Paper 1 Guidelines:

• Use Times New Roman size 12 font
• Use one inch margins
• Double space the entirety of the paper, including the Works Cited
• Use MLA format throughout
• Quotations/paraphrasing and specific examples are required to support your ideas
• A minimum of three secondary/research sources is required
• Your thesis can be multiple sentences long
• You can definitely have more than five paragraphs
• Your essay needs to be a minimum of 1100 words long
• Your conclusion does not need to restate your thesis; tell your readers what you’ve learned, how you feel now, what questions you still may have. The point is to end as dynamically as possible

Choose one from the following topics and write a clear, focused, and well-supported essay and upload it by 11:59 on Sunday, February 18th.

1. Assess the world’s current environmental crisis. Consider climate change, overpopulation, pollution (in all its forms), poverty, and technology. Is the environmental crisis the most important issue today? If it is, what are some realistically helpful methodologies the average human can employ to combat the crisis? Please use specific examples and quotations from experience, research, etc. Use at least one work that we have read in class (this does not count as a research source).