What Social Problem are they interested in solving?

Social Change – Solutions to American Social Problems
This semester we have focused on American Social Problems. In each section, we have learned that solutions have been proposed for a variety of social problems, some effective and others less so. In addition to policies, some individuals have organized and mobilized groups to create social change across the nation – they changed the culture. This assignment will focus on that social change.
The research has one major goal: to communicate how social change happens in society through the autonomy of individuals. You will describe the dialectic relationship between individual troubles and social problems by including the following information:
Who is the person? And where did they come from? [Short Bio]
What Social Problem are they interested in solving? Why?
What did they do? What actions did they take? [Strategy]
What was the outcome? [Did this affect policy and/or the US culture? How?]
You must choose ONE Agent from the list below (you may not write about a different person)
Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi- Black Lives Matter (May pick one or talk about all 3)
John Lewis – Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Larry Kramer – Act Up!
Emmeline Pankhurst – Suffragette
Dolores Huerta – National Farmworkers Association (Please do not spend words on her family, focus, instead on her work)
Paper requirements
3 pages, double spaced, normal 12-pt font. Use research sources and not Wikipedia or an online singe source. Apply the materials, theories and concepts from this class in your paper to make your arguments. This is a paper and needs to follow a standard paper format. Provide a reference section. I have handouts on papers, writing, references and plagiarism below.
You will be required to use TurnItIn, an app that checks for plagiarism. A few minutes after you submit your paper, you can click on your submission and see the similarity score. If it is over 25%, you have taken too much information directly from sources and have not provided your own words and ideas. Use this is an opportunity to address this and resubmit your paper as you may do so multiple times before the deadline. The video below shows you how to use TurnItIn.

The paper applies dialectic materialism to the social change agent’s life and work.
The paper includes a biography of the social change agent.
The paper includes a discussion of the social problem central to the social change agent. It also includes what prompted their work to change it.
The paper includes a discussion of the strategy used by the social change agent.
The paper includes a discussion of the policies that were affected by the work of the social change agent.
The paper includes at least 5 paragraphs, an Introduction, 4 paragraphs for each question and a Conclusion.

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