For this final essay assignment, you will have the opportunity to use the knowledge that you have learned in the course to craft your own argument about an issue that is important to you. While history is important for understanding our lives, this assignment asks you to consider the ways in which history affects YOU everyday personally and/or professionally.
1. Identify an current issue in your chosen career field or major. You may already be intimately familiar with the big issues in your field, but if not, a simple google search can help spark your research. Simply google “major issues in [your field].” You may get a LOT of results, but choose something that is interesting to you. Examples: Whoopi Goldberg, Joe Rogan and journalism’s infotainment problem
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[journalism], Princeton professor discusses healthcare disparities
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[healthcare], Chief purpose officer will be the next major C-level role
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[Business], The Climate Crisis and Mor
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e… [Engineering]. Those in Medicine, Education, and Political Science have seemingly unending options to choose from.
Haven’t chosen a major yet? No worries. Pick a specific issue [a proposed piece of legislation, an event or problem that is overlooked in mainstream media, a current trending news story] instead. Make sure that you can contextualize it in history going back to at least the 1950s.
2. Explain the problem or issue so that non-experts will be able to understand.
3. Begin tracing the historical roots of your issue or problem. Here’s where it gets difficult. You will need to contextualize your issue going back at least 70 years. This section should represent at least half the paper. Summarize the overall trajectory of your issue by contextualizing it in the social, cultural, and political history of the United States and explain what specific people, events, and/or legislation led to the present moment.
4. Now for the fun part. Given the history of this topic or issue, and your knowledge of the United States history, make a prediciton about how the problem will advance into the future. This can go a number of ways. You might need to write a jeremiad or warning about how you perceive things evolving. You may instead see a bright future. Predict out how events will unfold, given your historical insight into how similar events have unfolded in the past. This section will be assessed based on how compelling your argument is, and how well you back it up with evidence.
Format the paper using Chicago Manual of Style formatting
My Major is early childhood education
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