Savannah State University The New Anti Americanism by Richard Wike Essay

A 1000 word essay to 1200 Mla format

1)Adam Serwer writes that “The Fight Over the 1619 Project Is Not About the Facts” (as his

article is titled). He notes ways in which the historians criticizing the project have indicated that their problem is more with how things are said than with what is said.Similarly, in conversation people often use words and phrases that soften and blur what they mean, such as saying somebody was “inaccurate” rather than that they “lied” or saying “I can’t go” rather than “I don’t want to go.” Clearly a lot of people think it matters how things get said. Should it? How and why? Focus your answer on one specific way in which it should (or should not) matter how things get said. Present your thesis in the form of an enthymeme (claim because reason). 2) Richard Wike writes about the new ways in which world views of the United States are negative (in “The New Anti-Americanism”). He presumes that a nation’s reputation around the world matters. Should it? How and why?Focus your answer on one specific way in which it should (or should not) matter what a nation’s reputation is. Present your thesis in the form of an enthymeme (claim because reason).Thereadings that you may use are:Hannah-Jones, Nikole.“America Wasn’t a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One.”The New York Times Magazine,14 Aug 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/black-history-american-democracy.htmlSerwer, Adam. “The Fight Over the 1619 Project Is Not About the Facts.”The Atlantic, 23 Dec 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/historians-clash-1619-project/604093/.Wike, Richard. “The New Anti-Americanism.”Foreign Affairs, 8 Jan 2020, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2020-01-08… or any of the articles that were allowed sources on papers one or two:•Cremean, “Why America Should Never Make English Its Official Language”• Klein, “Are Nonprofits Getting in the Way of Social Change?”•Malchick, “The Problem with Social-Media Protests”•Miller, “Alinsky for the Left”•Parakala, “‘The Myth of English as America’s National Language”•Pinker, “Horton Heared a Who!”•Tufekci, “Twitter and Tear Gas”