Iconographical representations to express your life story Paper details: Your assignment is to create a 2 or 3-dimensional work of art using iconographical representations to express your life story. In addition to your work of art, you will also write a two-three page essay interpreting your icons. Decorate your artwork with six symbols that represent six different aspects of your life that represents who you are. You can use images to symbolize things such as ancestry, interests, hobbies, goals, dreams, nationality, relationships, fears, experiences, and etcetera. You should incorporate at least three different media, such as painting, drawing, photography, collage, and etc. Also consider the art styles, visual elements, and principles of design we will be studying in the coming week when designing your composition. Your essay should include a paragraph for each symbol explaining its meaning and how it relates to you. Additionally, you should address your process and consideration of principles of design and visual elements in your art work. Your project will not be graded on your artistic ability, but on effort, creativity, presentation, and on the successful completion of each requirement of the assignment. Please keep in mind that the art projects will be shared with the entire class so please make sure you are comfortable sharing what you have included in your project with your classmates. Since some of these projects can be very personal, I want to emphasize the importance of being respectful and considerate of our fellow classmates. Paper Requirements: 2-3 pages double-spaced 12-point font 1-inch margins All papers and art projects are due at the beginning of class on Friday, October 30. You can submit your paper to Canvas and bring your project to class.
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gender difference in food consumption Motivation The paper should be a complement to the lectures and the topics we see in the lectures. Your paper cannot be about the topics that we see in class/our lectures. It should be a research paper, so I want you to start fresh with it – a question to which you do not know the answer. The paper should not be descriptive, but rather have more creative content. That is, it is not an essay. Originality counts. In order to know which topics are not suitable as paper topic, have a look at the Syllabus I have posted on Moodle. The syllabus lists the topics we are going to cover, with the corresponding readings. If the topics and readings sound like what you have in mind, it cannot be used as paper topic. Please always agree on a topic with me before you start working on it. Focus on a topic with gender interest that might catch your attention. You can use data if you wish, but technical analysis is not expected. Think about areas/topics where gender matters, even if it is not in conventional economic situations—however, the topic should be analyzed from an economics point of view (i.e., using economic intuition, economics tools). A good way of thinking of potential topics is to think about real-life issues in which you see men and women behaving differently. Why is that the case? You are not expected to come up with a complex answer, but you should 1 think of potential answers. Are incentives women and men face different? If so, how? You can discuss a certain policy introduced by a government in relation to gender, and discuss how it could have affected women/men differently. You can also get ideas from newspaper articles. Your topic cannot be in the course material itself, but you are welcome to use the concepts we use during the course in your paper. For instance, you cannot choose the wage gender gap as a topic, but you can use the concepts of discrimination we see in class for your topic whenever relevant.
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