Essay Topics Your essay should address one or a combination of the following topics. Alternatively, you may devise another topic in consultation with your tutor. Your tutor will only accept an original essay topic that the two of you have discussed beforehand. Using the eighteenth century and the twentieth or twenty-first centuries as points of comparison, discuss some aspect of the interplay between social change, definitions of childhood, and narrative. Literacy is a theoretical concept that was first formulated with respect to print culture, particularly the ability to read. Having now studied the different competencies required for “literacy” across a variety of technologies, this topic offers an opportunity for you to summarize your learning and add to it through further research. Choose two or three technologies to compare or contrast. What has changed from the medium of print? What has stayed the same? What do we think we know? What questions remain unanswered? Examine how movies, toys, and experiences based on narratives are marketed to children. Outline and explain the effects that such media-based commodities and their associated advertising may have on children. Analyze and evaluate the role played by the Disney Corporation or any comparable organization in the narrativizing of consumption. Genre is an important factor in any study of storytelling. Each text genre—whether chapter books, information books, series books, or digital stories—requires certain competencies from its readers. After performing a close reading of two or three books of a particular genre, indicate which skills readers would need to bring in order to understand that genre, and describe which skills would be developed through reading it. Employing methodologies and readings that you have encountered in this course that relate to analyzing the relationship between narrative and visual imagery, write an essay indicating why you would or would not recommend five or six specific texts for the curriculum of a certain school grade (you must choose and identify the age of the children). This option gives you the opportunity to write an essay that analyzes some aspect of narrative in film and television. This analysis can take you in many directions. You may look at repertoire, address, modality, intertextuality, focalization, camera techniques, cultural difference, and so on. You might, for example, compare different television shows or films aimed at the same age or gender; versions of the same show or film produced in both the United Kingdom and the United States; versions of the same show or film produced in different eras; or the same narrative delivered through different technological formats. You might focus on how successful the show or film has been in its intent to entertain, to educate, and/or to inform. Alternatively, you might examine how one show or film has influenced others over time. Choose a specific aspect of narrative in film and/or television for your essay. The study of narrative in video games presents an especially interesting field for discovery. Have a good look at the literature on what happens to narrative in video games. What should we ask ourselves about the ways in which video games are changing (or may change) narrative? You may wish to refer to a specific game or game type to illustrate your argument, but you must ensure that your tutor has access to the game. Generic essays on “Violence in Video Games” or “Sex-Role Stereotyping in Video Games” will not be accepted, as these areas have been covered thoroughly by students before you. Be original. Take this general topic and apply it specifically to a narrative text or an aspect of narrative that has not yet been studied or thoroughly analyzed. For example, consider the questions raised about narrative in video games in the course readings. Do any of these questions or issues interest you? Any study of children and narrative is inevitably implicated in the material culture of childhood. Several obvious choices include Disney, Barbie, Peter Rabbit, and so on. Describe and explain what you see happening to a particular narrative (and its readers) as it becomes part of the fabric of material culture. If you choose a popular narrative (for example, a Disney narrative), make an effort to develop a new take on an old theme. Alternatively, take a narrative not discussed in this course and use a theory or methodology that you have encountered in the course to describe and explain the progression of the narrative as it has become part of material culture.

YOU MUST HAVE InDesign TO OPEN UP TEMPLATE. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE THE TEMPLATE IF YOU DONT WANT TOO OR CANNOT OPEN IT UP. SEND THE FINAL DOCUMENT IN A PDF!OPEN THE ATTACHMENTS TO READ THRU THE ASSIGNMENT!Students are to select one (1) current event or relevant topic which we ties to a concept we have discussed throughout our marketing class (e.g., new sport products, use of marketing research, pricing of sport products, sponsorship, etc.). This topic is entirely up to you. • Students will write a mock Sports Business Journal article using either Adobe InDesign or formatted in word to look like the Adobe InDesign template. • A template has been provided for you to help with text and use of images. If you are already skilled in InDesign, you can play with the template as you wish but this is not required. • Your article should accomplish the following: • Introduce and address a key area within sports which ties to your marketing theme shown above. • Articulate not only a summary of the issue, but expand with other relevant research, key insights, and strategic recommendations. • As with most projects in marketing, start out by thinking about your reading audience. What area does this fall within? If industry members are reading this article, what do you want them to get out of it? • Include links to at least three (3) other articles within SBJ that would be relevant or helpful to your reader. These links and article titles should be placed in the section “More To Explore” as noted in your template. • The template provides suggested length, but if you need to remove or add pages that is up to you; however, please ensure your content adequately tells your story (e.g., it should be longer than at least one page). • For ease of developing your article, I suggest writing your text out in word and then copying and pasting it into the template when complete. • Make sure to find relevant images for your article. Those included in the template are just placeholders. • Your presentation must include implications that are your own original thought – why does this matter? What would you do? What do you think will happen? You article should NOT only summarize the topic. • Please save your presentation with your first and last name so it shows up in the file name. All files should be saved or exported as PDFs for me to view the final deliverable.