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Cultural Change 
The Native American Boarding School Experience was more of an experiment that many where forced into after the reservation system was seen as a failure and a reform was called for in the 1870’s, though by 1879 the assimilation of the Native Americans was seen as a possible solution to the reservation system failure, this forced many Native American kids to be put into the Native American Boarding School Experiment where they were forced to learn the Protestant American life style and social ways.
Your sentence is poorly organized and redundant, but it is a topic sentence.
The Native American Boarding School Experience, which begun in 1879, and the Dawes Act, passed by Congress in 1887, addressed the conflict of assimilation versus the “unassimilatable” which many Native Americans struggled with.
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union an example of the missionary impulse behind the late-nineteenth century reform which sponsored home for unwed mothers and day and night nurseries for the children of working women, its organized by African American women into local chapters separate from those of white women.
This is not a topic sentence because you did not begin the sentence with a topic from the cultural change topic list. Follow directions.
The cultural change of Indians rooted from The Indian Boarding School movement, which caused them to abandon native culture, and the Dawes Act which encouraged them to farm and apply for citizenship.
Follow directions. You began your sentence with a theme, not a topic. If your topic is Indian Boarding Schools, then begin with that, not the theme.
Topic # 7: Native American Boarding School Experience
The Native American Boarding School Experience was a way to turn Indian children into an “imitation of a white-man”; the children had to choose a white name, were given new clothing to wear, had to cut their hair and were taught to speak only the english language.
The role of education in American society brought diversity while dealing with assimilation and segregation.
The Native American boarding school experience highlighted the rigid racial and nationalistic boundaries set in Carlisle Indian School on students like Luther Standing Bear and other Native American children who attended.
High school became normal for children to attend once machines were introduced and the middle class grew, meaning that children were no longer expected to be wage-earners for their families.
Good try. Begin your sentence with a topic from the topic list. Your sentence should begin with the phrase, “The role of education in American society changed when High School became normal . . .
Urban Culture in emerging early American cities can be attributed to the steel provided by Carnegie, and the fuel by Rockefeller; amongst these tycoons civil engineers helped develop the infrastructure that was needed to keep the booming city functional, keep transportation going, the lights on and the environmental impact of business conduct away from citizens to keep them healthy.
Good topic sentence on urban culture.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic #19: Women’s Sufferage Movement and the 19th Amendment
The Women’s Sufferage Movement inspired American activists to create new tactics which led to the enactment of the 19th Amendment: women’s right right to vote.
Good topic sentence on women’s suffrage.
New business culture based on scientific management and mass production, which can be attributed to the book ‘The Principles of Scientific Management’ written by Frederick W. Taylor, helped Henry Ford be one of the most successful industrialists of the Progressive Era.
Excellent topic sentence on the new business culture and its impact on production.
The role of people of color and immigrants in changing America’s leisure culture was significant in the way that jazz music, pioneered by musicians such as Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton, evolved from slave songs and spirituals.
Excellent topic sentence on the role of minorities in cultural generation.
Topic 22
The beginnings of mass culture and mass entertainment as an alternative to regional difference empowered groups, which normally confronted discrimination, by more effectively, communicating their portrayals of life to a broader audience.
Good first try. The sentence left me wondering if the statement is accurate. I would have to see what your topic paragraph looks like to better judge what you are getting at.
The lack of governmental intervention moves the U.S. towards a state of regress, giving birth to the red scare, black scare, and anarchy.
Your sentence lacks accuracy because it is not accurate to claim the red scare represented a lack of government intervention since the Palmer Raids were carried out by the federal government, as were government deportations.
Beginnings of Mass Culture, Mass Entertainment, and Mass Leisure in the 1920s is were we see this big theme of culture change and really this would start to influence people on how to buy and sell products and this would also change how the younger generation starts to change its ways of sexual and personal interaction with each other.
Your sentence has a very good content but is overly wordy. You do not need to include the phase “we see this big theme of culture change and really this.” Otherwise, good work.
Topic 22: changing sexual mores in the 1920’s
As the 1920’s came around there was a huge movement and change for women, with the divorce rates rising and women’s rights activists taking charge many were able to gain their independence from their husbands and live a lifestyle that they had never dreamed of, along with the cultural change in music, the roaring 20’s was a new and improved era for women.
You need a sharper focus on what your topic is about. You selected changing sexual mores in the 1920s. What happened there?
Beginnings of mass culture, mass entertainment, and mass leisure, experienced by many through automobiles and radio, showcases 1920s prosperity.
Good topic sentence on the drivers of mass culture and entertainment.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic # 22: Changing Sexual Mores in the 1920s
During the 1920’s gender and sexual mores were challenged by a new generation.
Module 6
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic #22: Changing Sexual Mores in the 1920’s
Changing Sexual Mores in the 1920’s allowed freedom of expression that led to the stripping of the Victorian image in place of “Flapper Girls”.
Good topic sentence on changing sexual mores with appropriate vocabulary reference on the content side.
Sterilization Movement
Theme 6: Cultural Change/Topics: 22-25
Several states beginning in 1907, enacted laws that “inferior” individuals were sterilized without need of knowledge and consent.
Good content, but your topic should be placed at the beginning of the topic sentence.
Laissez faire in the 19th Century became the freedom that commerce had needed for quite sometime.
Your content is vaguely formulated. Why was this particular time important for laissez faire?
Good topic sentence, rich in references to key cultural changes.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic #23: Beginnings of Mass Culture, Mass Entertainment, and Mass Leisure
Beginnings of Mass Culture, Mass Entertainment, and Mass Leisure changed through prohibition, Hollywood and the Harlem Renaissance, and the automobile.
Mod 4 REDO*Theme 6:Topic 19
The Women’s Suffrage Movement was supported by Ida B. Wells, an African American activist, that tried to convince the white women’s rights leaders to stop “lynching”.
Good topic sentence, rich in vocabulary related to the women’s suffrage movement.
The roles of advertising that corporation embrace of using a radio as new form of mass media during 1920s.
Good sentence as far as it goes, but it could be extended by more content drawn from the vocabulary, that deepens the content.
Role of Education in American Society meant for a new life for children and teens being able to go to school and get an education instead of earning wages for the family income.
Good topic sentence on the role of education.
Declining racial order and racism as a consequence of World War II, showcased by the slogan Double Victory, showed the small progress of great sacrifices.
Good topic sentence on the impact of war on racism.
Module 9: Theme 6: Topic 30.3
The Baby Boom or baby boom generation consisted of younger women giving birth to many children during 1946 and 1964.
Extend the content of your sentence to include the important impacts of this demographic shift.
The Baby Boom or baby boom generation consisted of younger women giving birth to many children during 1946 and 1964 creating a demographic bulge and supplying the expansion of U.S. economy, putting child-rearing as the primary focus of women’s lives and making fatherhood a badge, allowing fathers to be recognized on their own day known as “Father’s Day”.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic # 29: Rosie the Riveter: Transformation of Women’s Work Expectations During World War Two
Vocabulary chpt #23: Rosie the Riveter, Pearl Harbor attack, WAVES and WACS
Sentence:
Rosie the Riveter: Transformation of Women’s Work Expectations During World War Two changed dramatically after the Pearl Harbor attack women entered the work force to replace the men who went to fight the war as well as served in the military through the WAVES (Women’s Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) and WACS (Women’s Army Corps) they also gained more rights and freedom.
Excellent topic sentence on the transformation of women’s role during the war.
Module 8
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic #29: Rosie the Riveter: Transformation of Women’s Work Expectations during World War Two
Rosie the Riveter: Transformation of Women’s Work Expectations during World War II, redefined American women roles in society while empowering women’s economic power.
Excellent topic sentence on the empowerment of women in the economic sphere during the war.
Transformation of Women’s work expectations during World War Two, encouraged by Rosie the Riveter, brought change in the homefront through oranizations such as WAVES and WAC, and by people such as Zedda Webb Anderson.
Good topic sentence on the transformation of women’s role during the war.
The Japanese attack the Pearl Harbor shocked the nation and launch the United States immediately into the World War II.
This isn’t really a sentence about a cultural change topic. Don’t begin a topic sentence with vocabulary from your vocabulary list. Always begin with a topic from the topic list. What is your topic?
Module 9
Theme: Cultural Cange
Topic #30.3: The Baby Boom
The Baby Boom generation reflected a demographic buldge in the Post World War II era, resulting accelerated peaks in marriage and birth rates.
Good topic sentence on the baby boom generations causes and consequences.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic # 30.11: Culture of the Cold War
During the first decade of the Cold War, American society was shaped by it’s expanding economic opportunities and narrowing political freedoms.
Good content, but what is your topic from the cultural change topic list? I saw a couple that might apply, but “American society” is too brought to be an effective topic.
Module 9
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic: 30.
After World War II, the population increased substantially in what would be termed “the baby boom”, as domesticity and motherhood became America’s half-hearted solution to the emerging dissatisfaction of women toward their cultural roles.
Good topic sentence on the baby boom generation and its consequences, especially toward women.
The Baby Boom generation was created after WWII mainly by the returning soldiers and their wives wanting to settle down to have a normal family life.
Good try as far as it goes, but your sentence would be strengthened if you gave more content to what you mean by “normal.”
Theme 4: Cultural Change, Topic 6: Social Darwinism as an ideology
Social Darwinism, one of the variations of Charles Darwin’s theories that only the fittest individuals would even deserve to survive society, was distorted to give good reason for abusing the lower class.
The Civil Rights Movement tested the Jim Crow lays in the South through Brown V. Board of Education, the bus boycott and sit-ins for racial equality in public facilities.
