Expository Essay
ENGL 1100 Assignment: Expository Essay (15%) The purpose of this assignment is to help you demonstrate the following course outcomes: 1. Read, annotate, and summarize a variety of academic and non-academic works 2. Engage in a writing process that includes brainstorming, outlining, drafting, and revising strategies to produce university-level writing 3. Apply principles of unity, development, and coherence in writing 4. Produce clear, grammatical, and logical written work independently 5. Write essays that assert and support clear thesis statements 6. Integrate sources effectively into written work using quotation, paraphrase, and summary 7. Document source material and format essays using MLA and/or APA citation methods to uphold the principles of academic integrity 8. Recognize and correct errors in your own writing To write this assignment effectively, you will need to do the following: 1. Re-read the articles several times, annotating to identify the main and supporting ideas. Outline each article on a separate piece of paper. Make sure you really understand each article before you write about it. 2. Follow the steps in the writing process, paying particular attention to creating an effective outline. Careful planning, revising, and proofreading will ensure your best essay. Instructions: Topic:Write a three-page essay explaining the different views on statuary offered by the three articles provided on the course website. Length: 3 pages of 12pt., double-spaced, Times New Roman font, excluding Works Cited. Document Submission: All documents must be submitted to Moodle in PDF. Step One: OutlineDue date October 4. For participation marks. Step Two: Final CopyDue date October 18. 15% of the final grade. Format:MLA format for document design, in-text citation, and the Works Cited page Note: essays that do not adhere to MLA format for document design, parenthetical references, or the Works Cited page will lose 5%. Late Policy:See course outline for policies. Consultation: During office hours and by an appointment. Resources: See the course website for notes and samples & see KPU Libguide for MLA guidance. Revision:Will be part of an ePortfolio reflection. History should be addition, not subtraction Publication info: The Globe and Mail ; Toronto, Ont. [Toronto, Ont]09 Sep 2020: A10. ProQuest document link FULL TEXT Canadian history is too thin. We don't mean that nothing much of consequence has happened here - no, rather a lot has happened, and much of it is unique and surprisingly and highly instructive. But while our past is rich, our sense of our history, which abounds in nuances and contradictions and compromises and (yes) triumphs, is not. So much of the many Canadas that came before ours has been forgotten, often purposefully, and so much has been buried under a torrent of American history. The latter can leave Canadians with the mistaken impression that our past must be just a shadow of theirs, such that "engaging critically" with it must mean little more than following America's lead. Which brings us to Sir John A. Macdonald. In 2020, is it acceptable to have a statue commemorating the chief Father of Confederation and prime architect of the country? Must it be removed? Surrounded by trigger warnings? And who gets to decide? That last question is the easiest one, so we'll start there. This is a country of laws - there's that bit about peace, order and good government in those constitutional blueprints Macdonald helped draft - which means that individual citizens don't have a right to remodel public spaces by force, no matter how intensely they may personally dislike what's in them. Change is possible, and Canadian history has been a constant process of changing attitudes, but it has to happen through legal and democratic mechanisms. That way of making change, through evolution not revolution, is the Canadian way. It is our great collective accomplishment. And it works. Among the proofs for that proposition is the fact that the Canada we live in today still operates in part according to a Constitution Macdonald helped to write, even though this place has become profoundly different - culturally, religiously, economically, racially - from the country Macdonald helped to found. Progress paired with stability is a great legacy. In the years prior to 1867, there was too little of either; in the last century and a half, there has been a lot of both. Canada is a country, not a religion, which means that nobody has to pay homage to the ancestors. And Macdonald was a politician, not a saint. In his attitudes and beliefs, he was very much a man of his time. And many of his time's attitudes and beliefs are thankfully not shared by our age (that's the definition of progress, no?) - just as many of today's most widely shared beliefs and assumptions may one day appear retrograde and incomprehensible to future generations. No good can come from whitewashing history, or burying wrongs done. But Macdonald, flawed though he was, laid the foundation for something that is fundamental to our lives, namely this country itself. It's an accomplishment so big that it tends to get overlooked. That is why a debate over a Macdonald statue should be very different from the American debate over statues of the leaders of the Confederacy. Take Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States. His signal political accomplishment