Write paper placing your family story or particular story

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Assignment: This paper is about history.

Interview someone in your family (preferably a grandparent or someone older) or someone who is important to you. Ask them a range of questions, asking them about their family history and their personal stories. After your interview, write a 2 page typed (double-spaced 12 point font) paper placing your family story or a particular story in its historical context. Try to think about what historical forces or social structures were impacting the story/stories you have chosen to highlight.

Suggestions:

1. Ask the big life questions. Facts are much less interesting than questions regarding love, life challenges, influences and regret. Some key questions to ask: Who is the person who has been kindest to you in your life? What do you feel most grateful for? What is your happiest memory? What are you proudest of? Can you remember a time when you've felt alone? If you were to die suddenly this evening, what would you most regret having not told someone? "The best stories come from asking open-ended questions," says Isay. "For StoryCorps, the thing you don't want to do is recite your CV. We want the aspects of a person that can't be written down easily, that haven't been said before. The big life questions are the best."

2. Pour your attention into the interview. "The most important things about listening is to be very present," says Isay. "To have all your devices off, and to genuinely connect and actively listen to whoever it is you're talking to. When I used to do radio interviews, I'd sit forward, and it was almost like a laser beam between me and the person I was talking to. It was often very intense, present, active, concentrated listening. It is counterintuitive, but it should feel draining to you. At the end of the 40 minutes, as the person doing the listening, you should be more tired than the person doing the talking."

3. Be an active participant in the conversation. Just because you're listening, doesn't mean you can't engage. "Active listening doesn't stop you from participating in the conversation. You can laugh, cry and ask follow-up questions. But what you're not doing is bringing it back to yourself. Be generous. Try not to think about your kids or what movie you're going to see that night."

4. Remember it's not the "story" that matters. "When you're doing a StoryCorps interview, you are creating a sense of who a human being is. You are capturing your interaction with them and who they are as a person. The "truth" of a story is maybe more important than the drama of a story. It is the interview experience itself that matters."

5. Say thank you. Conducting a StoryCorps interview is simultaneously about giving the gift of listening, and being grateful for being entrusted with the gift of a person's story. Isay notes that, during an interview, a person's back will literally straighten as they talk, and that you'll notice your own perspective shifting as they speak. And that's why a heartfelt thank you is vital at the end. Ultimately, StoryCorps is about recognizing that each life matters "equally and infinitely." Says Isay: "We're always grateful."

Great Questions for Anyone -

  • Who has been the most important person in your life? Can you tell me about him or her?
  • What was the happiest moment of your life? The saddest?
  • Who has been the biggest influence on your life? What lessons did that person teach you?
  • Who has been the kindest to you in your life?
  • What are the most important lessons you've learned in life?
  • What is your earliest memory?
  • What is your favorite memory of me?
  • Are there any funny stories your family tells about you that come to mind?
  • Are there any funny stories or memories or characters from your life that you want to tell me about?
  • What are you proudest of?
  • When in life have you felt most alone?
  • If you could hold on to one memory from your life forever, what would that be?
  • How has your life been different than what you'd imagined?
  • How would you like to be remembered?
  • Do you have any regrets?
  • What does your future hold?
  • What are your hopes for what the future holds for me? For my children?
  • If this was to be our very last conversation, is there anything you'd want to say to me
  • For your great great grandchildren listening to this years from now: is there any wisdom you'd want to pass on to them? What would you want them to know?
  • Is there anything that you've never told me but want to tell me now?
  • Is there something about me that you've always wanted to know but have never asked?

Grandparents

  • Where did you grow up?
  • What was your childhood like?
  • Who were your favorite relatives?
  • Do you remember any of the stories they used to tell you?
  • How did you and grandma/grandpa meet?
  • What was my mom/dad like growing up?
  • Do you remember any songs that you used to sing to her/him? Can you sing them now?
  • Was she/he well-behaved?
  • What is the worst thing she/he ever did?
  • What were your parents like?
  • What were your grandparents like?
  • How would you like to be remembered?
  • Are you proud of me?

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This essay focuses on the history of United States of America, the effects of Second World War on the society. This essay also focuses on the lifestyle of the year 1940, how the grandparents used to live their lives during that time. IT also focuses how the parents used to live their childhood when cable television was first introduced. And lastly it focuses on the course of the history of USA.

