HIST 104DCE News

According to the university calendar, the last finals end at 12:30 tomorrow. That is also the deadline for all submissions for scoring. Any item e-mailed for scoring after that time will not recieve a score.

Friday afternoon I will take down all four sections of the Cumberland Gap. If you would like to exchange a final message or two with your classmates, you are certainly welcome to do so. I can not give you a specific time, but it will be sometime after 2:00 p.m. I have to get the Summer session students subscribed and going since we start over next Tuesday!

We are entering our final week together in HIST 104 DCE for Spring Semester. The link to Quiz 15 is www.plainsfolk.com/webquiz/104/quizzes/104quiz15.asp

The final Episode is an eclectic mix of pertinent information, but because it is so close to our own time, it is too close to really try to define its long-term effects. One man who tried to do so, Francis Fukuyama, serves as an example of getting it wrong.

This is a fun lesson, so have fun with it.

Quiz 14 is ready for you, are you ready for it? The link is www.plainsfolk.com/webquiz/104/quizzes/104quiz14.asp

This week we look at one of the least understood conflicts in American history, the Vietnam Conflict. Some of your relatives can tell you about this one. The Lecture Episode is quite informative as well.

Talk with you on the Gap!

Greetings, all you survivors of HIST 104 DCE! This is an invitation to participate in the student evaluation of instruction for the course, which is done online. It includes the standard SROI items done in classes on campus, plus a bunch of other questions added by the distance education office. Some of them don't really apply to this course, others may or may not; answer all that you wish to. Here's the link to the evaluation form.

Tomorrow begins Week 13! When you are ready, Quiz 13 is available for you at www.plainsfolk.com/webquiz/104/quizzes/104quiz13.asp

Don't forget, the final due-date for all soft-points assignments is May 2. I will accept any assignments sent up to midnight, May 2. Please do not procrastinate.

I would also ask that you get your Lecture Assessments to me by that date. I will accept Lecture Assessments until midnight, May 5. From May 5-9 you will complete the final assessment. As the syllabus says, this will be e-mailed to you by me. there are specific questions that Dr. Isern and I will ask for the specific purpose of course improvement, so please wait for the questions.

The Lecture this week is "I have a Dream." This lecture takes in a number of topics dealing with Civil Rights and the 1960s. TQ tells us about the inclination to free institutions, that is, without government interference. In that the government has been getting more invovled in our lives since the Great Depression, Tths should give us the opportunity to discuss the contradiction between wanting more freedom from government and our trend toward more centralized government.

Quiz 12 is located for your enjoyment at
www.plainsfolk.com/webquiz/104/quizzes/104quiz12.asp

It covers that really schizophrenic time in America known as the Cold War. This is the period when America faced the growing threat of Communist expansion...the same period remembered in the TV series "Happy Days." This was when the Air Force dropped a hydrogen bomb 15 miles from where I was living, a bomb that has never been recovered. A time when we had Nuclear Air Raid drills in our elementary school. . . "Duck and Cover!" Have fun!

Quiz 11 has been posted. The link is www.plainsfolk.com/webquiz/104/quizzes/104quiz11.asp

This week Dr. Isern tells us about World War II. TQ tells us why Democratic nations' armies do poorly when war starts, but are formidble once they get going. Make sure you understand his reasons. You must use all of your reasoning power as well as your knowledge of the times in which TQ was writing to understand this.

See you on the Gap!