Cultural Project :One Week project Start Assignment Attempts 0 Due Sunday by 11:59pm Points 20 Submitting a file upload (Turnitin enabled) Allowed Attempts 2 Available Aug 19 at 12am – Oct 4 at 11:59pm about 2 months THIS PROJECT IS NOT ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL FAMILY. THIS IS NOT A PERSONAL HISTORY. This is a research project using wikipedia and other sources if needed. YOUR race/ ethnicity/culture you chose in the previous assignment will be used for your Cultural Background Project. Go to wikipedia and research the group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main Page 2 Type in your group: African American, Swedish American, German American, etc. You must type the group + American in the search engine. You will find an extensive article on your group. You are looking for information about Origins History Statistics Language Immigration to America Introduction: 10-12 types lines in paragraph form African Americans, for the most part, were brought to the Americas in slave ships. And, we remained in slavery from 1519 until 1862. Even so, we gained the political clout to name ourselves and we have produced many prominent Americans. A little known fact about African American family names or last names is very interesting. The names have nothing to do with where they came from. My last name is Byrd, a European name, but I did not come from Europe. Most African Americans carry the last name of the people who held them in bondage. My family was held in bondage by the family of Senator Robert Byrd from West Virginia. His family held my family in slavery. My father’s name was Robert Byrd and our family DNA originates from West Africa to West Virginia. Though it has only been 150 years since Blacks have been freed, this course is taught by a descendant of slaves, President Obama’s father is Nigerian, and the first woman of colour to fly in outer space was a Black woman, Dr. Mae Jamieson. Let’s take a look at what I found out about my racial/cultural heritage from my research. Body: 1. Most African Americans are the descendants of people in the U.S. held in bondage for profit. A. labor without costs B. worked the fields, managed the houses, raised the children of Whites C. used as sex slaves II. Naming one’s self is a powerful endeavor. A. niggas and slaves B. Colored and Negros C. Afro Americans, African Americans and Blacks III. Main point in complete sentence. A. Harriett Tubman B. Dr. Neil Tyson deGrasse C. Kamala Harris, 2020 Vice President nominee Conclusion: 5-6 types lines African Americans have moved a long way from their arrivals on slave ships from all parts of Africa. Our contributions have been significant in science, literature, education and medicine. In 152 yrs we have become company owners, teachers and politicians. People ask me if I have resentments about the history of my people in the U.S. I say no because “We are free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty we are free at last.” Bibliography Before the Mayflower, Lerone Bennet, 1967 100 African Americans who Shaped America, Chrisanne Beckner, 1995 wikipedia (2020). Title of Article. Retrieved September 2020. wikipedia.org The purpose of this project is to finalize the research you have completed for the Cultural Background Project. You may chose to write a 500 – 600 word essay, PowerPoint with 6-10 slides or a Speech to complete this project. Each choice is worth 60 pts. See samples below. May use PowerPoint in Windows, Google Slides in your Drive, or Prez The essay will consist of five to six paragraphs. There must be a citation of the source of information in each paragraph. Introduction 10-12 lines It should have three to four paragraphs in the body, each paragraph covering a main point. Each paragraph should run 10-12 lines Conclusion should be 10-12 lines. Following this format the essay will be 500 to 600 hundred words. READ THE SAMPLE ESSAY BELOW African American History essay.docx.doc Cultural Background PowerPoint.pptx Guidelines for Power Point No more than 12 slides. YOU MUST HAVE ONE PICTURE OR VISUAL ON EACH SLIDE. Work to keep it at one picture per slide Slide 1 Your name, Instructor , Title of the assignment Slide 2: Introduction to the project 100-150 words Slide 3: Main point 1 complete sentence A. B. C. words or phrase Slide 4: Main point 2 complete sentence A.B.C. words or phrase Slide 5: Main point 3. complete sentence A, B, C, words or phrase Slide 6: Conclusion 100-150 words Slide 7: Bibliography wikipedia (2020). title of our article. Other sources if used. Purchase answer to see full attachment Explanation & Answer: 600 words Tags: social institutions Mexican American Culture political unrest Hostile government Racist citizens User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following our company’shonor code & terms of service.

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered throughout the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Both books provide extensive examples, so it’s a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.

BASIC IN-TEXT CITATION RULES

In MLA Style, referring to the works of others in your text is done using parenthetical citations. This method involves providing relevant source information in parentheses whenever a sentence uses a quotation or paraphrase. Usually, the simplest way to do this is to put all of the source information in parentheses at the end of the sentence (i.e., just before the period). However, as the examples below will illustrate, there are situations where it makes sense to put the parenthetical elsewhere in the sentence, or even to leave information out.

General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1) upon the source medium (e.g. print, web, DVD) and (2) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page.
• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry on the Works Cited page.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS: AUTHOR-PAGE STYLE

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author’s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS FOR PRINT SOURCES WITH KNOWN AUTHOR

For print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as “symbol-using animals” (3).

Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry on the Works Cited page:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.