Writing Discussion About What Work Means in America

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Your final paper in this course will examine Americans and our relationship with work, with jobs, with the thing most people conflate with their identity, with the thing most people will spend a third of their waking lives on for most of their lives. Ultimately, we want to understand better what work “means” in America.
While this essay needs to deal with work in some way, you can look at it through any lens you want. You may look at how work is portrayed, or not, in a movie, tv series/episode of any kind, in comics, in advertisements, traditions, folklore including jokes and proverbs, podcasts, artifacts, or just in the attitudes or behaviors you see around you. Find something, and nearly anything will do, that says something about America’s relationship with or attitudes towards work, and find something worth saying about that.
Remember to describe and analyze whatever you choose to focus on and to keep your paper focused. For instance, don’t try to cover an entire series of a show if one episode will do, or a whole comic book series if one issue or story line or even one character will do. At the same time, you may want to look at one issue regarding work over multiple texts. Just don’t have so many that your paper becomes a list of examples of what you’re trying to say.
Finally, while you should address work, your focus (and thus your thesis) may deal with something else entirely, but whatever it is, it should focus on revealing something (values, attitudes, beliefs, practices) about America or its people.
Requirements and turning it in.
Your final paper should be 4-5 pages (~1250 words), double-spaced in 12pt Times New Roman font and submitted to CANVAS and turnitin.psu.edu by midnight (11:59pm) on the due date.