outline for  The hardships Hilda Satt faced an immigrant in the 1890s have a familiar ring to them Instructions: For this small writing assignment, you will prepare a full introduction, with a thesis statement, using the topic prompt for Paper #1. You will use these introductions and outlines when constructing the final draft of Paper #1. You must use the standards for introductions used in SWA #2, and available on BB. This means your introduction needs to have 3 parts, and be 5-7 sentences long. The outline portion of this assignment may be in any format you wish. However, the more information you include, the more feedback your TA can give you. There are outline guides available on Blackboard, should you need assistance. Topic Prompt for Paper #1: “The hardships Hilda Satt faced an immigrant in the 1890s have a familiar ring to them.” 1 “Hilda Satt, like every immigrant, had to shape a new identity that reconciled her homeland culture with her American experience.” 2 Topic Question: How does Satt’s autobiography reflect the larger 19 th century immigrant experience? As you formulate you answer, you may want to consider the following questions: -What ‘push’/’pull’ factors attracted Satt and others to the United States? (i.e. What is driving them from their home nations/drawing them to the U.S.?) -How did her daily life change after moving to the U.S.? -What institutions in the United States did immigrants use to help them identify as Americans? These are by no means the only points/themes you may include in your paper! There are a TON of different ways this document reflects the immigrant experience (as delineated in lectures, the textbook, and the assigned readings). Sources you may use in this essay (you are NOT permitted to use outside souces): -Going to the Source , Chapter 4, “Immigrant to the Promised Land,” p. 78-99 - Fraser, Pearson Revel textbook - Dr. Cornelius’ Lectures -Daniel E. Bender, “The Perils of Degeneration: Reform, the Savage Immigrant, and the Survival of the Unfit,” Journal of Social History 42, no. 1 (Fall 2008): 5-29. SWA #3 Example: 1 Victoria Bissell Brown and Timothy J. Shannon, eds., Going to the Source: The Bedford Reader in 2 Ibid, 81. Susie F. Student AMH2020/2042 Spring 2016 Dr. Cornelius TA: Joe Schmoe SWA #3: Introduction and Outline for Paper #1 Introduction: • Commercials are an accepted part of television entertainment. Events and characters on The Jerry Springer Show are used to market specific products advertised during the commercial breaks. To sell these valuable products, however, the show encourages its audience, middle-class viewers, to fear an unrealistic threat to their social values from the Springer Show’s so called “guests.” These fears are reinforced by the middle-class studio audience, which takes pleasure from separating itself from the actions and social class of the ‘guests.’ Logically, the show reinforces th.

1. outline for
The hardships Hilda Satt faced an immigrant in the 1890s have
a familiar ring to
them
Instructions:
For this small writing assignment, you will prepare a full
introduction, with a
thesis statement, using the topic prompt for Paper #1. You will
use these
introductions and outlines when constructing the final draft of
Paper #1. You
must use the standards for introductions used in SWA #2, and
available on BB.
This means your introduction needs to have 3 parts, and be 5-7
sentences
long. The outline portion of this assignment may be in any
format you wish.
However, the more information you include, the more feedback
your TA can
give you. There are outline guides available on Blackboard,
should you need
assistance.
Topic Prompt for Paper #1:
“The hardships Hilda Satt faced an immigrant in the 1890s
have a familiar ring to
them.”
1
“Hilda Satt, like every immigrant, had to shape a new identity
that reconciled her
homeland culture with her American experience.”
2
Topic Question: How does Satt’s autobiography reflect the
larger 19
th

