{"id":11815,"date":"2024-02-16T01:09:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T01:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/write-a-exploratory-essay-textbook-definition-and-instructions-answering-the-question-what-does-the-other-america-mean\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T01:09:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T01:09:07","slug":"write-a-exploratory-essay-textbook-definition-and-instructions-answering-the-question-what-does-the-other-america-mean","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/write-a-exploratory-essay-textbook-definition-and-instructions-answering-the-question-what-does-the-other-america-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"Write a exploratory essay (Textbook definition and Instructions), answering the question &#8220;What does the &#8220;Other America&#8221; mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The introduction will need to introduce Martin Luther King&#8217;s speech MLK &#8220;The Other America&#8221; (when was it given, what is the social and historical context of the speech, what was his point). Then you will need to mention that his term &#8220;the Other America&#8221; sparked conversation among political scientists, sociologists, and activists and introduce Poverty: The Other America and What Forgotten Americans Really Want as examples. Then you need to mention that King&#8217;s point still has relevancy today (see Overview of MLK&#8217;s Contribution to American Freedom for more information) and end the introduction with the question &#8220;&#8221;What does the &#8220;Other America&#8221; mean?&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Each body paragraph needs to start with a topic sentence that identifies one of the communities in the Other America. For example, you could say &#8220;The Other America&#8221; is racially marginalized communities&#8221; or &#8220;The Other America is the urban poor.&#8221; Either one of these statements will let you connect to Baldwin&#8217;s short story SonnysBlues. Your next paragraph could be something like &#8220;The Other America&#8221; is also the rural poor&#8221; and connect to the ideas in Pott&#8217;s book (see Book Review of Forgotten Girls).  Then you can bring these together and examine what they all have in common (whether it&#8217;s urban\/rural poverty or black\/white poor):  &#8220;The Other America&#8221; is the forgotten poor. Quote from the King&#8217;s speech that addresses the poverty in America as a systemic problem hurting us all.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Your conclusion answers the question &#8220;What does the Other America&#8221; mean?&#8221; with one concise statement then the paragraph makes connections between all of your ideas.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You must have quotes from the readings for full credit.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The introduction will need to introduce Martin Luther King&#8217;s speech MLK &#8220;The Other America&#8221; (when was it given, what is the social and historical context of the speech, what was his point). Then you will need to mention that his term &#8220;the Other America&#8221; sparked conversation among political scientists, sociologists, and activists and introduce Poverty: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[14],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/11815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/11815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=11815"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=11815"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=11815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}