Write a 4-5-page essay on the question listed below. The paper is due at 11:59 PM on Thursday, November 21. Five points (out of 100) will be deducted from late papers at the deadline, and five more points will be deducted for every additional 24-hour period that the paper has not been submitted.
The essay should be in 12-point, Times New Roman font, double-spaced and with 0-point space before or after paragraphs, with 1” margins on all sides. Number all pages, with your last name next to the page number in the footer. Do not include a cover sheet—simply put the following information in the top left- hand corner of the first page, single-spaced:
Name
Date
Hist 4340 –
Paper #2
Before the deadline, you must submit an electronic copy of the paper in a .doc or .docx file to Dropbox on the course D2L page. You can find the link to Dropbox on the menu bar at the top of the course homepage. I will deduct points from papers that do not follow all of these submission guidelines. Ask if you’re not sure how to do one of these things, and I’ll provide specific instructions.
Successful answers will utilize significant material from the books in responding to the question. Be sure to cite all evidence used in the paper—whether it is a quotation, a summary of an author’s point, or even a simple fact—using parenthetical references with the author’s last name and the page number in the book where you found the information, i.e.: Gapon writes: “The long misery of the Russian nation has not been in vain. It had accumulated, as it were, a store of electric force in the moral atmosphere of the nation, so that, when the St. Petersburg strike came about, only a flash was needed to ignite the mass of inflammable material” (Gapon, 5). Or, if it’s not a quote: After recounting his dream, Father Gapon claims that the miserable conditions long endured by the Russian people helped to fuel the 1905 Revolution (Gapon, 5). To cite from a film, please provide the title (shortened, if the title is long) with a time stamp in the parenthetical reference, i.e., When the women’s brigade comes to taunt the men for being slow in completing their field work, Klim tells the women: “We’re thinking of beating you…. And that’s not all. We’ve decided, after work, to learn tank driving, one, target-shooting, two, and working in gas masks, three…. We, the future Red Army soldiers, can’t do without it!” (Tractor Drivers, 54:21). There’s no need to include a “Works Cited” page. All work on this assignment must be your own, and the use of sources from outside of the course is not permitted.
The use of artificial intelligence is not permitted in writing any assignment in this course. Your work will be subjected to AI-detection software. Any work that registers as having been written substantially with the help of AI programs may receive a score of 0%.
For three bonus points toward the paper grade, you may visit the MTSU Writing Center with a draft of your paper. At the end of your appointment with the writing tutor, request that they send you the Writing Center’s report on your meeting by email. Forward that email to me, and I will add the three bonus points to my gradesheet.
All work on this paper must be your own, completed without unauthorized aid. Plagiarism—or presenting the work of another person as your own—is an unfortunate reality on college campuses today. If a plagiarized paper is submitted to me, I will report the case immediately to the MTSU Office of Academic Integrity. If Academic Integrity finds that the paper has been plagiarized, the penalty is an F for the course. The university may levy additional penalties, including suspension and even expulsion. On D2L, your work will be subjected to TurnItIn software designed to detect instances of plagiarism. Most plagiarized work—generally stolen from Internet sources—is easy to identify and of very low quality. You are much better off making use of your own creative mind to analyze the material than submitting poor work done by a stranger in response to an unrelated set of questions. If you are thinking of plagiarizing, ask yourself if it is worth the risk of getting kicked out of school. Of course, if you are unsure if something constitutes plagiarism, I would be glad to clarify citation requirements and discuss how to avoid unintentional forms of plagiarism in your work. Do not be afraid to ask if you have questions!
Without further ado, here is your question:
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In The Fur Hat, Soviet writers are issued hats according to their presumed value to the Soviet system. Imagine that you are a Soviet official assigned to issue hats to the men and women in Russia’s Sputnik Generation. Select two individuals from the book: one man and one woman. Write a memo to your boss that 1) assigns your chosen individuals specific kinds of hats, and 2) explains the reasons for your decisions. Make sure to be specific about what concrete factors you used in your determination, using citations from both The Fur Hat and Russia’s Sputnik Generation. How would you assess this individual’s value to the Soviet system?