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For this week’s discussion, please select ONE of the shows listed below for your response.

In this course, we talked about attraction, relationships, love, and how people become couples. Several television shows try to take a different look at coupling. Shows such as 90-Day Fiancée, Love is Blind, Married at First Site and a new show called Naked Attraction, take the concepts that we’ve discussed and double-down on them or totally ignore them.

I’m curious to know what concepts from this course would you apply to ONE of these shows to help explain the show. You do not have to have watched the show to answer the question. You can simply use the descriptions below to get an idea of the show.

The premise of Love Is Blind is that the contestants cannot see each other, which means they can only speak with a partition between them. After speaking with multiple people, contestants picked people they wanted to keep talking to and producers helped arrange dates if two people selected one another.

The series, 90 Day Fiancé, is an American reality television series on TLC that follows couples who have applied for or received a K-1 visa, available uniquely to foreign fiancés of U.S. citizens, and therefore have 90 days to marry each other. They have 90 days to spend time together before they get married or choose not to get married.

The series, Married at First Sight, features three to five couples, paired up by relationship experts, who agree to marry when they first meet. They do not get to know each other before the wedding and meet at the altar.

Naked Attraction is a British series that involves one person selecting from 6 potential dating partners. The difference between this show and dating shows is that all six potential dating partners are naked and the person selecting is clothed and sees each potential date naked, revealed from the feet up to the head. They select one person from the original six to date.

Your answer should use information from the text covered thus far in the course to support your answer.

INSTRUCTIONS

Please provide your own original support to the question above. Your response should be substantive. A substantive response is one that consists of at least SIX full sentences where the student provides his/her thoughts on the question and cites the text at least two times referring to two different portions of the text to support the response.

Make sure to cite the textbook to support your answer by citing “Hyde & DeLamater (2020) p. ##” and referring to a specific portion of the text material by using page numbers of the textbook.

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Human Sexuality in the News (10 points)

Students may choose to do a 1-2 page paper examining a current event that relates to human sexuality. You must find a newspaper article that relates to human sexuality and summarize the article in your own words. You must discuss how it relates to the course, citing material from your textbook. You may choose to conclude your paper stating your opinion on the article’s topic. You must turn in the article by providing a link within your paper or a .pdf of the article. Your article can come from a web-based newspaper (e.g., Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Daily Breeze, Long Beach Press Telegram, etc.). YOUR ARTICLE MUST BE CURRENT AT THE TIME YOU TURN IN YOUR PAPER. CURRENT MEANS THAT THE ARTICLE MUST HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED WITHIN TWO WEEKS (INCLUSIVE) OF THE DATE THE PAPER IS TURNED IN. Papers that do not include the article (or a link to it) will not be accepted.

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Comparative Analysis of Texts in a Profession

Guidelines for Comparative Analysis of Texts in a Profession

This project is designed to compare how texts from different professions succeed, or not, in achieving their rhetorical purposes. In other words, how do the texts compare to one another in communicating a message that shapes how the audience is intended to receive it? For this assignment, you should:

Select two pieces of writing from a profession of your choice (though I suggest you choose whatever profession you plan to join)

Briefly summarize both texts (about 4 to 6 sentences for each summary) and identify what professions they are from

Analyze how well the two texts achieve their purpose (shaping how an audience is intended to receive their message). To analyze the texts, you should compare:

o What each does well/ better than the other

o Why the texts are successful or not and how you know/ are able to tell

o What the texts could do differently to succeed in achieving their rhetorical purposes

Your Comparative Analysis of Texts in a Profession should be accessible to an English-speaking audience, the final product you will submit for this project should be 750 to 1000 words (double-spaced) and NO MORE than 3 pages long. Please submit as a .doc or .docx file, NOT a .pdf.

Your final work will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

(a) Content-(15 points)

Does the author give a comprehensive comparison of the

rhetorical purposes 2 pieces of writing from different

professions?

Summarizing both pieces of writing

Identifying both professions that the texts come from

Does the final product make meaningful analysis comparing

how well both texts do or do not succeed in achieving their

purposes?

Discussion of what each text does well or not well

Discussion about why both texts are successful or not

Discussion about what both texts could do differently

(b) Delivery-(5 points)

Does the writer provide a narrative that is accessible to all

audiences?

Are the tone and style effective?

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Comparative Analysis of Texts in a Profession

Guidelines for Comparative Analysis of Texts in a Profession

This project is designed to compare how texts from different professions succeed, or not, in achieving their rhetorical purposes. In other words, how do the texts compare to one another in communicating a message that shapes how the audience is intended to receive it? For this assignment, you should:

Select two pieces of writing from a profession of your choice (though I suggest you choose whatever profession you plan to join)

Briefly summarize both texts (about 4 to 6 sentences for each summary) and identify what professions they are from

Analyze how well the two texts achieve their purpose (shaping how an audience is intended to receive their message). To analyze the texts, you should compare:

o What each does well/ better than the other

o Why the texts are successful or not and how you know/ are able to tell

o What the texts could do differently to succeed in achieving their rhetorical purposes

Your Comparative Analysis of Texts in a Profession should be accessible to an English-speaking audience, the final product you will submit for this project should be 750 to 1000 words (double-spaced) and NO MORE than 3 pages long. Please submit as a .doc or .docx file, NOT a .pdf.

Your final work will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

(a) Content-(15 points)

Does the author give a comprehensive comparison of the

rhetorical purposes 2 pieces of writing from different

professions?

Summarizing both pieces of writing

Identifying both professions that the texts come from

Does the final product make meaningful analysis comparing

how well both texts do or do not succeed in achieving their

purposes?

Discussion of what each text does well or not well

Discussion about why both texts are successful or not

Discussion about what both texts could do differently

(b) Delivery-(5 points)

Does the writer provide a narrative that is accessible to all

audiences?

Are the tone and style effective