Boko Haram Launches Series Of Attacks In North-East Nigeria

Blog Assignment – SOC 2229

For this assignment, you will choose a development related issue or event that is currently receiving media attention. Your aim is to prompt members of the public to become aware of and to think critically of a current issue. The style of writing should be accessible. In other words, it should be a blog post that a friend or family member (who has not taken this course) would understand.

Select 2-3 articles that cover the issue from a variety of perspectives. Your sources may include mainstream media reports (such as the CBC, the Guardian, the Globe and Mail), alternative sources (such as Alternet, Rabble.ca, Global Voices), blog posts (such as The Guardian’s Poverty Matters, UN Dispatch, from Poverty to Power, Huffington Post’s Development Unplugged).

Use these resources to write your own blog post.

Your blog post should set the context through inclusion of an overview of the event or issue and provide a critical analysis of the issue.

Consider the historical factors, what individuals and groups are impacted and the challenges they face, who has power in the situation, potential solutions and barriers to resolution.

A list of sources using APA format should be included. Your blog post should be between 500-750 words (not including sources).

ADDITIONAL HELP AND THINKING THROUGH ANALYSIS

A critical analysis should consider the following questions:

o What are the main arguments you are trying to counter? That is, what are the reasons and rationalizations you need to address?

o What is at stake for the key parties, including those who disagree with you?

o What levers can you use to influence those who disagree with you?

o What is your most powerful and persuasive response to the reasons and rationalizations you need to address? To whom should the argument be made? When and in what context?

Be sure to consider what information you may need to research in order to make the most well-reasoned and persuasive arguments.

Consider whom you are trying to persuade and what types of arguments and presentations will be most persuasive to him/her/them.

Consider what type of response you are likely to get to your first line of argument and then craft a sort of decision tree of arguments: if they say “this,” you will counter with “that,” etc.

Please keep in mind that i lean politically LEFT/liberal, and so does my professor, so my arguments would be in that direction.