Annotated Bibliographies:
• Bib 1: Create an annotated bibliography with a minimum of 12 sources. All can be from the web, but you must use a variety of sources from both popular, governmental, and think tank sites. Annotating means that you read the article or source and provide a 10-12 sentence paragraph synopsis. This assignment is about concise, accurate writing. This must be in your own words. Do not cut and paste!!
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Bib 2: Choose any subject or theme of interest related to the course content and create another annotated bibliography. Focus specifically on one or two themes. Consider this a deeper dive into a subject of your choosing. All sources must be new. Do not reuse sources from your previous bib. Same guidelines as Bib 1: 12 sources, 10-12 sentences for each.
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Format for Annotated Bibs: The format for annotated bibs is very specific and must be followed exactly. Note: You do not need a separate bibliography at the end of an annotated bib.
• Single space, Times New Roman font. – Both bib entry and annotation.
• DO NOT include sources from your syllabus. You must find your own sources.
• You don’t need to include access dates, but do need to include URLs.
• You do need to punctuate, indent, space, and italicize properly.
• Writing more than 10-12 sentences gets you less points, not more.
Example 1:
Hormats, Robert D. “Abraham Lincoln and the Global Economy.” Harvard Business Review (August 2003). https://hbr.org/2003/08/abraham-lincoln-and-the-global-economy.
Robert Hormat explores Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party’s immense impact on the American economy during and after the Civil War. The changes were not due solely to the costs of fighting the war and the interruption of the economy. Rather, many Republican’s, like Lincoln, were former members of the Whig Party, which had distinct ideas about the government’s role in the economy, especially regarding banks, paper money, tariffs, an income tax, and settler expansion into the West so that it could be further developed as an economic resources. Hormat explores these ideas, then connects them with the expanding nature of the global economy and postulates that many of Lincoln’s policies were ahead of their time. The author provides a variety of suggestions for burgeoning nations to modify their economics to take advantage of their own particular economic strengths while also expanding into the global economic network.
Example 2:
“Social Darwinism.” History.com. August 21, 2018. APR 6, 2018. https://www.history.com/ topics/early-20th-century-us/social-darwinism.
Social Darwinism is a social, political, and economic philosophy that opposes government support systems, or a safety net, for those struggling economically. One of the major proponents of the philosophy, Herbert Spencer, would be disgusted with the current American social welfare system, both because of its impact on society and the cost. Social Darwinists applied in Charles Darwin’s studies on natural selection to human societies. Darwin argued that the weakest members of a species, and entire species, die off because they are unable to survive in the wild. This process made sure that the core animal members of a species, or an entire species, were the strongest they could be and had the ability to adapt and survive. When applied to human beings, the species gets weaker with any “unnatural,” outside interference in the form of government protections or handouts. Much like the concept of a “free market” without any government regulation of the economy, freedom of competition in life creates a stronger popul
