The goals of this assignment are to demonstrate how gender socialization takes place in our everyday lives.

1.Choose one TV commercial that you normally enjoy watching.

a. In your first paragraph describe how differently the male and female characters are described by answering the following questions.
What product of commercial did you choose to watch?  What is the setting? Which gender is the voice actor? Present the web link to the commercial.
What roles do the male and female characters play? How are the visual images of male and female characters, such as their physical figure, hairstyle, kinds of clothes and colors that they put on, different? What kind of music and sound are used? Present the lyrics if any.
What gender norms in our society do the roles that male and female characters play represent?  What gender norms the difference in their clothing and hairstyle as well as the music/sound and the lyrics represent?

b. In your second paragraph analyze your data by following the instructions below. Make sure you focus on the details and nuances presented in the commercial. Discuss how the verbal and nonverbal gestures that the male and female characters use are different. Illustrate one specific scene.
Discuss how the content of the commercial, the gender of the voice actor, and the representation of the male and female characters in the scene apply to the conventional gender norms and values.

c. In your third paragraph analyze your data by following the instructions below.
Illustrate another scene in the commercial that represents conventional gender norms and roles in our society. 
Discuss how the scene applies to conventional gender norms and values.

d. In your fourth paragraph discuss what specific gender roles and values the male and female viewers might (subconsciously) learn and reconfirm through watching the commercial.

hi, I need you to write summary 4-5 sentence long and another short paragraph 5-6 sentences long for 2 questions.

Questions:1.    Choose one of the readings from the last module (Fiction). Write a short summary of the text (4-5 sentences long). Do not forget to start your paragraph with a topic sentence. Start by introducing the author and the title of the work including a general statement of what it is about. Then summarize the text. Do not use long quotes. Use only short quotes, if necessary, and include them in quotation marks.

2.    In another short paragraph (5-6 sentences long), respond to any part or aspect of the text (e.g., a theme or a message of the author, the main character, the use of literary techniques and their effectiveness, the main conflict, the relevance of this work to a topic we have discussed, what you find the most interesting/surprising about the work, etc. ). Do not forget to start with a topic sentence. Do not use long quotes. Use only short quotes, if necessary, and include them in quotation marks.