Unit V: Project – Photo Essay

For the Unit V Assignment, you will research poverty in the United States on the web and create a photo essay that depicts the struggles that many Americans in the underclass, working class, and lower middle class are facing today. Your photo essay should have a cohesive theme linking the photos in some way in the essay.

Theme ideas: For example, you could create your photo essay on a certain area or region (urban or rural). Maybe you want to focus it on lost jobs, a personal story, the recession, immigration, economic impact of globalization, low-paying jobs, slums, kids and poverty, hunger, elderly and poverty, single parents and poverty, health care and poverty, drugs, or other social issues that go along with poverty. These are just a few ideas. You can pick any theme that depicts the economic struggles of Americans.

You must provide a minimum of four photos in the photo essay with a 100-word (or more) description below each photo explaining what the photo represents. The descriptions should educate the reader in some way about the topic. Each picture must come from a different webpage, article, or source; in other words, do not find an article or photo essay online and then copy all four pictures from that one source for your project.

The photos can be your own photos, photos you found online, or a combination of both. Please make sure to cite where the photos came from. Click here for instructions on how to cite and reference photographs in this assignment.

At the end of your photo essay write a paragraph (at least 150 words) discussing the following:

Discuss how social class as a social structure influences the opportunities (life chances) for the individual or individuals in your photo essay.
Discuss what you learned from the photo essay assignment.
Note: Please make sure to use terms and/or concepts from the textbook in your photo essay explanations or concluding paragraph. You must cite the textbook at least one time in the project showing how terms or concepts from this week’s unit were applied.

For this assignment, ensure you follow the requirements below:

Follow the assignment directions of providing four photos with a 100-word description for each photo and a 150-word conclusion discussing what you have learned and how social class affects life chances.
Use sociological terms and concepts from the textbook reading in your photo description or concluding paragraph to demonstrate you understand and can apply the concepts.
Cite the sources for the photos, the textbook, and any other content used in the photo essay. APA style in-text citations are required to show how the textbook and other sources were used in your essay. An APA style reference list containing the sources you cited in the assignment is also required. The following tutorial from CSU’s Writing Center on in-text citations is a great helpful resource. Click on the link to view this tutorial: http://columbiasouthern.adobeconnect.com/intextcitations/
The photo essay should use the following APA style components: APA style title page, double-spaced, 1-inch margins, and 12-point font.

Note: The rubric for this assignment contains a task section. Your task score is based on the following: (a) the word count requirements are met; (b) whether unit terms and concepts are directly identified and specifically labeled; (c) whether or not four photos are provided with descriptions; and (d) whether the assignment contains a concluding paragraph discussing what was learned from the assignment and how life chances are influenced by social class.

 

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Example Essay Assignment

Write a thesis-driven essay that uses examples and illustrations to make concrete an abstract concept, using specific reasoning/evidence.

Formatting

This assignment should follow MLA formatting guidelines.

Assignment Summary

For this assignment, you will write an essay that makes concrete an abstract concept such as a personal quality orthe attraction to a heroic or model figure. You will develop a set of criteria on which you will base your judgment, and using those criteria, will explain your judgment to your audience in the form of examples and illustrations.

Assignment in Detail

First, you will decide on your hero/model or personal quality. Then, you will create a list of criteria that you may consider using to evaluate the abstraction you’ve selected. Then return to your subject and see which of these criteria it meets, and which it does not, and find examples of ways it does or does not meet your criteria. Your essay should be guided by a thesis statement that states your overall evaluation or judgment of the abstraction. The criteria you choose should be clearly defined at the beginning of your essay. You should also include a concise description of the idea underconsideration toward the beginning of your essay, since your audience may not be familiar with your subject.

Note that summarizing the text should be a small portion of the final essay.

The bulk of your essay should attempt to persuade your reader to accept your judgment of the abstraction. Thus, you will need to incorporate the most convincing and important illustrations and examples so your reader can understand the abstraction the way you do. You will also need to consider how to best factually support your reasons. (Do not use abstractions to support an abstraction.) Do not use any outside sources beyond your chosen text.

Total at least 650 words.

 

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1.many recent developments in technology, such as smartphone or tablet computer, have changed our lives, write an essay in which you discuss the effects of one recent technological invention on society.

2.discuss two kinds of music, such as classical and pop. a few points of comparison might be artists, instruments, audiences, and popularity.

write two essay

each essay has 5 paragraphs including one 3-5 sentences intruduction, three 5-7 sentences body, and one conclusion.

 

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Is this debate between John Smith and Powhatan an English version of the old “Barbarian” discourse we analyzed via the Cortes and Las Casas letters? Or is there something else going on here?

Biographically, Smith had a lot in common with Cortes, and like Cortes, he was describing an exotic, formerly unknown people to a European audience. How does his description compare to Cortes’?

• When Smith labels the indigenous peoples “savage,” how does it compare to the “barbarian” label used by Cortes?

Consider Smith’s evaluation of indigenous land use (“they make such small benefit of their lands, be it never so fertile”) alongside Cortes’ response to Aztec religious practice (“if there were…persons who could make them understand the truth of the Faith…many would shortly quit the errors which they hold”). Protestant Englishmen ca. 1600 believed they were more enlightened than the ‘primitive’ Spanish Catholics who butchered Indians in the name of religion, but nonetheless followed the Spanish into the game of American empire-building.

• Smith seems to be using some different evidence, but how is his intended message/argument similar to that conveyed by Cortes’ letter?

Compare the counter-perspectives (Las Casas vs. Powhatan): How does Powhatan describe Smith and his people? How does Powhatan’s description of the English compare to Las Casas‘ description of the Spanish in Hispaniola? How do the natives of Virginia compare to the natives of Hispaniola?

 

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