ENGL 1100 Assignment: Expository Essay (15%)
The purpose of this assignment is to help you demonstrate the following course outcomes:
1. Read, annotate, and summarize a variety of academic and non-academic works
2. Engage in a writing process that includes
ainstorming, outlining, drafting, and revising strategies to produce university-level writing
3. Apply principles of unity, development, and coherence in writing
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5. Write essays that assert and support clear thesis statements
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8. Recognize and co
ect e
ors in your own writing
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1. Re-read the articles several times, annotating to identify the main and supporting ideas. Outline each article on a separate piece of paper. Make sure you really understand each article before you write about it.
2. Follow the steps in the writing process, paying particular attention to creating an effective outline. Careful planning, revising, and proofreading will ensure your best essay.
Instructions:
Topic: Write a three-page essay explaining the different views on statuary offered by the three articles provided on the course website.
Length: 3 pages of 12pt., double-spaced, Times New Roman font, excluding Works Cited.
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History should be addition, not subtraction
Publication info: The Globe and Mail ; Toronto, Ont. [Toronto, Ont]09 Sep 2020: A10.
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Canadian history is too thin.
We don't mean that nothing much of consequence has happened here - no, rather a lot has happened, and much of
it is unique and surprisingly and highly instructive. But while our past is rich, our sense of our history, which
abounds in nuances and contradictions and compromises and (yes) triumphs, is not.
So much of the many Canadas that came before ours has been forgotten, often purposefully, and so much has
een buried under a to
ent of American history. The latter can leave Canadians with the mistaken impression that
our past must be just a shadow of theirs, such that "engaging critically" with it must mean little more than
following America's lead.
Which
ings us to Sir John A. Macdonald. In 2020, is it acceptable to have a statue commemorating the chief
Father of Confederation and prime architect of the country? Must it be removed? Su
ounded by trigger warnings?
And who gets to decide?
That last question is the easiest one, so we'll start there.
This is a country of laws - there's that bit about peace, order and good government in those constitutional
lueprints Macdonald helped draft - which means that individual citizens don't have a right to remodel public
spaces by force, no matter how intensely they may personally dislike what's in them. Change is possible, and
Canadian history has been a constant process of changing attitudes, but it has to happen through legal and
democratic mechanisms.
That way of making change, through evolution not revolution, is the Canadian way. It is our great collective
accomplishment. And it works. Among the proofs for that proposition is the fact that the Canada we live in today
still operates in part according to a Constitution Macdonald helped to write, even though this place has become
profoundly different - culturally, religiously, economically, racially - from the country Macdonald helped to found.
Progress paired with stability is a great legacy. In the years prior to 1867, there was too little of either; in the last
century and a half, there has been a lot of both.
Canada is a country, not a religion, which means that nobody has to pay homage to the ancestors. And Macdonald
was a politician, not a saint. In his attitudes and beliefs, he was very much a man of his time. And many of his
time's attitudes and beliefs are thankfully not shared by our age (that's the definition of progress, no?) - just as
many of today's most widely shared beliefs and assumptions may one day appear retrograde and
incomprehensible to future generations.
No good can come from whitewashing history, or burying wrongs done. But Macdonald, flawed though he was, laid
the foundation for something that is fundamental to our lives, namely this country itself. It's an accomplishment so
ig that it tends to get overlooked. That is why a debate over a Macdonald statue should be very different from the
American debate over statues of the leaders of the Confederacy.
Take Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States.
His signal political accomplishment was
eaking apart the United States of America, and waging a civil war so as
to allow his constituents to continue to practise human slavery. Americans should want to take down monuments
to a movement that violently revolted against America's best ideals. That's Jefferson Davis's legacy.
Macdonald's legacy is Canada. Among other things, he helped to create a basis for English-French and Catholic-
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Protestant co-existence. That was for a long time this country's intractable racial conflict. Calling it a "racial"
conflict sounds biza
e to modern ears, but perhaps that's a testament to how successfully it was managed and
overcome.
On the whole, it seems wiser to add to Canadian history than to get into arguments over how to subtract from it.
That doesn't mean we can't ever take down a statue or change the name of a building. But adding to history is
always possible, because Canada never stops growing. It never stops offering opportunities for new monuments,
new symbols and new names, without necessarily having to bury the old.
Year after year, this country is creating new institutions and building new buildings; year after year, Canada's cities
grow bigger, laying out new neighbourhoods and new streets. All of these new things need names - memorializing
our present into a future that will one day be, for those who come after us, a questioned past.
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History should be addition, not subtraction
In rebuking John A. Macdonald protesters, the
PM undermines his claim of allyship
Ifill, Erica . The Globe and Mail ; Toronto, Ont. [Toronto, Ont]03 Sep 2020: A13.
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Economist, columnist for the Hill Times and co-host of the Bad + Bitchy podcast In a classic example of what the
late John Lewis called "good trouble," Montreal demonstrators removed the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald from
a public space at a protest to defund the police last Saturday. And the outrage from the white Canadian men in
whose image Canadian history is taught was swift.
But context has been missing from so many pearl-clutching responses. In this second civil rights movement,
where Black Lives Matter has
ought global attention to police violence and death wrought on Black people, the
traditional framing of criminality is being challenged. Even our cu
ent Prime Minister has engaged in at least the
pageantry of it; just months earlier, Justin Trudeau attended an anti-police
utality march in Ottawa, going so fa
as to take a knee reminiscent of former NFL quarte
ack Colin Kaepernick's years-long protest over the same
issue.
Fast forward to his response to the statue toppling, and his tone has changed. Much like his reaction to the
protests in support of some Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs, Mr. Trudeau has morphed from white ally to
condescending white settler colonialist.
"We are a country of laws, and we are a country that needs to respect those laws even as we seek to improve and
change them," he said Monday. "Those kinds of acts of vandalism are not advancing the path towards greate
justice and equality in this country."
With allyship like this, who needs enemies?
In doing this, Mr. Trudeau was eager to show off his law-and-order bona fides. But if he is still seeking to advance
"greater justice and equality," he undermines his own allegedly progressive message by vaunting the very laws that
underpin many of the problems being protested - including laws Macdonald helped establish.
It's not as if this issue came out of nowhere for Mr. Trudeau, either. The removal of monuments exalting the fathe
of Confederation has been in the national discourse for years.
However, Canadians like to engage in the vanity exercise of che
y-picking the history we're comfortable with,
leaving out the icky bits that don't uphold our worldview of being "good people."
The reality, though, is that Canada's first prime minister was an oppressive colonist whose deployment of state
violence was instrumental in the formation of the nation. These aren't "mistakes made by previous generations
who built this country," as Mr. Trudeau falsely characterized them; rather, this was a man who committed real
atrocities that formed and informed how the Canadian state interacts with Black, Indigenous and people of colour,
to this day.
Here are just a few achievements on his résumé: The creation of