The Civil Rights Movement tested the Jim Crow lays in the South through Brown V. Board of Education, the bus boycott and sit-ins for racial equality in public facilities.
Jackleen Barel
Good topic sentence on the civil rights movement.
Topic # 33: Desegregation, Sit-ins, and Boycotts as challenges to White Supremacy
Desegregation, sit-ins, and boycotts as challenges to white supremacy turned out to be the second most effective arsenal the segregated black community had at their disposal, the first being their presisented, unwavering, and impassioned cause to be treated with dignity and be given given their civil liberties.
Excellent topic sentence on resistance to white supremacy in the 1950s and 1960s.
Topic 31: Affluent Nuclear Families in the 1950’s
Nuclear families, suburbia and the consumer ideal all came to it’s second high point after World War 2 in the 1950’s, and from 1947 to 1961 the average American income rose by 60%, but instead of saving that extra money for hard times Americans were inclined to spend it.
This is a good topic sentence but it may contain too much specific detail for an effective topic sentence.
The baby boom, nuclear family, and suburbia, among others, helped shape and expand the American economy to an unprecedented prosperity in the 1950s.
Good topic sentence on the baby boom phenomena and its impact on society.
Immersed in the Vietnam war, America battles a cultural war at home, fought not my soldiers but by a new left, comprised of students activists and a new counter-cultural movement.
You need a clearer topic from the topic list. You have in effect two separate topics going, the antiwar movement and the countercultural movement. Which is your main topic?
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic # 38: Black Nationalism
Black Nationalism encouraged Black Pride resulting complex beliefs emphasizing cultural, political, and economic separation of African Americans from the white society.
Good topic sentence on black nationalism.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic 20: Impact of mass migrations on migrants and on the nation
The impact of mass migrations on migrants and on the nation were positive. Oppressed peoples sought greater freedom in the American North and its industrial cities. For the first time more American were living in cities rather than rural areas.
theme:Cultural Change
topic: Warren Court expansion of individual rights
The Warren Court expansion of individual rights shaped Americans society improving the quality of life giving them the liberties and justice through congress in the Civil Rights Acts, Voting Rights Act, Miranda Rights Act and many more.
Your sentence shows confusing about the topic. The Warren court did not pass any legislation you cited. Congress did. Also begin the sentence with your topic.
The anti-communist New Left considered the cold war a mask for preserving inequalities in the United States such as racial bigotry and poverty that led by the Student Democratic Society (SDS) in early 1960s.
Good topic sentence on the New Left.
Black Nationalism evoked black power through activist Malcolm X with attempted enforcement by the Black Panther Party which played a large role in urban riots and uprisings from 1964-1968.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic 35: Warren Court Expansion of Individual Rights
The Warren Court expansion of individual rights included court decisions like, Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), Miranda v. Arizona (1966), and Loving v. Virginia, all of these decision were instrumental in providing more rights to individuals.
Good topic sentence on the Warren Court.
Cultural Change
Topic # 39: Women’s Liberation
The women’s liberation was successful in the 1970s as they fought for equality in the workplace, school, and at home.
Jackleen Barel
Good topic sentence on the targets of feminist reform.
Women’s liberation were demonstrated in both angry and peaceful protest which brought to light the role of genders that were previously deemed the norm to not only women but to men as well.
Good topic sentence on the reexamination of gender in the 1970s.
The Religious Right’s challenge to cultural liberties included bringing in an ultraconservative President Ronald Reagan, protesting against the repeal of Anti-Sodomy laws, and refusing to help in the fight against HIV/AIDS, instead spouting the epidemic as a divine punishment for homosexual activity.
Good topic sentence on the Religious Right’s agenda.
Theme: Cultural change
Topic: *new: Slow food vs. Fast food
In the 1990’s obesity reached a new high among Americans, especially young boys, as our nation became a “fast food nation”.
The content of your sentence does not completely capture the topic; consider making the sentence a contrast between the two food movements.
The Rodney King incident in 1991, an African American motorist beaten by Los Angeles police and when to trial by clearing the officers involved of any wrongdoing which sparked the Los Angeles riots that left 58 people dead and $1 billion worth in property damaged.
Again your sentence is not broad enough. In this case, you don’t begin with a topic, you begin with a vocabulary term. What topic would this material be appropriately discussed under from the topic list.
Ch.26
Growing skepticism toward authority and tradition in the 1970s could have been a product of deception from our leaders like Nixon’s Watergate cover-up and the white house tapes issue.
Good topic sentence on the decline of authority after Watergate. I understand this was for chapter 27.
Module 14
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic # 56: Fatherhood Movement in the 1990s
Fatherhood Movement in the 1990s sought to break down social, racial, and political barriers that mocked the importance of a father in a child’s upbringing.
Good topic sentence on the fatherhood movement.
Module 14
Topic # 57: Same Sex Civil Unions and Opposition
Same sex civil unions, first recognized by the state of Vermont in 2000, delighted supporters of full civil liberties for gays and lesbians but was loudly and vehemently opposed, predominantly by religious groups who preferred biblical law to constitutional equality.
Another excellent topic sentence on same sex civil unions and its consequences.
Over the course of the twentieth century, racial discrimination had eased but diversity in the 1990s and the persistence of racial conflict continued to increase, in cases like O.J. Simpson Murder Trial, Rodney King Incident and the Los Angeles Riot of 1992.
Good topic sentence on the persistence of racial conflict, with a strong vocabulary on the content side.
Module 15: The U.S. in the New World Order
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic: Growing importance of a global popular culture
The growing importance of a global popular culture in America was that it created a powerful influence around the globe for advertising and being the central link for selling and buying products.
Good topic sentence on one consequences of American global popular culture. The peoples of the world want all material things American!
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic 6: Social Darwinism as an ideology
Social Darwinism as an ideology was contrived as a justification for the oppression of African Americans and the longevity of such acts as the Jim Crow Laws.
Excellent topic sentence on social darwinism because it links the theory to the practice of discrimination. It should make for a terrific topic paragraph on the first exam.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic: Native American Boarding School Experience
In 1879, the first initiative that shaped federal Indian policy was the Indian Boarding School Movement, which converted Indian children to Christianity, and forced Indians to abandon their culture and native language.
Need a clearer focus on your topic. You can achieve it by putting your topic at the beginning of the sentence. Hence, “The Native American boarding school experience, initiated in 1879 as federal indian policy converted indian children etc.
Topic # 5: Consumer Culture
During the late 1800s a new consumer culture based on entertainment and luxury materials caused various social and economical pros and cons within the nation.
Good topic sentence as far as it goes on the new consumer culture. What were the key appeals and turnoffs?
Scientific racism in the 1900’s generated a science of racial categories that justify the lynching of color people as a court order decision in Plessey v Fergusson assure segregation of races.
The role of education by the American Society wa seen by Americans as a great equalizer of social groups and a way to embrace American schooling as a means of upward mobility.
Good topic sentence on the role of public education.
The role of Education in American Society provoke outrage from W.E.B. Du Bois a scholar activist that believed minorities were merely being taught industrial careers and many immigrants decided to sponsored their own private high schools .
The role of Education in American Society provoke outrage from W.E.B. Du Bois a scholar activist that believed minorities were merely being taught industrial careers and many immigrants decided to sponsored their own private high schools grow .
Excellent topic sentence on DuBois critique of public schools for African Americans.
Scientific racism in the 1900’s generated a science of racial categories that justify the lynching of color people as a court order decision in Plessey v Fergusson assure segregation of races.
Good topic sentence on scientific racism.
Topic #11: Role of Education in American Society
The role of education in American society was varied at this time, with some groups trying to focus on and separate English speaking children and youth, and others opening schools and institutions to help minorities gain ground and integrate into this society.
Topic 22: Changing Sexual Mores in the 1920’s
The changing of sexual mores challenged 1920’s America as middle-classed youths adopted a freer, less restrictive dating style that included increased physical intimacy, a higher pre-marital pregnancy rate and, eventually, higher divorce rates.
Excellent topic sentence on changing sexual mores in the 1920s.
Topic 18:New business culture based on scientific management and mass production.
A new business culture based on scientific management and mass production had emerged in 1911 when Fredrick Winslow Taylor wrote a guide, “The Principles of Scientific management”.
You wrote a handy topic sentence on the new business culture.
With the progressive movement rising, the politics of the Third Way were split up into three major parties: the radicals, conservatives, and the progressives/liberals.
Good topic sentence on the ideological differences making for the politics of the third way.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic # 19: Women’s Suffrage Movement and the 19th Amendment
Women’s Suffrage Movement and the 19th Amendment, helped women gain equality by the great opportunity of being able to vote.
Good topic sentence on the meaning of the 19th amendment.
Topic 16
The progressive movement produced a cultural change in America successful during its period. With this movement came along three divisions of government: conservatives, radicals, and liberals/progressives. The progressives/liberals were known as “the third way”. The movement brought about the passing of the 19th Ammendment, The Food and Drug Act, child labor laws, and protective laws for women.
topic 16
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The progressive movement produced a cultural change in America successful during its period and with this movement came along three divisions of government: conservatives, radicals, and liberals/progressives to which progressives/liberals were known as “the third way”and whose movement brought about the passing of the 19th Ammendment, The Food and Drug Act, child labor laws, and protective laws for women.
Follow directions. What would your material look like if you had written a single topic sentence?
Women’s Suffrage movements found support and new rights when President Wilson supported the cause in 1916. As a result women were gaining respect and social advancements including the ability to vote.
