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The work you have done in Weeks 1, 2, 3, and 4 has been building blocks for your Final Project.

In Week 1, you selected one of the following social issues:

• Race/ethnicity
• Sexuality
• Gender
• Social and economic class
• Violence
• Indecency/free speech

You also selected two popular culture categories from the following list:

• Film
• Episodic moving image (TV shows—may be broadcast or streamed)
• Music
• Music videos
• Fashion
• Advertising
• Animation (general animation/cartoons such as Disney or Warner Brothers, or genre-specific animation such as Japanese anime)
• Food
• Printed material (books, magazines, manga, comic books, or graphic novels)
• Video gaming

You also identified 3 academically relevant sources and drafted an introductory paragraph.

In Week 2, you researched how social issue messaging and audiences change over time by comparing and contrasting specific popular culture artifacts/expressions within your chosen categories.

In Week 3, you investigated access and distribution of your popular culture artifacts/expressions.

In Week 4, you selected an additional artifact/expression and looked at how this new artifact/expression defines or disrupts “normal” in relationship to your issue today.

This week you reflect on your work and construct a completed Final Project. In addition to revising your previous work into a cohesive paper, you will add one additional component.

Select a second issue that is related to at least one of your chosen artifacts/expressions and discuss how it conveys information about this second issue, synthesizing what you have learned. For example, if you are working with the issue of violence and how it