Hughes, Human built world

Topic 

Hughes, Human built world

Instructions 

Based on your reading of that selection, write a summary response paper.  The essay should follow the guidelines below:

• Include a summary of the content of the chapters that you read
  • The summary should be about a page long
  • The summary should be ONLY the ideas in the text – your opinions and ideas should not be in this section
• Next, you write a response
  • Your response should be about a page long.
  • Ask yourself what the ideas or facts are that made the biggest impact on you.
  • Were you surprised?
  • Did you learn something that is different from something you already knew?
  • Then, you explore your own reaction – why is the idea or face you’re presenting the one that really resonated with you?

Use the attached APA paper template as your guide (NOTE: you DO NOT need an abstract and you should only need 1 reference and citation: the book that you are responding about)

Answer Preview 

Chapter 2 mainly focuses on the 19th-century transformation of the United States landscape into a human-built world made by African slaves and European settlers.   Further, the chapter explores various issues that motivated individuals to build a human world such as political and economic forces, even though there were individuals that were driven by the divine mission. In the sense that, people saw technology in a religious form, thus, serving the religious ends that would enable them to form a second Creation. The settlers believed that technology was a gift from God that would allow them to alter the New World into the Garden of Eden.

Word Count: 600