The REA Assignment

The basic purpose of this assignment is to choose a cultural text or object and explain how it embodies a certain aspect of culture. This can manifest itself in different ways. First, the object can act as a mirror for a certain cultural element, and can shed led on that culture. If one chose a Bob Dylan Album, he could write about Dylan's reflection of folk music in the 1960's, for example. Moreover, the cultural object could be more of a sum of cultural forces. For instance, a Michael Moore movie is always a response to various issues. In some way, the swirling dimensions of an issue in society culminate in Michael Moore production. In my previous considerations of a cultural object, namely the W.I.L.D. ad, I talked about using it more as a jumping point for a larger discourse of society's view of alcohol. For this assignment, it would be better to use the ad more centrally, specifically as a focal point in the discussion of campus alcohol policies (or any related topic).