Homework - 10/18

Due Wednesday:

As you read your assigned readings, identify, in writing, the following aspects:

·             1.  How does the reading show the hope that people had for what the West had to offer?

o   List 3-5 specific elements or passages that support your point

·            2.   How, if at all, does the reading show the negative potential of life in the West?

o   List 2-4 specific elements of the reading that support your point

o   If it does not say anything negative, why do you think it doesn’t

Bogomilov – Johansen:  “Great Nation of Futurity” & “Chief Seattle’s Treaty Oration”

Kostas  - Russell:  “Your memorialist, Asa Whitney” & "Great Nation of Futurity"

Ryan – Wallace: “Greer Journal” & “Cholera in Missouri”