Didn't get the reading? Brought the wrong binder to class? Haven't bothered to do the first blog post and now you're really behind? Well here is the next blog posting to keep you on your toes.
RE-DATE: check the amended due dates. I want you to have more of a chance to consider Congress' impact and the Revolutions of 1848, these postings will be marked as part of first semester grades.
The first posting is due by Friday, December 14th, a day that will live in infamy for other reason, your initial posting should be a tight well constructed paragraph, strong thesis statement with clear, key, concise supporting points for obvious development if this were to be a longer essay. Your second post should be in the form of peer responses - comments to specific postings are due by the following Friday, December 21st. You should reply constructively to at least two of your peers. They should be focused, constructive criticisms aimed at helping people address the prompt more completely. A sentence or two at most.
Eric Hobsbawm has argued that the 19th century European revolutions "occurred because the political systems reimposed on Europe were profoundly...inadequate for the political conditions of the Continent, and because economic and social discontents were so acute as to make a series of outbreaks virtually inevitable." 1 To what extent does the Congress of Vienna cause the revolutions of 1848?
1 E. J. Hobsbawm. The Age of Revolution 1789 - 1848.Mentor Book. New York. 1962. p. 141.