You wrote two sentences instead of one powerful topic sentence.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic 23: Beginnings of Mass Culture, Mass Entertainment, and Mass Leisure
The beginnings of mass culture, entertainment, and leisure in the form of Radio burst onto the airwaves in the early 1920’s linking people all across America, creating a doorway to greater cultural exposure and understanding.
With cultural change on the rise, such movements such as the rise of Hollywood and the Harlem Renaissance, gave opportunities to foreigners and African Americans to showcase their talents.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic #25
The cultural conflict between science and fundamentalist religion gave rise to the Scopes trial when 24 year-old John Thomas Scopes, a Science teacher tested Tenessee law which banned the teaching of evolution in schools, by giving a lesson on evolutionary theory.
Young women of the 1910’s and 1920’s took advantage of their changing society by expressing themselves flamboyantly with short hair, knee length dresses and boyish styles and contributed to a time where sexual mores were drastically changed.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic: CULTURAL SEXUAL MORES IN THE 1920’S
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic: The beginnings of mass culture, mass entertainment, and mass leisure
The beginnings of mass culture, mass entertainment, and mass leisure arouse during the 1920’s prosperity era with the rapid growth of automobile purchases by American consumers and the innovations of radios and Hollywood movies allowed its audience to appreciate other diverse cultures and the Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes challenge white Americans to accept African Americans as equals.
Your sentence lacks clarity of expression and causality.
Hollywood and Harlem created visibility of African Americans in the arts and as a result brought change in society.
Your sentence appears to not be accurate in part. What role did Hollywood play in promoting African Americans in the arts?
Theme 6: Cultural Change/Topics: 22-25
Topic # 23: Beginnings of Mass Culture, Mass Entertainment, and Mass Leisure
The beginnings of mass culture, mass entertainment, and mass leisure in America was stimulated by the emergence of radio and movie theatres, as well as a more common regional movement by automobile, and created a common exposure to the prevailing arts and entertainments of the time.
Good topic sentence on the forces producing mass culture.
Urban life expanded throughout the nation, from Hollywood to Harlem, Americans seeked forms of entertainment from music to films thus creating a new national culture.
Tighten up your organization. You have a loose beginning. I noted in a later posting that you added your topic as an afterthought. It should begin your sentence.
Theme : Cultural Change/Topics
Topic: Cultural Conflict between Science and Fundamentalist Religion
Cultural change was evident when support for the teaching of “Creationism” versus the theory of evolution came to head in the Scopes Trial of 1925.
You mixed your theme and a topic into this poorly constructed sentence.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic 23: Beginnings of mass culture, mass entertainment, and mass leison.
The overall culture change of urban America in the 1920s was a result of the beginning of mass culture, mass entertainment, and mass leison, which was contributed to by televised movies by Hollywood filmmakers on the westcoast, the onset of jazz music, the Harlem Renaissance Movement on the eastcoast, and the arrival of nightclubs.
With the New Deal being frowned upon by many of the American people, the Democratic party was slowly starting to lose many of their previous followers.
topic 29 Rosie the Riverter: Transformation of women’s
work expectations during WWII
Rosie the Riveter, a well recognized cultural icon
depicting a strong woman flexing her muscles exuding
confidence and determination, incited interest and
enthusiasm in women all over the country who found untapped
purpose and drive within themselves.
Excellent topic sentence on Rosie.
Cultural Change
Topic # 29: Rosie the Riveter: Transformation of Women’s Work Expectations During World War Two
Topic # 29: Rosie the Riveter: Transformation of Women’s Work Expectations During World War Two
“Rosie the Riveter: Transformation of Women’s Work Expectations During World War Two”, offered opportunities for women to be successful in labor industries that where usually considered for men only,
Good topic sentence on opening gender opportunities in WW II. But could we make the content more complex by assessing the longer term meaning of these gains?
Cultural Change
Rosie the Riveter: Transformation of Women’s Work Expectations During World War Two
Transformation of women’s work expectations during world war two shifted traditional gender roles after the Pearl Harbor attacks when Rosie the Riveter became a symbol of change when women left their homes to join the labor force and render their services to the WAVES and WACS military arm forces during the war and after.
You wrote a powerful sentence on the impact of war on gender.
Topic #30.3
The baby boom happened from 1946 to 1964 due to women giving birth at a younger age to more children; in addition the domestic focus in women was emphasized at this time.
Good topic sentence on the sources of the baby boom phenomena.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic: The Baby Boom
After men in the military returned home to United States, Canada, and Australia after their duty overseas during World War II, they began families, which dramatically increased the number of births from 1946 to 1964 and this became known as The Baby Boom.
Interesting sentence because of the heavy emphasis on the role of males. I agree men wanted to settle in, but what about the role of women in this process?
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic: Suburbanization segregation and gender hierarchy
African Americans fought gallantly as members of the United States military forces to defeat the murderous racists Nazi’s, only to return home to face the same hostile racism inflicted by racist Americans, through a surge of beating and lynching’s.
Good topic sentence on the persistence of racism. You might want to fold in some of the vocabulary from the chapter related to this process.
Ch. 18
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic: Role of education in American Society
The role of education in American Society played a large one in the success of personal lives of Americans and the success of the entire nation and the completion of high school and establishement, enrollment, and completion of private schools of higher education both played great roles in strengthening the changing American culture.
Theme:Cultural Change
Topic # 33: Desegregation, Sit-ins, and Boycotts as challenges to White Supremacy
As a result of martin Luther King Jr’s. opposition to segregation, he amassed many other people of “color” that would stand for it anymore like Rosa Parks who was the woman involved in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Theme:Cultural Change
Topic # 44: Chicano Movement
The Chicano movement was a movement that was generated by Chicano’s that demanded better living through equal rights, the leader of the Chicano movement was Cesar Chavez who had such a passion for equality that he led the United Farm Workers(UFW) with such fervor; this in turn caused none of their efforts to go to waste with the union seeing progression in their pursuits.
Your sentence is overly wordy and redundant.
Cultural Change
Topic 33
Desegregation, Sit-ins, and Boycotts as challenges to White Supremacy began with the civil rights movements as its main imitative was to destroyed the Jim Crows System with the success of the Brown V the board of education of Topeka, Kansas case and The Montgomery Bus Boycott as well as Sit-Ins that fought to bring integration in schools and transit systems as Sit-Ins only reveal African Americans Patriotism and peaceful demonstrations.
Your sentence is long winded, can you make it more precise?
Cultural Change
Topic 33
It took one small woman by the name of Rosa Parks to set off a fire of action demanding civil rights for African Americans that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which brought forth the most powerful civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. into the limelight, that lead the way for equal rights and dignity for all people of color.
Sorry, cultural change doesn’t usually happened in the way you claim in this sentence. Begin with a broader topic and incorporate Ms. Parks heroic efforts within it.
Topic # 36: Warren Court Expansion of Individual Rights
During the 60’s, under Chief Justice Earl Warren the Supreme Court greatly expandedcivil rights through cases such as Loving v. Virginia, Miranda v. Arizona, and Escobedo v Illinios.
Good topic sentence on the role of the courts in expanding individual rights.
Women’s Liberation was changing the lives of many and they founded the National Organization Women and Betty Friedan wrote the book The Feminine Mystique, now the change of gender role could be seen.
Your sentence is a little clunky, but you have a rich content.
43,= Gay Liberation Movement
The Gay liberation movement demanded tolerance and respect as activist of the Gay Liberation Front emphasize people to come out and not no longer hide their sexuality leading to the firs gay parade in 1970 and in 1973 homosexuality was no longer consider a mental disorder by the American Psychiatric Association .
Excellent topic sentence on the gay liberation movement.
Cultural Change
Topic # 47: Ecology as a new mindset for Americans
Ecology became a hot topic ’70’s, prompting social awareness among Americans and inciting new governmental policies and restrictions on various environmental threats, for example nuclear power plants, cigarette warning labels, and fuel consumption.
Good topic sentence on ecology awareness.
Though the feminist movement was accepted by many people, many individuals stood firm in their preconceived beliefs about gender roles.
Theme 4: Role of Government/Topics: 63-68
Topic # 67: Government and the “war on waste”
President Carter’s “War on Waste” called for Americans to join his campaign on the conservation of energy, created a new outlook on our overconsumption as well as our dependence on foreign oil, and solidified his plan with tax incentives and the creation of the Department of Energy.
Excellent topic sentence on Carter’s War on Waste.
The feminist movement of the 1970 led to equality for women and open up many opportunities for them.
Your sentence would be stronger if you explained how or why these changes happened.
Cultural Change
Topic 39 Women’s liberation
The Women’s liberation movement built their foundation on events earlier in the decade with one being The Feminine Mystique (1963), a popular book about women’s frustration with accepting the role of suburban homemaker after World War II.
With the rise of Christian fundmentalism, religions all around the world such as Judaism and Islamic all came together to preserve the founding traditions of their religion and culture against the ever growing secular world.
Diffusion of and backlash against Feminism in the 1970’s was geared towards whether one’s sex or gender should constitute the dividing line among human beings and the media was responsible for painting Feminists as angry-man haters.
Cultural Wars: The religious rights challenge to cultural liberties began as the founder of the moral majority, Jerry Falwell asked Christians to opposed the supreme court nomination of Sandra Day O’Conner for her position on abortion and President Regan ‘s ignorance regarding the Anti-Sodomy Laws stops his administration from mobilizing the fight against AIDS and HIV for homosexuals.
