do you analyze the evidence you’ve found with care and insight? Do you alert the reader to subtleties that may not be apparent to a casual viewer or reader? Do you reflect upon the larger meanings and importance of your topic? In other words, what does this reveal about American culture and history more broadly?
STRUCTURE (20 points)
Is your essay written in an engaging, clear style free from grammatical and historical or other factual errors? Is it interesting? Is there a train of logic, leading from paragraph to paragraph—either a chronology or a series of claims moving the essay from point to point? Does each paragraph lead with a guiding claim, and is the rest of each paragraph full of evidence and analysis helping to prove its main claim?
MULTIMEDIA USE (15 points)
Does your essay make optimal use of its digital, multimedia format? Does it present compelling audiovisual evidence that directly supports the essay’s argument? Do all the links work, and have you correctly attributed all the evidence?
PRESENTATION (15 points)
Does the layout for your essay make for enjoyable, easy reading, and does it follow all required format specifications? Check your final draft for the following:
-roughly 2,500 word count
- a readable font
-left justified paragraphs
- functioning, embedded A/V illustrations, with credit captions
- correct ordering for your webpage’s components:
Essay Title;
Author Name;
Essay;
Footnotes conforming to Chicago Manual of Style citation
For citation format help, see: https://www(dot)chicagomanualofstyle(dot)org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html
Research Project: 2,500 Word Multimedia Essay Develop a research project that reveals the history of some aspect of intimate American life: a certain everyday object (eg. love songs, greeting cards, chores, or obituaries), a common practice (eg. bullying, babyproofing, or kissing), event (bachelorette parties, honeymoons) a type of person (eg. in laws, orphans, siblings, or chaperones), or a cultural stereotype (the Jewish mother, the Latin lover). The smaller your topic the better this assignment will go (something weird or obscure but revealing would work well). What are your subject’s origins and how and why has it changed over time? What does your research reveal about the broader culture—what’s actually at stake in this bizarre relic or custom? In other words, if you gave the class a lecture on your subject, what story would you tell and why? Your goal will be to gather and analyze an array of sources and make a compelling argument that enriches your readers’ understanding of recent American history. A strong essay will go beyond providing a simple summary report. It will be anchored by a complex, arguable thesis that is developed and sustained throughout. It will also rest on a sold, creatively assembled body of evidence—from the course lectures and readings as well as outside research. The finished product should demonstrate the writer’s interest in the topic and ability to engage the material using skills and knowledge gained from the course. Your progress on the research project will be assisted by a series of workshops and deadlines during the course of the semester: a) About the Author Statement To familiarize yourself with creating text and embedding images in Google Docs, find your page on our course site, write two to three sentences about yourself, and post a picture—perhaps from your childhood, enduring a family vacation, etc.
b) Essay Proposal Above your About the Author statement, add a 500-word essay proposal, pitching your idea for the final assignment. Explain your specific question, problem, or strange small thing you want to explore. Convince us that you should be allowed to write about it. Add some ethnographic observations about your practice as it appears in American culture today, explain why you find it interesting, and speculate about how researching your topic’s longer history might reveal new insights.
c) Comment on Peers’ Proposals 12 Students will be assigned to small groups. In the comments sections provide feedback on the proposals of your group members. Can you think of any sources they should consult? Would their project benefit by being narrower? What else might help them get their research underway?
d) Research Report and Annotated Bibliography Add to your Google Docs page a detailed paragraph outlining how you’ve gone about your research. Summarize what you’ve found so far and what you haven’t found but wish you could. Reflect on how you might best make use of a multimedia format. Append to this an annotated bibliography of the ten most important sources that you will use in your essay (in other words, include the sources full bibliographic citation and write a few sentences under each entry explaining why it is so useful).
e) Rough Draft Expand upon the writing you have done in your proposal and research report, following the tips in the syllabus about crafting a strong research essay. Keep (or update) your Bibliography and About the Author statement. Peruse the site to view other students’ work and offer helpful, constructive feedback on at least five other students’ projects.
f) Comments on Rough Drafts Students will be assigned to a new small group.
Read the drafts of your group members and offer them substantive feedback in the comments section by answering the following:
1) what is the most interesting aspect/detail of the draft? What is their thesis as you understand it? What would be a reasonable counterargument to their thesis? Is a counterargument employed effectively in the draft and if not how might it be? What other revisions would make the essay more compelling? Final Draft. Replace your draft with a final essay. Your final webpage should feature a Title and complete essay with audiovisual supplementary material interspersed, followed by your About the Author Statement, followed by your bibliography.