was breaking apart the United States of America, and waging a civil war so as to allow his constituents to continue to practise human slavery. Americans should want to take down monuments to a movement that violently revolted against America's best ideals. That's Jefferson Davis's legacy. Macdonald's legacy is Canada. Among other things, he helped to create a basis for English-French and Catholic- https://ezproxy.kpu.ca:2443/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2440826707?accountid=35875 https://ezproxy.kpu.ca:2443/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2440826707?accountid=35875 Protestant co-existence. That was for a long time this country's intractable racial conflict. Calling it a "racial" conflict sounds bizarre to modern ears, but perhaps that's a testament to how successfully it was managed and overcome. On the whole, it seems wiser to add to Canadian history than to get into arguments over how to subtract from it. That doesn't mean we can't ever take down a statue or change the name of a building. But adding to history is always possible, because Canada never stops growing. It never stops offering opportunities for new monuments, new symbols and new names, without necessarily having to bury the old. Year after year, this country is creating new institutions and building new buildings; year after year, Canada's cities grow bigger, laying out new neighbourhoods and new streets. All of these new things need names - memorializing our present into a future that will one day be, for those who come after us, a questioned past. DETAILS Subject: Canadian history Location: Canada Publication title: The Globe and Mail; Toronto, Ont. First page: A10 Publication year: 2020 Publication date: Sep 9, 2020 Section: Editorial Publisher: The Globe and Mail Place of publication: Toronto, Ont. Country of publication: Canada, Toronto, Ont. 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Terms and Conditions Contact ProQuest Last updated: 2020-09-22 Database: Canadian Newsstream http://BD9YB3DE2B.search.serialssolutions.com/directLink?&atitle=History%20should%20be%20addition,%20not%20subtraction&author=&issn=03190714&title=The%20Globe%20and%20Mail&volume=&issue=&date=2020-09-09&spage=A10&id=doi:&sid=ProQ_ss&genre=article https://search.proquest.com/info/termsAndConditions http://about.proquest.com/go/pqissupportcontact History should be addition, not subtraction In rebuking John A. Macdonald protesters, the PM undermines his claim of allyship Ifill, Erica . The Globe and Mail ; Toronto, Ont. [Toronto, Ont]03 Sep 2020: A13. ProQuest document link FULL TEXT Economist, columnist for the Hill Times and co-host of the Bad + Bitchy podcast In a classic example of what the late John Lewis called "good trouble," Montreal demonstrators removed the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald from a public space at a protest to defund the police last Saturday. And the outrage from the white Canadian men in whose image Canadian history is taught was swift. But context has been missing from so many pearl-clutching responses. In this second civil rights movement, where Black Lives Matter has brought global attention to police violence and death wrought on Black people, the traditional framing of criminality is being challenged. Even our current Prime Minister has engaged in at least the pageantry of it; just months earlier, Justin Trudeau attended an anti-police brutality march in Ottawa, going so far as to take a knee reminiscent of former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick's years-long protest over the same issue. Fast forward to his response to the statue toppling, and his tone has changed. Much like his reaction to the protests in support of some Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs, Mr. Trudeau has morphed from white ally to condescending white settler colonialist. "We are a country of laws, and we are a country that needs to respect those laws even as we seek to improve and change them," he said Monday. "Those kinds of acts of vandalism are not advancing the path towards greater justice and equality in this country." With allyship like this, who needs enemies? In doing this, Mr. Trudeau was eager to show off his law-and-order bona fides. But if he is still seeking to advance "greater justice and equality," he undermines his own allegedly progressive message by vaunting the very laws that underpin many of the problems being protested - including laws Macdonald helped establish. It's not as if this issue came out of nowhere for Mr. Trudeau, either. The removal of monuments exalting the father of Confederation has been in the national discourse for years. However, Canadians like to engage in the vanity exercise of cherry-picking the history we're comfortable with, leaving out the icky bits that don't uphold our worldview of being "good people." The reality, though, is that Canada's first prime minister was an oppressive colonist whose deployment of state violence was instrumental in the formation of the nation. These aren't "mistakes made by previous generations who built this country," as Mr. Trudeau falsely characterized them; rather, this was a man who committed real atrocities that formed and informed how the Canadian state interacts with Black, Indigenous and people of colour, to this day. Here are just a few achievements on his résumé: The creation of