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Legalization of Marijuana

Annotated Bibliography
Requirements:
A. Compose an appropriate, arguable thesis statement that previews two to four main points.

B. Create an annotated bibliography of 10 credible sources that you plan to use in your research paper.
1. Provide a full, APA-formatted reference citation for each source.
2. Provide an annotation (suggested length of 150 words) for each source that includes the following:
a. a summary of the information presented in the source
b. an analysis of the credibility of each sources author or publication, if no author is present
c. an analysis of the relevance of each source to your chosen topic
3. Provide an annotation that is written in your own words, without the excessive use of direct quotation or extensive paraphrasing, for each source from part B.

Paper requirements:

Note: An abstract is not required for this task, but including a title page is recommended.
Requirements:
A. Write a cohesive, argumentative research paper (suggested length of 1015 pages) in which you do the following:
1. Provide an effective introduction.
2. Provide an appropriate thesis statement that previews two to four main points.
3. Develop each of the main points in effective paragraphs with support from a variety of sources.
4. Provide an effective conclusion.

B. Include at least 7 academically credible sources in your essay.
1. For your sources, include all in-text citations and references in APA format.

Alternative Urban Future for Wahpeton, ND

Using your hometown (or where you live currently) as the basis for this essay, develop an Alternative Urban Future plan for your town. You may choose from any number of solutions possible, but it should be grounded in the material you read about in Pinderhughes. The key to this assignment is to develop one of the many millions of solutions possible, meaning you\’re not being asked to develop a wholesale plan, just one aspect of it.

The key to this assignment is to examine, more closely, the intricacies of your urban ecosystem. Do not develop a plan that already exists, please. Be as creative in your solutions as you have been in your discussions. Some before you have developed urban gardens, green roofs, transit plans… the key is that it must be specific to your hometown.

Some fundamental requirements:

1) Develop the plan as if you were delivering the idea to your City Council or Planning Commission. What this means is do not spend an inordinate amount of time describing the town\’s development from early settlement to now, simply start with what your proposal is and why you\’re proposing it; then move to the how.

2) You must include all the stakeholders in the discussion; so some thoughtful consideration for citizens, utilities, private and public funding agencies, business owners in terms of how they contribute or are affected by the plan, meaning how they benefit, and what costs they might incur. These are just a few examples of stakeholders in your urban ecosystem, there will be others. If a referendum is required, which likely with all of your plans it will, your education campaigns will need to be fully developed.

3) Your plan must be logically developed but does not have to include the technical know-how of say, how Photovoltaic cells work, for example. We\’ll stipulate you have experts on your committee who can address this.

4) You plan must have a timetable of execution.

5) Your analysis must include an argument as to why this is so critical to your community and communities at large. Basically you\’re suggesting that everyone change something about the way they are living, that argument needs to be fully developed.

Sustainability plans take effort and take time so start giving it some thought. You have the ground work established with one of the earliest discussions we did on your hometown, in addition to several along the way.

What won\’t be an acceptable plan is putting out blue bins and hoping people recycle. You need to take it several steps further.

Consider your presentation running 45 minutes to an hour followed by Q&A. You need to be thoroughly prepared, as such, your essay needs to very well-organized and thorough.

If you bring in alternative sources, please cite them using either in-text citation or footnotes AND a bibliography.

What is it in our culture that rationalizes this type of production with all its controversy?

Please look at the material about Shale Oil and Tar Sands available to you under the course contents page. The Bakken folder is a zip folder containing an animation (AVI) file that shows the dramatic change in production in North Dakota & Montana. The TED talk on the environment is also quite interesting and may give you additional insight.

Consider the information above and what you know about this production from experience or other classes and answer the following question: What is it in our culture that rationalizes this type of production with all its controversy?

The learning objectives for this assignment in fact, all of them. But the focus of your essay is to tie in cultural, economic, political landscape changes to explain how it is shaping the environment. Mores specifically, this essay asks you to explain and apply the four fundamental components of geographical space (Learning objective 2) and incorporate your understanding of human landscapes (Cultural, Economic, Political, Urban, Environmental) and how they change (Learning Objectives 4,5,6,and 10).