II-III. Each additional entry will consist of a popular media artifact, a 250-or-more word description of that bit of media, its historical situation, and its relationship to your topic, as well as proper citations for all quoted or paraphrased sources and the artifact. As with the first post, each description must also make direct reference to (at least one quotation) and effective use of at least one source from class OR one external source, with proper bibliographical information for the image at the end of the page.
IV. The fourth and final entry does not require an Image. Rather, it will be your written reflection. (Type this out in Word, OpenOffice, or Pages, then cut and paste it onto the end of your site. In doing so, be sure it pastes appropriately and looks good. Proofread. Scan for errors and aesthetics.) This reflection written in a standard paragraph-based essay format. (Type this out in Word, OpenOffice, or. Pages, then cut and paste it onto the end of your site. In doing so, be sure it pastes appropriately and looks good.
Proofread. Scan for errors and aesthetics.) This reflection should run at least 400 words and should quote and cite several times from sources distributed in class and those you found on your own to define your theme. (These quotes should not be repeats from your entries. When completing these, keep the following questions in mind:
What is the topic that connects your previous three entries? Define it in more detail.
What do these three pieces of media tell us about your topic when taken together? Do they offer different arguments or do they basically toe the same line?
Why has this idea penetrated pop culture and in what ways? Does your chosen media take a critical or uncritical, positive or negative, or more nuanced approach to the issue?
How does the diversity of perspectives help us understand the issue at hand more fully and/or from new perspectives?
How do the types of popular media your used in the text reflect the twentieth century? How do they also tell us more about history than we would get from just a written account, using technologies and forms that preexisted the last hundred and twenty years?
