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The Stereotypes in the Popular Culture Essay

 

Learning Goal: I’m working on a writing report and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

For  this assignment, select an artifact that, in your opinion, unfairly  creates a negative bias or promotes a negative stereotype about one  population of society. The pop culture artifact can be a media source  (song, movie, television program), a product or other tangible  associated with pop culture. Provide a link to this artifact (or an  image). Explain why you have selected this artifact, and why you feel  that this creates a negative bias. Describe how you would re-design or  re-write the script of this artifact to change the way others would view  this population.

In your paper:

  • Provide a specific link to pop culture artifact used for this paper or an image of the artifact. 
  • Discuss the artifact in depth. Explain the stereotypes or biases that you see being perpetuated in the artifact. 
  • Discuss  the role of popular culture in communicating harmful or incorrect  stereotypes or biases. Using the concepts, terminology, and ideas within  Units 1-7, recommendations for how people can identify and correct  views that are incorrect or harmful.
  • Re-design or re-write this  artifact to change the way others could view this population without the  negative bias. Be sure to support this revised artifact with factual  examples of the culture.

In your essay:

  • Be  sure to structure your essay with an introduction paragraph that  includes a thesis statement, well-organized supporting paragraphs, and a  conclusion that reiterates the main points of your argument.
  • Your  argument should be supported by reputable research cited in APA format  both in the body of the paper and in your references section.