Appalachian

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Watch the following video and answer the questions below.

Please use these links: (parts 1-6)







Based on the video write a one page essay answering the following:

What is the cause of Appalachian Poverty?

Does culture play a role?

In your opinion, what does the future hold for the young football player, the young girl with a drug addicted mother, the coal miner?

How can we help the Appalachian people?


Essay Assignments will be graded on the following scale:

  • 50 points: Excellent
  • 30-49 points: Acceptable
  • 10-29 points: Inadequate
  • 0 points: Not turned in on time or plagiarized

Grading Criteria/Rubric: Your essay assignments must …

  • Contain a thesis statement.
  • Be, at least one full page in length
  • Present a point of view and be supported with evidence.
  • Relate the material to be written about to core concepts in sociology (such as perhaps cultural relativism, mechanical social solidarity, conflict theory, etc.).
  • Display your knowledge of covered course material, drawing from any of the lessons that fit the topic of the assignment.
  • Be submitted via the writing assignment submission link on Blackboard.
  • Have 1 inch margins, 12 point Times New Roman Font, and be double spaced.
  • Have an introductory paragraph, several body paragraphs, and a conclusion.