Instruction: A 1250 word paper on The Militarization of Everyday Life or Alternatives to the Militarized Present. Final papers will build on contemporary global issues journal entries ( “Contemporary Issue Journal Entry #1” & “Contemporary Issue Journal Entry #2” are attached below) and final writing assignment proposals. Final writing assignments will use concepts and methods drawn from course materials and will marshal evidence from course materials and at least 2 outside sources (outside sources may be academic or journalistic). The final paper will be an opportunity for students to practice critical thinking skills by illustrating how specific aspects of their daily lives or daily lives somewhere around the global are enmeshed in global conflicts and processes of militarization, or to apply their critical and creative faculties by outlining and describing imaginative alternatives to the current global order of militarism and conflict. All sources must be cited and the word count limit does not include references. Paper must be double-spaced and written in Times New Roman 12 point font.

– Detail instruction for the final paper is provided below in PDF file named “Final Paper”.

– I also attached all course reading articles (for this term), mostly in PDF files and some are in links that I include here.

Article Links:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jp5e8x/life-in-the-dronescape-an-interview-with-madiha-tahir
https://fpif.org/militarized-humanitarianism-africa/
https://fpif.org/militarizing-ebola-crisis/
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/over-7000-bodies-have-been-found-at-the-us-mexican-border-since-the-nineties/
http://medanthroquarterly.org/2018/08/01/us-military-burn-pits-and-the-politics-of-health/