For assignment 2 the research question that I’ve chosen is ” why aren’t the unvaccinated getting their shots?”. I chose this topic as I found it pretty interesting, and I thought all of us should know why we’re still wearing masks and maintaining social distancing even though we’ve been vaccinated for months. I know that it’s every individual’s own personal choice whether they want to get vaccinated or not, and forcing them to get a shot goes against basic human rights, but still, I feel they should look at the disadvantages from our perspective too. The reason why I chose this topic is that this is something that’s current and is affecting everybody in the world.  Something that also interests me is knowing the point of view of these people. I would want to know what scares them about getting vaccinated.

One of the scholarly sources that I’ve found so far, talks about how brazil made covid 19 vaccination mandatory and part of their law too.in this topic, Mandatory vaccination for COVID-19 has been the object of heated debate in Brazil. This article discusses the legality and constitutionality of such a policy. First, it analyzes the laws, regulations, and Supreme Court decisions that provide for the possibility of mandatory COVID-19 vaccination. Subsequently, it analyzes the constitutionality of a mandatory vaccination policy through the proportionality method to address the conflict between, on one side, the right to individual autonomy, which includes the right to refuse medical intervention, and, on the other, health policies that interfere with individual autonomy to protect the rights to life and health. The application of this method allows for the identification of key questions that need to be answered to determine the constitutionality of a mandatory vaccination program. So far this is the only source I’ve found, but I’ll find all the sources by 10/22. The one source that I’m really looking forward to researching, is the one where we’re supposed to show the problem from the opposite perspective, so right now I’m searching for articles by people who support not getting their shots.

The main audience for this essay is definitely the people who voluntarily chose not to get their shots, besides them there are the people who support not getting vaccinated. The publication for whom I think my essay would be appropriate would be ‘CNN’. and I’ve provided a link to a model essay from CNN, that relates to my topic. This article by Miguel Marquez talks about how the once vaccine-hesitant are changing their minds.

The link to my google scholar source is: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8233032/

the link to my model essay on CNN is:https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/12/us/project-finish-line-fights-vaccine-hesitancy/index.html

For the second essay of the semester, the research question that I chose to answer and research upon is “What is the relationship between students completing assignments in a classroom setting juxtaposed to completing assignments in a household setting?” The reason I wish to discover the distinct differences between the two teaching styles is simply due to the current state of our society today. Our education system has dipped its toes into the aspects of online learning in the past 2 years, so it’s important to compare the positive and negative impacts this particular teaching method had on the mindsets of growing individuals/students. Especially considering how I am a current first-year college student who has had first-hand experience in both areas of learning thanks to the pandemic. Thus, it’s also important for me personally to see if other people were impacted similarly to how I was during the course of quarantine. If I were to give a particular timeline of when I would have my sources and research materials collected, it would be quite difficult as I not only have to deal with other classes assignments, lectures, work, the amount of time it takes for me to go to college and back, and also my scriptwriting for a film. However, I would declare that I would attempt to have all of my sources settled before the end of the week, hopefully before the 22nd of October. The audience I shall be writing my essay for would essentially be students who reside within New York City or, particularly within Brooklyn. Although the question of how quarantine has affected students lies worldwide, I find it better and more suitable to do my research on the sense of the city; that way, I can better put myself into my essay and have a better understanding of my paper while comparing the results of my research to my own experiences. So by taking this audience into consideration and the research question I had created, it was quite difficult to find a model essay to use and the closest source I could possibly find was an article depicting the outcome of remote learning after a year has ended in the US. Hopefully, I can find a better model essay but it’s quite difficult to say if there is one out there for my research question (The model essay/article is attached below). However, I have found one source so far that I can use as a stepping stone when it comes to viewing other sources (Below model essay/article).

Overall, the main difficulty I would have in writing this paper would be finding a model essay as there doesn’t seem to be one generally focused on students in new york and the experiences they have in both types of learning. Thus, I would also choose to further focus on that as well when finalizing my sources before the 22nd.

https://www.panoramic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/The-Results-Are-In-for-Remote-Learning_-It-Didn%E2%80%99t-Work-WSJ.pdf

Online vs. Remote Learning: What’s the Difference?

The Research question I chose is, “what has changed in the United States in the past 245 years of its existence that there is a stance against immigration”, whereas we all know the United States was considered a refuge for people around the world seeking political, social and religious safe havens recently we have seems a huge uprising in those who wish to not accept/ make it more difficult in order to enter the United States, by coincidence, it is also the main introduction . I plan on researching the beginning of the United States history and its foundation, the World Wars era as well as current situations as background research and information for the governmental policies that were proposed, enacted as well as rejected ones; since the United States is a representative democracy which means people elect leaders to represent their general viewpoints, hence, these policies would reflect the populations general feelings. I plan on using the article, “Admitting More Refugees into the United States Is Too Costly.” By, Don Barnett (link.gale.com/apps/doc/EJ3010144261/OVIC?
u=cuny_ccny&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=cf5bee08) which is written as a scholarly article for a targeted audience of United States citizens/” common folk”. This topic is a social political issue since it has an affect on the movement of people from around the world into the United States. So far, the articles I have in mind for this assignment is:

1) link.gale.com/apps/doc/EJ3010144261/OVIC?u=cuny_ccny&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=cf5bee08 – the article I plan on mirroring

However, I do plan on finding one more prior to my essays start, specifically, opposite of the first article, so for support of immigration, in order to provide an opposite stance, even though one doesn’t seem to be provided in the mirrored text; I feel as it will add a little more substance and to remove political ideology from the tone of the text.