ESSAY 5

2 hours in-class
Must be emailed to mmoli636@gmail.com by NO LATER than 4:15pm

Choose from one of the two options below.

Regardless of which option you pick, YOUR FINAL ESSAY MUST:  

Be at least 600 words in length and include an intro with a clear thesis statement, at least 3 body paragraphs and a conclusion.

Be well-organized and developed with supporting details and evidence to back up your claims.

Be proofread for grammar, sentence and other language errors.

Include references to the Caotes article OR Food, Inc. If you use any other sources, then you must include a works cited page. If you only use the article or the film, a works cited page is NOT required, but you still need signal phrases and in-text citations.

Include signal Phrases for quotes and paraphrases (FOR EXAMPLE: According to ….. or So-and-so writes, …..) and in-text citations for ANY information you got from the article and/or films that is NOT yours!

NOT be a summary of the article and/or the films, but rather, a presentation of YOUR ARGUMENT and YOUR THINKING. Do not use any sources excessively.

Be in the Proper MLA Format as well as  Double spaced with 1 inch margins and in Times New Roman 12 point font

Be original and not plagiarized.

OPTION 1
In his documentary film Food, Inc. Robert Kenner exposes the many hazards the corporate food industry does not want us to be aware of. Many of these issues can be resolved with more regulations. Write an argumentative essay of at least 600 words (shoot for more), arguing for more regulation of the food industry. 

You may choose to focus the entire essay on one food industry problem, its causes, its consequences and how to solve it through regulation OR each paragraph can discuss a different food industry problem, its causes, its consequences and how to solve it through regulation. 

OPTION 2
In his essay "The First White President," Ta-Nahesi Coates writes,

Trump truly is something new—the first president whose entire political existence hinges on the fact of a black president. And so it will not suffice to say that Trump is a white man like all the others who rose to become president. He must be called by his rightful honorific—America’s first white president.

Write a argumentative essay of at least 600 words responding to the claims Coates makes in his essay.  Is the election and presidency of Donald Trump evidence of a white supremacist backlash against the Obama legacy?