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len1885367

3/3/2018 2:49:01 AM

This paper is about history. I have attached file how to write this paper and last time you told me that you going to give me discount on my this paper as your last paper received D grade. please follow the instruction and do paper. I need two different solution. It is of HIST 1302 . I am living in Texas, US and i am from Nepal. And essay must be on history of US.

len1885367

3/3/2018 2:48:56 AM

Mechanics: This paper is written far above the minimum standards. It includes all the positive qualities of the B paper listed. In addition, it displays originality, imagination, vitality, and a personal voice for the author. But the principal characteristic of the "A" paper is its rich content and analysis. The quality, quantity, clarity, and density of the information delivered is such that the reader feels significantly taught by the author, sentence after sentence, paragraph after paragraph. The "A" paper is also marked by stylistic finesse: the title and the opening are engaging; the transitions are artful; the phrasing is tight, fresh, and specific; the tone enhances the purpose of the paper. The "A" paper, because of its careful organization and development, imparts a feeling of wholeness and clarity.

len1885367

3/3/2018 2:48:50 AM

The primary sources (the oral histories) and the historical context are seamlessly interwoven. The student has successfully used the sources to construct an original and insightful history that connections the individual accounts to the larger historical context to create a unique understanding of the historical actors, processes, or actions. It is more than competent. Besides being almost free of mechanical errors, the "B" paper delivers substantial information--that is, substantial in both quantity and in relevance. Its specific points are logically ordered, well-developed, and unified around a clear organizing principle that is apparent early in the paper. It has positive value that goes beyond the avoidance of error, but it lacks one or more qualities that would bring it close to perfection. It may develop an idea fully and accurately but lack elements of originality.

len1885367

3/3/2018 2:48:43 AM

Stylistically, the opening paragraph draws the reader; the closing paragraph is both conclusive and thematically related to the opening. The transitions between paragraphs are, for the most part, smooth, the sentence structures varied. In general, a "B" paper offers substantial information with few distractions. The B paper, then, is a complete paper in fulfilling the assignment, but lacks something in organization, clarity, richness of detail, quantity of information, or cleanness of style. The B paper is always mechanically correct. The spelling is good, and the punctuation is accurate. Above all, the paper makes sense throughout. It has a thesis that is limited and worth arguing. It does not contain unexpected digressions, and it ends by keeping the promise to argue and inform that the writer makes in the beginning.

len1885367

3/3/2018 2:48:38 AM

The primary sources (the oral histories) are used and there is an attempt to connect them with the larger historical context, but the connections are incomplete or underdeveloped. The student does not give the complete explanations between the micro-historical analysis and the macro-historical happenings in his/her paper. It is generally competent but lacks intellectual rigor; it meets the assignment, has few mechanical errors and is reasonably well-organized and developed.

len1885367

3/3/2018 2:48:31 AM

The actual information it delivers, however, seems thin and commonplace. One reason for that impression is that the ideas are typically cast in the form of vague generalities--generalities in presentation of theory, experimental findings, or even application examples. The paper may not be developed fully, its logic may be unconvincing or its organization, paragraphs, or sentences weak. Stylistically, the "C" paper has other shortcomings: a weak opening paragraph, a perfunctory conclusion, strained transitions, choppy and monotonous sentence patterns, and diction marred by repetition, redundancy, and imprecision.

len1885367

3/3/2018 2:48:26 AM

This type of paper may be relatively correct in grammatical form, but its content may be uninspired or thin, thus warranting a grade no higher than C. The student has only used the primary sources (oral histories) to construct a singular narrative of what happened to his/her source. There is no sense of how the source’s life or stories are connected to the larger historical context, or how their life was affected by or affected the larger historical processes. The D paper either has no thesis or else it has one that is strikingly vague, broad, or uninteresting. There is little indication that the writer understands the material being presented. The paragraphs do not hold together; ideas do not develop from sentence to sentence. This paper usually repeats the same thoughts again and again, perhaps in slightly different language but often in the same words. The paper is filled with mechanical faults, errors in grammar, and errors in spelling. The student does not conduct the required oral interview or does not use the primary sources. The student does not follow directions or present a historical narrative.

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