Organize the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 18

Document Links:

Document 18.1 Elephant Ride at Coney Island (1911)

Document 18.2 International Contest for the Heavyweight Championship (1907)

Document 18.3 JOSEPH RUMSHINSKY, The Living Orphan (1914)

Document 18.4 HUTCHINS HAPGOOD, Types from City Streets (1910)

Document 18.5 THORSTEIN VEBLEN, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)

Organize the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 18

The following exercises provide an opportunity to use the sources collectively to respond to a guiding question.

Guiding Question: How did the emergence of urban leisure and mass culture at the turn of the twentieth century both reflect and transform class, gender, and ethnic norms for American men and women?

Instructions

Below are three topics that might find a place in organizing an essay responding to the guiding question. This exercise asks you to identify which sources would provide relevant evidence for that topic. Select the best answers for each question. Choose ALL that apply. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

Question 18.16

1. Which of the sources provides specific evidence about the lives and experiences of working-class women and men in early twentieth-century cities? Choose ALL that apply.

R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 18.1: Elephant Ride at Coney Island
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 18.2: International Contest for the Heavyweight Championship
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 18.3: Joseph Rumshinsky, The Living Orphan
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 18.4: Hutchins Hapgood, Types from City Streets
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 18.5: Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
Correct: Document 18.1: The image shows both working-class and middle-class men and women at Coney Island. Document 18.2: The image contains both working-class and middle-class men. Document 18.3: Rumshinsky’s song describes the experiences of working-class and middle-class immigrants to the United States. Document 18.4: Hapgood describes the culture of working-class women in the Bowery.
Incorrect: Document 18.5: Veblen describes the wealthy.

Question 18.17

2. Which of these documents provides specific evidence about the lives and experiences of middle-class women and men in early twentieth-century cities? Choose ALL that apply.

R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 18.1: Elephant Ride at Coney Island
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 18.2: International Contest for the Heavyweight Championship
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 18.3: Joseph Rumshinsky, The Living Orphan
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 18.4: Hutchins Hapgood, Types from City Streets
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 18.5: Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
Correct: Document 18.1: The image shows both working-class and middle-class men and women at Coney Island. Document 18.2: The image contains both working-class and middle-class men. Document 18.3: Rumshinsky’s song describes the experiences of working-class and middle-class immigrants to the United States. Document 18.4: Hapgood describes the culture of working-class women in the Bowery from his perspective as a member of the middle class.
Incorrect: Document 18.5: Veblen describes the wealthy.

Question 18.18

3. Which of the following documents provides specific evidence about the lives and experiences of wealthy Americans in early twentieth-century cities? Choose ALL that apply.

kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 18.1: Elephant Ride at Coney Island
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 18.2: International Contest for the Heavyweight Championship
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 18.3: Joseph Rumshinsky, The Living Orphan
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 18.4: Hutchins Hapgood, Types from City Streets
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 18.5: Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
Correct: Document 18.5: Veblen describes the wealthy.
Incorrect: Document 18.1: The image shows both working-class and middle-class men and women at Coney Island. Document 18.2: The image contains both working-class and middle-class men. Document 18.3: Rumshinsky’s song describes the experiences of working-class and middle-class immigrants to the United States. Document 18.4: Hapgood describes the culture of working-class women in the Bowery from his perspective as a member of the middle class.

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