Feminism Paper Assignment

Feminism Paper

Sources you will need :

https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?languag e=en

(The thing Around Your Neck) I attached the pdf to another file!

DIRECTIONS:

In her two TED Talks, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses societal problems that she wants to overcome.

Write about “The Thing Around Your Neck” in terms of her theory on “why we should all be feminists” as well as “single story” theory. **Single Story Theory MEANS STEREOTYPES- PLEASE DO NOT WRITE STEREOTYPES AND WRITE IT AS “Single Story”**

Here are some questions you might find of interest (though likely you will have different ones depending on your intellectual interests). Do characters in “The Thing Around Your Neck” transcend the single story? Do they become feminists? How has Akunna’s time in the United States affected her understanding of the US and of gender? Don’t forget that, in a story, characters change over time. Is there a relation between the single story and gender?

You will write an eight-hundred-to-thousand-word essay on the story using the lectures as your research material. Make sure you discuss the entire story and significant parts of each TED Talk. (Remember that the writer is Adichie and the protagonist of the story is Akunna. The former is real, the latter is fictitious. Unless you are close friends with the writer, don’t call her by her first name.)

MORE DIRECTIONS:

Double space. Make a new page. Format with a hanging indent Cite one of the works in most paragraphs (exceptions can be in first and last paragraphs). If it is clear what you are citing, include the corresponding page number and time stamp in parentheses before the period. If it is not clear what you are citing, include an indication of which text this is from (perhaps “Neck,” “Danger,” “Feminists”) and either a page number or time stamp in parentheses before the period.

For a story, list the writer’s name (then a period), the title of the piece (then a period), the book the piece can be found in(then a period), the publisher (then a colon), the place of publication (then a comma), and the year of publication (then a period).

For a TED Talk, list the name of the speaker (then a period), the talk title (then a period), the site name TED (then a comma), the month and year (then a comma), and the URL (then a period).

If you are repeating the author’s name, a long dash will do.

Each discipline you study will have its own system of citations. This is according to the Modern Language Association. Use the appropriate form.

**You can make this paper mostly focused on feminism than Single Stories (Strereo Types) **

** SO basically just use all the sources and cite and evidence and stuff, and make sure you use a lot from the videos and story**