Write a 1500+ word paper on ONE of the choices below. Quotations and Works Cited page do NOT apply to word count.
Total number of quotations: 5 or more (at least one from EACH assigned course materials you choose and three from your 3 outside research sources)
Total outside research sources on your Works Cited: 3
Total outside research quotations: 1 from each source listed
Total number of quotations from assigned materials below that you chose: 1 from each of the TWO assigned materials (you may include additional quotes if needed)
Choose ONE:
#1–Use 2 assigned readings below to discuss an issue involving capitalism and/or the state and how inequality is supported by our institutions. Choose a topic that highlights how inequality functions in our society through for-profit systems as the prison system or industrial food or meat production (including fast food restaurants that cater to the poor), or through the lack of opportunities for education if you live in a poorer neighborhood. You may also talk about historical issues and how class, race or gender often work against people in need (disenfranchised groups in society).
DISCUSS ONE ISSUE ONLY in your paper, such as FOOD, PRISON, OR LABOR, but NOT more than ONE.
If you need to, do an analysis of capitalism according to the reading by Karl Marx and do some internet research. Use at least 1 quotation from EACH of the assigned articles plus 3 quotations from 3 outside research sources.
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#2–Write on 1 assigned film AND 1 assigned reading to discuss how the state or ideology connected to the state (religion, gender or wealth inequality) holds people back (oppression). You may pick any section of the film and COMPARE it with the information presented in one of the assigned readings below. You can do an analysis of the effects of prison, gender, industrial food or meat production, or exploitative labor (minimum wage jobs, unpaid labor) on certain members of society (the oppressed, the disenfranchised). Be sure to refer clearly refer to the sections of the film and reading you are discussing. Use at least 2 quotations from each of the assigned materials (film and article) plus 3 quotations from 3 outside research sources.
DISCUSS ONE ISSUE ONLY in your paper, such as FOOD, PRISON, OR LABOR, but NOT more than ONE.
Write a detailed, critical essay on one or two main ideas in the readings and/or films. Be sure to include a critical analysis of the article and do a little research on any unfamiliar concepts. Your essay must refer specifically to the readings and/or films and include at least 2 quotations each, and THREE quotations from outside sources. These sources MUST be documented in MLA format! Your essay MUST focus on the assigned materials, using research as support ONLY.
You MUST include a Works Cited page with your paper in proper MLA format to receive a passing grade! See course website links for help with MLA formatting.
Choose TWO articles below (one MUST be “The Communist Manifesto”) or ONE Zeitgeist Film + ONE article:
Read The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (with Definitions), pp91-101 (MUST BE ONE CHOICE for 2 Readings but not for Film/Reading topic)
Read The Chinago by Jack London
Read, “Address to the Prisoners in the Cook County Jail by Clarence Darrow
Read from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Read from “On Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau
Film choices are Zeitgeist Films 2 or 3
