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Overview: Write a thesis-driven essay that argues your own position on one of the topics discussed in previous weeks. In this essay, you need to argue your own point of view about one of our topics rather than simply agree or disagree with what others have written, you will need to argue your own ideas about this topic.
Topics: You should choose a topic from the themes handout (also found on pages 99-103 in Arguing About Literature.) You can choose a topic not included on this list, but you must get permission from your professor first!
Examples:
Gender or Sexual Orientation
Ethnic Background
Social Class
Divisions, conflicts, and multiple forces within the self
Boundaries
Material Things
Family or Friendships
Rebellion or War
Mental Health
The role of performance in everyday life
Religious beliefs
Desire and pleasure
The body
Memory
Politics and ideologies
Carnivals and other festivities
Distinctions between what is universal and what is historically or culturally specific
Relations between what is public and private, the social, and the personal
Relations between “high” culture and “low” culture
Research:
Three (3+) articles (secondary sources) from the GC Library database, EBSCOhost.
One (1) digital media (such as a video from the Academic Video Online database in the GC Library, TEDtalk, or Crash Course)
One (1) article or ebook from Whitecaps OneSearch
Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database. Academic Search Complete has more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
African American Heritage provides users a dedicated resource that not only brings together records critical to African American family research; but also connects them to a community of research experts, whose mentoring and assistance can frequently be the difference between research success and futility.
Behavioral and Mental Health Online provides a comprehensive, rich, and diverse collection of video and text for anyone studying or teaching in the area of mental health. Programs in counseling, social work, nursing, psychology and behavioral health will all benefit from the wide variety of content in this collection, which includes clinical mental health demonstrations, actual therapy sessions, compelling documentaries on the human condition, psychotherapy transcripts, as well client narratives and reference works.
Gale In Context: College offers interdisciplinary content that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Learners can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, Smithsonian, and more. Empower learning with hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections that include archival film clips, broadcast video, BBC News, New York Times video, and NPR.
Gale OneFile: Contemporary Women’s Issues offers comprehensive coverage of issues that influence women’s lives across the globe with access to current full-text and pertinent backfile content. The database covers topics including civil rights, health, education, professional development, and entrepreneurship.
Gale OneFile: Popular Magazines provides access to the most searched magazines across the OneFile products. All of the titles are selected based on actual publication searches performed by library patrons and the database includes many titles recommended by Bowker's "Magazines for Libraries."
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collectionis an essential full-text database for psychologists, counselors, researchers and students. It provides hundreds of full-text psychology journals, including many indexed in APA PsycInfo. It offers particularly strong coverage in child and adolescent psychology and counseling.
Gale OneFile: Psychology provides access to authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology— abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social and all areas of applied psychology. Researchers, psychologists, counselors, and behavioral scientists will discover relevant information from the thoughts, views, discoveries, and reports found in this comprehensive collection.
Gale OneFile: Religion and Philosophy is a comprehensive collection of periodical content covering topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions. Researchers will gain valuable insight about the impact religion has had on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language. Updated daily, this library resource supports a broad range of topics from theological approaches to social issues.
Below are a few examples of ebooks that could provide resources for your assignment. For additional material, you can utilize the Whitecaps OneSearch from the Library homepage.
Religion: Key Concepts in Philosophy by 
Critical Perspectives on Gender and Sport by 
