Winter Break Project

Winter Break Project - Due January 9

Part 1: Choose a topic from this list

(The topics are college course titles at various universities around the nation)

-Women and Incarceration

-Food Deserts

-Single Motherhood

-Latina Beauty Standards

-Women in Hip Hop

-African American Art and the Political Dissent During the

Harlem Renaissance

-Electric Motors for Renewable Energy, Robotics, and Electric

Vehicles

-Migration, Asylum, and Human Rights at the Border

-Endangered and Minority Language

-Anthropology of Death and Dying

-Social Problems of Nuclear Energy

-Cybersecurity

-Design and Development of Games for Learning

-E-Sports

-A Global History of Commodities

-Slavery and Human Trafficking in the 21st Century

Part 2: Research your topic and narrow down your focus

Edison Databases

WebPath Express

*If you do a basic Google search, make sure you use Google Scholar

How to Evaluate sources for credibility


Research tips:

  • If the results give you thousands of articles, narrow your search

  • Read the title and read the abstract (which is a summary of the article) to determine if the article will work for your research purposes

  • Stay focused! Don't go down a rabbit hole of endlessly clicking on links and gathering hundreds of articles.


Part 3: Write an argumentative thesis (narrow and debatable) that speaks to an issue associated with your topic


Part 4: Write an Annotated Bibliography in MLA format using 10 sources that support your thesis

Owl Purdue - Annotated Bibliography Information

Cornell University - Annotated Bibliography Information

MLA Citation Formatting Guide


*Turn in your assignment (thesis and annotated bibliography) on Teams Assignments

Research

Here are some sources to get your started.

Resources Folder


    • Women and Incarceration

Women's Mass Incarceration

The Marshall Project - COVID and women's prisons

Subtopic ideas:

    • Reproductive health

    • Separation from children

    • Mental health

    • Sexual abuse

    • Drug/alcohol abuse

    • Education


    • Food Deserts

Food Empowerment Project

Food Deserts and Health

Food Deserts and COVID

Mississippi 'Food Deserts' Fuel Obesity Epidemic


    • Single Motherhood


Pew Research

Praise for Single Moms

Single Moms by Choice

Evolving the Narrative of Single Motherhood

Stigma of Single Motherhood

    • Latina Beauty Standards


Harmful Latina Beauty Standards

When You Are Never Enough

Globalizing Latin American Beauty

Britannica: Harlem Renaissance

National Gallery of Art - Harlem Renaissance

Race, Resistance, and Revolution

    • Electric Motors for Renewable Energy, Robotics, and Electric Vehicles

Course Description: An introduction to electric motors and the principles of electromechanical energy conversion. Students will learn about, design, and build an electric motor system, choosing from one of three application areas: renewable energy (wind turbines), robotics (drones and precision manufacturing), or electric vehicles (cars, ships, and airplanes). Topics covered include ac and dc rotating machines, power electronics inverters and drives, and control techniques.

Wind Energy

Advantages and Challenges of Wind Energy

Wind Explained

Demand for Drones

New Robotics and Drones

Agriculture and Drones

Electric Ships and Planes

Electric Flight

Norway's Plan - 2040

    • Migration, Asylum, and Human Rights at the Border

      You Don't Have Any Rights Here

      Asylum Seekers at Risk

      Course Description:

      This community engaged learning workshop is open only to students who are concurrently enrolled in SPANLANG 108SL. Through the HUMRTS 108 units, students will have the opportunity to apply their advanced Spanish language skills and knowledge from the class as remote volunteers with immigrant rights advocacy organizations. Students will be trained to work remotely to staff a hotline through with they can help monitor detention conditions, report abuse, and request support on behalf of detainees and their loved ones. They will also have a commitment to work on more projects such as providing interpretations or translations for attorneys or mental/health professionals working remotely with detainees or their families, and/or conducting basic internet research regarding/compilation of news articles or government reports to substantiate asylum claims or fear of persecution.

    • Endangered and Minority Languages


Why We Must Save Dying Tongues

The Death of Languages

The Internet and Threatened Languages

    • Anthropology of Death and Dying

      Anthropology of Death

      Death and Dying as we Know It

      The End of Life

      Anthropology of Death During COVID

      Course Description:

      This course explores how different cultures imagine death and the afterlife, drawing on insights from the anthropology of religion, politics, and medical anthropology. Based on readings that range from classical ethnographies of death and dying to contemporary debates on the politics of death, we will discuss cultural theories on what constitutes the moment of death and what happens after, as well as investigate the political lives of dead bodies. The topics covered include conceptualizations of the body and mind, ideas of the spirit world, witchcraft, mortuary rituals, relic veneration, royal and communist corpses, organ donation, end-of-life care, and concepts of biopolitics and bare life.


      Course Description:

      Explores how different societies, including our own, conceptualize death and dying. Topics include the cultural construction of death, the effects of death on the social fabric, mourning and bereavement, and medical issues relating to the end of life.

    • Cybersecurity

Definition and Types

Hackers - COVID

Apps and Hacking

Top Cyber Threats

Cyber Threats 2020

Cyber Attacks

    • Design and Development of Games for Learning

MIT Course Description

More Course Info (MIT)

    • E-Sports

What is E-Sports

League of Legends

E-Sports and Diversity

Amdani

    • A Global History of Commodities

    • Social Problems of Nuclear Energy



    • Slavery and Human Trafficking in the 21st Century

MIT Course Readings and Films