Rebecca Singer
Research Proposal
The question of my
research is: How does the future World Resorts Miami represent coming social
changes in the city? World Resorts Miami is a casino and resort complex that is
in the process of being approved and built along Biscayne bay and the causeway
to Miami Beach. The site will affect the economy and the social structure
already in place in the area. The topic of World Resorts Miami is relatively
new as the land was just purchased a few months ago however, many studies have
been done about the economic and social effects that it will have on the city.
In the research paper, I would like to explore how it will influence lower
class communities that surround and the mobile culture that it will inevitably
attract.
The intended
audience of this project could be politicians and activists who either support
or condemn the project. I will try to intertwine the four elements needed for
the literary non-fiction essay. I will use a personal experience from when I
visited Atlantic City, NJ, a town by the Atlantic Ocean that is casino
friendly. I will need to have both
qualitative and quantitative material to answer my question. Currently, I plan
to use the demographic map of the city that we used in class as a source. I
will need information about a past occurrence like this, mobile culture and the
current situation of lower income people in Miami. I have also found polls
taken on the subject in which the answers are separated by gender, geographic
region and race.
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