Reem ZaitoonPreparatory assignment 1 Topic: The effects of the Syrian refugee crisis on Syrian youth

This topic interests me because of the sheer amount of deaths and human rights violations that rose out of it. The Syrian refugee crisis has taken its toll in a horrendous amount of deaths of innocent lives that had nothing to do with the conflict within Syria. In addition, the country’s infrastructure was shattered and its economy and education fell into regression. This topic particularly interests me because I have always had a deep compassion for youth and how the places and situations that they live in affect their lives. The Syrian refugee crisis has undeniably resulted in the destruction and the total obliteration of the childhoods of many children. I chose this topic to learn more about the change and the effects that the Syrian refugee crisis had on Syrian children in terms of their education and overall lives.

The genre of this essay will be narrative and informative. I want to include information that would inform people who maybe didn’t know about the crisis. Informing people about this humanitarian crisis would be extremely important to me and so I want to have an informative genre intermixed in the essay. I also want to combine a narrative genre into the essay so that I can include my own voice and opinion into the paper. I find it very effective when writers use voice in order to get an audience to care about the topic that they’re talking about, so I hope to do the same and use my voice through the narrative genre.

The research that I have done so far is comprised of gathering information about the effects of the crisis on children’s lives. I have gleaned that the conflict in the country has physically and emotionally displaced children from their homes and their lives and has forced them to seek safety elsewhere. The research that has to be done now is how the Syrian war started and why it escalated to the extent it is at today. In addition, research on the tensions and the current political status of Syria has to be gathered in order to better understand the reasons for the civil war.

This essay is important because it is what is now known as the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time. Human rights violations are something that I have always been passionate about and I want to share that passion with the audience that reads my paper. It always bothered me that I could have a fulfilling life here in the United States but another person across the world might not be given the same privileges. Therefore, it’s very important to me that I share the information about the Syrian crisis with others.

The audience that I have in mind is other youth that are my age because to my great displeasure, many people my age don’t even know that this humanitarian crisis is happening, and that’s something that highly bothers me. I hope to reach people who are my age so that I can inform them about this issue. Therefore, I hope to use vernacular that I would use everyday in order to effectively reach them.