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Essay Instructions: Unit 4 - Essay Project 3
This project consists of 1 draft only worth 100 points.
5 double-spaced pages with 4 outside sources
Background: It is argued that race and ethnicity often determine a person’s social class. Crash, a film by director, Paul Haggis [2004] is an interesting study of how this may or may not be true. Pay close attention to the behavior of certain characters and their respective social class. Crash was awarded 'Best Picture' in 2005.
Writing Prompt: Rent and view the film Crash. In the essay, ‘Class and Virtue’, Michael Parenti believes Hollywood films always attach virtue to the well off middle and upper classes only. Write an essay in which you agree or disagree with this idea.
Hint: Do not write character descriptions of each person in the film. You must agree or disagree with Parenti’s belief using 2 to 3 characters only.
• For a film synopsis, click into 'Bonus Pts-Film' off the course menu, and then click into film list. Be sure to rent the correct film released in 2004 starring Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, and Matt Dillon. There is an earlier film by the same title that SHOULD NOT BE RENTED.
MLA Documentation: You must use MLA documentation which consists of in-text citations and a works cited page. Incorrect usage or failure to use may result in a deduction of up to 5 points.
Research Requirements: You must include (4) researched library sources: books, articles (newspaper and scholarly), online databases within the library system, research data within the library system ONLY. They cannot be unsubstantiated internet websites, encyclopedias, classroom textbooks, pamphlets, bibles, or dictionaries. You may use the reading selections as support, but these WILL NOT be counted as research sources.

Format Requirements:
Title
3rd person only
MLA format
Structural Correctness - Intro-Thesis-Well Developed Body-Conclusion
1 inch margins ??" top and bottom-right-left
Times New Roman typeface ??" 12 point

Essay Instructions: Cultural Representation of Social Class

Write a 500 word or more essay, Include citations as needed and write in first person, addressing the following questions:
In what ways does culture related to social class impact identity and pride within specific social classes.
In what ways does culture help keep others outside of a specific social class? Do you think it is more difficult for someone from a lower social class to ?pass? as upper class? Or, is it more difficult for someone from a higher social class to ?pass? as lower class? Why? How does culture reproduce social class from generation to generation (i.e. why do most people stay in the same social class for which they are born)?

Essay Instructions: The depiction of Shakespeare's characters
A) The heroes and the heroines
* ( The characters are usually Royal personage and from the upper class )
B) The villain characters
* (They are usually from other peoples who are the enemies of his people like the Jewish and the Arab )

Essay Instructions: In the late 19th and early 20th century, women participated in many reform movements. Most women who participated in these movements were white and middle to upper class and most of what they tried to do was confined to benefiting white, middle to upper class women. Do you agree or disagree? Why? (Be sure to consider at least 4 reform movements (Womens Club Movement _ General Federation of Womens Clubs/National Consumers League/ Womens Trade Union League - WTUL/ American Federation of Labor - AFL.)