Essay One English 102 Due: Assignment: With the expansion of cable television and the internet, what once was considered taboo and mysterious is now projected routinely for the world to examine. One can now discover the inner workings of a subculture with a first person point of view. Using this overabundance information, select a youth subculture that you find off-putting and unnatural. This aversion to a subculture can be for various reasons—whether moral or religious, rooted in some aversion to that subculture’s appearance or demeanor, or for some other reason. How is this subculture viewed? How should this subculture be viewed (i.e. pop culture and contemporary culture, and media representations vs. reality)? Your personal opinion of your selected subculture may not change, but the assignment needs to be approached with an open mind and a willingness to understand what you consider abnormal. Requirements: *Minimum four-page paper *MLA formatted *5 sources * 1 primary * 2 secondary sources (one scholarly and one nonfiction book) * 1 creative or media source * 1 additional reliable source of your choose Note: an interview can be a primary source, and due to the witness/journalistic nature of the assignment, consider interviewing people with any attachments to your chosen subculture. * Paper to be turned in as a hard copy on due date. *All rough draft material, as stated in class, will need to be turned in alongside the final draft on the due date. Essay Two English 102 Due: Assignment: What is a significant change within your chosen subculture? Did a new trend in society help to promote this change? Did all members of the subculture make the change or did some stay true to the original beliefs? How did the change occur? How did this change affect the subculture? Subcultures rarely stay static, and during an era of over-information, it is very likely your selected subculture has changed frequently. Pick the most interesting change to you, or the most dynamic of changes. How was the change set in motion? What did the change alter about the subculture? Requirements: *Minimum four-page typed paper *Proper MLA format *5 sources *2 primary, *3 secondary scholarly sources *Paper will be turned in as a physical copy on the due date, and also uploaded via Moodle. Sources will also be turned in via Moodle. Essay Three English 102 Due: Assignment: Write an essay focusing on a controversial topic about your selected subculture. Why do people find this topic so disturbing? Is it something that can be adapted to become acceptable? Or, a possibly different approach: write an argument regarding a controversial topic within your subculture and support its validity. Requirements: *Minimum four-page typed paper *Proper MLA format *5 sources *2 primary *3 secondary scholarly sources *Paper will be turned in as a physical copy on the due date *Two copies will be turned in: one in MLA format, and the second ...

1. Essay One
English 102
Due:
Assignment: With the expansion of cable television and the
internet, what once was considered taboo and mysterious is now
projected routinely for the world to examine. One can now
discover the inner workings of a subculture with a first person
point of view. Using this overabundance information, select a
youth subculture that you find off-putting and unnatural. This
aversion to a subculture can be for various reasons—whether
moral or religious, rooted in some aversion to that subculture’s
appearance or demeanor, or for some other reason.
How is this subculture viewed? How should this subculture be
viewed (i.e. pop culture and contemporary culture, and media
representations vs. reality)? Your personal opinion of your
selected subculture may not change, but the assignment needs to
be approached with an open mind and a willingness to
understand what you consider abnormal.
Requirements:
*Minimum four-page paper
*MLA formatted
*5 sources
* 1 primary
* 2 secondary sources (one scholarly and one nonfiction
book)
* 1 creative or media source
* 1 additional reliable source of your choose
Note: an interview can be a primary source, and due to the
witness/journalistic nature of the assignment, consider
interviewing people with any attachments to your chosen

2. subculture.
* Paper to be turned in as a hard copy on due date.
*All rough draft material, as stated in class, will need to be
turned in alongside the final draft on the due date.
Essay Two
English 102
Due:
Assignment: What is a significant change within your chosen
subculture? Did a new trend in society help to promote this
change? Did all members of the subculture make the change or
did some stay true to the original beliefs? How did the change
occur? How did this change affect the subculture? Subcultures
rarely stay static, and during an era of over-information, it is
very likely your selected subculture has changed frequently.
Pick the most interesting change to you, or the most dynamic of
changes. How was the change set in motion? What did the
change alter about the subculture?
Requirements:
*Minimum four-page typed paper
*Proper MLA format
*5 sources
*2 primary,
*3 secondary scholarly sources
*Paper will be turned in as a physical copy on the due date, and
also uploaded via Moodle. Sources will also be turned in via
Moodle.

