Criteria for Research Paper Resources

ALL SOURCES MUST BE

Credible:  Justify the qualifications of your source. 
*What is their connection to the issue?
*What about their experience, profession, or knowledge clearly makes this source an authority on the issue?
*What interests, priorities, or beliefs could color their understanding of or approach to the issue?
*What about their assessment of the issue might indicate bias or an attempt to “spin” information?

Recent:  Make sure the information has not been rendered inaccurate by intervening developments

*Historical developments
*Political or legal changes
*Technological developments
*New Research

Valid:  The information you use must faithfully convey the meaning of the source.

*Do not use minor excerpts from articles, books, websites, or programs that primarily address other issues
*Do not “cherry pick” unrepresentative information from discussions of other issues.

Typical:  Make sure the views you include are representative of general contemporary understanding of the issue

*Avoid using controversial or minority scientific opinions unless clearly identified and addressed
*Critically assess controversial historical, political, or social commentaries.    

Humans Rights Topics P.4

Kayla Chambers - Gender discrimination - Mid East
Kyle Caristi - Violence against reporters / limitations on free press
Lyndsie Bell - Mentally disabled rights - U.S.
Wyatt Rollman - International drug trafficking
Madalyn Frampton - International religious rights
Anna Justice - Arms' control
Nick Hall - Human trafficking -- India
Julia Wojnar - Human trafficking - U.S.
Audrie Hendricks - Women's rights - South Asia
Josh Forster - War on drugs 
Shea Bolton - Homelessness - U.S.
Matthew Jones - Human trafficking - Africa
Danial Noll - Weapons of mass destruction
Ellie Masters - Disappearances
Sarah Halstead - Racial discrimination in education - U.S.
Ian Streeter- Fair elections Africa
Finn Stupakoff - Killer robots
Scott Benshoof - Responses to/mistreatment of victims of violence
Jacob Beck - Police brutality - U.S.
Collin Sturdevant - Corporate violations and accountability
Thomas Clewes - Homeless children - Uganda
Samantha Worth - Second Amendment Violations
Miriah Smetak - Poverty in North Africa
Garrett Glenn - Child Soldiers -- Africa
Adam Kover - Death squads and paramilitary
Ernie Posados - Torture - U.S.
Nathaniel Noll -- NSA violations of privacy

Period One Human Rights Topics

Cici Panella: Rights for Prisoners in the United States
Mayana Ng: Women's Rights in North Africa
Katie Long: Refugees Seeking Asylum
Chante Williams: Poverty / Income Distribution Africa
Kolby Miller: Torture During Interrogation
Ramey Kemery: Transgender rights, U.S.
Clayton Lince: WMD
Quinn Hinman: Disability Rights in U.S.
Alex Bogacz: International Religious Freedom
Bella Brown: Child Labor in Mexico
Grace Gibbs: Death Penalty in U.S.
Sam Mincy: Human Trafficking in the US
Caleb Evans: Terrorism in Syria, perhaps others
Molly Akers: Child Soldiers in Developing Countries
Joshua Kukas: Pay discrimination
Kylie Michel: Disappearances
Esther Kang: Gender-Based Violence in South Korea
Kalen Epping: Education in Developing Countries
Emily Larson: Freedom of Opinion: North Korea
Deven Nieves-Noel: Freedom of Expression: U.S.
Jarod Torres: Government Control of Media
Colby Dragon: Human rights connection to environment
Elle Hirotaka: Polic Brutality: U.S.
Rylee Flahaut: Domestic Violence: U.S.
emily feek: Child Marriage in Developing Countries
Chantal Won: International Drug Trafficking
Algela Pratt: Education Rights for Women in Developing Countries
Olivia Steele: Child Slavery in Developing Nations
Tyler Gibbs: Rights of the Elderly -- Elder Abuse

Selecting Your Human Rights Research Paper Topic

Today and tomorrow, we will be working on identifying human rights topics for our research papers.

