<p>Here’s my assignment:</p>
<p>“In 8-10 typed, double-spaced pages, pick ONE aspect of American culture that you think is the most influential in the construction of American identity today and that reaches across various groups of people. Keeping with the theme of visual culture, you MUST use an image or images to ground your argument. Anticipate other points of view that don’t agree with your interpretation and deal with them in an unbiased and accurate manner. Use your analysis of at least 8 outside sources to prove your aspect’s influence on American society. In other words, how has your topic shaped our culture in a significant way?”</p>
<p>What would be an interesting topic to research? since I will be spending days in the library looking for books, reading them, analyzing them etc…</p>
<p>Movies, TV, the Internet, public schools.</p>
<p>Well, what’s interesting to you? D has written at least 2 papers with similar topics and since she is interested (passionately) about musical theater she used that as her topic. Her deep interest shows through. So my suggestion is to think about something that interests you.</p>
<p>Well, I’m not a fan, but it seems to me that social networking sites and the reality TV genre have had a very significant influence on “the construction of American identity today.” Cause or effect, I don’t know, but the definition of privacy has certainly been upended.</p>
<p>All things considered has been doing a nice series on privacy over the last week. Worth listening to on podcast.</p>
<p>I agree though, if you write about something that really interests you the paper will be more fun to write and research.</p>