Research Proposal- Rebecca Singer

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, the future building of world resorts Miami, a historical effect that is comparable to this one all while keeping the audience I mentioned above in mid.  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 occurance like this, mobile culture and the current situation of lower income people in Miami.