3 page minimum, credible references, charts & graphs. Read the case "Giving Away Facebook" at the end of Chapter 16. Answer the following questions and/or statements in detail: 1. Can you know if you have a potentially hugely successful company on your hands when you first launch it? 2. Should all companies take the precautions Facebook failed to take?  Or can some companies be more relaxed about such legal issues as partnerships and ownership?  Why or why not?  Use credible sources and research to support and explain. 3. What types of agreements and contracts do you think Mark Zuckerberg, his partners, and Facebook's early investors should have drawn up?  Use credible sources and research to support and explain. 4. What contracts do you think the Winklevoss twins and Divya Narendra should have drawn up when they hired Zuckerberg to work for their company?  Use credible sources and research to support and explain. Be sure to property cite your sources using APA 6th citations rules as well as an APA “References”(bibliography) section at the end of your paper Giving Away Facebook For a bunch of seemingly smart kids, the guys involved in Facebook’s founding did some pretty stupid things—at least from a legal point of view. This resulted in years of lawsuits and billions of dollars in settlements. Most new start-ups are in the position of having to give up some degree of ownership in return for early-stage financing. After all, investors want to get something for their money, and that is typically a percent of the equity—or ownership—of the company. And they deserve a big payout for taking a chance on an entrepreneur, for risking their money before anyone else. Nevertheless, those decisions shouldn’t be made lightly or without considering the legal consequences, even when a “business” is still in the idea stage. Or when it’s just being discussed in your college dorm. The exact facts revolving around the founding of Facebook remain in dispute. But some things are agreed upon. A site called “TheFacebook. com” was launched in 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin while they were students at Harvard University. Saverin, a wealthy student, provided Zuckerberg with $15,000 to purchase the servers for TheFacebook. In return, Zuckerberg allotted Saverin 30 percent of the company.1 That was generous—extremely so. And it was a decision that would come back to haunt Zuckerberg. In the meantime, while getting ready to launch TheFacebook, Zuckerberg was also working for twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and for Divya Narendra, who had hired him to work on their own social networking site. Their site had essentially the same concept that would become Facebook. The decision not to tell his employers that he was working on a competing site was another problem that would come back to haunt Zuckerberg and Facebook. Those are the facts that are agreed upon. Other issues remain in dispute and have eventually ended up.

1. 3 page minimum, credible references, charts & graphs.
Read the case "Giving Away Facebook" at the end of Chapter
16.
Answer the following questions and/or statements in detail:
1. Can you know if you have a potentially hugely successful
company on your hands when you first launch it?
2. Should all companies take the precautions Facebook failed to
take? Or can some companies be more relaxed about such legal
issues as partnerships and ownership? Why or why not? Use
credible sources and research to support and explain.
3. What types of agreements and contracts do you think Mark
Zuckerberg, his partners, and Facebook's early investors should
have drawn up? Use credible sources and research to support
and explain.
4. What contracts do you think the Winklevoss twins and Divya
Narendra should have drawn up when they hired Zuckerberg to
work for their company? Use credible sources and research to
support and explain.
Be sure to property cite your sources using APA 6th citations
rules as well as an APA “References”(bibliography) section at
the end of your paper
Giving Away Facebook For a bunch of seemingly smart kids,
the guys involved in Facebook’s founding did some pretty
stupid things—at least from a legal point of view. This resulted
in years of lawsuits and billions of dollars in settlements. Most

