For this paper, you will search, read, analyze, and write based on articles from reputable mainstream news sources about various political, environmental, economic, or cultural topics that cover at least one region (and at least two countries from the region). Region: The Amazon. Countries: You choose
- At least four articles should be considered for this paper. The articles selected should have been published no more than seven months ago. Use appropriate articles. The articles should be from reputable mainstream news sources, such as The Conversation, The New York Times, the BBC, CNN, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, etc
- The paper should analyze the four articles integratively – compare their perspectives on the issue of your choice, their scopes of agreement and disagreement, the limits of their argument, etc.
- As far as the structure of the paper, in about 400 words, introduce the topic based on the articles and synthesizing them. In the remaining 600 words, do an integrated analysis of all these pieces from a regional perspective. Consider the following when doing the analysis:
- – Show how your chosen articles relate to one or more of the themes we have touched on in this course.
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– Identify spatial interrelationships. Highlight how your chosen topic/event occurring in a particular place and time might be influencing other spaces/countries/regions/landscapes/peoples, not necessarily from the other articles but in general. How is one event occurring in one place affecting other places? This is a good exercise to learn to identify the interconnections between locales.