Ch. 27
Diffusion and Backlash Against Feminism in the 1970s
Backlashing agianst feminism of the 1970s included the unsuccessful passing of the Equal Rights Amendments and the enactment of the Hyde Amendment and the diffusion of feminism occured as a result of successful influence of ammerica that increased gender equality, and younger women that didn’t want to be associated with the negative conotation of being labeled a feminist.
Topic # 55: Diversity in the 1990s: Persistence of Racial Conflict
Within the U.S. there was still present a string of racism within our nation causing there to be domestic wars that spurred from incidents like the Rodney King Incident that inadvertently led to the Los Angeles Riot of 1992.
Topic #54 Immigration and increasing diversity, 1965 to present
Immigration from the time of 1965 to present day has radically changed the United States by bringing new cultures, languages and diversity, and has changed the number of white citizens in California population from 57% in 1990 to 47% in the year 2000.
Cultural Change
President Clinton’s obesity struggle embodies the American culture of excess and glutony and America is viewed as a lazy and overweight country.
You seem a little confused about this topic. It is not an cultural change topic. It is a private enterprise topic. It should have the phrase “Fast Food Nation and obesity” in it. You don’t have that.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topics: 62
The United States become to be known for its “Growing importance of a global popular culture”, by acquiring material goods to foreigners, introducing American popular culture, such as fast food restaurants like Mc. Donald’s, entertainment through sports to music like Hip Hop all brought importance to other countries for they adopted this cultures into their own.
Good topic sentence on US popular culture and its influence.
Topic: #5 Consumer Culture
Consumer culture grew in the late 1880s thanks to influence from newly established leisure activities such as calliope music, carnivals, and toboggan rides, considered “escapes” from daily life, which helped draw in big crowds and big businesses.
Good topic sentence on consumer culture linking it to lesiure activities.
There are several ways to except cultural change. Change is not always a bad thing.
You didn’t follow directions and write a topic sentence. Pick a topic sentence from the topic sentence list under one of the themes. Then find the relevant vocabulary from the chapter vocabulary list, and put them together into a topic sentence.
Topic 10: Cultural Change
The Chinese Exclusion act of 1882 made the lives of Chinese immigrants a living hell, due to the fact that it excluded their entry to the country, and made them the target of discriminatory acts in the cities they lived and worked in.
You did not write a topic sentence because you did not begin with a topic. You began with a vocabulary term. But you wrote a good sentence on the impact of the Exclusion Act. The question you have to answer is, what topic would this material go under from the topic lists. You selected topic 10 from cultural change, but that is “immigrants move to the cities.” I don’t see how that connects with your content.
Theme: cultural change
Topic: Darwinism as an ideology
Social Darwinism was frist described by Oscar Schmidt, reporting scientific and medical conference held in munich in 1877. It is aterm commonly refered to notions of struggle for existence being used to justify social policies.
Follow directions. YOu wrote two sentences rather than one powerful topic sentence.
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Topic # 10: Immigrants Move to the City
As immigrant labor became popular due to expanding industries, the Chinese immigrants were not able to gain the same job opportunities as other immigrants due to the Chinese Exclusion Act. Job opportunities such as factories and sweatshops gave immigrants jobs as they entered the city.
Follow directions. Write only one topic sentence. What do you want to say: were there job opportunities and job exclusions?
Topic # 4: Urban Culture
Urban Culture in the United States made its way into existence as the result of the ingenious inventions created at the time which paved the way for higher production rates with low input, many more occupations and a better means of transportation.
Your sentence is verbose. Try to be precise. Basically, this is what you are claiming: Urban culture arose from inventions effecting production and employment. That is ok as far as it goes, but what did these changes mean for the nature of urban culture?
Culture Change
Topic # 10 Immigrants move to the city
Immigrants moving into the city has become a major issue in the United States due to over population.
Your sentence is not accurate for this period. Overpopulation was not raised as a concern.
Theme: Cultural change
Topic # 10: Immigrants Move to the City
Vocabulary: Assimilation, Henry Grady and the “New South” idea
Sentence: There were many reasons that pushed the immigrant to move to the city including Henry Grady and the “New South” idea, and assimilation.
This sentence isn’t successful because your content doesn’t work with your topic. Your topic is those things that pushed immigrants out of their original countries. Your vocabulary is about economic development in the south, which would be a pull factor. But you should note that the South did not draw many immigrants comparatively speaking.
Topic 11: Role of Education in American Society.
In the 1890’s schools saw a revolution in handling immigrants and new wealthy elite; immigrants from all over were trying to embrace American culture by embracing schooling but were treated unequally and being grouped by culture, religion, class and race, along with the new elite who were grouped into higher education, associated with privilege in emerging colleges/universities.
Richly detailed topic sentence on the transformation of education.
Native American Boarding Schools were developed to educationally, culturally, and ethically assimilate the Indians to the American way.
Good sentence as far as it goes, but it could go farther if you extended the content to consider the effectiveness of the policy.
Cultural Change: Topic #14
American imperialism was important as it brought better more accurate knowledge of the world to the people, but it did have a negative as the “outsiders” were repeatedly taken advantage of. Explorers traveled to places like Samoa, Hawaii, Cuban islands, and Greenland where the Eskimos were discovered. These people had a very different approach to life, which is what made them so interesting. The study of six Eskimos and a large meteorite was made in the US. Four of these Eskimos died shortly after and Minik the youngest of them lived to start a family but died of the flu soon after. It seems that the American officials were not thoughtful enough to look after their “investments”; maybe the investors thought the benefits were short-lived. Regardless, these were real people here who deserved to have the best just like any other American.
Good topic sentence on American imperialism and the impact on the conquered peoples. You do not need to, nor are you required, to post the entire topic paragraph.
Theme 6: Cultural Change/Topics: 9 (What did laissez faire meant in the 19th Century)
Laissez-faire is a philosophy applied by the U.S government in the 19th century. It is a French phrase that means “leave it alone”. The idea of this system is to separate the government from the economy and leave it for the private parties. This philosophy is not from the American culture; therefore, it was new and foreign for the Americans. In the 19th century, the Americans had to borrow some new cultural ideas to change their old thoughts to the best.
Follow directions. Write one topic sentence. Can you combine these several sentences into one powerful topic sentence?
Topic: role of education in American society
theme: Cultural change
The role of education in American society was so obvious. Receiving so many immigrant from everywhere made the U.S.A a multicultural country. Therefore, the U.S.A had to open so many private schools depends on immigrant children culture and religion.
Follow directions. Can you synthesize your several sentences into an effective topic sentence?
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Topic #7
The Native American Boarding School Experience forced Native American children to embrace the Euro-American culture by having them endure an extreme culture shock which included physical and social changes that promoted the appearance and persona of Euro-America.
Very good topic sentence on boarding school coercion.
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Topic # 10: Immigrants Move to the City
Immigrants move to the city took place in the U.S because of many reasons such as job opportunities and job exclusions.
This is an improvement over the first effort.
Topic # 18: New Business Culture Based on Scientific Management and Mass Production
Engineer Fredrick W. Taylor created a detailed scientific management method that was integral to the success of the mass production of Model T automobiles, by way of Henry Ford in 1903.
Your sentence needs to integrate the topic into the subject area so that the evidence you present is the content of that subject. As written, your subject is Taylor. In effect, you substituted the evidence for the topic.
Topic #19: Women’s Suffrage Movement and the 19th Amendment
Women’s Suffrage Movement was simply a means to an end. By 1910 four western states – Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Idaho – had granted full federal voting rights to women. The suffrage movement was given new strength by growing numbers of college-educated women. 19th Amendment was passed by Congress in 1919, granting women the right to vote.
Follow directions. You have a rich content, but you need to fold your content into a powerful topic sentence that captures all the sub-topics you have in subsequent sentences.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic: New Business Culture Based on Scientific Management and Mass Production
Vocabulary: Henry Ford
New Business Culture Based on Scientific Management and Mass Production revolutionized the way Henry ford design and produce methods to bring cost down of the automobile.
Good topic sentence on the impact of the new management strategies on the auto industry.
The New Deal for Native Americans presented them a limited form of sovereignty, as the nations could form their own constitutions and rearrangements of their own assets, and economic self-sufficiency; however, true sovereignty was limited as the Bureau of Indian Affairs still had power over decisions within reservations.
Good topic sentence on chapter 7 material.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic #19: Women’s Sufferage Movement and the 19th Amendment
Vocabulary : 19th amendment
The Women’s Sufferage Movement inspired advocates to initiate new grassroots strategies such as door to door campains to gather support. This new techniques led to the womens right to vote, the 19th amendment.
Good content, but can you integrate the two sentences together into one powerful topic sentence?
The Women’s Sufferage Movement inspired advocates to initiate new grassroots strategies such as door to door campains to gather support, this new techniques led to the womens right to vote known as the 19th amendment.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic #20: Impact of mass migrations on migrants and on the nation
Mass migrations positively impacted America, it allowed immigrants from other countries freedom and the opportunity of work and native citizens new life in the cities
Interesting comparative topic sentence with an optimistic twist.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic: Impact of mass migrations on migrants and on the nation
Vocabulary: African American Migration from South
The war brought a mass migration of African American from the South to the North looking for a better chance of employment and less discrimination.
Good topic sentence on the great migration, but it could be extended to assess their experience.
Topic # 21: Impact of mass migrations on migrants and on the nation
Although the first World War effectively halted European immigration to the United States, the need for industrial workers to help fuel the war effort encouraged mass African-American migration from the South and Mexican migration from Mexico, allowing for the increased economic and social integration of oppressed peoples into mainstream American society.
Excellent topic sentence comparing immigrant and migrant experiences during the war.