2. new start-ups are in the position of having to give up some
degree of ownership in return for early-stage financing. After
all, investors want to get something for their money, and that is
typically a percent of the equity—or ownership—of the
company. And they deserve a big payout for taking a chance on
an entrepreneur, for risking their money before anyone else.
Nevertheless, those decisions shouldn’t be made lightly or
without considering the legal consequences, even when a
“business” is still in the idea stage. Or when it’s just being
discussed in your college dorm. The exact facts revolving
around the founding of Facebook remain in dispute. But some
things are agreed upon. A site called “TheFacebook. com” was
launched in 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz,
Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin while they were students at
Harvard University. Saverin, a wealthy student, provided
Zuckerberg with $15,000 to purchase the servers for
TheFacebook. In return, Zuckerberg allotted Saverin 30 percent
of the company.1 That was generous—extremely so. And it was
a decision that would come back to haunt Zuckerberg. In the
meantime, while getting ready to launch TheFacebook,
Zuckerberg was also working for twins Cameron and Tyler
Winklevoss and for Divya Narendra, who had hired him to work
on their own social networking site. Their site had essentially
the same concept that would become Facebook. The decision
not to tell his employers that he was working on a competing
site was another problem that would come back to haunt
Zuckerberg and Facebook. Those are the facts that are agreed
upon. Other issues remain in dispute and have eventually ended
up in court. Like many teams in a start-up venture, some
founders—notably Zuckerberg and Moskovitz—stayed more
closely involved with growing the venture, while others,
particularly Saverin, had other demands on their time. When
founders don’t clearly delineate their responsibilities and what
consequences will happen for failing to live up to their
responsibilities (if any), this inevitably creates tensions and
disagreements, which is exactly what happened in the case of

3. Facebook. Zuckerberg moved the new company to Palo Alto,
California (from Cambridge, Massachusetts). To help finance
Facebook’s growth, Zuckerberg brought in other investors,
notably Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal. As a result of this
investment, Saverin’s 30 percent ownership was diluted
substantially. Saverin alleged this was done unfairly, and later
sued the company. Although the exact terms of the suit were not
revealed, Saverin 1. “Facebook’s Complicated Ownership
History Explained,” by Ben Parr. Mashable.com. April 13,
2011eventually received 5 percent of the ownership of
Facebook. His $15,000 investment ended up being worth many
billions. Another complication came about because Zuckerberg
failed to disclose that he had a conflict of interest while
working on the Winklevosses’ project. He launched Facebook a
few days before their intended launch, and they immediately
alleged that he had stolen their idea and intentionally delayed
the launch of their project so he could launch his. The
Winklevosses later sued, winning a lawsuit against Facebook
for more than a million shares of Facebook stock and $20
million in cash. Zuckerberg’s legal complications continued.
Another person, Paul Ceglia, alleged that he hired Zuckerberg
to work on his company, StreetFax.com, at the same time that
he was working on what would become Facebook. In 2010,
Ceglia sued, producing a document showing that Zuckerberg
gave him 50 percent of the company in return for a $1,000
investment. Facebook’s lawyers assert the document is a fake.2
Of course, it’s true that every extremely successful company is
likely to encounter legal challenges. After all, once millions or
even billions of dollars are involved, many people will want a
piece of ownership. But many of the problems and huge
settlements encountered by Facebook were avoidable.
Zuckerberg was accepting money to work on the Winklevosses’
social networking program while simultaneously developing his
own competing program. This was a clear scenario for conflict.
It was inevitable that his motives would come into question—
especially when he launched a competing site a mere few days

4. before his employers planned to. It may have seemed to
Zuckerberg like a mere gig for him to pick up a few extra
dollars, but whenever you’re working on another company’s
projects, you are responsible for maintaining its trade secrets.
Moreover, it’s likely that Zuckerberg was laboring on a “work-
for-hire” basis, meaning that anything he produced while
working for them—such as computer code—in fact belonged to
them. That could have been another area of conflict. But
perhaps the biggest problem was that in his eagerness to raise
the money he needed to launch, Zuckerberg gave away a huge
percentage of the company. He failed to get any kind of legal
advice that might have helped him structure an agreement that
would have delayed putting a percentage value on Saverin’s
investment (such as until the first round of financing) or that
would have made clear how Saverin’s percentage would be
diluted. As the Facebook example proves, simple college-dorm
agreements can later become the basis for extremely serious
stock ownership battles. Even though most of those involved
with Facebook’s founding eventually got fabulously rich, the
complications arising from their lack of legal foresight created
tremendous problems, strained friendships, and led to legal
battles and settlements worth millions—even billions.
PAPER 3 DUE APRIL 14, 11:59 PM
Write an essay in which you evaluate a particular theme from
“12 Years a Slave” in light of the assigned historical reading:
· social relations among enslaved people, or "slave community"
· management of enslaved people by owners and overseers [this
can overlap with (e) below, but does not have to]
· the domestic slave trade and slavery's expansion
· enslaved men and masculinity
· slave labor as skilled labor
To properly evaluate the movie's treatment, you must
summarize both the movie and the relevant points in the

