Without further ado, the final exam for 450...should be pretty easy if you are alive and breathing and present at class these last few sessions. I will do the heavy lifting...
History 450
Spring ’11—final exam
Answer the following question, using readings, videos, lectures and/or any personal reflection you have done to support the points you make:
President John F. Kennedy once made a wise observation to the effect that those who make peaceful change impossible make violent revolution inevitable. Write an essay in which you apply that observation to the Catholic-Protestant conflict in northern Ireland. First, outline the reasoning behind the non-violent civil rights protests of the late l960s and early l970s. Then explain why the conflict turned violent and discuss in general terms measures taken by each side to fight the other. Conclude your essay by making clear how the violent conflict was brought to an end in l998.
The image at right is the Kelly brothers' tribute to the victims of the British army para shootings in Londonderry, 30 January 1972, "Bloody Sunday."
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