Write a coherent, interesting, grammatically correct and persuasive essay. Be sure to have a thesis statement! Be sure to have at least 3 substantial quotations from your text to support your thesis.  Make sure your paper is AT LEAST 3 FULL PAGES.

Find a series of photographs, news articles, political cartoons, etc. representing a current crisis or event in society. (At least 3 about the same topic.) How do these publications (online or print) represent and construct the truth of these events? Do you discern a dominant paradigm or discourse such as humanistic documentary photography evident in these representations? How do the specific visual and linguistic choices made by the authors reflect or shape a certain preferred reading of these representations?  What subject positions are constructed through these discourses and offered to the reader/viewer?  What knowledge is being produced/constructed through these discourses? How might a viewer/reader resist or challenge this knowledge?  How are people of other cultures represented? What discourses are being used to shape our knowledge of them? If differing discourses are evident, how do you suggest a viewer/reader should negotiate between them?