The essay has 2 parts: PART 1: TOPIC SUMMARY First, reflect and choose an area of applied ethics that interests you. Narrow the chosen area to a more specific and manageable topic, after doing some outside reading and research. Following are four broad areas, but there are many others that are acceptable for this last paper: environment and natural resources animal welfare business ethics and economic justice medicine, health and end-of-life issues Practical ethics as a field of study is today enormous and even generic topics such as abortion, environmental ethics, or business ethics are much too large for our writing purposes. Instead of ‘abortion’, whittle down the category to describing and critiquing/supporting ‘late-term abortions’. Instead of environmental ethics, narrow the category to ‘tourism and sustainable development in the American Virgin Islands.’