The main task of this assignment asks you to take a similar approach to your investigation as some of these writers do (for example, Hull and V. Young; Mystals book). In this paper, you will choose and analyze a law, policy, or a custom to try to ascertain what values and beliefs it reflects. Then, you will use the implication of this analysis to consider the laws usefulness (or harm) re: achieving social justice. Choose either a law or policyor an informal rule or customthat you want to investigate for this assignment. This might be a formal law or institutional policy related to a social issue you care about for example, a recent executive order from the White House, a local or state law that affects your hometown, or a university policy from the USC Student Handbook. However, you might instead want to explore an informal rule or custom that is something you have encountered or observed. If you choose to investigate a formal law or institutional policy, try to locate the original law or policy document; you might also find a short and credible source that explains the law and provides some basic context. Choose a brief policy or law (or short portion of a law or policy) that you think can write about in a short paper; you do not need to (nor should you) do research for this assignment beyond what is necessary for you to understand and set out the parameters of the law or rule. If you are analyzing an informal rule or custom, your primary text, or object of analysis, might be a cultural artifact that contains a representation of this rulefor example, a video clip, social media post, music video, television show, film scene, newspaper article, interview, or a Reddit thread. In other words, you should have one primary textan object of study your paper will closely analyze. You should use 1-2 of the course readings as secondary sources to help make your argument or define key terms. And you may include one source of your own to provide background or context about your primary text (law, policy, or rule). Your main task here is analysis of the law, policy, or rule, and that analysis should come from your own thinking about the law or custom and its relation to social justice. For this reason, it may be more manageable to focus on an informal custom or on a policy or law you know wellfor example, a school or work policy or a religious rule. After working through our invention and planning activities, answer the following prompt questions about your law, policy, or custom in a thesis-driven essay of 1,250-1,750 words (approximately 4-6 double-spaced pages in 12 pt. font, using standard margins): What are the most important values, beliefs, and assumptions are reflected in your chosen law, policy or rule? Given this analysis, what are the social justice implications of enforcing, complying with, or resisting this law, policy or rule? Things to Consider Define key terms such as social justice, hegemony, intersectionality, or common sense using our class discussions and the readings. The arrangement and focus of your paper should be conceptual rather than categorical (i.e., not a list of three elements that results in a 5-paragraph essay). Your paper should state a thesis at the end of the introduction. That thesis should be arguable and specific. Focus your analysis on one law, policy, or custom. Explain the law or custom early in the paper, before beginning your analysispossibly in the introduction or a first body paragraph. Use Tenant Protection Act AB 1482 High School Level Writing

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