You will be doing some research for this course and then write a paper that reports on your findings.
For the research, you should locate and use a minimum of 5 sources (2 primary sources and 3 secondary sources). Your primary sources may be found in the digital archives accessed through the Library’s newspaper and historical archive databases or interviews with senior/elderly people. If you choose to use primary sources other than those, please have them approved by your instructor before you begin your research. A good secondary source is one of the textbooks or readings that we have used in class.
Your research report should be at least 4-5 pages long or a minimum of (1500 words) excluding the bibliography. For information on formatting your paper properly and using correct citations, please refer to the Social Sciences Style Guide on Blackboard. You may use APA style; MLA style; Chicago Style or Harvard Style, but you should be consistent when using any style with both in-text citation and bibliography.
The research outline:
1. Introduction: background of the topic and thesis statement or research question
2. Body: the research may have from 3-4 main points depending on the topic. Each point should include explanations, examples, and details.
Conclusion: In the conclusion, you need to reward your thesis
Bibliography: list of all the resources
Appendices: to add the interview script (if any) or any used documents
How to analyze historical sources:
Locate the articles/books about the topic.
Read the source.
What kind of source are they? Do all the articles/books agree with each other?
Reporting an incident?
Commenting on something that happened?
General interest or informative?
Editorial?
Does one source present a different point of view?
Do you think the articles/book present facts, or do they push a perspective?
Write a short essay analyzing the articles you found using all the points listed above.
Suggestions for research:
Religious Diversity in the lower Gulf region during the Pre-Islamic Era
The Kingdom of Hormuz and the Portuguese
Qasimi and Bu Said war
Julfar
Baniyas Tribe
Treaties with the British
The Trucial Coast
Rulers and/or the people of the Trucial States
The British role in the region during WW1 and WW2
The Buraimi Dispute
Discovery of oil.
Bedouins
Pearl diving
The early history of a tribe (student should select one tribe)
British wars against Ras-Al-Khaimah
Library Sources:
Times of London Digital Archives
New York Times Digital Archives
British Library
National Archives
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/journals/srchbm.htm
ily be tracked by monitoring the global sea level heights together with the seafloor morphology and glacial ice mensuration. This is due to the fact that sooner or later the glacial meltwater will end up in the oceans and due to the sped-up melting treated in 3.3 and 3.4, the rate will increase drastically in the future. It is also useful to create models of inundation, coastal erosion and potential storm damage in order to thwart these catastrophes since they are a predictable consequence of sea-level rise (National Research Council 2010, Chuvieco 2008). 3.6 Accumulating natural disasters The last point is the accumulation of extreme events. The USA experiences more and more record high temperatures every year, congruously the record low temperatures occur fewer than ever. However extreme events also include heat waves, droughts, floods, cyclones, and wildfires. Changes in the earth’s system diversity also follow as a response to weather and climate extremes. Species that prove unable to adapt to the new circumstances will ultimately disappear or have to surrender to more successfully adapted species. An increased number of strong blusters with mounting intensity is also an indicator for these extreme events, just like frequent insect infestations. Insects are the profiteers of global changes in wind patterns and/or sea level rise, as they can be transported great distances into regions usually not inhabited by them (Dukes 2009). Global changes can also cause epidemic diseases dangerous for humans, as wind and sea can transport disease vectors communicated by insects. Diseases are especially dangerous; As a side effect they result in the attenuation of a population’s resilience and ability to counteract or even respond to climate as well as other stressors. The consequences of such extremes range from the disruption of food production and water supply to increased rates of morbidity and mortality and consequences for the physical and psychological health of human beings (IPCC 2014). There are quite a few ways to survey climatic extremes, as these can be very diverse. In order to monitor severe storms, it is possible to track the annual storm number together with maximum wind speed, geographic storm tracks, precipitation and flash floods. With regard to insect infestations and whether they were dislocated, taking the number of insect infestations, the insect type, the land cover of the infestations, the crop impacts and the historic recurrence into account is helpful. Human diseases can be evaluated by the number and type of epidemics and the impacts they had concerning the fatalities or in general the number hospitalised, the historic recurrence and the geographically affected