Instruction
Choose one of the primary source selections from those provided below. Present the thesis statement of the primary source in the introductory paragraph. Choose relevant and specific examples that support the thesis in the body of the essay. The essay must also answer each of the bulleted questions provided below. The essay should be organized in a logical sequence with a conclusion in the final paragraph.
The use of any other sources beyond the one assigned (as well as the textbook) in writing this essay is not expected. If other sources are used in this essay, then they must be properly cited within the paper along with the inclusion of a works cited page. Plagiarism will result in 0/50 points on this assignment.
Primary Source Selections
Winston Churchill: “Iron Curtain Speech,” March 5, 1946
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/churchill-iron.asp
What is Winston Churchill’s thesis statement?
Which specific examples from his “Iron Curtain Speech” support his argument?
How does Churchill feel about the Russian people and his “wartime comrade” Joseph Stalin?
What does he mean when he says, “from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic”?
Does Churchill think Soviet Russia wants war? If not, then what do they want?
Harry Truman: “The Truman Doctrine,” March 12, 1947
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1947TRUMAN.asp
What is Harry Truman’s thesis statement?
Which specific examples from “the Truman Doctrine” support his argument?
Why was Greece in such economic and political disarray in 1947?
What 3 countries does Truman say were violating Greece’s sovereign borders?
What evidence does Truman provide to support that democracy still survives in Greece?
Carolina Maria de Jesus: Quarto de Despejo, 1960
http://www.uncg.edu/~jwjones/world/readings/childofdark.html
What is Carolina Maria de Jesus’ thesis statement?
Which specific examples from Quarto de Despejo support her argument?
Which specific day do you think was her worst in the favela? Explain.
Which specific day do you think was her best in the favela? Explain.
What is the main “character” in Carolina Maria de Jesus’ diary? Explain.
Margaret Thatcher: “Shaping a New Global Community,” August 5, 1990
https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108174
What is Margaret Thatcher’s thesis statement? ?
Which specific examples from “Shaping a New Global Community” support his argument?
Does Thatcher want Eastern Europe to be welcomed into the European Community? Explain.
Is she optimistic or pessimistic about creating a “deeper” European Community? Explain.
Why would it have been more appropriate for Thatcher to give this speech in Fulton, Missouri?