Reflections are your opportunity to return to what you wrote in the entry post and demonstrate what you’ve learned and how your thinking has evolved. To that end, please do the following:
Instructions
In a post of 3-4 paragraphs, respond to the same prompt as the entry post, below, but using what you’ve learned in the unit to show what you’ve learned and how your thinking has evolved (note that those are not the same things). Please:
Clearly express what you consider the most important takeaways from this unit and why.
Demonstrate this with evidence from the unit, either readings or lectures, but do not use any outside sources or include information not contained in the unit.
Cite all evidence parenthetically, with lectures cited with my name and the lecture number, for example (Woolley, Lecture 1.1a) and the textbook with the page number like this (Pollard et al., 617).
Include a clear argument in your first few sentences (your thesis), and begin each paragraph with a clear topics sentence from which the content of that paragraph follows.
Follow all syllabus guidelines on academic dishonest exactly, especially regarding the use of AI-generated text.
Finally, please also respond to the post from the class that you believe is the best (besides your own) with an explanation as to WHY you chose that one.
Prompt
“What were the main points of contention between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and in what ways did the Cold War impact US domestic and foreign policies?”
This is the link for the lecture viedos 29-31 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs6HHd0kzPpPl20YWG1PLawS7iOq7CLD8
This is also the name of the book Chapter 20 Elizabeth Pollard et al., Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, concise 3rd ed., volume
2 (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2021).
