Reem Zaitoon

Preparatory 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 countrys 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 didnt
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 theyre 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 childrens 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, its 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 dont even
know that this humanitarian crisis is happening, and thats something

Reem Zaitoon
Preparatory assignment 1
Topic: The effects of the Syrian refugee crisis on Syrian youth
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.