Compare 1-2 points that Mary Wollstonecraft makes about women’s education to inequalities that may exist in the education system today.
“Examine a live advertisement campaign and analyze the intent, execution, and perceived success of the campaign.” The primary intent behind this is so students can identify, research, examine and explore a real life ad campaign. The students can choose their own campaign, and it can be as simple as a single television ad, or as complex as an entire campaign including multiple media efforts for the more sophisticated student.
Students are expected to conduct an extensive search of multiple ads (TV, Billboard, Newspaper, Online, Magazine, etc.) and select one. Students will scrutinize the campaign and comment on the following topics: Objectives, Intended Audience, Likely Actual Audience, Perceived Effectiveness, The use of image, product differentiation, and branding, Unique Selling Proposition, Basis for Appeal, Creative Philosophy, Slogan, Tone, Mood, Motivational Appeal and Executional Style.
At its beginning, television was the center of the home. Based on your reading of Lynn Spigel’s essay, why would a show like “The Betty White Show” be greenlit? (Greenlighting occurs when a network executive orders that a show be produced.) What about the show feels like it was made with a specific audience in mind?
Describe a “real life” instance of your selected social issue in a professional or a personal setting.
Discuss your perspective on your selected social issue, including the reasons for your viewpoint.
Discuss how your core values inform or influence your perspective on your selected social issue.
Demonstrate that you are really thinking about your issue—don’t settle for easy answers, don’t pretend that conflicting evidence doesn’t exist, and don’t feel that you have to take an either-or position.
Discuss the complexities of your selected social issue. For example, do not just conclude that using academic language is always good, or that government surveillance is always bad, or that wealth automatically leads to health. Think about the intricacies of these issues and how they play out in everyday life.
Several authors (Hobbes, Locke, Marx) have tried to condone a particular view of the word “rights”. Who do you think is correct? What do you think rights are? Where do our rights “come from” and why do we have political rights? Why is it wrong to violate someone’s rights? Should different cultures, governments have different sets of rights for its people?
