Write a research report on a neighbourhood in Los Angeles. The long-term impacts of the World War II internment camps and Little Tokyo are my choices. The references and annotated bibliography are in MLA format. write an essay that analyzes the effects of the geographical environment (built or natural) on the residents or visitors, focusing on one major topic or tension in the neighborhood. You have a lot of freedom in the direction that you choose; please be conscious of what will work best for your research and writing! Getting Started Start by choosing a neighborhood that you find interesting or that you want to learn more about. Remember that your goal is to add original insights to a conversation about this place by examining the geographical environment, which may involve the landscape, architecture, types of stores or restaurants, language spoken and/or on signs, presence of freeways or public transportation, or other elements that give us a sense of place. Your analysis of this geographical environment may be focused through a specific lens; for instance, you may want to analyze the neighborhood through the lens of economics, architecture, psychology, social justice, etc. Getting a Visual Because this essay will analyze visual elements of a place, it is essential to capture your visual text for the reader. This may be in the form of photographs of the location, a map, graphs or other forms of visual data, etc. The visual should be relevant and serve to enhance the readers understanding. Insert your visual into the relevant area of the essay, and be sure to directly reference your visual in the writing. For the sake of space, limit yourself to no more than 3 images. These can be your own original works or images you find online, in textbooks, etc. Please be sure to give proper reference in the Works Cited page or in the body of the paper. PLEASE NOTE: The images must be on a separate page that DO NOT account for your 8 page minimum. If you wish to acknowledge the images in your paper, you may do so through footnotes. The Research For this essay, you will conduct in-depth independent research. Your research will likely take a variety of forms, which may include primary and/or secondary sources: Primary Sources include direct first-hand accounts, observations, and evidence about an event, object, person, place, or work of art, as well as interviews, surveys, and demographics data. Secondary Sources include scholarly books and articles discussing information originally presented elsewhere, information about events that were not directly experienced, or analysis of works created by others. Keep in mind that your essay is not a summary of facts about a place or an historical overview. Instead, you will use the ideas that you find in your research to develop your original analysis of the neighborhood. Wikipedia may not be used as a source. Assignment Requirements: Your essay should be 8 full double-spaced pages (at least 2000 words) with 1 side margins, 1 header and footer margins, Times New Roman, 12 pt font. Your essay should attempt to engage an analysis that goes beyond a superficial understanding of your neighborhood. While stereotypes may be discussed, your essay should not rely on stereotypes in place of analysis, and your thesis must go beyond stereotypical or obvious statements. Your essay must integrate and cite at least five credible sources from your research. Integrating sources includes summarizing key terms, claims, or concepts, and quoting important details. Two of those sources must be from the GCC databases. Use your sources as a springboard for your own claims, questions and analysis. You should not just incorporate sources to add facts to your essay. For this assignment, you must add to and help develop the ideas from the source to offer your own thinking about the neighborhood. Cite all sources in MLA format (in text), in addition to a Works Cited page. Refer to your class notes or use Purdue OWL to look up proper MLA in-text citations and Works Cited formatting. Proofread for mistakes and edit for clarity. Consider paragraph organization and appropriate transitions to lead your reader through your discussion.
