The Essay Assignment:

Choose an ethnic community (e.g., Little Italy (Italian market), Chinatown, Mexicantown, Koreatown, Vietnamese town, or Cambodia town), and develop an argument about the contributions that ethnic restaurants and food markets have made to the ethnic community.

In what ways have the ethnic restaurants and markets made the life of the ethnic population better?

How have they contributed to the economy of the ethnic community? How do they help the community to recreate their distinct culture?

These are some of the questions you can consider while you are exploring your topic.

The instructions about this assignment is to develop an argument about ethnic community, how ethnic restaurants and markets have made to the ethnic community?

The ethnic community I choose is Chinatown. And specifically I want to write about the New York Chinatowns. Their characteristics, histories, etc.

You can introduce the overall history of all four Chinatowns in New York, and focus on one of them. And I need a clear and strong thesis, each part of the body paragraph need have a clear topic sentence, and these paragraphs need to support the thesis. The support points also need to have evidences (references or quotes ) to prove the idea. You can think about it with the questions in the instructions. Please write about 4 to 5 pages with work cited (5-6 sources).