1-Feminism: The result of feminism influenced the portrayal of women in the 1980s. Discuss the effects of feminism, including how females were portrayed in advertisements, television, movies, and music. Use specific examples to work your way through this question. Additionally, consider the role of the male gender in media.
2- Discuss the connection between the energy crisis and the rise of the environmental movement during the 1970s.
Assignment 2: Essay Question
Deadline and Deliverable
By Sunday, May 10, 2015, please select any 1 of the following topics and respond in an organized, 600-word essay that supports your statements by specific reference to relevant sections of the document. Submit your paper as an attachment in MS Word format to the W5 Assignment 2 Dropbox.
Requirements
• Length: At least 600 words.
• MLA Format (See a sample MLA-formatted essay)
• Citations: Your essay must include a works cited page in MLA format with complete citations for each source you used. These sources must also be cited in the body of your paper in parenthetical references.
• Essay Structure: Your essay should have an introductory paragraph with a thesis statement as the last sentence in the paragraph, several well-organized supporting paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph that sums up the main points of your paper and demonstrates to your reader that the thesis has been proven.
• Quotations: Be sure that any and all text you have copied directly from a source is in quotation marks and is followed by a parenthetical reference. When you have paraphrased from a source, you must also use a parenthetical reference. Please limit your quoted material to 15% of the total word count of the paper. This means that the other 85% of your paper needs to be paraphrased from your sources or your own critical analysis.
Essay Topics
• How did Cold War politics and assumptions shape American foreign policy from 1950-1980? What key interventions did the United States make in Europe and the Third World?
• What relationship did the African American struggle for civil rights have with other American minorities? How, if at all, did these minorities benefit? Did they build their own versions of the movement?
• Discuss the events that led up and contributed to US involvement in Vietnam during the years of 1950-1980.
• What impacts have the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert Kennedy had on American political culture?
• Evaluate the significance of the major population shifts in the United States from 1940-1980. How did these shifts relate to changes in the American economy? What was their impact on local and national politics?
