I have a 10-page essay due by Friday over cities and environmental

sounds like a bullshit topic. have fun with it. take an opinion, research it, and go to town. don't just play into your professor's hand and write the safe, staid bullshit they expect. it's your duty as a student and a (temporary) member of the educational establishment to formulate your own thoughts and express them. this is incidentally how we get generations of thoughtless, meme-spewing garbage who only learned how to justify their professors' opinions -- they didn't manage to osmose the process of free thought themselves.

>>17761232

The problem is I don't have a clue where to start. Should I start off by giving an example of environmental racism in a city and go on to talk about it? Seriously this is such a bullshit topic that I don't think I have the motivation to finish this paper and I need this class to pass. If I don't pass this class, then I'll need to stay an extra semester and take some other bullshit class and pay more money out of my pocket which I don't really want to do.

>>17761243
>this is such a bullshit topic
seems like a good springboard to me. you're obviously not writing a paper about anything concretely, objectively scientific so there is room for an opinion. so, you think it's bullshit? seems like a good idea to start getting really familiar with your own ideas about "cities and environmental racism." apply your mind, do some reading and start putting the pieces together. hell, even wikipedia is a good starting point to just get the vaguest idea, and from there start outlining your criticisms and from there looking for sources to validate them.

there are no boring subjects, only boring people.

>>17761273

I suppose you have a point. Maybe I have so much riding on this paper that I'm too worried I'll start talking about the wrong thing. I probably am overthinking it too much since for any other 10-page paper I've ever typed my professor's don't really seem to care if I made up a lot of it or put a lot of filler in it and only care that I somehow fit the right amount of sources into the paper. I just wish I wasn't so easily distracted right now and want to do everything else that isn't writing this paper