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Qatar: The Unfair Advantage

LIB 100, Information Literacy

MW 2

Jessica Washington

Professor A. Tablante

Summer 2014

Topic: Injustice in Qatar hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup

Thesis Statement: The state of Qatar should be denied the privilege to host the greatly anticipated, 2022 FIFA World Cup due to illegal vote buying, adverse weather conditions, and the violation of the human rights of the migrant workers that die by the thousands constructing the facilities to accommodate these events.

This paper will provide an in depth explanation as to why the judgment in Qatar presenting the 2022 FIFA World cup is both unreasonable and unjust.

Explanation of Sources:

To find information of how Qatar, allegedly, bribed FIFA voters, I used the search engine Google. I then typed in Qatar illegal FIFA vote buying. I looked through all of the websites listed and chose the most credible source. That source was CNN. In search of information on the death of migrant workers in Qatar, I used Google again. I searched the key words: FIFA World Cup/ treatment of construction workers. I looked for a source I deemed credible and chose thegaurdian.com. To access weather in Qatar, I used Google’s search engine. I used the key words: weather in Qatar. I found that I had to be more specific; I was showed the actual weather of the current day. So I then put in the words “climate”. I chose weather.com as a credible source

Qatar is said to be the wealthiest nation in the world. However, is it reasonable to

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