Hilda Polachecks Life and the Role of Women in America in the 20th Century

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Your first paper assignment will ask you to read and analyze Hilda Polacheck’s autobiography, I Came a Stranger, in the context of our course themes and the broader historical events and issues we will cover through Week 5 of the semester.
You will need to choose one of the following options to address in your paper:
1. Urban areas played a pivotal role in shaping the identity and destiny of the country during Hilda Polacheck’s lifetime. How does her autobiography portray the unique problems or opportunities that cities presented for Americans in the “Progressive Era”? What strategies do the individuals and communities depicted in I Came a Stranger use to address these problems/opportunities? Successful papers will avoid simply listing all of the possible answers to these questions and instead choose a specific and well-explained focus for your argument.
2. How does Hilda Polacheck understand what it means to be an American? What qualities, rights, or behaviors does she associate with this identity? Why? To best answer this question, you should avoid simply listing the moments that Polacheck proclaims as being truly “American” and instead seek to find and argue for connections between some of these varied expressions/experiences of national identity.
3. What does Hilda Polacheck’s life reveal about the roles of women in America during the late 19th and early 20th Century? Is this a period defined more by a sense of possibility or by ongoing constraints?
The best papers will be those that dig deeply into the substance of Polacheck’s memoir and connect your argument (based in a rigorous analysis of the book) with relevant information from our other course materials. Though Polacheck’s narrative should be the centerpiece of your argument and analysis, you are welcome to incorporate ideas and links from other materials we have read or ideas we have covered in lecture. External research is allowed (under the parameters listed in Point #9 regarding citations), but is not necessary to be able to receive an “A” on the assignment.
Please take the time to read closely the material on the two following pages. I guarantee it will help your performance on the paper and make the process of writing and citing go more smoothly.