2) Papers will be graded based on the following criteria: Thesis and Line of Argument (30 points); Evidence and Analysis (20 points); Structure (20 points); Presentation and Multimedia use (30 points). Guidelines and a more detailed grading rubric for the final project will be distributed in class. 13 Grading and Expectations for the Final Project: Final projects for this course should draw specifically on course lectures and assigned sources as well as on your own independent research. Your goal is not simply to summarize and regurgitate the ideas of others, but rather to craft an original essay that builds upon the work we have done together over the course of the semester. You should support your thesis with detailed evidence and analysis that is sustained throughout the entire essay in a clear and cogent manner. Your argument should be a historical rather than political or philosophical one; your job is to make claims about what Americans thought and did (and why) at a particular time, NOT what you personally think about certain beliefs or policies. Try to imagine and uncover the historical conditions lead people to think in particular ways at particular moments. Note: In order to avoid charges of plagiarism, it is essential that you carefully attribute the sources of all of your knowledge.
3) Essays will be evaluated according to the following criteria: An “A” range essay is both ambitious and successful. It presents a perceptive and independent argument backed up by well-chosen evidence, a creative and compelling use of sources, and sensitivity to historical context. It demonstrates that the writer has grappled seriously with the issues of the course, has done a close, critical reading of the texts, and has synthesized the readings, lectures, and well-chosen, clearly-attributed outside sources. It also makes creative, effective use of multimedia materials and is presented in a readable, engaging online format. A “B” range essay is one that is ambitious but only partially successful, or one that achieves modest aims well. It may demonstrate many of the aspects of A-level work, but falls short in organization and clarity, the formulation and presentation of its argument, the depth of source analysis, or its formatting and use of multimedia material. It demonstrates a command of course material, proper attribution of sources, and an understanding of historical context and contains flashes of insight, but lacks consistency or depth in the argument, or easy online readability. A “C” range essay has significant problems in articulating and presenting its argument, or seems to lack a central argument entirely. Oftentimes, C-range papers offer little more than a summary of information covered in the course, or they might prove insensitive to historical context, contain factual errors, unclear writing, poor organization and presentation, or insufficient evidence. A “D” essay, in addition to displaying the shortcomings of a C-range paper, also fails to grapple seriously with either ideas or texts, or fails to address the expectations of the assignment. A D essay suggests seriously insufficient command of the course material. An “F” essay falls short in the manner of a “D” essay. It is also often significantly shorter than the assigned length, does not demonstrate even a glint of potentially original thought, and suggests a lack of effort or no competence in the material at hand.
Americans and Dogs
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The research was conducted through the internet by use of search engine tools such as Google scholar and YouTube to locate relevant materials on dog history in the world and specifically in America. The existence of dogs in the United States of America can be traced back to over 10,000 years ago. History records that dogs came to America from Siberia to Alaska a period that was marked by commencement of dog’s domestication in America. History shows that dogs were present in America even before the coming of the European colonialists, however, the origin as well as fate of the pre-contact dogs is barely known. The initial dog population in North America later spread throughout America and remained in isolation for close to 9000 years. However, there have been at least three independent re-introduction of dogs within the past 1000 years in America. The first group probably comprised of Arctic dogs which are associated with Thule culture. Afterwards, at the beginning of the 15th century, the Europeans arrived with the second group that completely acted as replacement of the native dogs. Then the last group was considered to be the Siberian huskies introduced to the American Arctic in the era of Alaskan gold rush. However, the modern American dog population is largely a derivative of Eurasian breeds.[Walther, Matthew. “How America Is Anthropomorphizing Pets and Abandoning Babies.” Image, The Week, 22 Aug. 2018, https://theweek.com/articles/791455/how-]
In earlier ages, in North America, there was dire wolf, which was a dog also referred to as Canis dirus alongside Canis lupus. The grey wolves, Canis lupus coexisted with human beings for close to 400000 years that also includes the time of creation of the earth. The Himalayan wolf is believed to have existed over 800000 years ago. Such early traces show the existence of a wide habitat for Canis lupus within Europe and Asia. The habitat for the dire wolf was considered limited before 10000 B.C.E within the regions of southern Alberta and Peru before its demise due to different factors. Evidently, history records that over one thousand dire wolves died within the pits in southern California. The pits were the centers where asphalt accumulated for thousands of years and led to extinction of different kinds of animals amongst them the dire wolves. The most recent evidence of the dog species are from the western United States within the period 7500 BCE long after the crossing of Bering Strait by humans. There are many dog breeds in America that resulted from the mix between the breed of Spanish and French dogs.[Pedersen, April, et al. “The Dog Delusion.” TheHumanist.com, 17 Mar. 2014, https:// thehumanist.com/magazine/november-december-2009/features/the-dog-delusion.]
