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Paper 2
Readings:
Leslie Bell’s “Selections from Hard to Get : Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom”
Beth Loffreda’s “Selections from Losing Matt Shepard: Life an dpolitics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder”
Question:
In her article, Leslie Bell documents how clashing value systems affect the psychology of young women in the contemporary era. Similarly, Beth Loffreda’s article describes how the media and the town began to fight over the portrayal of the town’s values. The media talks about Wyoming as the “hate state” and locals become angry about the town’s “being depicted a hate crimes capital” (Loffreda 231). Using Bell to analyze Loffreda’s article consider the media and town’s portrayal of values and answer the following question: how does Bell’s description of the psychological effects of conflicting values systems help us make sense of the media’s representations of Laramie? In this assignment, you should make heavy use of the text without simply summarizing it. A successful paper will make a claim about the text that tells us something we might not have understood about Bells article by simply reading it. You will write a synthesis paper that uses one text to make more sense of another text, rather than a compare/contrast paper that just shows how two texts are similar or different.
Rough Draft due: September 26th
Final Draft due: September 30th
Please submit this paper as a Word Document. Do not cut and paste the assignment into the assignment box. Please attach the word file. Also, you must use Turnitin.
Readings:
Leslie Bell’s “Selections from Hard to Get : Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom”
Beth Loffreda’s “Selections from Losing Matt Shepard: Life an dpolitics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder”
Question:
In her article, Leslie Bell documents how clashing value systems affect the psychology of young women in the contemporary era. Similarly, Beth Loffreda’s article describes how the media and the town began to fight over the portrayal of the town’s values. The media talks about Wyoming as the “hate state” and locals become angry about the town’s “being depicted a hate crimes capital” (Loffreda 231). Using Bell to analyze Loffreda’s article consider the media and town’s portrayal of values and answer the following question: how does Bell’s description of the psychological effects of conflicting values systems help us make sense of the media’s representations of Laramie? In this assignment, you should make heavy use of the text without simply summarizing it. A successful paper will make a claim about the text that tells us something we might not have understood about Bells article by simply reading it. You will write a synthesis paper that uses one text to make more sense of another text, rather than a compare/contrast paper that just shows how two texts are similar or different.
Rough Draft due: September 26th
Final Draft due: September 30th
Please submit this paper as a Word Document. Do not cut and paste the assignment into the assignment box. Please attach the word file. Also, you must use Turnitin.