The second exam will use the same set of questions as the first (United States foreign policy). As with the first exam, you will identify 5 quotes you would use as evidence in an essay. Since you had feedback from the first exam, you might want to use those quotes if I felt they were good. If not, identify new quotes using the insight from the 1st exam. Below are the three steps you need to follow for this exam:

a) Write an introduction that clearly outlines the question that is being asked, defines your response to that question, and then goes on to outline the structure of your essay. I would recommend that you write the introduction as your final step, because then you will know what your overall presentation is about.
b) Write a series of topic sentences that would set up each paragraph in your essay. A topic sentence needs to tell the reader the connection between this next step in your argument, and the evidence you intend to use to support your position.
c) Each topic sentence will be followed by a single piece of evidence (a quotation like the first exam). Evidence is not an “event” or a “chronology.” Evidence is information that supports the interpretation you have set out in your introduction and refined in the specific topic sentence for that paragraph. You need to include the page number for the piece of evidence.

This second exam is worth 200 points.

TOPICS:

1. For many people, the United States has always gone to war to help other countries; we fight wars for moral causes. Others believe the United States enters conflicts out of economic self-interest. Write an essay that argues for one of these two perspectives. You must find evidence from at least 3 conflicts examined in this class.