Choose one (1) of the following and, in an essay of no fewer than six and no more than nine pages, use it as a platform to summarize and explicate the most important themes of KNSISM 2211:
1. What were the most important developments and trends in the business of spectator sport in the United States over the course of the twentieth century?
OR
2. Accept or reject the following thesis: the role of “amateur” sport in American culture changed significantly over the course of the twentieth century.
Please integrate quotes in the essay and also MAKE SURE the sources are ONLY from the ones I have provided. My professor is very serious about the sources and drawing upon lots of material.
Requirements and Guidelines:
Draw on assigned course readings in the construction of your answer. It will be evaluated based on quality of answer, quality of prose, and level of familiarity it demonstrates with course themes and assigned readings. Responses which demonstrate mastery of assigned readings and course themes will score well. Responses which demonstrate ignorance of assigned readings and course themes will score poorly, no matter what other merits they might possess. For this reason, you are strongly advised to limit your supporting materials to those presented in the course.
Your answer must draw on sources from no fewer than seven (7) modules. Furthermore, materials from at least three of the four final modules must be represented. (Modules 13,14,15,16) THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT PLEASE!!!
Tips for writer: Module information
1- Organized Team Sport in the Twentieth Century
2-The Business of the American Pastime and baseball growth
3- Game Film, amaetures and professionals, and football, college
5-Sport at War
6- Mass media and publicity
7- More college football and american culture
8- Global Crisis and sport heros
9- civil rights and postwar america
10- Jackie Robinson and the American Experience
11- Ali
12- More college football
13- college and professional basketball in the twentieth century
14- Title IX
These are minimum requirements; feel free to draw as widely on course materials as your preparation allows. An effective response will draw on both themes presented in course lectures and specific evidence drawn from assigned readings, and be comprehensive in both theme and chronology.
Your paper must be typed and double-spaced, with one-inch margins on all four sides of the page. Please use 12-point Times or Times New Roman font. Papers must contain proper citation of all material taken from written sources and be free of errors in grammar, usage, spelling, and punctuation. You must properly credit all material taken from written sources; please use either MLA (parenthetical) or Chicago (footnote) citation style. Guides to these citation styles can be found here (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Links to an external site. and here (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Links to an external site.. Remember that a complete course bibliography is available in the syllabus to assist in accurate citation of your evidence.
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