Read the complete assignment instructions! I'm only quoting below the part that pertains to your research. Look at the column that matches the option you've chosen.
Use the EBSCO and Lexis-Nexis databases to research the story of some imprisonment or slavery event that interests you, but go at your search with the goal of finding or representing “one person’s story.” Accordingly, you may want to key in search terms like “POW OR prisoner of war OR detainee” in the first line AND, in the second line, the particular event that interests you (e.g., Vietnam, Guantanamo, Japanese internment camps, IRA, Bataan, American Civil War, Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Iraq, Afghanistan, and so forth).
Use these Library databases to find the story you will use as the basis for your poem. Look at the two videos below for important searching tips.
Search EBSCO or LexisNexis for one thing a critic has said about the song, the songwriter, or the recording artist to which you'd like to respond; alternately, you may include research from the databases on the subject matter of the song.
Use these Library databases to find criticism of the song, songwriter or recording artist, or information about the subject of the song. Since you've done this type of searching already in the course you don't need special tips!