PHI208 Ashford Effects of Stereotypical Gender Roles in Media Paper

My topic/question:Does stereotypical gender roles in the media have a negative effect onminors?

Ethical Questions

Please read these assignment instructions before writing your paper,and re-read them often during and after the writing process to make surethat you are fulfilling all of the instructions. Please also utilizethe assignment guidance, the modeled example, and the outline provided.

Overview
The following assignment is an exercisedesigned to help you begin the process of addressing a moral issue, aprocess that will continue in the next two assignments. In thisexercise, you will do the following:

• Formulate an ethical question within one of the given topic areas from the list provided.
• Provide an introduction in which you briefly explain the topic and the particular question on which you will focus your paper.
• State your position on the question at issue.
• Identify one consideration that would support your position and one consideration that would challenge it.

Instructions
The exercise must be at least 500words in length (excluding title and reference pages) and formattedaccording to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..Be sure to include a title page and, if you include references, abibliography. The exercise should be in outline (not essay) format, witheach part labeled and numbered as specified below.

1. Part One: Formulate the Question
   Read through thelist of available topic areas, and select a topic on which you wouldlike to write your next two papers. Formulate a specific, concrete,ethical question pertaining to that topic, and place that at the top ofyour paper.

   The question should be specific enough to discuss insix to eight pages (which is the length of the Final Paper assignment).For example, if you were interested in discussing the topic of capitalpunishment, a question like “Is capital punishment wrong?” would be toovague, and would need to be reformulated as a more specific question,such as “Should we execute people convicted of first degree murder?” or“Is it just to use capital punishment when there is the possibility ofexecuting innocent persons?” or “Is the capital punishment systemracist?”

1. Part Two: Provide a Brief Introduction to the Topic
   Yourintroduction should focus on setting out the topic and scope of thediscussion in a way that clearly establishes what exactly you will betalking about and why it is significant. It should also provide anynecessary context such as the background, current state of affairs,definitions of key terms, and so on. You want to try to do this in a waythat stays as neutral as possible, avoids controversial assumptions,rhetorical questions, and the like. In other words, you should try toconstruct an introduction to the topic that could be an introduction to apaper defending any position on the question at issue.

   It isimportant for your introduction to narrow down the topic as much aspossible. Doing so will allow you to provide a more detailedconsideration of the issues and explain the reasoning more clearly inlater papers. In general, arguments and analyses are much stronger whenthey focus on addressing a particular issue thoroughly and in detail,and doing so often requires deciding on one particular question or pointto discuss, and leaving other possible ones aside.

   You should label this section of your paper as “Introduction.”

1. Part Three: Provide a Position Statement
   Stateclearly and precisely the position you intend to defend on the questionyou have formulated. This does not need to be more than one sentence.

   Notethat providing a position statement does not necessarily presume thatyou are confident in your position, that other positions do not havemerit, or that you cannot change your mind later. However, for now, itis important to at least tentatively take a stand on a position youbelieve to be better supported than others.

   Label this section as “Position Statement.”

1. Part Four: Identify and Explain a Supporting Reason
   Identifyand explain a plausible reason someone could give that supports theposition you have taken and be sure to clearly explain why you think itsupports that position. The explanation should aim to be three to fivesentences (shorter explanations are possible, but will likely beinadequate; longer explanations are likely to be too verbose).

   Label this section as “Supporting Reason.”

1. Part Five: Identify and Explain an Opposing Reason
   Identifyand explain a plausible reason someone might give that would oppose orchallenge the position you have taken and be sure to clearly explain whyyou think it would oppose or challenge it. The explanation should aimto be three to five sentences (shorter explanations are possible, butwill likely be inadequate; longer explanations are likely to be tooverbose). You should strive to articulate that reason in a way thatsomeone defending a contrary position to your own would do. Thisrequires stepping back from your own position and being able to thinkabout the problem as objectively as you can. You should not attempt torespond to this opposing reason.

   Label this section as “Opposing Reason.”