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ASSIGNMENT TWO
This assignment is based on a careful and thorough reading of material in Chapters 1-2 in Joseph Corn’s The Winged Gospel and Courtwright, Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation, and Empire, chapters 1-4 (additional chapters in later assignments).

For this assignment you will write two five-page essays. Each essay will be worth 50 points.

Winged Gospel is an example of what is often being called “the new aviation history.” Traditional aviation history focused primarily on planes, pilots, and, to a less extent, aircraft designers or entrepreneurs. It was very “internalist” in that it focused on the “thing” or the “person” without placing the “thing” or the “person” within the larger context of American history. In The Winged Gospel, Corn examines the social and cultural responses to the airplane in the United States, focusing on the period from 1908 to 1950. Sky as Frontier is also part of the “new aviation history.” Courwright’s work draws on one of the most powerful interpretative themes in American history, the frontier, and applies it in a very systematic and sophisticated way to the history of the commercial aviation industry. It also briefly explores how well the “frontier typology” can be applied to the history of space exploration (where space has been described as “the final frontier.) The idea of “frontier” has been an important one in the history of aviation to the present: Boeing recently had as it corporate motto “always new frontiers.” Published in 2005, this book, like Corn’s, is widely cited by other scholars in the field.

Essay One: (based on Corn) Write an essay in which you describe the response of the US public to the invention of the airplane and then explain three beliefs about airplanes and aviation that became part of what Corn called “The Winged Gospel.”

Essay Two: (based on Courtwright) Write an essay in which you explain the two types of frontiers Courtwright argues were both part of the US frontier experience and the development of aviation in the US and then demonstrate how aviation fit one of those frontier types almost exclusively through the mid-1920s.

the writer will be using this book below:
Courtwright, Sky as Frontier (OHIOLINK, also Amazon and Kindle edition)

Also, I will upload a pdf file called Corn chapter

these two sources will be used in this essay.

compare and contrast The Andy Griffith Show and I Love Lucy.

Question:
Ballenger notes that starting with a good question, as opposed to a convenient answer, makes finding a fruitful topic a great deal easier, not to mention far less boring (35). What makes a topic “good” and why might the way you approach a topic make a difference in what you can do with it?

1.Describe the effect of European exploration and colonization on African and Native American cultures. How did each group react to confrontations of societies?
2.Describe the social, economic, and political changes, which occurred in Europe and led to exploration and colonization of the “New World.”
3.In what ways did the English colonization of North America differ from Spanish colonization of Mexico and South America?
4.Compare and contrast the English colonies of the Chesapeake with their counterparts at Massachusetts Bay. What were their similarities and their differences?
5.Describe the Puritans. What were their beliefs? What did they hope to accomplish in the “New World”?

1. Could the relationship between England and her American colonies have been saved?
2. What were the British and American Strategies for the Revolutionary war?
3. What were the strengths and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
4. What role did the issue of slavery play in the Constitutional Convention?
5. How was the issue of slavery dealt with in the final version of the Constitution?

1. Could the relationship between England and her American colonies have been saved?
2. What were the British and American Strategies for the Revolutionary war?
3. What were the strengths and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
4. What role did the issue of slavery play in the Constitutional Convention?
5. How was the issue of slavery dealt with in the final version of the Constitution?

website for movie Patriot (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWpgld2Fls8)
Answer
1. Why did the Colonists desire independence?
2. Describe the debate in the South Carolinian colonial legislature.
3. How would you characterize the British view of the American colonists (don’t assume rebels)?
4. Near the end of the Battle of Yorktown, shortly before he surrendered, the actor playing General Cornwallis stated, “Everything will change…everything has changed.” What does he mean?
5. How did the colonist’s defeat the British?

1. What were the major foreign policy objectives of the United States between 1815 and 1824?
2. In what ways did the transportation revolution contribute to the development of a national market economy in the United States between 1815 and 1840?
3. How did the Supreme Court under John Marshall’s leadership enhance the growth nationalism and strong federal government?
4. In what ways did American cultural development in the 1820’s and 1830s reflect the democratic impulse of the era?
5. Describe the temperament and political philosophy of Andrew Jackson.

1. During the 1790’s, why did the revolutionary leaders become divided over the course of the new nation?
2. How did the views of Hamilton and Jefferson give birth to political parties?
3. What were the long-term effects of Hamilton’s financial plans?
4. What would ordinary citizens have to fear with the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts?
5. Why did the Federalist Party fail?

Write a 1,450- to 1,700-word paper that answers the following requirement.

Use an industry leader that has been instrumental in turning around a large company. Describe their team-building techniques and strategies used to transform their company. Use any industry leaders such as Marisa Mayer of Yahoo, Howard Shultz or Starbucks, Indra Nooyi of Pepsico, Mary Barra of GM, Larry Page of Google, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim Cook of Apple, You get the point. Choose a CEO of a Fortune 500 company to write about.

Research what condition the company was in when they took over and where it is today. Investigate and discuss the strategy that was used to establish the teams and how the strategy was executed. What other strategies could have worked in a similar situation? Provide rationale.

Include citations.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.