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Great Wall of China

Upload your annotated bibliography here. If you’ve never done an annotated bibliography before and you aren’t sure about length, I would say you will have a minimum of one paragraph for each of these and up to a page or possibly longer. For visual sources or material culture objects, please provide an image as well as the citation.

• Identify at least six sources of information (five plus total and the UNESCO link / date(s) accessed) regarding your site. The description of the site provided by UNESCO will likely help lead you to additional sources. Other sources might include primary sources from travelers, ethnographers, religious specialists, etc. or visual materials, material culture objects, architecture of the actual space, legends, literary works, newspaper articles, or secondary materials from peer reviewed journal articles and books. Please to not cite Wikipedia or the like. For each of your five non-UNESCO sources please provide annotations (in the form of an annotated bibliography). This will include the citation or bibliographic information; a brief description of the author and source type; an overall summary of what the source includes; and detailed information about what is significant about that source in terms of its relevance to your topic and argument(s).
• Use the Chicago Style Guide for formatting, You will use the bibliography entry style for your annotated bibliography: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html
• UCOR 3400 Final Paper Guidelines: The Choosen World Heritage site is The Great Wall of China
• Select a World Heritage site to focus on for this project. Develop a thesis about your selected Heritage Site. Some things to consider when developing your argument(s) might include the following: Why was this site nominated as a World Heritage site? Who are the stake holders? Was the site contested and or claimed by multiple groups of people, and if so, then why? What was the site like before it was incepted into the UNESCO list? What changed after it obtained World Heritage status? What does World Heritage mean according to UNESCO? Is that the only way to understand why a particular space or place is meaningful? Do you agree with the top down (i.e., UNESCO’s criteria as universal) approach of designating a place as a cultural heritage site? What are the costs / benefits to such an approach? Who funds and enacts the upkeep and management of the site? Is there a tension between local needs and global desires? Are there multiple local interpretations of why the site is meaningful to cultural heritage? Are there multiple local interpretations of why the site is meaningful otherwise (e.g., people live there; worship there; etc.). How does the idea of designating UNESCO World Heritage sites reframe our understanding of the past? If the site is in danger, what is putting the site at risk and are there multiple ways of interpreting whether or not said thing is an actual danger?
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  Research your topic. The first place to look is the UNESCO World Heritage website where you can locate the place you have chosen. It is a great resource for information on the site and will be the best source for determining when the site was nominated and incepted into the list, the current status and use of the site, and whether or not the site is at risk for endangerment according to UNESCOs criteria. Generate a thesis statement. If you need guidance on generating a thesis please review the writing materials on Canvas and contact me if you prefer to discuss.
  Identify at least six sources of information (five plus total and the UNESCO link / date(s) accessed) regarding your site. The description of the site provided by UNESCO will likely help lead you to additional sources. Other sources might include primary sources from travelers, ethnographers, religious specialists, etc. or visual materials, material culture objects, architecture of the actual space, legends, literary works, newspaper articles, or secondary materials from peer reviewed journal articles and books. Please to not cite Wikipedia or the like. For each of your five non-UNESCO sources please provide annotations (in the form of an annotated bibliography). This will include the citation or bibliographic information; a brief description of the author and source type; an overall summary of what the source includes; and detailed information about what is significant about that source in terms of its relevance to your topic and argument(s).