PhD doctorate ONLY

Directions:

The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate your familiarity with and understanding of required course materials. Specifically, this essay will focus on Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder. In addition, you should include relevant material from our initial course concepts and themes discussion as well as global current or historical events or situations to exemplify your comments. Further, your essay needs to assert and support a clear position with respect to the questions contained in the following prompt. That is, the essay needs a clear thesis statement – an arguable position – and not simply provide a descriptive review of the book. Your response should be 3-4 pages in length (1000 - 1300 words) and use the MLA Style Manual for proper document formatting and citation technique.

Sample Thesis Statements:

1. Elm trees are more likely to be cut down than maple trees because they don’t provide as much shade.

2. Mickey and Minnie Mouse experience less freedom than Donald and Daisy Duck.

3. Traffic accidents in Florida occur more frequently because there are no ‘hands free’ driving laws rather than because of the average age of drivers.

Reminder: the rubrics for this assignment are posted in iTunes U and LiveText. 100 points

Prompt:

Mountains Beyond Mountains vividly presents the work of Paul Farmer in various contexts centering around marginalization, justice and civic engagement. First, what are the prevalent themes with respect to marginalization that Paul Farmer encounters? In essence, what is the nature, causes and contexts of the marginalization experienced by various people and communities? Second, how is civic engagement used/undertaken by Paul Farmer and the members of the various communities to bring about justice – a more fair set of conditions –for the people/communities being marginalized? Finally, what do you think can/should be done by both those ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ the communities portrayed in Mountains Beyond Mountains?