Topic # 22 Changing Sexual Mores in the 1920’s
As Hollywood and the film industry began booming in the 1920’s, theatres began popping up all over the nation, as actresses in films were seen drinking, smoking, and enjoying what was once a man’s world, these women were a model to ladies around the nation to become more liberated sexually and socially
You have all the elements of a successful topic sentence, except the location of your topic, which you position at the end of your sentence, rather than as the topic in the subject position of your sentence.
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Theme: Cultural Change
Topic: Beginnings of Mass Culture and Entertainment
The 1920s was an era of rapid transformation, cultural change, development and creation.
Your sentence is too vague to be effective. Try to incorporate specific vocabulary from the chapter to deepen the content.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic #23: Beginnings of mass culture, mass entertainment, and mass leisure.
Vocabulary: Hollywood, Harlem, Radio, Automobiles
Sentence: The beginnings of mass culture, mass entertainment, and mass leisure began to take shape as new inventions like the radio and automobiles were developed, and cities such as Hollywood and Harlem became centers of cultural innovation.
Excellent topic sentence on mass culture and mass consumption.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic: Changing Sexual Mores in the 1920s
The sexual mores changed in the 1920’s some women stepped out from the traditional role into a more radical way. With the help from the “Flappers” women began to see themselves as sexy and new clothing allowing them to show of their body.
Them: Cultural Change
Topic: Changing Sexual Mores in the 1920’s.
In the 1920’s thanks to the establishment of the Sheppard Towner Act, women gained rights that made them more influential in government; Furthermore, women joined the Women’s Movement in order to increase independence from their abusive, drunken husbands and the ability to obtain a job and make their living out of their unhappy marriages.
You have a disconnect between your topic and your content. If you are going to discuss sexual mores, you need to say something about how they were change.
Topic 23; Beginnings of Mass Culture, Mass Entertainment, and Mass Leisure
Many African-Americans who migrated north moved to Harlem. In the 1920s, Harlem became the world’s largest black urban community, with residents from the South, the West Indies, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Haiti. Like many other urban neighborhoods, Harlem suffered from overcrowding, unemployment, and poverty. But it’s problems in the 1920s were eclipsed by a flowering of creativity called the Harlem Renaissance, which provided a foundation of African-American intellectualism to which African-American writers, artists, and musicians contribute today.
Topic # 22: Changing Sexual Mores in the 1920s
With the introduction of mass culture and entertainment in the 1920’s as an alternative, empowered groups as women were able to challenge sexual mores; who once seen themselves with inferior submission, they were now .taking after the “flapper girls” who encouraged drinking, sensual clothing and even accepting divorce.
Topic # 22: Changing Sexual Mores in the 1920s
The 1920’s Sexual Mores were changing; Alice B. Tolkien was in an open lesbian relationship with Gertrude Stein whose salons dwellers were dubbed the “Lost Generation.”
Good topic sentence on the role of intellectual women in braving new sexual territory. Of course, it helped them that they were living in Paris, France!
Topic #39: Women’s Liberation
Overtime, women began to gain more rights and equality starting with the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote; it was followed by Congress passing the Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921, seeking elective office, and the increase of job opportunities which resulted in wives being able to abandon unhappy marriages.
You produced a very rich content to go with this topics.
Topic # 22: Changing Sexual Mores in the 1920s
Although American women did not make any significant political advancements in the 1920s, the advent of a mass consumerist culture and a burgeoning middle class gave the so-called “new women” the chance to challenge and change the strict social and gender-based standards left over from the Victorian age, increasing self-autonomy where fashion, physical intimacy, and marriage were concerned.
Theme 6: Cultural Change
Topic # 23: Beginnings of Mass Culture, Mass Entertainment, and Mass Leisure
The 1920s is the time of beginnings of Mass Culture, Mass Entertainment, and Mass Leisure, and the symbols for this age was hollywood movies, Jazz, and Charleston.
Good sentence as far as it goes, but it states the obvious.
Topic #22
Changes in sexual mores of the 1920’s shifted American focus of gender roles and dating traditions by expanding the roles of the American woman and increasing the acceptance of sex among young couples.
The New Deal coalition formed a new American identity that lead to a social transformation of the Unites States.
Good start on a topic sentence, but your content needs more definition as to what exactly the new identity was and how it transformed America.
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*Theme 6: Cultural Change/Topics: 22-25
Topic # 24: Beginnings of Black Separatist and Black Nationalist Culture
Vocabulary: Marcus Garvey, Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).
Beginning of Black Separatist and Black National Culture origins of African indigenous nationalism in political thought lie in the 19th century with people like Marcus Garvey the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).
Your content is very weak, since Mr. Garvey was a 20th century activist.
Topic # 29: Rosie the Riveter: Transformation of Women’s Work Expectations During World War Two
Rosie the Riveter became an embraced symbol of women during Wold War II, it signified their contribution, freedom and economic standing with such movements as the Navy Waves (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) and the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) in America.
Good topic sentence on the role of women in World War II employment and military service.
*Theme 6: Cultural Change/Topics: 28-30
Topic # 29: Rosie the Riveter: Transformation of Women’s Work Expectations During World War Two
Vocabulary : WAVES and WACS
Rosie the Riveter: Transformation of Women’s Work Expectations During World War Two as women entered the workforce to replace the men that went into war, and many volunteered for the Navy WAVES (Women’s Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) and WACS (Women’s Army Corps) gaining extra pay, and independence.
Good topic sentence on the role of women in employment and the military.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic # 29: Rosie the Riveter: Transformation of Women’s Work Expectations During World War Two
Vocabulary: Rosie the Riveter, WAVES, WACS
Sentence: Transformation of women’s work expectations during World War Two was shown with Rosie the Riveter and how women began to engage into the war efforts with the WAVES and the WACS.
Avoid the passive voice.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic # 29: Rosie the Riveter: Transformation of Women’s Work Expectations during World War Two
In 1941, 19 millions of women were employed in different kinds of jobs; therefore, women were transferred from being housewives to an efficient unit in the society.
Broaden your content to consider the impact of the war on women between 1941 and 1945.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic# 28 Immigration assimilation during WWII
During World War Two, many immigrants such as Mexicans, Japanese, and a few Chinese assimilated into United States and became citizens to prove who they sided with in the war.
Good sentence as far as it goes, but ethnic assimilation should also include ethnic European Americans.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic: Rosie the Riveter: Transformation of Women’s Work Expectations during World War Two
Vocabulary: Rosie the Riveter
Rosie the Riveter was the women’s symbol for the working woman in the war time when new expectations where expected of them. This symbol was the new transformation for women’s workforce when woman took on male jobs in production industries.
Follow directions. What would one powerful topic sentence that combined these ideas look like?
• Theme: Cultural Change
• Topic# 22 Rosie the Riveter: Transformation of Women’s work expectations during WWII
• Voc. Terms: Total War, Rosie the Riveter, WAVES and WACS
As the U.S. entered the Total War overseas, the deployment of thousands of Americans to the battlefield impacted the economy and the cultural environment in the U.S., war industries were booming opened possibilities for women to work in the men’s place as war industry workers also viewed as the Rossi the Riveter the heroic figure of the woman war worker. Women also were able to volunteer as women accepted for voluntary emergency service, as well as auxiliary aid in the Woman’s Auxiliary Army Corps, setting up part of the new American way of life.
Good topic sentence, you added new content to this topic.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic: The Baby Boom
Vocabulary: Baby Boom Generation
The Baby Boom generation after WWII helped pick up the rate of births.The increase in child births lead to more positive increase in marriages and a decrease of divorces.
Follow directions. What would one powerful topic sentence look like if you combined these two sentences?
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic: Suburbanization, segregation, and gender hierarchy
Vocabulary: Buy Now Pay Later, Credit Cards, Levittown
The Cold War developed several cultural changes. Economic expansion and political freedom were the key for these changes. One being, the launching of the phrase “buy now, pay later” which allowed and installment plan to customers for goods and the first credit card, Diners Club allowed purchase goods on credit; this idea perceived Americans as less thrifty. The family lives played a role in this cultural change of the cold war era which gave opportunity for Americans to move to the suburbs for bigger homes, quieter neighborhoods one of the new one and popular ones was Levittown. Construction developed more and more but segregation stepped in and agencies encouraged for there to be separation of race in these suburbs. Gender was also a change developing that created roles for women and men: men, went to work while the women stay home and devoted their time to motherhood and full-time duties of unpaid housework.
Follow directions. You need a topic sentence to go with this paragraph of rich content. Begin the sentence with your topic: Suburbanization, segregation, and gender hierarchy . . . (did what?)
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Topic # 30.3: The Baby Boom
Post wars couples married and started families at a rapid rate, known as the baby boom generation; the first generation to listen to rock & roll and feel the need to openly rebel against parents and
“The Establishment.”
You wrote effective sentence on the baby boom generations origins and interests.
Topic # 30.11: Culture of the Cold War
The Cold War was caused by the different cultures between the United States and the Soviet Union; thus, the U.S was spreading Democracy as a Western culture and the Soviet Union was extending Communism as a Eastern culture.
Your sentence is too vague, what were the specific issues causing tension between the two powers?
Theme 6 Cultural Change: Topic# 30.3: The Baby Boom
There was family tied growth during Cold War society in which Levittowns or low-cost suburban developments were created to urge women to bear children and men to travel to the city to work, thus the Baby Boom Generation was born.
Good topic sentence on the context for the rise of the baby boom generation.
