Stage 2: Choosing your topic (5 points -- due as Canvas upload by midnight on Feb. 27th)
Using the article that you identified in Stage 1 as the most interesting (and with relevant world historical context), run a new search on the New York Times, London Times, or Los Angeles Times on the library databases. Be sure to change the search criteria to include a date range (the whole year of 1989) and search by keyword using your article’s topic. From this new list, choose at least 5 articles that relate to your original article. Write 1-2 paragraph analyses of EACH article that includes the citation information for each.
Using my example above, I searched all of 1989 using the keywords “Central American” and "asylum". I got 36 hits. When I scrolled through the articles, I found several useful ones, including one article that suggested the new asylum process was off to a rocky start and another suggesting judges might block some of the actions. Look for these kinds of connections – cause/effect, developments in a political situation, etc.
