OVERVIEW:
CHOOSE ONE OF THE SPECIFIC PROMPTS BELOW, and write an essay with an introduction and thesis, at least three or more well-developed and argumentative body paragraphs, and a conclusion, referring to TWO or MORE assigned readings in order to write a detailed, compelling argument about one of the following questions.
For purposes of your argument, you need to have a specific THESIS, good “controlling terms” (or “themes”) in your essay and especially in KEY PLACES like the TOPIC or POINT sentences, KEY SUPPORTING POINTS that relate to and support the arguable thesis. Supporting details should be explicit, specific, relevant, and compelling, and all “sources” (references to the reading) should be smoothly incorporated so that their inclusion is not awkward or disruptive to your good content.
2: THE CONCEPT OF EQUALITY
With the rise in the number of immigrants who enter the United States with a college degree, Americans find themselves increasingly challenged by the after-effects of increasingly free people across the globe. Similarly, with others across the globe — in Asia and rising Africa — eager to embrace education and the costs of rising to the challenges of this century set to see 20,000 years of change, says futurist-scientist Ray Kurzweil, Americans must likely reframe or redefine what it means to be “equal” in a world that is massively interlinked by global trade, immigration, economic and political policies, environmental concerns, and more. While many Americans continue to define “equality” in terms of rising to the level of “the white man,” some white people now complain they are losing footing that they have enjoyed in this nation’s 245 or so years.
SPECIFIC PROMPT FOR THIS OPTION:
With more than 7 Billion people living outside this nation, and the world’s population expected to climb to about 10 billion or more before the end of the 21st century (Hans Rosling), how should we now define “fairness” and “equality”? If the United States’ population is about 328 Million people and is expected to stay roughly around there, while the other side of the globe grows from roughly 4.5 billion now in Asia and 1.3 billion in Africa now to 5 billion in Asia and 4 billion in Africa by the end of this century — for a total of 9 billion on the OTHER side of the planet before 2100 (that is, during your lifetime), how should Americans define “equality”? In a thesis-driven essay of five or more paragraphs, argue how Americans should now consider “equality” and “fairness,” now that we live in a globalized world challenged by many globalized issues. Argue which people are “equal” and for what purpose? What is expected of “free” people, especially in a time when at least one billion people in the world today are unlikely to live at the level of most Americans, even the poorest among us in the United States?
Even the homeless are bound to live better than most of the world
READINGS:
a_raisin_in_the_sun_-_lorraine_hansberry
Fences August Wilson
Dutchman-Amiri Baraka
1964
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