4–5 pages in MLA, not including the works cited page
Objectives:
For this assignment, we will explore the signs of American values that
reveal contradictions in our society and reveal the cultural phenomena
while predicting how these phenomena will shape the future for our
society. We will synthesize the readings to create and argument that
develops our critical thinking.
Prompt: Using at least 3 texts
that we have read and discussed in class for this third unit, as well
as your own personal experience and observations respond to the
following. Where do you see contradictions in the American
culture and what does this contradiction say about who are as a nation, a
society, a people?
To support your findings, you will use:
1. 3 texts we have read and discussed in our textbook for this unit:
a. Ehrenreich, Lee, Watkins, Mason, Fleishman, Tankersley, Corbett, Graham, and/or Pollan
- your own experiences and observations from the commercials and/or print ads you have seen, social
media posts you have written or read, supermarkets you have visited, products you have looked at or
purchased, film/TV shows you have watched, to the ideologies you hold dear/have witnessed - artifacts from our popular culture to further support your ideas/points, such as social media posts,
commercials/ads,
descriptions of products or supermarket pastorals, film/TV shows,
music, books, news media, or other forms of popular culture that
illustrate an American paradox in popular culture that relates to your
topic
Some contradictions we explored in Signs of Life in the USA are:
- Contradiction of American optimism
- Contradiction of social media activism
- Contradiction of America’s angry mood reflected in popular culture
- Contradiction of Americans anger toward the upper middle class
- Contradiction of industrialism of organic food
- Contradiction of nature and advertising
- Contradiction of products and their meanings
Directions:
This essay will follow the general structure of an introduction with a
clearly stated thesis statement, body, and conclusion. When citing the
authors from the textbook, be sure to adequately introduce the text(s)
you will be using to support your points by author’s full name, title of
work in quotations, and a brief summary of the text as it relates to
the quoted passage. Use proper in-text citations for textual support and
format the essay using MLA guidelines that includes a works cited page
for all borrowed material. For your works cited page, cite the essays we
have read from our textbook as well as any outside source you used.
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