Human Rights Violation Research Project

Objective:  Choose one of the human rights violations listed below.  In your 3-5 page MLA style essay, describe the history of the violation (who were/are the groups involved, what were/are the issues highlighted by the conflict, etc) and describe the impact of the violation on those involved.

~The Holocaust

~The Rape of Nanking

~The Albanian Genocide

~The “Disappeared” in Argentina’s Dirty War

~The Civil Rights Movement in the United States

~Apartheid

~Darfur

~North Korean Repression

Requirements: 1) Essay must be 3-5 pages long, not including the bibliography.  2) You must quote at least three sources in your essay.  3) MLA standards must be adhered to in this essay.  4) All planning components must be completed.

Planning Components:

Component	Due	Worth points:
1) Create an annotated bibliography/notes page where you will keep track of the pages you visit and significant quotes/information from these pages.	January 10	15
2) Create an outline using information from your annotated bibliography.	January 13	10
3) First Draft	January 17	15
4) Engagement in Peer Editing process	on January 17	10
5) Final Draft	January 23	50

Other Information:

1) Your final essay will be graded based on the usual English Regents Rubric (Meaning, Development, Organization, Language Use and Conventions), but there will be an added quality for adhering to MLA guidelines

2) You must use the Customized Search Engine linked below in order to do your research for this paper.