Does America spend too much on the military budget? Description: As a member of ever-changing communities, citizens must constantly be observing the world around them, reflecting over issues at hand, and working to ensure the future is a better place than the present. With a citizenship focus, students will identify an issue in their community (local, state, country, global) which they feel a strong desire to see rectified.
Students will research this topic thoroughly, understanding various viewpoints and discussions relating to this topic. This will be the research component to the paper.
Then, once students have compiled research, they will synthesize the information and create an argument for what they deem the best possible solution for the issue.
This paper is a formal, academic piece of original research and writing. Your style and tone should be appropriate for such an assignment. Your final paper should meet the following requirements. The paper should be at least six pages in length (not including the Works Cited page). You must include at least four credible sources (with at least one source being from a scholarly, peer-reviewed, online database and give credit to them in your paper properly through MLA in-text citations and a Works Cited page. This is the outline your paper should follow:
Introduction/Statement of the issue:
– What is the issue?
-Who/what does it affect directly? Is it regional, global?
-How has this issue changed over time?
Relevance:
– Why is it important to you?
-Why should anyone who is not directly affected care about this issue?
-How does it indirectly affect people?
Causes:
-How did this circumstance come about?
-Are there differing opinions about the cause(s) of this issue?
-Is this issue connected to other issues, or is it an isolated circumstance?
Solution:
-What can be done by individuals, communities, officials about this issue?
-Is there controversy regarding what can be done?
-What resources are necessary for something to be done?
-Is there a way to circumvent the necessity for those resources?
-If this is a global issue, can something be done locally? If it is a local issue, are there global factors?
Implications/Conclusion:
-If something is done about this issue, what is affected?
– Does the resolution or improvement of this issue exacerbate or cause other issues?
-What do you want someone reading this paper to be thinking about or considering once they have finished reading? What is your charge or call to action to the reader?
