Essay Question: Pick the 2 course readings that have had the greatest impact on you. Which readings have you chosen and why? How are they connected and/or how are they different? How have they been important to you? Do not simply summarize the readings. Include your own analysis and connect the readings to your own experiences
Essay should include a thesis statement, approximately 5 paragraphs (4-5 pages, double spaced, 12pt font), including an introduction and a conclusion. Please state your thesis clearly in your introduction. Your thesis should not be a simplistic argument (“Indigenous women face many difficulties under settler colonialism”), but a specific one that requires you to think about course material in complex ways.
Be sure to engage meaningfully with 2 different courses readings for each essay. Please do not use the same reading twice. Please include a works cited page and format your references using an MLA style guide.
I have provided the two readings as files in the upload section. One is on how Racism Dictates who gets Dumped on: How Environmental Injustice Divides the World, The Guardian and the other is the social construction of disability.
Social factors that construct disability:
Creating or failure to prevent injury and illness
Expectations of performance
The physical and social organization of societies on the basis of a young, non-disabled, “ideally” shaped, healthy adult male
Failures of representation
Comes in all shapes and sizes