Reflecting on the time periods and historical materials you have studied this semester, write a 500-600 word essay (approximately two double-spaced pages). Your essay must utilize content from at least HIS 315L Units 1-3 (post-Civil War through World War II), although material from Units 4 and 5 is also very welcome. In your essay, explore significant changes related to one of following Big Ideas:

1. America and the World: America's role in the world began on the periphery and has moved to take a central place.

2. Reform and Renewal: The Puritan mission to create a City on a Hill has been adopted in many forms throughout America's history, resulting in social and political movements that reinvigorate and often challenge Americans to reflect on their future.

Identify the Big Idea you have chosen to examine.
Write a paragraph that explains what the Big Idea means.
In your first paragraph, also list three major changes, events, “moments” or specific time periods from the course as a whole that demonstrate, and connect to, the Big Idea.
Write a paragraph for each of the three changes, events, “moments” or specific time periods and connect each one to the Big Idea. Each paragraph should explain the status or conditions at the time of your Big Idea and show how it reveals historical change. Be sure to use specific evidence

“American history,” wrote James Baldwin,

“is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and

more terrible than anything anyone has said about it.”

In these two sequential first-year college American

history courses, students study significant themes

in US history to uncover the range and depth of the

American story. Using lectures, primary and secondary

readings, videos, maps, and other graphics, students

work both independently and collaboratively to develop

the critical thinking skills to evaluate the historical record.

History 315K surveys from the colonial beginnings

through the Civil War, and History 315L considers

the post-Civil War era to the end of the 20th century.

Exams include essay questions that require students

to craft well-written narratives and arguments that set

events in historical context, engage the complexity

of cause and consequence, and make connections

that reveal the dynamic of change over time.

Explanation:

the correct answer is: the fact that the anti-federalist papers were considered poorly written.

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1. intercessory weapons

“god is looking for somebody, a wall builder; somebody who can prevent calamities and avert disasters through importunate tears of supplication,” writes father oforka. “such wall builders attend the divine council and, like spiritual attorneys, passionately argue their cases in order to achieve their purpose.”

an example of an intercessory warrior is moses in the old testament. “moses acted as a bridge between god and his people. that was an office that god called him to when he appeared to him in the form of a burning bush. he therefore respects both moses as his faithful servant and his office of mediation between him and his people,” father oforka writes.

how does intercession play a role in our lives today, as the spiritual battle rages on still? “we must go back to our roots and repossess the right of attending the divine council through the ministry of intercession,” father oforka explains. we intercede through prayer, petitioning for others before the throne of god.

2. the name of jesus 

“there is something in the name of jesus that is awesome and fascinating,” father oforka writes. “hence, the quiver of the intercessory cannot be complete without it.”

saints paul, peter, and john write extensively about the power of the name of christ. no one can make demons subject to him without the name of christ.

in the early church, justin martyr wrote, “for every demon, when exorcised in the name of this very son of god – who is the first-born of every creature, who became man by the virgin, who suffered, and was crucified under pontius pilate, who died, who rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven – is overcome and subdued. but though you exorcise any demon in the name of any of those who are among you – either kings, or righteous men, or prophets, or patriarchs – it will not be subject to you.”

3. the power of praise 

praise is a underrated arrow in the quiver of a christian. “it’s important that intercessors should learn the power of praise,” writes father oforka. “a group of prayer ministers may gather for hours praising god and soaking the air with divine waves. . the father cherishes it when his awesome deeds are recounted and his person is addressed accordingly.”

what does this have to do with spiritual warfare? “at those times when the thick clouds of evil begin to gather, when the smoke of satan begins to blur our view and choke our breath, intercessors might opt to descend into the bright cloud of praise, invoking these awesome names, instead of a mournful prayer-fight.”

heaven can’t resist soulful praise of the faithful – and satan can’t stand to hear god praised here on earth.

4. the fire of the holy spirit

the fire of the holy spirit has a two-fold purpose in the life of the spiritual warrior. “it could be used as both an offensive and a defensive weapon,” father oforka explains. “it is like the word of god, which is double-edged and therefore dual in purpose.”

we often see god through the medium of fire throughout the old testament. he appears to moses in a burning bush, and as a pillar of fire through the desert wanderings of the israelite nation. in his letter to the hebrews, saint paul writes that god is an “all consuming fire.”

5. the eucharist 

in the gospel of john, christ says: “very truly i tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you have no life within you.” the institution of the eucharist is an event recorded meticulously by three of the synoptic gospels and saint paul.

when catholics worship in the mass and receive the body of christ through the eucharist they can “draw more strength than he can image,” explains father oforka. “an intercessory, who identifies with jesus in the eucharist, can handle difficult cases. he does not just end with the invocation of this treasure. he must, as often as possible, be part of the sacrifice of the mass through which this power flows.”

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