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Topic # 30.4: Cultural Conformity and Political Repression
Following the turmoil of World War II, the vast majority of United States citizens found peace of mind in the act of conforming to both cultural and political ideologies that were perceived as consummately pro-American, as well as staunchly anti-Communist, condemning liberal social reforms and nonconformist attitudes in fear that the advocation of such platforms would first splinter and then weaken the very fabric of American values, and possibly bring about the country’s downfall; it is interesting to note, therefore, that these practises encouraged the violation of thousands of Americans’ basic constitutional rights.
Good topic sentence linking conformity with the decline of civil liberties.
*Theme 6: Cultural Change/Topics: 30.1-30.4
Topic # 30.3: The Baby Boom
The Baby Boom generation made fatherhood seem as a badge of masculinity and making Father’s day a significant holiday for the first time.
Interesting sentence with a focus on male gender identity.
Topic #30
The events of World War II set the stage for the civil rights movement by Rosa Parks when she took a seat in the front row of the bus starting the Montgomery Bus Boycott; Martin Luther King Jr. lead the group to boycott and gave an eloquent speech; students staged the first sit-ins at segregated lunch counters; and Freedom Riders took a historic bus trip across the South.
Your topic is too vague to work effectively with your rich content from the later period. Consider what your paragraph would have to look like: a discussion of the events of WW II followed by a discussion of each of the content items you identified.
Topic # 31: Affluent Nuclear Families in the 1950s
The Nuclear families in the 1950’s had the consumer spending rate at and all time high; with this came Suburbia as families invested in
communities of single family homes.
You wrote effective sentence on the rise of suburban affluent nuclear families.
As the booming post war economy brought families out of depression a new affluent type of suburban family began springing up all over the country during the Cold War.
Good topic sentence on the rise of the new affluent suburban communities.
Topic #31: Affluent Nuclear Families in the 1950’s
Suburbia developed after the Cold War as classic conservative ideals became essential again, thus nuclear families and landscapes grew.
Your construction is a little odd because you have your subject in the position of your content.
Topic # 31: Affluent Nuclear Families in the 1950s
Economic prosperity and the influx of returning service members from the European and Pacific theaters of WWII paved the foundation for the expansion of the American family unit in the 1950’s.
Good topic sentence on the affluent family as a product of economic and social forces, but I would argue for a fuller integration of your topic directly into the sentence as the subject.
• Cultural Change.
• Topic/ desegregation, sit-ins, and boycotts as challenge to white supremacy.
• V. Terms/ I Have A Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr., Montgomery Bus Boycott, Rosa Parks.
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks an influent African American woman refused to give up her seat in a bus when a white male demanded her seat, as a result she was arrested. She fountainhead the Montgomery Bus boycott that gained momentum within the black community, gathering leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr. who motivated the crow with his powerful speech “I Have A Dream” that sprang out the formation of more boycotts.
Follow directions. What would a single topic sentence look like that began with your topic and integrated your rich detail on the content side of the sentence?
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic # 33: Desegregation, Sit-ins, and boycotts as challenges to white supremacy
Vocab: Jim Crow System, Brown v. Board of Education, Freedom Riders, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks
Desegregation, Sit-ins, boycotts, Freedom Riders, and the Brown v. Board of Education were all ways to challenge the Jim Crow System and white supremacy; leaders such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. emerged as civil rights activist.
Although your sentence is a little clunky because of the ham-handed way you put things together, it is a rich content.
Theme Cultural Change
Topic # 33: Desegregation, Sit-ins, and Boycotts as challenges to White Supremacy.
Desegregation, Sit-ins, and Boycotts as challenges to White Supremacy proved to be important during the 1950’s and served great purpose during the civil rights movements as actions that Afro-Americans could take to oppose inequality.
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Chapter 26- Topic Sentence- Cultural Change # 36
Warren Court’s expansion of individual rights surprised Dwight Eisenhower when he increasingly voted along liberal lines on such historic cases such as Miranda vs. Arizona that is more commonly known as “Miranda Rights”.
Good topic sentence on the impact of the Warren Court.
Topic # 30.3: The Baby Boom
Greatly increased birth rate of the 1950’s, known as the Baby Boom, was demonstrated as faith in the American children of the future.
Topic #39: Women’s Liberation
In the 1960’s, Women’s Liberation transformed women’s lives and gender roles by improving their opportunities for jobs and education, sexual harassment issues, sexual relations, reproductive rights, athletic issues, and gender-neutral language to family roles.
Excellent topic sentence on the impact of women’s liberation.
Topic # 36: Warren Court Expansion of Individual Rights
The Supreme Court under the rule of Chief Justice Earl Warren established the most extensive set of individual rights of the twentieth century.
Good topic sentence on the significance of the Warren court.
Topic # 36: Warren Court Expansion of Individual Rights
In expanding American individual rights and freedoms, the Warren Court would hand down some of the most controversial, firestorm-evoking decisions in Supreme Court history, usurp the powers of the states, unabashedly test the bounds of judicial activism and yet emerge as a Court regarded as most significant in the advancement of U.S. culture.
You wrote a brilliant topic sentence.
Topic # 39: Women’s Liberation
Vocabulary Terms: Betty Friedan, National Organization of Women (NOW)
The women’s liberation sought out to remove women’s limitations and expectations. Betty Friedan wrote “The Feminine Mystique” which released the “home” image of the middle-class women that limited their growth as individuals. The NOW established a lobby against sexual discrimination in the public sphere such as wages, education, employment. These movements provide a path for women to be more equally accepted in society and be part of the culture of new traditions.
Follow directions. What would a topic sentence for this massive paragraph look like? The sentence you begin the paragraph with is too vague to be effective given what you wrote.
Topic #39 Women’s Liberation
Betty Friedan along with other feminist enthusiasts created the
National Organization of Women (NOW) which catapulted the
Women’s Liberation movement, soon women were seen in a more equal light.
You have a good content, but your sentence mixes up your subject and the object in a format confusion. If you began the sentence with “The women’s liberation movement demanded equal rights for women through the efforts of . . . you would have a more direct statement with the subject in its proper place. Admittedly, this is a form, not a content criticism.
Topic # 37: Cultural Ignorance behind US intervention in Vietnam
The ignorance of warfare involved in the Vietnam War resulted in a huge devastation to the United States efforts; the replacement of conventional warfare with guerrilla tactics, the unfamiliar landscaping, and the foolish carefree volunteering of soldiers are a few elements which contributed to the U.S.’s self-demolition.
Good topic sentence on cultural ignorance as a force in US actions.
Topic #36: Warren Court Expansion of Individual Rights
The presidential expectations of Chief Justice Earl Warren swiftly changed in the 1960s with the Courts expansion on individual rights that were otherwise non existent for certain citizens such as those for suspected criminals, with the creation of “Miranda Rights,” and those toward racial equality, with the ruling in Loving v Virginia.
Interesting topic sentence on the achievements and costs of the Warren court’s liberalism.
Tired of the institutionalised discrimination enforced by an overwhelmingly heterosexist America, the modern Gay Liberation movement found its start in the Stonewall Riots of 1969, which eventually grew to encourage the “coming out” of gay and lesbian individuals, as well as begin the yearly tradition of Gay Pride parades as a public display of gay accomplishment, solidarity, and self-worth; ultimately it began an inclusive (though imperfect) national dialogue about non-heteronormative gender- and sexual-identities that continues to this day,
*there should be a period at the end of that topic sentence, not a comma. Also this is topic #43, ‘Gay Liberation Movement’.
You wrote a very ambitious topic sentence that is very rich in content. I can’t wait to see the topic paragraph this generates!
Topic # 46: Diffusion of and Backlash against Feminism in the 1970s
The rise of Feminism grew abundant during the 1970s, however, backlash against the movement, lead by Phyllis Schlafly, materialized in the form of STOP ERA (“Stop Taking Our Privileges”); the campaigns’ aim was to bring feminism to a halt in order to secure benefits available to traditional women roles such as housewives.
Good topic sentence on the backlash against feminism, you effectively integrated vocabulary.
Cultural Change
Topic # 48: Growing Skepticism toward Authority and Tradition in 1970s
During the 70’s every one was focused one asserting their free rights and wills this made people weary of taking instruction from the government, it did not help that many goverment officials such as our president Nixon were involved in scandals such as the watergate scandal which led to skeptisim toward our governments advice.
Good topic sentence looking at the multiple factors generating skepticism toward authority in the 1970s.
Topic # 51: Christian Religious Revivalism, 1950s to 2005
Galvanised by the social upheaval of the 1960s and 70s, religious conservatives in the United States began to set aside their faith-based differences in order to unite underneath an ideological banner which combatted what they perceived as a decline in traditional American ethics, prompted in particular by the banning of prayer in public schools in 1962, the passing of Roe vs Wade in 1973, as well as the increase in recreational drug use since the 1960s, in doing so fashioning a morality-based rhetoric that persists amongst conservatives to this day.
Excellent topic sentence on the origins and consequences of the rise of the christian evangelicals. It should make for quite a topic paragraph on the exam.
The proportion of overweight children jumped from 5 percent in 1964 to 20 percent in 2000, due in part to popular fast-food chains offering “supersized” high fat meals.
Good topic sentence on obesity and the rise of fast foods.
Topic # 59: Shifting Attitudes toward Gun Control
During the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton in the late 1990s, the gun control debate roared after the fatal shootings at Columbine High School, while advocates for gun control sited the tragedy and anti-government militias as evidence of looming danger, opponents sited individual rights granted by the Second Amendment to the Constitution as reason enough for personal gun ownership.
Good topic sentence on the debate on gun control in the 1990s.
The government pays little or no attention to the growing number of childhood obesity. shocking today the U.S. falls behind Republic of Malta the country with the higher number of obesity in children.