Here are some requirements:

1. Select a contemporary or recent (last 10 years) issue that deals with the rights of human beings (not non-human animals) from birth to death.

2. Make sure this is an issue you can approach without personal, political, or religious bias. The intent of the essay is to provide information, not to present an argument.

3. Do some preliminary research to clarify your understanding of the nature of the issue and make sure there are research resources available on the topic.

4. Avoid selecting topic that are too complex to grasp and discuss withing the context of a single research essay. You may want to narrow your discussion to help with this. For example, nobody can deal with the entire issue of hunger around the world in a single paper. However, you could look at hunger or malnutrition in a specific region or based on a specific cause.

5. Do not duplicate topics. Everyone will have their own topic of research.

Here are some suggestions for inquiry:

Access to clean, safe water

Access to Education – especially by income or gender

Access to legal representation

Adequate Housing

Arbitrary Detention

Asylum

Border conflicts/Marginal populations

Child Labor /

Child Marriage

Child Slavery/Prostitution

Child Soldiers/Orphans of war/Lost children

Civil War

Civilian Casualties in Wartime

Death Squads/Paramilitaries

Detainee Status/Prisoners of War

Disarmament

Domestic Violence

Drug trafficking

Due Process

Employment Discrimination

Environmental Pollution

Fair elections

Feeding programs/Malnutrition

Freedom of Association

Freedom of Expression,

Freedom of Religion

Gangs

Genocide/War Crimes

Government control of media

Health Care: Drug Prices/Intellectual property

Health Care: Health care access for women

Health Care: Tropical diseases/research priorities

Homeless rights

Honor killings

Housing Discrimination

Human Trafficking

Immigrants’ Rights

Indigenous People’s rights

Internally displaced persons

Landmines

Microcredit  - Access to capital

Peacekeeping Programs/Conflict resolution

Police Brutality

Prisoners’ Rights / minors /mentally disabled

Right to national identity

Rights of the mentally ill

Rights of the Physically Disabled

Self-Determination

Street children

Terrorism

Torture

War profiteering

Weapons of mass destruction/Nuclear proliferation

Nonfiction Reading Questions for “The Riches of the Poor”

For each of the following items,

1. List and describe as completely as possible
2. Use complete sentences when describing each item, making sure to incorporate text from the chapter.

List and describe, as completely as possible, the violations of human rights described in the piece.

Identify the different actors involved in the human rights violation. In what way is each involved in the violations described by the author?

Explain the short-term and long-term impacts of this problem.

Describe the causes of the human rights violation and the apparent obstacles to change.

Introductory Material for Human Rights Assignment

Today, we will introduce a human rights research essay that we will be working on over the next two quarters. We will examine the assignment itself, view some preliminary resources to help guide your initial work, and read an example document that addresses some of the types of information you will address as you learn about your topic.

Please go to your Hapara workspace at www.mystudentdashboard.com and follow along as I introduce these initial sources.

Then, read "The Riches of the Poor" by E. Benjamin Skinner. We will be working with this document tomorrow.

Today and tomorrow, consider what kind of human rights issue you plan to address. we will be researching this on Wednesday and selecting topics.

Plan of Improvement for Antigone Essay

Plan of Improvement:
1.Thesis and supporting claims

• Does the thesis provide a clear claim?
• Do topic sentences make supporting claims about how the play communicates this belief/perspective?

2. Abundant evidence from throughout the play and supporting details

• Use blended sentences that smoothly incorporate evidence into a discussion of the context and significance of the passage

3. Effective two-part analysis

• Discuss meaning and relevance of the evidence in the context of the play
• Analyze and discuss the ideas developed about the broad issue raised by the thesis

4. Voice/Language

• Awkward sentences
• 1st/2nd person POV
• Vague wording

For each part of the plan...

A. Broadly explain what you need to focus on and why - BE CLEAR. Identify the issue and provide insight into what seems to be challenging

B. Provide a specific, quoted example

C. Explain how you plan to fix this area of focus. What will this look like when it's better?
D. Fix B