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Assignments for this course take the form of written summaries, research, and analysis. They are designed to help us work through the course objectives, while keeping a focus on our spiritual growth through conceptual learning.

For each assignment, please develop a document and submit it to me in either Microsoft Word or HTML format (your word processing software should permit you to do a "save as" and choose either of those formats).

Each assignment can be completed by consulting Web-based materials listed on the course Resource page.

Assignment 1  Assignment 2  Assignment 3  Assignment 4

Assignment 5 Assignment 6

Reading Assignment 5

Read the articles in the following links and other online resources relevant to the Modern History in order to prepare yourself for your writing assignment.

http://www.mrdowling.com/708europe.html

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/PubEd/research/europe.html 

Writing Assignment  5

Write an essay from your own perspective on Modern History. What have you learned. What can man-kind learn form the past both good and bad experiences from the past. This assignment will as will the others be 10-15 pages single spaced in MLA or APA style.

Writing Assignment  5B

Answer any 3 of the following questions

1.Crane Brinton in his book The Anatomy of Revolution considers the seizure of power by radicals from the moderates as necessary for the carrying through of a revolution. Who were the radicals and how successful were they in gaining control of events in the English Revolution of the 17^th century, the French Revolution of the 18^th century, the European revolutions of 1848, and the Russian Revolution of the 20^th century?

2.What reasons seem to you to best explain why the industrial revolution began in England in the 18^th century, spread to France and Belgium in the first half of the 19^th century, and made a profound impression on Russia only in the 20^th century?

3.What is the "Balance of Power," its origins, its aims, and achievements? Is it necessary?

4.To what extent do economic and social conditions explain why England's revolution against absolute monarchy came in the 17^th century, France's in the 18^th century, and Russia's early in the 20th century?

5.How important is religion in explaining the intellectual, economic, and political developments of European history since 1500?

6. One of the chief problems facing mankind today is how to regulate relations among sovereign states in such a manner as to avoid war. Discuss the success or failure of the various of efforts to create new organs of international scope and authority from the 17^th century to the present. You may draw upon the work of the Duc de Sully, Hugo Grotius, Castlereagh, and the founders of the European Union.

Format:
Your paper should be 10-15 pages in length and your strategy documentation should be developed in good report form, using either MLA or APA style for all external resources.