The paper will be on the Current Event of the Standing Rock Protests in North Dakota.
Your essay is to explain how the NY Times article on Standing Rock connects with themes in Martin Luther King Jr's "Letter's from Birmingham Jail". (suggested length 1-2 pages).
Here are some questions to help guide your essay. Please choose from the following questions. (you can use these questions as a guide; it is not necessary to answer all of them).
1. What stands out to you in these articles? What are some points made by King in the "Letters from Birmingham Jail" that are applicable today?
2. What is King's opinion of "tension" in creating social change? What does this mean? How does this connect with Standing Rock?
3. Explain how these two readings connect with any term, theme concept from the Sociology course so far. (For example, you are welcome to expand on Race/Ethnicity, The Three Perspectives (Symbolic Interaction, Functionalism, Conflict Theory), Culture, etc).
Here are the links for the article on Standing Rock and for MLK Jr's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/04/us/federal-officials-to-explore-different-route-for-dakota-pipeline.html
https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html