5. reading, but the key task is to evaluate (or assess) the movie in
light of historical research. In other words, think about what
our readings tell you about slavery, and evaluate how the movie
represents one of the listed themes
NB: in all cases, you need to demonstrate your understanding of
the reading by summarizing it in a manner appropriate to your
argument, and demonstrate how that reading relates to the
movie in specific ways.
Note the following automatic deductions!
· Failure to cite your sources at all. This is plagiarism, and you
will get a zero and will be obliged to meet with Dr. Wood for
the plagiarism case and to revise the paper.
· Failure to cite your sources with footnotes. Parenthetical
citations do not cut it.
· Use of outside readings. The assigned readings are fair game,
and the online American Yawp textbook is a resource for
background. Otherwise, stay away. NO MOVIE REVIEWS,
NO MOVIEW SYNOPSES, ETC. HOWEVER, IF YOU
CHOOSE TO VIOLATE THIS RULE, THEN YOU MUST CITE
YOUR SOURCES OR BE GUILTY OF PLAGIARISM.
· Referring to scholarly authors by their first name only. Use
the full name when you first mention an author, and then use the
last name.
· Failure to summarize the FEEDBACK on Paper 2 and your
mini-essays since Paper 2. We don’t want you to summarize
what YOU wrote. Summarize your TA’s feedback to you about
the quality of your work.
· Failure to include the CHECKLIST below
For all papers:
1. You must document your written sources using the historical
discipline’s gold standard for documentation: footnotes. At a
minimum, this means author’s name, source name, publication

6. information, and page number for printed sources.
2. You must honestly credit the sources for all your information
and ideas. Failure to do this properly may result in academic
misconduct charges against you.
3. You must write in standard writer’s-manual written English.
This is not necessarily a better or more virtuous way of writing
than the more informal, vernacular, or colloquial (spoken
language) forms you may already use. In some ways, the style
of writing we require in this course reflects an elitist,
hierarchical interpretation who is “educated” and who isn’t.
Even so, formal writing is the norm for college and for much of
the professional world. Think of it as a tool that opens doors
which might turn out to be very important to you.
4. You must submit your paper to Turnitin.com and you must
read the comments you get on your paper.
5. You must write a coherent, well-organized paper with the
following elements:
· a one-paragraph introduction that ends with your thesis (the
sentence or two that states your argument. This is not the same
as a description of your paper’s topic.)
· a one-paragraph conclusion
· several body paragraphs, no more than one page each
· double-spaced text
· page numbers
· footnotes
6. You must present historical arguments from the readings.
Special dispensations:
· You must include complete citation information in your
footnotes (see above), but I am not going to require Chicago
Manual of Style format.

7. · I usually make students in this class write in the past tense
about the past, but I am waiving that requirement this term
because films so lend themselves to writing in the present tense.
You may also write in the first person, as long as you are also
using evidence and making historical arguments appropriately.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS and INSTRUCTIONS:
Page 1 of your paper must include ONLY your name, your TA’s
name, a paper title (optional), your summary, and your checklist
(see below for instructions). The paper itself should begin at
the top of page 2.
SUMMARY: a brief summary of the feedback you have gotten
on the Mini Essays since the beginning of the term (consider the
grade, rubric, and any other comments). We do not want a
summary of the CONTENT you wrote, but of the evaluation you
received in the form of grades and comments from your TA.
CHECKLIST: copy and paste this into the beginning of your
paper, immediately after the summary of feedback, and put an X
or checkmark after each requirement your paper satisfies. The
checklist may not cut and paste prettily; as long as it’s there,
it’s fine.
My paper includes:
· a one-paragraph introduction
· a thesis at the end of the introduction, which states the main
point or purpose of the paper and provides an implicit
organization for the body of the paper.
· double-spaced text
· page numbers

