Midterm Exam: 100 points

Midterm Exam: 100 points Imagine the year is 1938. The US is in the midst of the Great Depression, and you are an unemployed graduate of Arizona State Teachers College. You have been recently hired by the Works Progress Administration, a Federal program that employed artists, construction workers, scholars to create public parks, buildings, and historical accounts of Arizona. You are excited to sign up for Professor Ow’s Oral History Project, which is researching the small Chinese immigrant community in Arizona, because you have the perfect person in mind to interview. Armed with the following guidelines and questions, you conduct a great interview with your subject on audiotape, who tells you their life story about the following 5 main topics 1. their life in China, 2. their decision to move /migration experience to the United States 3. their daily life in California 4. their decision to move / migration experience from California to Arizona 5. their daily life in Arizona The professor asks you to summarize the person life story in a MINIMUM of4 double spaced pages. He gives you the freedom to tell this person’s story as a THIRD PERSON SUMMARY ("Ioe Wong is a 78 year old immigrant from China, who migrated to US in....) or as a FIRST PERSON NARRATIVE ("My name is Joe Wong. I was born in China in 1860, and immigrated to the US in...) , and hopes this person’s story is creative, yet historically accurate. This project is due this Sunday by 11:3opm on my "Blackboard,"" he says. For more info on the WPA, please see: WPA stimulus still visible in Arizona, by Dianna M. Nafiez - Feb. 18, 2009 http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2 009/02/18/2 00902 18 wpao218.html Arizona WPA Pioneer Interviews - http: [ [www.infinet- is.com[~jcarhartlarizona wpa pioneer interviews.htm The Wpa Guide to the 1930's Arizona - http://www.amazon.com/Wpa-Guide- 193os-Arizona/dp/0816510997)