3. Essay Three
English 102
Due:
Assignment: Write an essay focusing on a controversial topic
about your selected subculture. Why do people find this topic so
disturbing? Is it something that can be adapted to become
acceptable?
Or, a possibly different approach: write an argument regarding a
controversial topic within your subculture and support its
validity.
Requirements:
*Minimum four-page typed paper
*Proper MLA format
*5 sources
*2 primary
*3 secondary scholarly sources
*Paper will be turned in as a physical copy on the due date
*Two copies will be turned in: one in MLA format, and the
second
in APA format

4. Essay Four
English 102
Due:
Assignment: Honestly, why should people care about this
subculture? What is significant about your selected subculture?
How does this subculture contribute to American culture as a
whole? At this point of the semester, you will know a lot about
your subculture, and this is your chance to prove its worth for
conversation within the college classroom. It is also your
chance to prove that your subculture has merit and contributes
to society as a whole.
This final paper is a culmination of everything you learned
about your subculture throughout the semester, and you can use
the material researched/learned/written earlier in the semester in
the construction of this essay.
Requirements:
*Minimum eight-page typed paper
*Proper MLA format
*10 sources
*7 scholarly sources (at least 3 from academic journals),
* 3 primary sources (with at least one of a creative nature).
*Paper will be turned in as a physical copy on the due date, and

5. also uploaded via Moodle. Sources will also be turned in via
Moodle.
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The emerging punk subculture and its commercial appropriation
in the United States
The Punk Subculture is said to be highly responsive to the
conditions of postmodernity and the musicians of punk
subculture have responded to the postmodernity in two ways
such as the post-modernity is associated with the Plank Parody,
and also to the culture of deconstruction which is used to
express purposefulness, ironic cynicism and the nihilism in the
youth(Muggleton and Weinzierl). Besides the culture of
deconstruction, there is a culture of authenticity, which states
that there is an established network of media, and this network
is responsible for corrupting commerce influences and also for
developing an expression of artistic sincerity. The essay
proposes that the punk culture has intrigued youth to adopt
divergent lifestyles that are totally different from the cultural
and societal norms.
If we talk about the development and the creation of the punk
subculture, it was originally created by youth because the youth
considered himself as bored and they need a subculture that
would fulfill their needs for entertainment. A short live moment
including the glitter rock had a strong impact on the
development and the establishment of the punk subculture. The

6. traditional subculture "kicked the bucket" when it turned into
the question of social investigation and nostalgia, and when it
turned out to be so agreeable to commodification. Advertisers
since quite a while ago reused in a manner that subcultures are
practical platforms for offering beauty care products, clothing,
cars and music and many various products .
In any case, this cliché is not lost on much subcultural youths
themselves, and they will be the first to protest that there is
nothing new under the subcultural sun. In this atmosphere, the
deviation is not what it used to be, compelling by the discussion
of subculture. Nonconformity from the standard appears to be,
well, typical. It is ostensibly normal for a youngster to select
off the rack prefab subculture, try and adopt it for few years,
and revert back to the “standard" culture which was enrooted in
them(Halberstam). Maybe the consequence of our post-mortem
will reveal that subculture (of the youthful, dissident, costumed
kind) has turned into a valuable part of existing conditions, and
less helpful for harboring discontent. Thus we can
exaggeratedly claim that subculture is dead.
One thing that entwined these pseudo-and proto-punk types of
music was their takeoff from the hopefully or impractically
themed standard popular music of the time. A remarkable
inverse, truth be told; a negativity is derived from the
agnosticism. It was a highly frustrating condition of life that
shift to a significant punk music which has gotten to be referred
to for, as "English youth of the day and it is said to be part of
the politically charged music of average youth workers who
partook in recognized youth-revolt.
Be that as it may, by the mid-1970s, with commodification in
full swing, with a few specialists said to have traded off their
respectability by getting to be rich stars, and with "shake"
having been incorporated into the standard, a few people felt
that youth subcultures were progressively a part of the
heightening purchaser society, rather than opponents of the
standard. Punk guaranteed to fabricate a scene which couldn't
be taken. It's outrage, joys, and grotesqueness were to go past

