Humanities Homework Help

Review Final Project (Submission) to make sure you understand the goals of this project. The section on choosing your topic should be of particular use here. Review the Video Lecture: Literary Research Methods and Resources, too, for help understanding the purpose and goals of a project like this. The Final Course Project module also has a range of resources for the final project.

Literary research and interpretation often begins with a seemingly fleeting idea. You will think of several topics you could research; however, one of those ideas may resonate longer or stay on your mind. This forum presents your first opportunity to engage formally with those ideas in writing.

Canvas Discussion 5: Final Project Plan and Sources will allow you to describe your goals and plan for developing your final course project. You will discuss which response you intend to use as the foundation for your final project, and you will be able to share your ideas for its further development. Your new project is more than an addition to your previous response paper. Rather, think of it as a new project that uses the response as its launching point for expansion through further interpretation, extended research, and the development of a fuller argument. Of course, you may reuse significant portions of the text you prepared for the response paper, but the purpose of the final project is to develop a detailed, research-supported, and thesis-driven project. It’s a different genre of writing, but your previous response paper serves as the foundation of your research question and proposal.

Directions

Step 1: PROJECT PLAN (Due: 5:00 PM, Monday, October 25)

Some guiding questions to plan for the final project (these questions will be the basis for Canvas Discussion 5):

Which of your responses will be the starting place for your final project?

What is your guiding question for your inquiry? This question might be the foundation of your thesis statement: through your interpretation of the literature and your research, what do you want to find out? If you have a working thesis in mind, you may also share your preliminary claim.

What work do you think this literary text does in relation to the themes/topics you will explore?

To what aspects of empathy or immigration studies does your project contribute?

What methodological concepts have you found to guide your interpretation?

What context(s) do you need to explore?

Where have you searched for outside sources, as in, specifically, what databases have you used? What search terminology have you used?

You will finish your project plan with a bibliography, in MLA style, of 5 of more potential outside sources that you might use for your project. At least 3 of these potential sources should be academic, peer-reviewed sources (articles from scholarly journals or books published by university presses).

Length: at least 4 well-developed paragraphs in addition to the bibliography of potential sources.

Manuscript Style: This will be a forum post, so divide it into separate paragraphs in the forum. Your works cited entries might not have necessary indentations. That’s fine. Just make sure everything looks good in the forum post.

This is an example template right here:

I wish to expand  upon my response paper to Lisa Ko’s The Leavers for my final paper. This book was one that I connected with a lot; the feelings of loss and the call for empathy through the use of immigrant characters’ lives being forever changed due to immigration policy in the United States. I   want to expand in more detail upon some of the political moments all over the world, but mainly in the US, which sparked anti-immigration policy to become a popular and accepted stance. By highlighting key historical and recent moments, we can begin to see why some of these policies were enacted in the first place. The power of understanding the opposite belief helps to form an even stronger argument against said belief, and can turn a novel from just a call to action for the pro-immigration crowd into a persuasive piece for the anti-immigration crowd as well. If my response paper was titled “A Call for Compassion” this final paper would fit more into a title of “An Analysis of Distrust”.

My response paper gives a brief description of Donald Trump and his beliefs on immigration, and how  he was a driving force in the ignition of the  immigration debate of 2016. While it is true that Donald Trump and his policies were very well-known and central to his platform, he is not the first to bring immigration into politics in the  United States. In fact, Lisa Ko says her inspiration for the novel was a 2009 article, before Trump’s time in any presidential election. How did immigration policy develop throughout recent history, and what events caused this debate  to become so hotly debated?

I believe that not only looking at purely political sources could be useful, but also viewing psychological  and social experiments based on empathy, tribalism, and education could be very helpful in understanding the root causes of beliefs like this to become popular. Historical events and contexts within a country could also play a huge part; is  there a separation between classes in the country? Do certain groups feel threatened by other groups of people. Understanding the basics of human behavior can better help us understand why exclusivity has become popular in policy-making.

For my sources,I included all of  the sources I used for my response, then added more peer reviewed sources from Ebsco host and the online plough library using keywords. I used: empathy, psychology of empathy, tribalism, immigration policy, immigration policy obama, and a few more that weren’t helpful. I want to expand my search and find a few more historical immigration policies of past presidents, find events and moments in history that caused these policies to develop, and some more in depth psychology and social experiments involving empathy and tribalism.

Work Cited:

Ko, Lisa. The Leavers. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2017.

Politico. “Full Transcript: Second Presidential Debate” https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/2016-presidential-debate-transcript-229519 (Links to an external site.)

C,Jackson. M,Newall. “American’s Views on immigration Policies” Ipsos Public Affairs. 2018.

Jennifer M Bondy. Brent E Johnson. “Critical Affect Literacy A Call to Action”

Brian D. Allen. Immigration: Policy, Background and Laws. SNOVA, 2019. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2235680&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Grönlund, Kimmo, et al. “Empathy in a Citizen Deliberation Experiment.” Scandinavian Political Studies, vol. 40, no. 4, Dec. 2017, pp. 457–480. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1111/1467-9477.12103.

Waytz, Adam. “Psychology the Limits of Empathy.” Harvard Business Review, vol. 94, no. 1/2, 2016, pp. 68–73.

Aguirre, Adalberto. “Immigration on the Public Mind: Immigration Reform in the Obama Administration.” Social Justice, vol. 35, no. 4 (114), 2008, pp. 4–11.