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Reading History Critically: Article Analysis Assignment

Please follow the steps below to complete the assignment.

Step 1: Choose and read one article from list A, and one article from list B. While you are reading take notes about what is being presented in the articles you have chosen. You are going to need to provide some commentary on these articles, so be sure your notes are detailed. A good idea is to try to answer some of the questions above as you are reading along in the articles you have chosen

Note: Don't be distracted by the debate about celebrating Columbus Day in the U.S.A. Since we don't celebrate Columbus Day in Canada, we're not concerned with that, rather we are interested in attempting to understand Columbus more generally.

Article List A (Choose one article from this list):

‘On Columbus Day, Celebrate Western Civilization, Not Multiculturalism'

‘Let's Take Back Columbus Day'

Article B (Choose one article from this list)

Why Rethink Columbus?

Goodbye Columbus!

Celebrating Columbus Day: Americans Observe October Holiday to Honour Mass-murderer (this article is can be found in Module 1 menu as a PDF).

Step 2: In a Word document, write up your response to the two articles following the guidelines below.

Using full sentences and paragraphs, answer the following questions for each article:

(1) What perspective is this article written from (i.e., an Indigenous point of view, one endorsing Columbus' actions, one endorsing civil or human rights?)

(2) How can you tell? What, specifically, are the clues?

(3) Who benefits from this version of events? How?

Be sure your write-up makes it clear which article you're discussing. (Include the titles / author)
Answer the following questions about both articles together:

(4) Which perspective makes more sense to you? Why?

(5) Do you take issue with any of the ideas or attitudes in either article? Name and explain your issues.

Tips for the successful completion of this assignment:

• Clearly organize your work in well organized, clearly worded, and grammatically correct paragraphs.
• Be certain use evidence from your readings to support your claims.
• Be sure to double-check your work for errors of grammar, spelling, and logic.
• Successful submissions should be written in Word, and they should run from 500-800 words in length. What is important here is making sure that your critique is clearly supported by the quotations you use from our course material. You are free to go over the limit in the case of more involved responses. Strive to create organized readable material.

Attachment:- Assignment Introduction.rar