choose one SPECIFIC idea to focus on from your chosen text. This specific idea should be applied to YOUR OWN SPECIFIC EXAMPLE. This example
The Imagination of Disaster“–Susan Sontag
choose one SPECIFIC idea to focus on from your chosen text. This specific idea should be applied to YOUR OWN SPECIFIC EXAMPLE. This example can be anything: a film, song, book, etc. Firstly, you will need to write an introduction in which you give a brief overview of the article being discussed. This introduction should build to your thesis, which should be very specific in naming what will be discussed: the idea from the text and your chosen example that illustrates this idea. Secondly, you will need to write at least two body paragraphs in which you equally support each point; be sure to begin each body paragraph with a strong topic sentence. Thirdly, you will need to write a conclusion that both restates what you have said throughout the paper, and also gives possible solutions
There should be at least four paragraphs (including one intro., two body paragraphs, and a conclusion) in your essay and the thesis should be the last sentence of your first paragraph. The thesis should have at least two clear points, each of which relates specifically to one of your body paragraphs. Failure to follow this simple format will result in the deduction of a letter grade.
Outline
Paragraph #1: Introduction and thesis
Paragraph #2: Discussion of the theory or idea you plan to use—This paragraph MUST, MUST, MUST use quotes and specifics from your chosen article!
Paragraph #3: Application of idea to an example (not personal) of your choosing
Paragraph #4: Application of idea to an example (not personal) of your choosing
Paragraph #5: Conclusion
The reading that I am picking is –2. “Imagination of Disaster”
Ideas:
a.) films can contain actual fears of society, in an effort to deal with them
b.) most films, science fiction included, are structurally similar and reproduce many of the same social norms
c.) the ways of depicted disaster in film have expanded as large, ACTUAL tragedies have occurred (WWII, the Holocaust, etc.)
d.) distrust of scientists and intellectuals (even though these same intellectuals often save the day)
This is the passage
The Imagination of Disaster”–Susan Sontag
PASSAGE 1–•The Imagination of Disaster’
The fantasy to be discovered in science fiction films does both jobs These films reflect world-wide anxieties, and they serve to allay Mem They inculcate a strange apathy concerning the processes of radiation, contamination, and destruction that I for one find haunting and depressing The naive level of the films neatly tempers the sense of otherness, of alien-ness, with the grossly familiar In particular, Me dialogue of most science fiction films, which is generally of a monumental hut often touching banality, makes tem wonderfully, unintentionally funny Lines like “Come quickly, Merers a monster in my bathtub”, ‘We must do something about Mis”, ‘Wait, Professor There’s someone on the telephone”, “But that’s incredible’, and the old American stand-by (accompanied by brow-wipng), hope it worts)-are hilarious in the context of picturesque and deafening holocaust
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The example would have to be a sci f movie
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