What do you need to know about your topic in order to understand it? What do you need to know about in order to contextualize and discuss your subject? Meaning, what academic subjects does your project relate to? Through research at the library and on the web, identify the different facets of your project, including whether it concerns contemporary news/events, race, gender, sexuality, history, important countries (the US, India, China, etc.), social status/class, media (which media? film, broadcast tv, streaming shows, social media) and any other salient factors. How does each factor relate to your project and what will you need to know in order to discuss it successfully?

I need to know the culture and motivation of people I will write about. Some of the academic subjects my project relates to is this class, anthropology and history. My project will concern gender, history, race and social class. Gender relates to my project because the main focus are women, history relates because my topic has been a part of history for a very long time, race relates because only certain countries have this problem, religion because for the most part the source of this problem is religion.