{"id":38930,"date":"2024-11-26T21:04:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T21:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/argumentative-essay-with-research-component-heroes-and-villains-in-media-and-pop-culture\/"},"modified":"2024-11-26T21:04:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T21:04:40","slug":"argumentative-essay-with-research-component-heroes-and-villains-in-media-and-pop-culture","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/argumentative-essay-with-research-component-heroes-and-villains-in-media-and-pop-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Argumentative Essay with Research Component\u2014Heroes and Villains in Media and Pop-Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">Assignment: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">Consider a hero or villain, or someone along the hero \u2192 villain spectrum&nbsp; fictional. They can also be a representation from any of the following primary texts: book, movie, television series, graphic novel, comic book, activist, artist. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">Your task is to write a fully-fledged academic essay stating why <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">you<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\"> think this figure is either a hero, villain, or anti-hero, or outlaw, or possibly a combination of two.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\"> If your figure has multiple representations, like Batman or Joker, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">you must choose ONE representational text for your argument\u2014this will be your primary source, or text<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">Identify the places where your figure demonstrates the most heroism or villainous traits and use those clips\/scenes\/images to form your argument. Here are some things to consider for the content of your paper:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto;\"><\/p>\n<ol style=\"cursor: auto;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">Perhaps you think this figure is somewhere in between the hero \u2192 villain spectrum, like a hero and outlaw figure such as Robin Hood, or and anti-hero character like Walter White (<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">Breaking Bad<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">) and if so, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">identify the qualities and\/or characteristics that makes them ambiguous and not exclusively a hero or villain<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">, and specifically an anti-hero or outlaw.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto;\"><\/p>\n<ul style=\"cursor: auto;\">\n<li style=\"margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">Miguel O&#8217;Hara (Across the Spiderverse)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">Categorize traits based on which are more heroic and which are more villain<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ol style=\"cursor: auto;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">Explain and analyze your figure\u2019s general purpose or specific function. For example: fighting city crime like Batman, or a more specific purpose like Walter White (<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">Breaking Bad<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">) immersing himself in the crystal-meth trade to make money.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul style=\"cursor: auto;\">\n<li style=\"margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">Break down actions &#8211; why he does what he is doing, he is technically fighting crime, but his morals are impacting that.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">Butterfly effect\/multiverse<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">Nothing would have happened if he hadn\u2019t changed to a different universe to live out his life<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol style=\"cursor: auto;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">Describe what the figure looks like. Explain and analyze their appearance, and how their appearance either adds to or takes away from, your interpretation of the figure\u2019s function or purpose. For example, Deadshot (<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">Suicide Squad<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">) must put on a specific uniform equipped with gadgets that make him become Deadshot.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">This is not an exhaustive list and you may not be able to address all questions dependent on your chosen figure. Additionally, you may add to this list in any way you see fit, so long as you show why your figure is a hero or villain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">The Research: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">You will use research directly related to your topic in the body paragraphs of the essay; these are your secondary sources (four of them must be scholarly). The Annotated Bibliography sources are the research sources you will incorporate to support <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\">your<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; cursor: auto;\"> argument.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assignment: Consider a hero or villain, or someone along the hero \u2192 villain spectrum&nbsp; fictional. 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