Consider a specific social problem that you feel needs to be rectified. Craft an

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Consider a specific social problem that you feel needs to be rectified. Craft an argument in which you define your social problem as a crisis, address its possible causes, and then argue for specific real-world solutions that might help to ameliorate your issue.
For this project, you will need to support your argument with at least three outside sources: articles, book chapters, etc. Essays should be around four pages long, double-spaced, in Times New Roman 12 pt. font. Essays should conform to MLA guidelines for structure and research documentation.
Things to consider: 
1. Audience
Consider your audience as relatively familiar with your topic, but not necessarily experts in the same way you are. In other words, you do not need to explain basic terms (like “social media,” for example), but if there are more specific or technical nuances to your topic you will need to define those carefully for your readers. 
2. Tone
Your tone should express a sense of concerned urgency. It’simportant that you articulate your crisis/source of hope in such a way that your implied audience should care about it. People are inherently focused on their own lives, and as such often neglect to consider the larger cultural implications of social problems that don’t immediately affect them. If you can frame your crisis, and more importantly the solutions you advocate for, in terms your audience can relate to, your case becomes much stronger. 
3. Your Solutions, or the Importance of Your Project
Solutions can be defined as idealist and materialist/practical. 
1. Idealist solutions (solutions based in some form of philosophical idealism) are based on moral values, or on broadly shared ethical concepts. 
For example, in the 1980s, Nancy Reagan, the wife of president Ronald Reagan, developed a policy to discourage drug use that was called “Just Say No!” 
This “solution” has no practical value because it exists only at the level of an ideal. It’s “tautological” in the sense that it simply restates the problem as a solution. Another example: how do we combat systemic racism? We try to “just get along,” as Rodney King famously declared after the Los Angeles riots in 1992.
Idealist solutions can be posited as important goals, but as actual answers to real problems they generally fail to convince. 
2. Practical/Material Solutions
Practical or material solutions offer actual strategies for solving problems. How do we distribute wealth in our society more equitably? We follow the example of [country x], which has the most graduated tax system in the world and yet maintains a very high standard of life. 
It’s often helpful when positing practical solutions to present parallel examples that have worked in other contexts. To solve drug abuse and addiction, we might take a cue from how [parallel problem] was addressed in the 1970s. 
It’s helpful to present practical solutions in such a way that their immediate benefits are apparent, and also to suggest that those benefits don’t just affect a remote population (or the specific people who suffer from the crisis you’re writing about). In other words, the solution isn’t just about ethics or morals in a broad way, but rather about improving everyone’s lives in some way.
 

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