History 152: World Civilizations II
SPRING 2006
Instructor: Colette Higgins  


WRITING PROJECT
(A Speaker from the Past)
Written Communication
Critical Thinking


The Situation
A new technological development will allow you to bring a famous historical person to our modern times. You have arranged for this person to give a speech to our college class. What would your historical person say to us?

Your Task

Choose one of the historical characters from the list below. You will be researching and writing about this one character for all three parts of the project, so be sure to choose someone that intrigues you.

    Historical Person
    Years Lived
    Spodek
    CD Rom
    Baldassare Castiglione 1478-1529   Doc 13.3
    Akbar 1543-1605 pp. 502-505 Doc 12.7
    Matteo Ricci 1552-1610 pg. 477 Doc 16.1
    John Locke 1632-1704 pp. 524-526  
    Cesare Beccaria 1738-1794   Doc 17.7
    Michael Thomas Sadler 1780-1835 pg. 576 Doc 19.3
    Emmeline Pankhurst 1858-1928 pp. 580-582  
    Sun Yat-Sen 1866-1925 pp. 657-658  
    Mohandas Gandhi 1869-1948 pp. 783-788 Doc 27.1
    Albert Einstein 1879-1955 pp. 652  
     

Be sure to keep track of all your sources. As you conduct your research, don't forget to gather the necessary bibliographical information. I am interested in all the sources that you’ve consulted for your information (i.e. books, articles, videos, internet sites). For Part III, you will submit an annotated bibliography, which means, in addition to the typical bibliographical citation (author, title, city, publisher, year), you need to also provide a brief explanation of how each source helped you. You need a minimum of three sources. Don’t limit yourself to the internet.

Three Part Writing Process
(worth 100 points total)

*Please identify the font & provide a word count at the end of each part.
(e.g. Times New Roman 635 words)