NO PLAGIARISM PLEASE
The Professor is so strict about Plagiarism
the first-person (e.g., I believe that) is permitted and you may share your life experiences and personal interests to help you make your case, i.e., to support your thesis.
Choose one essay topic from the following three:
1. Neoliberal Fast Food and Transnational Culture
In the introduction to their superb book, The Globalization of Chinese Food [Canvas – Files], David Wu and Sydney Cheung write, In Hawaii, a popular Chinese restaurant was built according to stereotypic Chinese architectural design, which few Chinese from China today would recognize as Chinese (7). Wu and Cheung seem particularly interested in a restaurants or larger restaurant chains self-conscious appropriation of specific culture as well as the patrons dining spectacle as performance: Status-consciousness and acting out through choice of food and cuisine reflect a strong motivation that is associated with social stratification and group affiliation, whether they are ethnic, political, or even national (9).
With Wu and Cheungs work in mind, write an essay that reveals something important about fast-foods appropriation, transformation, and commodification of culture. Your focus should be on the U.S. markete.g., Panda Express, Taco Bell, McDonalds, and Pizza Hut and the performative dimension to eating fast-food. You might want to consider fast food consumption and teen culture or youth categories, e.g., Millennials or Generation X; David Harveys brilliant account of neoliberalism, e.g., todays fast-food worker, like fast food itself, as cheap and disposable; and/or Edward Saids influential analysis of orientalism (even our James Bond critical essays on Bond orientalism, e.g., Doctor. No: Bonding Britishness to Racial Sovereignty). Of course, you also have those excellent chapters from Wu and Cheung.
2. Subcultures and Participatory Culture
According to Talcott Parsons, youth or adolescence is a social category which emerged with the changing family roles generated by the development of capitalism (Barker 407). One relatively
recent classification scheme to help bring a better understanding of youth, specifically the teenager, is subculture (e.g., cosplayers, Goth, hip-hop, metal, punk, skaters, and video gamers). Write an essay that reveals something important about one subculture and that subcultures relation to political, cultural, and/or economic reality. Your essay might address one or all of the following questions: What is produced and consumed by this subculture? How do television, music, film, and/or social media construct this subculture? How does this subculture participate in and shape political, economic, and/or cultural space?
3. The Rise of Reality!
We considered that the rise of reality culture (e.g., Keeping Up with the Kardashians, The Jerry Springer Show, and The Bachelor) is the result of changing tastes in entertainment and socioeconomic shifts. Write an essay on reality culture that draws on your understanding of any reality TV show, reality icon, or reality cultural phenomenon. Your essay should attempt to answer the following question: What does your example of reality culture reveal about the relation between late capitalism (e.g., globalization, neoliberalism, and postmodernism), the reality aesthetic (e.g., live cameras, real people, and authentic locations), social media (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok), and/or late capitalisms three attitudinal corollaries (dispositions): skepticism, cynicism, and voyeurism?
FINAL ESSAY CORE REQUIREMENTS
Original title
Original thesis
Clear and convincing connections to our post-midterm theories, theorists, and historical/ cultural examples read and discussed. This requirement is most important as it demonstrates your familiarity and understanding of our texts.
Works Cited page that lists all texts referenced (page 7)
Numbered, typed, and double-spaced pages throughout (no more, no less) 12 point Times-New Roman font
MLA or APA style accepted; be consistent throughout the essay
Seven pages total: six pages of argument-exposition, one page as Works Cited; that is, 6 + 1 = 7
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