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Last Assignment! “We didn’t start the fire” and recent American History [|Billy Joel]became engrossed with history in his early teenage years and decided that one day he would become a history teacher. Unfortunately, a career in rock 'n roll sidetracked his youthful ambition. Joel's hit song [|"We Didn't Start the Fire"]is homage to the career that never was for the international music superstar. The song spans about forty years of American History There are [|113 individual topics] discussed in the song, but many of them are intertwined. **Your assignment is to take at least five of these topics** **and show how they are related**. **You will write a two-page essay explaining the relationship between the events that you have chosen and why those events are significant in modern American history**. In making your selections you must span the entire time span of the song. Each of 100 plus topics are related in some way, so it is your task to determine which of the events are closest related or which of the events lead to the other. Creativity is always a plus. Try to find issues, events or topics with little relationship and show how they have a major impact on American history. The Process · Open the "We Didn't Start The Fire" [|lyrics page.] · Choose one of the topics in the song that is most interesting to you, this will be your "project topic." · Click on the topic you have chosen in the links section and thoroughly research the topic on which you wish to write. · Go back to the [|lyrics page] and choose at least four other topics that you wish to relate to your project topic. · Research all five of the topics you have selected and write a two-page essay explaining the relationship between the events that you have chosen and why those events are significant in modern American history. · This paper must be at least two pages, typed, double-spaced, and must contain a coherent thesis linking the five events that you have chosen. Cite when needed.

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