1) Please post your tentative thesis for the research project in the comment section below.
2) Post suggestions for two other students as to how they can make their theses more effective and persuasive.
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Art & Psychology
- Author Unknown - "End of an Era in Arts Funding"
- Author Unknown - "The Vanishing Arts at Ground Zero"
- Baggott, Julianna - "Modern Love"
- Begley, Sharon - "The Ghosts We Think We See"
- Bradshaw, Peter - “Before the Dust Settles”
- Genocchio, Benjamin - "Many Faces of Muhammad Ali Portrayed in Photos"
- Giese, Rachel - "Harry and Me: A Personal Reflection on Reading the Harry Potter Series"
- Goleman, D. and P. Kaufman - "The Art of Creativity"
- Hawthorne, Christopher - "At Auction: Architectural History"
- Kraft, Ulrich - "Unleashing Creativity"
- Mueller, Tom - “To Sketch a Thief”
- Ouroussoff, Nicolai - "Art and Commerce Canoodling in Central Park"
- Patel, Vibhuti - "One Very Explosive Opera"
- Wapner, Jessica - "Scientist at Work"
Art & Sociology
- Bresler, Robert J. - “Hollywood Hates America”
- de Turenne, Veronique - "Illegal Border Crossing--Now It's a Tourist Attraction"
- Dewan, Shaila - "Handmade Alabama Quilts Find Fame and Controversy"
- Gates, David - "It's a White Thing"
- Lewis, Randy - "USC Adds Pop Music Program"
- McCarter, Jeremy - "The Original Culture Warrior"
- Morrison, Don - " Picasso: The Fine Art of Theft"
- Patterson, Orlando - "Being and Blackness"
- Rotella, Sebastian - "The Modern-day Knights of Sete, France"
- Toumani, Meline - "Songs Lifted in Praise of an Armenian Hero"
- Watson, Paul - "Singing While Under Suspicion in Myanmar"
- Wilson, Jason - "Claiming a Seat at the Slow Food Bar"
Media & Business
- Ansen, David - "Death Takes A Hike"
- Barnes, Brooks - "At Movies, Fewer Eyes, Bigger Haul"
- Barnes, Brooks - "In Hollywood, the Wall St. Plots Will Thicken"
- Berger, Kevin - “Their Terrifying Sounds"
- Brown, Corie and David Ansen - "Rough Waters"
- Gross, Daniel - "Flat Is the New Up"
- Kamenetz, Anya - “The Short, Shady History of Hollywood South”
- Olson, Elizabeth - "Women Business Owners Seek Better Access to Federal Contracts"
- Pham, Alex - "Majoring in Video Games"
- Spiegelman, Art - "Ballbuster: Bernard Krigstein's Life Between the Panels"
- Waxman, Sharon - "Hollywood's Shortage of Female Power"
- Young, Michael - "Art for Money's Sake"
Media & Philosophy
- Bernstein, David - "Philosophy Hitches a Ride with 'The Sopranos'"
- Chapman, Steve - "The News Media vs. The Innocent"
- Doherty, Brian - "Lost in Political Philosophy"
- Engber, Daniel - "The Paranoid Style in American Science"
- Gellman, Marc - "In God's Image"
- Goldstein, Patrick - "'The Dark Knight' Gets Shock Therapy"
- Greenberg, David - “The ‘60s Trap: Why Critics Ignore the Rest of Dylan’s Career”
- Heilbrunn, Jacob - "Captain America, RIP"
- Hu, Winnie - "In a New Generation of College Students, Many Opt for the Life Examined"
- Schmemann, Serge - "The Case Against and for Mikhail Khodorkovsky"
- Sokol, Daniel and James Wilson - "Ethics of Reality TV"
- Weisberg, Jacob - "The Libertarians' Lament"
15 comments:
The character of Superman contains a universal appeal, and can be seen to contain different meanings and messages depending on who is attempting an interpretation.
Mehndi – body art of henna painting – is traditionally used in wedding ceremonies and other celebrations in Middle Eastern countries due to superstitious beliefs, like brining love and good fortune and protecting against evil. Henna is made from crushed leaves of the henna plant which stains the skin with brown shaded markings for a short period of time.
Art therapy is an effective form of treatment for depression.
nare i: I would suggest that you cut out the second sentence of your thesis. It doesn't really add to the main idea, but is more of a detail for a later paragraph.
anna eremenko: Think about expanding your thesis. Right now, it doesn't do much besides give a basic idea; a thesis should provide a little bit of detail for the direction of the paper.
he existential torment that each character feels by being lost in the world. This existential torment of being a random chance in the universe is a question of the 20th and continues onto the 21st century as human beings try to find meaning to their existence.
To Matthew Hernandez, I like your tentative thesis, you should definitely expand in the same direction that you are going with that thesis, open it up.
To Anna Eremenko, your thesis is strong and carries an understanding of the treatment of depression. If you expanded the sentence to include more information that might make it better.
Artists use different forms of art to release an emotion with the audience. Some artists use humanity as the main focus of their work to create a raw feeling for their viewers.
To Matthew Hernandez:
Your statement is clear and easy to understand. You state your view on the topic very well. My only suggestion is in certain cases, try not to be too wordy. But excellent job.
To Nare I.:
The first sentence seems a bit long. There doesn't seem to be an opinion, or stance on the topic. Try to add more of an opinion statement into your entry.
Graffiti art has an important role in urban cities despite the claims of it being a crime.
Matthew Hernandez: Your thesis is really concise and has great potential.
Anna Eremenko: Well established thesis as well as interesting.
I would suggest to Nare that she make her thesis more clear by condensing what she wrote.
Nathan, I like your thesis. You can make it more clear by combining the first and the second sentence of your thesis.
Beauty is often defined by the common ideals of people, it is something that people have conformed to, when in reality beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Nathan: Remember to include the title of the movie so that your thesis is more clear to the reader. I do like your thesis maybe you can expand on how and why the characters try to find their meaning in life but i do think your on the right track.
Kelly: I like the idea if your thesis. It still seems a little to general though maybe you can narrow it down by picking a few art forms and explaining those.
I'm not sure if it went through but I'm sorry about the last post. My friend changed my thesis and hit publish.
Explicit lyrics in music and movie content has had a negative effect on youth, causing them to act out and behave in ways they shouldn't.
Nare, I like your idea but you should include something in you thesis that gives the rest of your paper a direction in which to go. What about Mehndi are you going to focus on?
Kelly, I'm a little confused as to what your specific topic is going to be. Is your paper going to be on art forms, humanity as an artists main focus, or raw feelings and emotion?
Street art (murals) is a form of inspirational art within the community of Los Angeles
my thesis: is about the movie promotions in the film industry. How they promote movies in packaging, billboards, advertising..etc.
to matthew H. what different meanings and messages do u mean. do u have any in particular?
to nare: how r u going to explain that? find a good transition from the believes to what its made of? its a little choppy. explain more..
To Anna: Your thesis is clear, but at this point it can go in many directions. Expanding it a little more would set the primary direction of your paper.
To Kelly: Your thesis is easy to understand. You can possibly combine both sentences since they are linked and just expand on each other.
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