Social Analysis of Garbage
Write an essay discussing your thoughts on the attached reading from: Humes, Edward. 2012. Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash. New York: Penguin Group. This excerpt is Chapter 4, “The Last and Future Kingdom”. Introductory Paragraph: Briefly introduce the focus of your Essay and why this subject matters to you. Substantive Section 1 1-2 Paragraphs: Using our course materials, broadly explain the subject youve chosen as though your reader is not familiar with sociology or this particular social problem. Substantive Section 2 1-2 Paragraphs: Hone in on the more specific dimension(s) of this social problem that your selected reading addresses. Summarize the readings takeaways, and describe how the authors research supports (or contradicts!) what our course content says on the subject. Please include at least one in-text citation referring to your reading in this section. Conclusion 1-2 Paragraphs: Briefly re-state your topic and review the points you made in Substantive Sections 1 and 2. Feel free to also elaborate on why your subject is important to you and/or to society. Essays will be graded for organization, clarity, spelling and grammar. Each Essay should be a minimum of 1.5 pages in length, Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced.
