Reflect:Reflect back on the Week Two Discussion in which you shared with the class the global societal issue that you would like to further address.

Explore critical insights that were shared by your peers and/or your instructor on the topic chosen and begin your search for scholarly sources with those insights in mind.

Write: For this assignment, review the Annotated Bibliography Formatting Guidelines and address the following prompts:

• Introductory Paragraph to Topic: Refer to the Final Argumentative Essay guidelines for your topic selection. Write an introductory paragraph with at least 150 words, which clearly explains the topic, the importance of further research, and ethical implications.

• Thesis statement: Write a direct and concise thesis statement, which will become the solution to the problem that you will argue or prove in the Week Five Final Argumentative Essay.

A thesis statement should be a declarative statement that makes one point in 25 words or less. The thesis statement must appear at the end of the introductory paragraph.

• Annotated Bibliography: Develop an annotated bibliography to indicate the quality of the sources you have read. For each annotation, you need to summarize in your own words how the source contributes to the solution of the global societal issue.

Your annotation should be one to two paragraphs long (150 words or more) and fully address the purpose, content, evidence, and relation to other sources you found on this topic.

The annotated bibliography must include no less than five scholarly sources that will be used to support the major points of the Final Argumentative Essay.

Critical thinking skills need to be demonstrated by accurately interpreting evidence used to support various positions of the topic.

The Introduction, Thesis Statement, and Annotated Bibliography Assignment

• Must be 1,000 - 1,250 words in length (excluding the title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

• Must include a separate title page with the following:

o Title of paper

o Student's name

o Course name and number

o Instructor's name

o Date submitted

• Must use at least five scholarly sources.

Discussion : Global Societal Issues

Michael Williams

The two societal issues that I have selected is minimum wage and refugee (escaping persecution, war, or death). I chose these two topics because they have been the topic of discussion for the United States. Recently, minimum wage was a huge factor amongst individuals who are in the fast food industry.

The Ashford Library has several articles about minimum wage and the refugee crisis that will be great for an argumentative essay. The refugee crisis is a very broad topic based on several countries. I have chosen to narrow it down to the current issues that occur in Australia and New Zealand.

When I think about minimum wage the cost of living also comes to mind. Depending on the state the individual minimum wage is not enough to run a household.

"Based on the Department of Labor increasing minimum wage up to $12.00 per hour that will only be beneficial for individuals 20 years or older with fifty six percent of them being women" (DOL,2016 par. 1). There had been an overtime law passed effective December 1, 2016.

This law allows workers to receive time in a half for overtime, a raise in salary, and not to have a limit of forty hours of work a week (DOL,2016 par 3). This law will not allow workers to grow within the company because they will not want to make those changes.

The article from the Ashford Library by International Review stated, "Few of the migrants and the refugees wanted to come to Australia" (Neumann 2016 par. 3). The refugees became displaced, so war had to begin in Australia, New Zealand, and the Federal Republic of Germany. The migrants from these countries are consisted to have a problem.

References

Department of Labor. (2016) Minimum Wage Myth busters.

Department of Labor. (2016). Important information regarding recent overtime litigation in the U.S. District Court of Eastern District of Texas.

Neumann, Klaus. (2016). The Current Refugee Crisis: What's New?