Essay Question #2 - - Eleanor Roosevelt and the Future of the Past.
Due Date: Your completed essay should be submitted to Blackboard by June 29, 11:30pm. The submission link can be located in the Week 5 Assignments folder link. Directions: As your write your essay, keep in mind the need to combine the factual information found in the assigned sources, along with your critical analysis of the facts. Your essay should be approximately five pages, double-spaced. You are being tested on your knowledge and understanding of the following assigned and required sources: 1)Youngs’ Eleanor Roosevelt; 2)relevant class lecture materials (including class films); the Martin text; and the United Nations’ The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( available at http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml) . To do well on this essay, your writing will need to demonstrate your in-depth familiarity with, and application of, these required sources.
Footnotes/Internal Citation Format: Footnote whenever you quote or paraphrase a source. Because this is not a research essay and you are using class assigned readings as the basis for your essay, it is appropriate that you use scientific notation or some other, similar internal footnoting format. (For example: if you quote something from Youngs, after you have written the quotation, cite the author and page number as follows - - (Youngs, 35).
Works Cited Page: include this at the end of your essay.
(QUESTION)
Using the required class sources as your starting point, identify, describe, an discuss three (3) separate examples that demonstrate that Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt used her position as First Lady and, later, former First Lady to advocate for various issues that she believed were important to (and for) the American public during both the Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman administrations. Was there
Cited: Page: include this at the end of your essay. (QUESTION) Using the required class sources as your starting point, identify, describe, an discuss three (3) separate examples that demonstrate that Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt used her position as First Lady and, later, former First Lady to advocate for various issues that she believed were important to (and for) the American public during both the Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman administrations. Was there anything in her prior life that foreshadowed this role for her? (Be sure to cite specific evidence to support your discussion!)