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This assignment was created by students at The City College of New York for the Freshman Inquiry Writing Seminar, Web Discourse. Students are researching a social issue in one of four large topics: Urban Life, Public Health, Immigration, and Education. This will result in a final research paper that explores both how the conversations surrounding the issue are enacted and how a CCNY student may enter that conversation in a meaningful way.

Topic-Murder
This topic is important to me and it fits into my designated theme of interest because murder is a serious issue in Brooklyn, the borough in which I live, and in New York City as a whole. Every time I turn on the news or read a newspaper there is always an article or section about someone being murdered, and I would like to look into murder more deeply. There is absolutely nothing positive about someone taking another person’s life. Regardless of reason, no one should be murdered.

I would still need to research murder rates in New York City, possibly the amount of attempted murder rates as well. How has murder impacted Brooklyn? How has it impacted the entire city? What groups of people commit the most murders? What groups of people are targeted most frequently by a murderer? What are people’s incentives for murder? How many cases of murder have gone unsolved?

I will conduct my research through various sources available online and in physical form. I will use scholarly sources for a majority of my research since those are specific to their respective topics.

What will probably be the most difficult about completing the research project in general are the actual research and the interviews. Those will be the most difficult because research can take a while to complete, and the interviews because I’ve never had to give an interview before and I’m not sure what questions I have to/should ask. I also am not sure who I should interview as well.