Discuss a contemporary United States phenomenon
Format:
Students will produce a 750-word essay using cited material from the course. Please double space the paper, use Times New Roman, 12-point font, and MLA in-text citations with an attached works cited page.
Due:
March 3rd via blackboard and a hard copy to class.
Weight:
200 points or 20% of the total course grade.[unique_solution]
Assignment Description:
Discuss a contemporary United States phenomenon using the course material thus far lectured upon, viewed, discussed, and/or read. Please use at minimum 3 sources from the course to analyze a contemporary phenomenon that might better be explained or understood with knowledge acquired from the course.
This is a free-form paper in the sense that you will be graded less on a rigid structure or approach and more on content and use of course material. Consider this something like a well-informed blog post or a short article on a particular modern or contemporary cultural, social, political, and/or economic occurrence. Potential topics could be, but are certainly not limited to: immigration/migration crises, rising world nationalisms, racial discrimination, indigenous rights and land claims, African American and indigenous reparations, and so on.
Successful midterm papers will:
1) Use lecture and reading material to aid in supporting claims.
2) Use keywords from the course.
3) Will make their own, unique conclusions regarding the particular phenomenon they are analyzing.
4) Provide a works cited page and clearly cite work as appropriate.