The current dog breeds as recorded are descendants of modern gray wolf which originally inhabited Europe before crossing to America. Over, a span of thousands of years, wolves were domesticated and reared by human beings for different purposes. Some of the purposes range from hunting, tracking, labor, corralling, companionship as well as guarding. This resulted into existence of different wide variety of different species of dogs. For instance, in the Northern part of America, some tribes trusted domestication of wolves while others opposed the issues, therefore, keeping dogs at away and even some hunted and ate dogs. Theory states that the domestication of dogs in America began when Native Americans found a line of compromise between human and wolves. In this case, wolves realized that there was easy meal by just hanging around humans while human realized the importance of dogs in several ways. Colonialism also contributed to the evolution of dogs in America. This is since dogs had long been bred in Europe for the purposes of hunting as well as sports and were part of the colonists that came to America in the 16th and 19th centuries. This led to the coexistence between European and American dogs which were afterwards bred for specialized purposes.
The important discovery is that dogs were bred for a defined end that include being stronger, faster, more obedient, better workers and smellers and being docile amongst other purposes. Dogs were welcomed into the homes as pets as well as companions over the last two centuries. Consequently, the breeding of dogs have now resulted in the production of smaller, cute, prettier, docile and more adorable breeds. Currently, vast majority of dogs are kept as pets while others used to work. For example, the k-9 breed are always trained for use in the police as well as in the military where they help in operations. More recently, working dogs acquired some rights that include chance to be adopted upon retirement rather than being chased away. Service dogs are very essential especially in the lives of those with disabilities. They are used for several purposes such as acting as the eyes of the blind to being used to sense any near occurrence of seizures.[“Eat, Prey, Love: Vietnam's Dogs Double as Family Members and Dinner.”] [Vitto, Laura. “Top 10 Dog Breeds in the U.S. and Why We Love Them.” Mashable, 7 Nov. 2014]
At the point of its first domestication, dogs, for most of the time served humans as workers instead of companions. Dogs were domesticated basically for practical issues such as herding livestock, hunting as well as guarding. However, with time, they could be considered as symbols for social, political as well as economic status depending on the breed owned by an individual. Such meaning has greatly changed over the years owing to the elimination of the class barrier attached to owning a dog. In modern times, there are a number of dogs serving different roles within different domains such as in the armed forces, hospitals as well as for security checks. The influence of education, marital status and household income has revolutionized the use of dogs at different capacities. For instance, a significant number of people consider dogs as part of their children, therefore, open to share personal effects including space with them. This changes the nature of the living patterns alongside consumption for the purposes to accommodate dogs.[Brulliard, Karin. “Why Do We Love Pets? An Expert Explains.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 1 Apr. 2019,]
Historically, there is evidence and great consideration on the fact that dogs have had impact on the success of human beings. There is a shared history between human and dogs that could be described as either cruel or full of Joy. Dogs are currently seen as part of the phenomenon popular culture within the modern American societies with scholars from every front ascending to write concerning their findings as well as understandings of dogs for public consumption. The history as recorded by different authors shows that dogs may have been very essential in the survival of human species. The hypothesis of Walther shows that the existence of dogs dates back to the times of Homo sapiens evolutionary period, which could be approximately less than 15,000 years ago. Their evolution from the size of a fox started when grazing animals dominated the open plains about 10 million years ago where dogs started migrating to Europe, Asia, and Africa and back to North America. At the same time, dogs are considered the initial natives of America, being referred to as village dogs, which were known to roam around early human societies.[Walther, Matthew. “How America Is Anthropomorphizing Pets and Abandoning Babies.” Image, The Week, 22 Aug. 2018]
The village dogs were known to impose their existence around the people of the villages of their choice but living as scavengers. At the same time, dogs could alternatively be considered for the worse of human beings, since they can be source of potential hate amongst those disliking them and at the same time instill fear amongst those with phobias for dogs. From the perspective of Walther dogs may have contributed towards the activities of homo sapiens that enabled them to prevail against their competitors, the Neanderthal man, through a process known as co-evolution. Moreover, the belief that dogs besides impacting human survival also inspired some dynamics within t...
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