You have a provocative sentence, but shouldn’t you explain the lack of government engagement with the issue? After all, you raised the lack of concern.
Topic # 56
The Fatherhood Movement in the 1990’s pleaded with men to restore traditional roles and importance as the primary breadwinners, spiritual leaders, and strong family role models with group’s like the Promise Keepers of Bill McCartney and Al Gore’s Father to Father urging men to stand up and be strong for their families.
Excellent topic sentence on the fatherhood movement and its leadership.
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Topic # 46: Diffusion of and Backlash against Feminism in the 1970s
After the great successes of the women’s liberation movement, a backlash against the “second wave” of feminism began during the 1970s.
Good topic sentence on the civil union issue.
Topic #45: Growing importance of a global popular culture
Vocabulary: global popular culture
The growing importance of global popular culture led to the U.S. as not only be seen as a strengthened armed country but as a leader in influence across the globe. The global popular culture consisted of diversity, ambitiousness, and privileges where Americans felt comfortable and powerful.
You effectively linked US popular culture with US global power.
Theme 6: Cultural Change
Topic # 6: Social Darwinism as an ideology
Vocabulary: Andrew Carnegie’s ,The Gospel of Wealth
Social Darwinism as an ideology discouraged Andrew Carnegie’s idea of The Gospel of Wealth allowing the lower class to have a chance to survive.
Your sentence is garbled and appears to be inaccurate. The ideology of social darwinism encouraged Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth, which he saw as evidence of his fitness for richness. Under this doctrine, everyone had a chance to survive, the question was what abilities did one have in order to succeed or fail.
The indian boarding school experiment began in 1879, the purpose to assimilate indians away from their ways of living; a response after sitting bear felt the reservation were a lack of help to his people.
Your sentence comes across as garbled. The first part is clear and accurate, but the material following the semi-colon lacks clarity.
Multicultural
Topic #5
Even after the “Sioux” leader known as the “Sitting bull” was killed by his Indian captors for defending his people, the Indians still tried to do what they believe would protect them and give them their lands back. They did a dance called the “Ghost dance”, but they had no chance of getting their lands back against the whites.
Follow directions. You did not begin with your topic so you are not conforming to format. You also wrote two sentences, not one topic sentence. Can you please follow the format? What would your sentence look like if you did?
In the south, Jim Crow laws prohibited African Americans to fulfill their right as free American citizens; the whites instilled them with fear for their lives and they were harshly forced to follow state, and local laws that deemed them ‘separate but equal’.
This is mainly a format criticism. Follow directions. Begin your sentence with a topic from the topic list. If you did so, your sentence would begin, “Segregation as a public policy prohibited African Americans to fulfill their equal rights as Americans citizens by use of Jim Crow laws, which . . . .”
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic # 19: Women’s Suffrage Movement and the 19th Amendment
Vocabulary 18: Women’s National Suffrage Association & Local Women’s Clubs
The Women’s National Suffrage Association and Local Women’s Clubs including missionary and social-settlement movements became important political forces in the 1890s leading to reforms in the Progressive Era.
Your organization gets things backwards because it puts your vocabulary terms in the subject position and does not formally recognize the actual topic of your sentence, Women’s suffrage. I would rewrite the sentence using a clear format outlined in the topic sentence instructions.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic # 18: New Business Culture Based on Scientific Management and Mass Production
Vocabulary 19: Mass Production and Henry Ford
Henry Ford revolutionized the business of manufacturing via implementation of Mass Production which both increased productivity and streamlined the manufacturing process by using an assembly line for his Ford Model T in 1913.
Like your previous sentence, this one also does not represent a topic sentence because the topic does not appear in the sentence as its subject. Follow directions.
Theme Cultural Change
Topic # 11: Role of Education in American Society
The role of education in American society in the 18th century was seen by some as an equalizer of social groups when in fact it was completely the opposite, if you weren’t white and privileged the only intension of the school system was to teach labor skills to keep you secure in your current role in society with no chance of advancement or education.
You wrote an excellent topic sentence that is rich in irony and corrects a real misconception.
Theme: Cultural change
Topic # 19: Women’s Suffrage Movement and the 19th Amendment.
Women’s suffrage movement and the 19th amendment were a success in the progress of civil liberties for American citizens but one irony of this point is the fact that women’s suffrage leaders had to rely on the support of some racists and anti-immigration groups who feared giving power to “undesirables” and immigrants.
Good topic sentence. However, there is one error. Voting rights for women is not a “civil liberties” issue. It is a civil rights issue.
Theme:Cultural Change
Topic 16 :Third way
During The progressive movement in America, the government created a Third Way of politics, in which there were three parties : The Conservatives, who wanted individual freedom and enterprise, The Radicals, who were for social equality, and The Liberals , who wanted balanced freedom and equality.
Your information is a little garbled. Rather than define the three avenues of politics during this period, focus on the “third way” as the topic of the sentence and show what it meant to strive to balance freedom and equality.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic # 21: Impact of mass migrations on migrants and on the nation
Vocabulary 20: African American Migration from South and Mexican Migration from Mexico
The opportunity for jobs and a better way of life precipitated the African American Migration from the South to Northern parts of the United States as well as the Mexican Migration from Mexico to the Southwest and Midwest during the years of 1910 to 1930.
Good topic sentence on the comparative migrations of African Americans and Mexicans.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic # 21 Impact of mass migrations on migrants and on the nation
The new creation of jobs because of the Great War, gave way to the Great Migration, were many Black Southerners moved north were they experience more rights then they ever did in the south.
Is this an accurate description of the topic? Your sentence needs a clearer focus on Black migration as the topic of the sentence.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic # 22: Changing Sexual Mores in the 1920s
The Sexual Mores changed for some women in the 1920’s, some left they traditional culture to become what was called “Flappers” back then.
Good topic sentence as far as it goes, but try to add more complexity to the content part of the sentence.
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Topic # 25: Cultural Conflict between Science and Fundamentalist Religion
Cultural Conflict between Science and Fundamentalist Religion was conveyed through the Great Flood of 1927, the Buck v. Bell and the Scopes Trial.
Cultural Conflict between Science and Fundamentalist Religion was exposed on the Scopes Trial where John Scopes was found guilty of violating the Butler Act, in which the trial gained a great deal of publicity and was the first to be broadcasted on the radio due to William Jennings Bryan, three times presidency candidate representing the prosecution and Clarence Darrow, the famed defense attorney representing the defense.
Your sentence runs on because you have packed too much detail into it. Save some of the information for the rest of the paragraph.
The first sentence is much better than the second. Good rewrite.
Cultural Change
Topic # 23: Beginnings of Mass Culture, Mass Entertainment, and Mass Leisure
The technological advancements of the 1920s unified the thinking of America’s youth, with their focus on celebrities, luxuries, and enjoying life; the Jazz Era became the time were people went out and had fun foregoing the traditional life Americans were used to.
Your sentence lacks coherence and clarity. It does not begin with your topic, but rather with technological advancements, which are undefined.
Cultural Change #22 – The beginnings of mass culture, mass entertainment, and mass leisure was catalyzed by the rise of technological mediums such as radio, television, and the motion picture industry.
Good topic sentence linking technology to the rise of these cultural forms. Short and sweet!
Topic:Beginnings of Mass Culture, Mass Entertainment, and Mass Leisure
The mass Culture changed in the 1920’s when Hollywood movies came to America because people not only want to be like the actors, movies helped influenced how America is today.
Your content isn’t deep enough to cover all the elements of this topic since it is limited to movies. Expand the content with references to mass culture examples and mass leisure examples.
Theme: Cultural Changes
Topic# 22. Changing Sexual Mores-1920’s
The changes to sexual mores of the 1920’s can be attributed to the 19th amendment and the era of the “Flappers”, women seemed to gain control of the direction of their life’s.
Good topic sentence relating the changing sexual mores to women’s liberation.
Cultural Change
Topic # 29: Rosie the Riveter: Transformation of Women’s Work Expectations During WWII.
Rosie the Riveter: Transformation of Women’s Work Expectations During WWII, with the majority of men off to war and the high demand in manufacturing women were faced with an opportunity to join the labor force and earn wages that almost doubled what they had seen in the past, this transition in the work force gave women a sense of independence and self- sufficiency that would change societies gender roles in a big way.
Good effort, but your sentence is excessively wordy. Here is an edited version: “Rosie the Riveter: Transformation of Women’s Work Expectations During WWII, created opportunity to join the labor force and earn wages almost doubled what they had seen in the past, and gave women a sense of independence and self- sufficiency that promised to change societies gender roles in a big way.” (But did they really?)
Cultural Change
Topic # 30.3: The Baby Boom
The Levittown’s developers sold 1400 houses which led to the Baby Boom from 1946 to 1964 .
Your sentence is incoherent. You may want to rewrite it in response to my comment.
Topic # 33: Desegregation, Sit-ins, and Boycotts as challenges to White Supremacy
Vocabulary #25: Sit-ins & Freedom Riders
Challenges to White Supremacy included the efforts of the Freedom Riders along with Sit-Ins against segregated lunch counters, conducted by students and youth from all over the Nation beginning in 1960.
Good topic sentence on challenges to white supremacy by activist students.
Topic # 30.3: The Baby Boom
The Baby Boom is the name that was given to the post-war period of 1946 to 1965 due to the United States experiencing a big increase in marriage and birth rates.
You wrote a definition rather than a topic sentence. Explain why the baby boom was important.
Topic 30.3 :The Baby Boom
The baby boom occurred in the years 1946 to 1965 and is proof that Americans had faith in the future because it was an era of growth in population, economy and many other areas of society.
