The culmination of your project is an essay of 1200-1500 words, double-spaced, w

The culmination of your project is an essay of 1200-1500 words, double-spaced, with one-inch margins.
Guidelines: Here are some things you want to consider.
The subject matter. What does the work portray? What is the purpose of portraying this? Are there significant historical, symbolic, or metaphorical elements?
Describe it in terms of form. “Form” will depend on the type of cultural artifact you choose. If it’s visual, talk about composition (arrangement of elements, light, color, form), and any other significant aspect of its visual appearance. If it’s music, discuss genre, instruments, etc. If it’s film, something about how the story is told, both in its narrative and visual aspects. If it’s a work of literature, you’ll want to discuss type of writing (poetry, fiction, etc.), genre, style, for example.
Who created the artifact? Was it a specific named individual? Was the creator anonymous, or was it created by multiple people? How does the specific work you’ve chosen relate to other works by the same creator or creators?
How does your work fit into a wider context? For example, if it’s a piece of music, how does it relate to other music by the same artist, or work by other artists in the same genre? The creator or artist is sending a message. What message are they trying to send? What are they trying to convey? Is it in reaction to an event, people, or other works? Does it critique culture, religion, politics, or other ideas? Does it celebrate them? Does it speak to other cultural conversations? There are a number of ways to approach this, so don’t limit yourselves.
What about the work makes it representative of its respective culture, or culture in the Americas in general? This is important. Remember that part of the premise is that this would be a representative work in a hypothetical Humanities course focused on culture in the Americas.
Why does the work appeal to you? How did you come to know it? What does it mean to you?
Be original, be thorough, be specific, and most of all, think for yourself. Apply your own analytical and critical skills to the exercise. To use any unidentified information is plagiarism and will be handled as such. I’m not interested in you simply parroting what other people have said about the artifact. I’m interested in how YOU have examined, wrestled with, interpreted, and formed an opinion.
I do not want a cover page. Your essay should simply put your name, my name, class and section, and date in the upper left-hand corner, and then center your title.