7. what private enterprise and bourgeois society could swallow. It
would be untouchable, undesirable, and unmanageable.
Having apparently killed early punk, the way of life industry
substantiated itself equipped for showcasing any established
youth subculture. All styles, music’s, and postures could be
bundled: apparently, no subculture was resistant to its look. So
leveled, classical subcultures were denied of some of their
capacity to produce importance and voice critique. ‘Subculture'
in the talk passed on to the present, has come to popularly
represent young people(Leblanc).
English punk was the result of a particular time and place. In
London in the mid-70s, composed the youthful Martin Amis,
"everything appeared to be prepared for the terminal reel". Punk
was a side effect of that state of mind of emergency, however,
from the very begin, it declined definition. The US punks
couldn't help contradicting the British punks. The Clash
couldn't help contradicting the Sex Pistols. John Lyndon
couldn't help contradicting whatever is left of the Sex Pistols.
Some grasped legislative issues, others overlooked it; some
needed to come back to shake 'n 'move rudiments, others to
produce strong new styles.
In American human science in the 1950s—an extremely
conservative time in scholarly investigation—examine on youth
packs and abnormality in a roundabout way demonstrated the
impacts of class. It was contended that young who can't
accomplish as per social standards, who can't do well in school
or discover steady employments, make subcultures.
These they possess parts and standards on their own which these
young can satisfy. The thought was that youth who do seriously
at school make their own particular social orders in which they
can accomplish status by smoking, being intense or taking part
in insignificant wrongdoing. This really reaches out past youth.
Dark men who were essentially barred from steady employment
directly in the society could maybe make progress by the way
they think through a "freak" profession as a jazz performer. It is
not only a concern for the youth to quickly defying their folks

8. before settling down in a solid employment. Examine in social
studies reintroduced the subject of social lenses. Subcultures
are courses in which children are grown and develop and
comprehend an intricate society in which they are
living(O'Connor). Be that as it may, this research strategy
endeavors to interface each subculture to a particular class of
the society. Skinheads in the era of 1970s speak to an
"otherworldly" recuperation of customary regular workers
culture. In the meantime, flower children have experienced a
defiant center class culture. A confirmation can be found for
this, however, this endeavor to discover homogeneous factors
amongst subculture and its parent social class is excessively
basic(Simonelli).
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and Subcultural Lives." International Journal of Cultural
Studies 6.3 (2003): 313-33. Print.
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Leblanc, Lauraine. Pretty in Punk: Girls' Gender Resistance in a
Boys' Subculture. Rutgers University Press, 1999. Print.
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English 102
Writing the Prospectus
Guidelines
Before you turn in your first essay, you must have an approved
prospectus. Your prospectus will be a summary of the planned
essays that is sufficient to demonstrate the viability of the
project as a whole. At a minimum your prospectus should:

10. · be at least 300 words;
· use an MLA heading;
· be typed on white, 8 ½ x 11 inch paper, one-side only, double-
spaced, using 12-point Times New Roman font;
· include an introduction that sets forth the main topic you will
be exploring and explains why you think it will be an
interesting topic;
· include a body paragraph that sets forth the thesis for each of
the 1,000 word essays you will be writing, and explains how
they will be useful in formulating the 2,000 word essay;
· include concluding remarks regarding why the chosen topic is
worth exploring; and
· include a list of at least five sources on your topic, none of
which may be internet sources, and all of which must be
reputable and deserving of scholarly reliance. E-readers and
scholarly online journals are fine: websites are not.
Topics
When writing your prospectus, keep in mind the specific
requirements for each essay, as follows.
Essay 1: For this essay, you will write a 1,000-word research
essay on how the subculture is view and how it should be
viewed. What makes it off-putting or unnatural? Is the
subculture viewed the same for everyone or is it just in your
eyes?
Essay 2: For this essay, you will write a 1,000-word research
essay discussing a significant change within your chosen
subculture. Did a new trend in society help to promote this
change? Did all members of the subculture make the change or
did some stay true to the original beliefs? How did the change
occur? How did this change affect the subculture?
Essay 3: For this essay, you will write a 1,000-word research

11. essay that focuses on a controversial topic within your
subculture. Why do people find this topic so disturbing? Is it
something that can be adapted to become acceptable?
Essay 4: For this essay, you will write a final 2,000-word
research essay that incorporates relevant material from your
previous essays into a single cohesive research essay with a
single thesis. Why should people care about this subculture?
What is its significance? How does this subculture contribute to
American culture as a whole? This is your chance to prove that
your subculture has merit and contributes to society as a whole.