Good topic sentence pointing to the importance of optimistic expectations by the parents of the baby boomers.
Topic # 33: Desegregation, Sit-ins, and Boycotts as challenges to White Supremacy
Vocabulary #25: Sit-ins & Freedom Riders
Challenges to White Supremacy included the efforts of the Freedom Riders along with Sit-Ins against segregated lunch counters, conducted by students and youth from all over the Nation beginning in 1960.
Good topic sentence on challenges to white supremacy.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic # 31: Affluent Nuclear Families in the 1950s.
The affluent Nuclear Family of the 1950s aspire to live the “American Way of life”, the man became a breadwinner and the women house wife, by purchasing a home and reaching the dream that Nixon had created at the Kitchen debate.
Excellent topic sentence on the affluent nuclear families of the 1950s.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic # 38: Black Nationalism
Vocabulary # 26: Malcolm X and Black Panther Party
Black Nationalism was a movement expounded on by Malcolm X and later by the Black Panthers who believed that African Americans must develop their own society and ethical values and should reject integration with Whites until they could achieve internal cooperation and unity.
Good topic sentence, although I would lose the “was a” phrase at the beginning since it suggests you are writing a definition rather than a topic sentence.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic # 46: Diffusion of and Backlash against feminism in the 1970s
Diffusion of and backlash against feminism in the 70’s was prevailing in mainstream media as they portrayed women activist as “men-haters.”
The national energy crisis of the 1970s lead Americans to become more ecologically concerned.
Your content doesn’t go far enough in capturing the momentum gained as a result of the energy crisis. What did Americans try to do about it?
Good topic sentence as far as it goes, but the content side of the sentence is limited to media. What other reactions did the success of feminism evoke?
Topic # 33: Desegregation, Sit-ins, and Boycotts as challenges to White Supremacy
The Civil Rights movement sparked Americans to force a cultural change with the use of boycotts, sit ins and other desegregation tactics, against the unfair unlawful treatment of African Americans as well as other minorities in the United States.
Topic #54 Immigration and increasing diversity from 1965 to present were both going through opposition but there was a greater acceptance for race in media of all kinds, and support for equality as the time passed.
Good try. Try to write as directly and precisely as possible. Consider this formulation:
Immigration and diversity increased from 1965 to the present even though opposition also grew, but there was a greater acceptance of race in media of all kinds, and support for social acceptance as the time passed.
Topic # 59: Shifting Attitudes toward Gun Control
Attitudes towards Gun Control shifted in the early 90’s due to events such as Columbine and others where children acquired guns easily from their homes and harmed others.
Good topic sentence on gun control. It would be appropriate to identify new legislation in your topic sentence as well.
Topic#29:Shifting attitudes toward gun control
Gun control is a hot button topic with 2nd amendment supporters who see their rights trying to be stripped away. The real issue at hand is treating our mentally ill in this country in a way that is respectable and safe.
You have a rich content, but you didn’t follow directions and write a single topic sentence. You should combine the two sentences into one topic sentence.
The Native American boarding school experience culturally changed the young Indians to forget their ancestor’s way of life, beliefs, and ideals and converted them to the European American’s standards so they may be a part of the U.S.
Excellent topic sentence linking the Indian boarding school experience with cultural changes affecting native americans.
The role of education in American society assimilated and segregated the diverse ethnicities in the U.S. within public schools from being associated with the dominant “standard” Anglo-Americans.
Good topic sentence.
The principal motives of U.S. imperialism were to gain partial control of certain regions to attain strategic resources or “stepping stones” by stationing naval bases advantageously for military forces and to sustain trading goods with foreign countries
You wrote a solid topic sentence that ties together strategic island thinking with military and economic policies of the American government.
Good topic sentence. Public education was a key force for assimilation, especially for all those European nationality groups that came in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Frederick Winslow Taylor wrote “The Principles of Scientific Management” which led to a change in the national industries, making it possible for businesses to mass produce goods more efficiently and was a key contributing factor in Ford Motor Companies assembly line.
The movement for women’s rights had begun years before the 1900’s, but a new generation of women’s rights leaders emerged with new tactics and international alliances. The suffrage movement was primarily white because of the fear of alienating southern voters if they formed an alliance with women of color. However, many minority women supported the cause, such as the Hispana activist Adelina Warren, and the African American Ida B. Wells.
You aren’t following directions if you write more than one sentence. You wrote three sentences. What is the focus of your topic: new leaders, tactics and alliances, attitudes toward race, the role of minority women. If you want to write about all these things, you need one topic sentence to synthesize their integration.
The movement for women’s rights had begun years before the 1900’s, but a new generation of women’s rights leaders, such as the Hispana activist Adelina Warren and African American Ida B. Wells, emerged with new tactics and international alliances.
Good recovery.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic #18: New Business Culture Based on Scientific Management and Mass Production
Vocabulary Words: Frederick W. Taylor, mass production, Henry Ford
Frederick W. Taylor created a system in which improved mass production by analyzing each job’s motions and tools, gave instructions for workers, and gave understandable wages for the workers to get motivated, and Henry Ford used his techniques which resulted in the introduced the Model T automobile.
You have a rich vocabulary. My only concern is you begin your sentence with a vocabulary term instead of with your topic, New business culture based on scientific management and mass production.
My only concern about your content rich sentence is that it begins with a vocabulary term rather than your actual topic, which only arrives in the middle of the sentence. If Taylor is your subject, then mainly the paragraph would be about him.
The 1920’s saw a change from a rural to an urban America with movies, autos, radios, and advertising all fostering this new national culture.
This is a good topic sentence on urbanization and its relationship to popular culture.
Topic # 23: Beginnings of Mass Culture, Mass Entertainment, and Mass Leisure
The mass production of the radio in the early 1920’s was the first major step in connecting Americans across the country with a collective “pop culture” of music, conversation and especially advertisement that promoted products through an image of the perfect leisure lifestyle.
This is a very effective topic sentence linking mass production, mass entertainment, and mass leisure through the prism of the radio.
Despite the “Roaring Twenties” showed prosperity and flamboyance on the outside, the massive poverty did not improve and the our of control stock economy lead to the Great Depression.
The sentence is not clearly written and comes across garbled in the second half.
Theme: Cultural Change
Topic # 29: Rosie the Riveter: Transformation of Women’s Work Expectations During World War Two
Vocabulary Words: Rosie the Riveter, WAVES and WACS, Office of War Information (OWI)
During World War II, women were required to work and Rosie the Riveter became a heroic symbol; the Office of War Information (OWI) gave women an opportunity to join army services, so they enlisted in WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) and WACS (Women’s Army Corps).
Good topic sentence as far as it goes. It identifies a number of important vocabulary, but is mainly a description of impacts at work and in the service. How did these steps effect how women saw themselves?
Topic # 29: Rosie the Riveter: Transformation of Women’s Work Expectations During World War Two
Rosie the Riveter was a symbol showing the transformation from women being expected to only stay at home and be mothers and wives, to woman war workers who could work and do anything that a man could do, including working on ships and planes and even volunteering into the active duty military through Navy Waves and the Women’s Army Corps.
Excellent topic sentence, it should make a powerful topic paragraph.
Dr. Tom Dooley was the most effective American cultural ambassador for not only providing care of the people of Southeast Asia but, for assisting the CIA and US Navy in leading the exodus of 900,000 Catholic refugees from North Vietnam to South Vietnam.
Tom Dooley isn’t a topic. He could be a vocabulary word for a topic, however. You need to think why his story has a larger importance to the Vietnam story.
Desegregation, Sit-ins, and Boycotts as challenges to White Supremacy influenced the Brown v. The Board of Education court trial, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the Freedom Riders goal in the pursuit of equality in the United States
Your sentence isn’t historically accurate because you have these popular forms of protest occurring before Brown and Montgomery, when they followed those decisions and actions.
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The role of immigrants and people of color in changing America’s leisure culture was apparent in the 1920’s, when the Radio airwaves linked people all across the nation, causing a bridge for cultural understanding and exposure.
Good try. You should integrate the vocabulary related to jazz, the blues, and Hollywood into the content side of the sentence.
Cultural change and civil rights became heated and important movements in the 1960s that defied the roles of gender, social class, injustice, individuality, and government roles at a time when the country was at war allegedly against injustice, for human rights, and freedom.
Don’t begin a topic sentence with a theme (cultural change). If you want to discuss cultural change be specific, what change exactly? As constructed your sentence doesn’t make sense because the content is too general. Pick a topic and relate the specific vocabulary to it.
Topic # 47: Ecology as a new mindset for Americans
After crises such as the Oil Embargo of 1974 and the Love Canal, New York cover-up, Americans began to re-examine the quality of their health and the importance of ecology grew substantially.
Good topic sentence. I have only one suggestion. You should add the first “Earth Day,” April 22, 1970, and the images of earth from space to the events that helped trigger a new environmental consciousness.
cultural change: topic #46
Diffusion of and Backlash against Feminism in the 1970 were caused by both fear of the change in the role of women and the desire for improving women’s status in society that both brought about the Equal Rights Amendment, title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, and the Hyde Amendment.
Very good topic sentence. It is rich in vocabulary and tells a complex story.
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Theme: Cultural Change
Topic # 54: Immigration and increasing diversity, 1965 to present
America is considered the melting pot of cultural diversity, immigration has been increasing rapidly since 1965 when the Immigration and Nationality Act was implemented making the united states one of the most diverse countries in the world.
The organization of your sentence leaves a bit to be desired since you don’t begin it with your topic, but it will do as a topic sentence.