8. · footnotes that include PAGE NUMBER references
· several body paragraphs, no more than one page each
· specific examples from “12 Years,” written so that someone
who has not seen the movie can understand them.
· Summaries of relevant arguments and information from at
least one of the assigned readings, written so that someone who
has not read them can still follow your point.
· The most relevant readings are those by Faust, Baptist, &
Follett. The readings by Rothman, Appleby, and Stewart may
also be used.
· a one-paragraph conclusion
· My paper is at least 5 pages long, including the first page.
PAPER
3
DUE
APR
IL 14
, 11:59 PM
Write an essay in which you
evaluate a particular theme from
“

9. 12 Years a Slave
”
in light of the
assigned historical reading:
·
social relations among enslaved people, or "slave community"
·
management of enslaved people by owners and overseers [this
can overlap with (e)
below, but does not have to]
·
the domestic slave trade and slavery's expansion
·
enslaved men and masculinity
·
slave labor as skilled labor
To properly evalu
ate the movie's treatment, you must summarize both the movie
and the
relevant points in the reading, but the key task is to evaluate (or
assess
) the movie in light of

10. historical research
.
In other words, think about what our readings tell you about
slavery,
and
evaluate how the movie represents one of the listed themes
NB: in all cases, you need to demonstrate your understanding of
the reading by summarizing it
in a manner appropriate to your argument,
and
demonstrate how that reading relates to the
movie in specific ways.
Note the following automatic deductions!
·
Failure to cite
your sources at all.
This is plagiarism, and you will get a zero and will be
obliged to meet with Dr. Wood for the plagiarism case
and
to revise the paper.
·
Failure to cite your sources with footnotes. Parenthetical

11. citations do not cut it.
·
Use of outside
readings.
The assigned readings are fair game, and the online American
Yawp textbook is a resource for background. Otherwise, stay
away.
NO MOVIE
REVIEWS, NO
MOVIEW SYNOPSES, ETC.
HOWEVER
, IF YOU
CHOOSE TO
VIOLATE
THIS RULE, THEN YOU MUST C
ITE YOUR SOURCES OR BE GUILTY OF
PLAGIARISM.
·
Referring to scholarly authors by their first name only.
Use the full name when you first
mention an author, and the
n use the last name.
·
Failure to summarize the FEEDBACK on Paper
2
and your mini
-

12. essays since Paper
2
.
We don’t want you to summarize what YOU wrote. Summarize
your TA’s feedback to
you about the quality of your work.
·
Failure to include the CHECKLIST
below
For all papers:
1. You must document your
written
sources using the historical discipline’s gold sta
ndard for
documentation:
footnotes. At a minimum, this means
author’s name, source name, publication
information, and page number for printed sources
.
PAPER 3 DUE APRIL 14, 11:59 PM
Write an essay in which you evaluate a particular theme from
“12 Years a Slave” in light of the
assigned historical reading:
ations among enslaved people, or "slave community"
can overlap with (e)
below, but does not have to]

13. e labor as skilled labor
To properly evaluate the movie's treatment, you must
summarize both the movie and the
relevant points in the reading, but the key task is to evaluate (or
assess) the movie in light of
historical research. In other words, think about what our
readings tell you about slavery, and
evaluate how the movie represents one of the listed themes
NB: in all cases, you need to demonstrate your understanding of
the reading by summarizing it
in a manner appropriate to your argument, and demonstrate how
that reading relates to the
movie in specific ways.
Note the following automatic deductions!
will get a zero and will be
obliged to meet with Dr. Wood for the plagiarism case and to
revise the paper.
citations do not cut it.
game, and the online American
Yawp textbook is a resource for background. Otherwise, stay
away. NO MOVIE
REVIEWS, NO MOVIEW SYNOPSES, ETC. HOWEVER, IF
YOU CHOOSE TO VIOLATE
THIS RULE, THEN YOU MUST CITE YOUR SOURCES OR
BE GUILTY OF
PLAGIARISM.
the full name when you first

14. mention an author, and then use the last name.
mini-essays since Paper 2.
We don’t want you to summarize what YOU wrote. Summarize
your TA’s feedback to
you about the quality of your work.
For all papers:
1. You must document your written sources using the historical
discipline’s gold standard for
documentation: footnotes. At a minimum, this means author’s
name, source name, publication
information, and page number for printed sources.