Discuss and provide examples of the issues and struggles non-native English speakers and their families contend with as they try to find a place in the United States.
Imagine yourself a historian of New Mexico and your asked to lecture on the history of New Mexico from 1690 to 1848. What significant changes or developments (political, economic, military, social or cultural). One of the four examples must be the U.S. conquest of New Mexico. Support you thesis with examples from material from Susan Magoffin’s Down The Santa Fe Trail, you can also use outside sources and material from New Mexico: A History by Sanchez, Spude and Gomez.
What does it all mean?
Why is online pop culture so important in our study of mass media and the popular arts?
Does pop culture need to be “popular”?
Explain how internet culture (and YouTube specifically) “ate the pop culture machine.”
Discuss the relationship between Facebook (and/or other social media sites) and pop culture.
And, last but not least, how does this all fit together?