Day 11 of 30

• Bumble
• Bonus
• Reading Discussion

Cultural Discourse Analysis

1. Choose your time period
1. Before the conflict
2. During the conflict
3. After the conflict
4. Comparing two time periods
2. Choose your source
1. Do you want to look at a first hand account of a person involved?
2. How did the reporters spin it?  How did they make the pain pay?
3. What did critics say about the event?  Did they go on talk shows?  Was a movie made about it?  Cartoons?
3. Choose your target
1. You will need to focus your analysis DOWN
2. Do you want to look at one side or how the coverage differed?
3. Who were the villains and who decided?
4. Who were the hero and who decided?
5. How is this event taught?  Or is it?

Thesis:

What is said about your focus and why is it significant? 

Example:

Trump is portrayed by Blogger X as the hero of America.  This is a problem because the more inaccuracies that are spread and believed about Trump the more confused the race becomes.

• Look at specific language that makes Trump look like a hero
• Show how many of the author's tactics are fallacies
• Use more credible sources to show the inaccuracies of the blogger
• Tie it all together to show how each of these issues cause a larger problem

Because Hilary is attacked because she is a woman, her politics are being lost and ignored.  This will not only hurt her chances of winning the election, but encourages the myth that women are judged by different standards in the realm of politics.

• Compare differences in language when talking about male and female positions
• Compare different political cartoons that show what Trump is attacked for and what Hilary is attacked for.
• Discuss the fact that she is called "Hilary" and not Rodney-Clinton and that she uses Hilary for her campaign advertisements and propaganda 

Before Fifty Shades of Gray was published, the BDSM community had only been discussed publicly as immoral, perverted, and shameful.  After, the publication of the book, writers supported women's exploration into alternate sexual expressions and have normalized many kinks.  (NOTE: sources have said that the relationship in the book is abusive and the BDSM is portrayed incorrectly in a way that can create dangerous situations but this is not the focus of the thesis so I would leave this out of the paper.  But I've never read the book but I still hate it)

• Compare 2 articles: one from before and one after discussing BDSM 
• Maybe find statistics that show the possible increase in people going to BDSM websites or locations (?dungeons?)