Should advertisers be restricted from using images of extremely thin or surgically altered people to promote their products?

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Social media
The articles you have read so far during this course discuss the topic of body image and the media, with authors taking different positions in the argument about the possible relationship between media and poor body image, self-esteem, and related issues such as eating disorders or mental illnesses. In this essay of approximate 850-1000 words, you take a stand on an issue connected to this topic.

Your research should help you develop a claim in response to the following question:

Should advertisers be restricted from using images of extremely thin or surgically
altered people to promote their products?

This assignment includes:

1. Introductory Paragraph

– Drawing on your research, you will write a focused introductory paragraph that begins with a

“hook” or attention-getting statement that is clearly related to the topic of your argumentative essay. It should then clearly explain the current debate surrounding the topic of body image and the media. In your introduction, you should explain the debate by directly referring to articles you have read this semester. Your introductory paragraph should end with an argumentative

– Body Paragraph 1 should give your FIRST reason to support your position. It should begin with a  topic sentence claim that clearly states the reason you give to support your answer to the question “should advertisers be restricted from using images of extremely thin or surgically altered people to promote their products?

– You should develop your paragraph using at least TWO SETS of “claim-evidence-explanation.”

Remember, you can use personal experience once in your essay, expert opinion, scientific research/statistics, examples/illustration/ or processes etc to support your point.

– Your body paragraph should end with a concluding sentence that restates your paragraph’s

What do you know about that issue? Is that topic interesting or relevant to you?

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Identify and discuss 3 possible topics that you’re interested in exploring further. Each topic should be a fully developed paragraph. In next lessons you will choose ONE of these topics as your research project, but you MUST brainstorm 3.

Questions to respond to when brainstorming about your topic:

What do you already know about this topic?

What do you need to know more about?

How does this topic relate to you, your peers, and the community?

What specifically have you read recently about this topic? (Locate, cite, and summarize 3 online sources here.)

How would you frame this topic so that it’s original? Focusing on a specific time or place? Focusing on specific research methods? Going again the grain? Focusing on the most recent events? Focusing on specific characteristics?

Then, respond to two of your classmates and give them your feedback on one, two, or all of their topics. What do you know about that issue? Is that topic interesting or relevant to you? What research methods would you suggest? What source have you read recently about this topic?

How does Lanier’s book hold up when viewed through contemporary scholarship?

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Throughout these nine lessons, you have read and responded to Lanier’s ten arguments for deleting your social media.

You’ve moved through 2000+ years of rhetorical theory, and you have produced and analyzed different argumentation methods.

At this point, we’ve come to the 20th and 21st centuries. Contemporary research about argumentation often focuses on argument as much broader than public, political, and judicial texts. Instead, scholars today often focus on how we are persuaded by popular and mass media.

This would include social media. Scholars today argue that social media is as relevant as a form of communication like any other.

“Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in being that by nature respond to symbols” (Kenneth Burke, 1950).

“Rhetoric is the art of discovering warrant-able beliefs and improving those beliefs in shared discourse… the art of probing what we believe we ought to believe, rather than proving what is true according to abstract methods” (Wayne Booth, 1964).

“Rhetoric is a mode of altering reality, not by the direct application of energy to objects, but by the creation of discourse which changes reality through the mediation of thought and action” (Lloyd Bitzer, 1968).

“We should not neglect rhetoric’s importance, as if it were simply a formal superstructure or technique exterior to the essential activity. Rhetoric is something decisive in society… [T]here are no politics, there is no society without rhetoric, without the force of rhetoric” .

“Rhetoric is the art, practice, and study of [all] human communication” (Andrea Lunsford, 1995).

“Rhetoric appears as the connective tissue peculiar to civil society and to its proper fatalities, happiness and political peace hie et nunc” (Marc Fumaroli, 1999).

For your discussion, then, pick one quotation from those above and replace “rhetoric” with “social media.” Considering these quotations, how does Lanier’s book hold up when viewed through contemporary scholarship?

For your discussion below, you’ll want to develop your response using 1 outside source in a response of approximately 250 – 500 words.

Outline one global issue (e.g. a sustainable development goal) and then critically evaluate the extent to which tourism can have a transformational effect on it.

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The Economic Geography of tourism

This piece of work should be properly referenced and should display student’s reading on the topic and ability to synthesize, analyze and critically evaluate.

Tourism can have a transformational impact on global issues. Outline one global issue (e.g. a sustainable development goal) and then critically evaluate the extent to which tourism can have a transformational effect on it.

In your answer refer to the ways in which this can be achieved and the barriers that may prevent this from happening.

What jobs would you assign to your chorus?How will these positions support the themes of the play?

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ANTIGONE PERFORMANCE

After you examine what was done at the National Theatre, suggest how you might envision a production that would help an audience of your peers relate to the themes and characters of Antigone.

1. Choose a time period and location:

Explain how your choices would support the themes of the play

2. In the National Theatre production, the members of the chorus have been assigned various jobs (page 5 of the Antigone Background Pack download )

What jobs would you assign to your chorus?

How will these positions support the themes of the play?

Discuss the literal and figurative portrayal of an aspect of masculinity in ONE or TWO texts studied

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Discuss the literal and figurative portrayal of an aspect of masculinity in ONE or TWO texts studied

How does the last paragraph in the novel change our entire understanding of the whole story? In effect, what does that paragraph, like colonialism, do to the Ibo people?

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Novel Discussion

Step 1: Select TWO questions to answer. You will write TWO separate original posts. Your original post/answer will take the form a paragraph that directly answers the question, using examples from the text. You are required to include one quote from the text (with an MLA in-text citation) in each original post, to use as evidence of your analysis. MLA in-text citations include the author’s last name and page number if there is one, for example: (Alexie 99). You will post your paragraph when complete, and then repeat the same for the second question you chose to answer. Each paragraph should be a minimum of 150 words long.

1. According to the novel, how does the Ibo culture, and Okonkwo specifically, divide up qualities based on gender, especially strength vs. weakness? Analyze a specific example from the novel to show how gender is applied to concepts other than a person’s biological sex.

2. Look up the word hubris. What does it mean and how does it apply to Okonkwo? Explain the significance of hubris in this novel.

3. Do you know what locusts usually represent in literature? If not, look it up. Now, relate the significance of locusts to this novel. In what way are the locusts in the novel foreshadowing and perhaps ironic. What is their significance?

4. How does the last paragraph in the novel change our entire understanding of the whole story? In effect, what does that paragraph, like colonialism, do to the Ibo people?

what is the relation between desire, unconscious, repression, and self-mastery and self-discovery? do the lidinal drives create happiness amd freedom?

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Mapping out the history of desire in psychology and existentialism

what is desire? why people desire what they desire? how do psychologists see desire? what is the relation between desire, unconscious, repression, and self-mastery and self-discovery? do the lidinal drives create happiness and freedom?

What features of each writer’s work seem to you to correspond with descriptions of the purposes of postcolonial literature?

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Postcolonial literature

What features of each writer’s work seem to you to correspond with descriptions of the purposes of postcolonial literature? OR does the writer’s work seem more closely related to one of the earlier “movements” we studied, modernism, the avant-garde, or post modernism?