2. century
immigrant experience?
As you formulate you answer, you may want to consider the
following questions:
-What ‘push’/’pull’ factors attracted Satt and others to the
United States? (i.e.
What is driving them from their home nations/drawing them to
the U.S.?)
-How did her daily life change after moving to the U.S.?
-What institutions in the United States did immigrants use to
help them
identify as Americans?
These are by no means the only points/themes you may include
in your paper!
There are a TON of different ways this document reflects the
immigrant experience
(as delineated in lectures, the textbook, and the assigned
readings).
Sources you may use in this essay (you are NOT permitted to
use outside souces):
-Going to the Source
, Chapter 4, “Immigrant to the Promised Land,” p. 78-99
- Fraser, Pearson Revel textbook
- Dr. Cornelius’ Lectures
-Daniel E. Bender, “The Perils of Degeneration: Reform, the
Savage Immigrant, and
the Survival of the Unfit,”
Journal of Social History
42, no. 1 (Fall 2008): 5-29.
SWA #3 Example:
1
Victoria Bissell Brown and Timothy J. Shannon, eds.,
Going to the Source: The Bedford Reader in
2
Ibid, 81.

3. Susie F. Student
AMH2020/2042 Spring 2016
Dr. Cornelius
TA: Joe Schmoe
SWA #3: Introduction and Outline for Paper #1
Introduction:
•
Commercials are an accepted part of television entertainment.
Events and
characters on
The Jerry Springer Show
are used to market specific products
advertised during the commercial breaks. To sell these valuable
products,
however, the show encourages its audience, middle-class
viewers, to fear an
unrealistic threat to their social values from the
Springer Show’s
so called
“guests.” These fears are reinforced by the middle-class studio
audience, which
takes pleasure from separating itself from the actions and
social class of the
‘guests.’ Logically, the show reinforces the values presented in
most of the
advertisements. The
Springer Show
advances its commercial purpose, to sell
products, in an unethical and potentially damaging way.
Body Paragraphs/Structural Outline:
•
Major Point 1/Body Paragraph #1:
The Springer Show
reinforces white, middleclass, conservative, heteronormative
values from the late-twentieth century,
creating a dichotomy between “normal” Americans and the

4. “freaks” appearing
on the program.
o
Evidence: The
Jerry Springer Show
portrays guests as social, and often
sexual, deviants from the mainstream American “norm”
frequently
portrayed in the commercials aired during its broadcast.
§
Specific Examples from Commercials aired during the Show:
Campbell’s Soup commercial; Pampers commercial
demonstrate
that “acceptable” behavior is traditional marriage, social, and
sexual patterns as set by white, middle-class, America
•
Major Point 2/Body Paragraph #2:
The Jerry Springer Show
carefully controls its
use of strong emotional appeals to effectively persuade its
audience to adopt the
producers' values.
o
Evidence: Characters are either cheered or “booed” by the
studio
audience when they walk on stage. For viewers at home, this
audience
reaction seems spontaneous or ‘natural’, but of course the
audience is in
fact reacting to cue cards, scripted by the producers.
§
Specific Examples from the Show: When Crishon walks out on
stage he is instantly ‘booed’, effectively setting him up as ‘the
bad
guy’ before he has even spoken his piece. Later, the audience
cheers enthusiastically as they watch him physically attacked

5. by
Taiwana. These audience reactions signal to viewers which
characters are ‘good’ or ‘bad,’ as well as what values are
acceptable or unacceptable.
•
Major Point 3/Body Paragraph #3:
The Springer Show’s
methods perpetuate
stereotypes and hatred, which makes social acceptance for
people like its guests
more difficult.
o
Evidence: The racist, sexist, and heteronormative stereotypes
presented
in the
Springer Show
are at the forefront of anti-equality and hate groups
throughout the country.
§
Specific Examples from the Show/the Groups: Both the
Springer
Show
and the Organization for Traditional Marriage portray the
LGBT community as dangerous and deviant; the
Springer Show
and many conservative groups portray poor people are
licentious
and irresponsible
Conclusion:
•
Though widely regarded as a paragon of lower-class
entertainment, the
Jerry
Springer Show
is actually designed to reinforce the values of the white,
heteronormative middle-class. A close examination of its

6. contents and
commercials demonstrates how the show dangerously
perpetuates racist,
sexist, and classist stereotypes. This is not an issue limited to
talk shows, but
one that permeates all of television entertainment.