English 101 Research Paper The research paper is the most important out-of-class writing assignment of the semester. It will be peer-reviewed in class before revision and submission in its final form. The due dates for all drafts are given in your syllabus. The essay will be graded on completion of the various phases of the assignment (topic selection, preliminary list of sources, outline, peer review) as well as the content of the final draft. Instructions: The paper must be written in MLA format, including a formal outline. The approximate length of the essay is 8 to 10 pages. The paper must cite at least 5 research sources, including the following: - Doctor Zhivago · One full-length text (book) by an authority on your topic. Recommended sources are books and ebooks specifically on your topic that appear in the LAMC library catalog. This requirement may also be satisfied by citing a textbook for a relevant subject such as political science, psychology, sociology or history. · One scholarly journal article from the LAMC library databases. This will be an article designated “scholarly” or “peer reviewed” in one of the databases such as ProQuest or CQ Researcher. · One other periodical. This may be a second scholarly journal article, or it may be a major metropolitan newspaper or a news magazine. · One Internet site. This may be the web site of an organization that offers authoritative information on your topic, a web site that specializes in news reporting, or a web site you use as an example of popular opinion or pop culture. In some cases, other sources such as interviews or government documents may be used as well. Do not use or cite informal sources such as web sites that collect or sell student papers (e.g. echeat.com or 123helpme.com),blogs maintained by individuals or groups that do not have solid academic credentials, or Q&A sites such as ehow or about.com. Acceptable web sites include those maintained by university departments, libraries, museums or government agencies. You may choose to consult dictionaries and encyclopedias to gain a better understanding of terminology and the history of some aspects of your topic. If so, these should be listed on your Works Cited page. However, they are not substitutes for the required sources listed above, and the information you use from them should be limited to definitions and basic background information. The required five sources must not only be listed on your Works Cited page, but must be either quoted or paraphrased in the text of your essay. Topic Choice Guidelines: The topic is the influence of public perception of/by a social movement through the control of information in a particular historical period. This may involve propaganda techniques or censorship involving messages in entertainment media, journalism, public assemblies, communications technology, education and other institutions. You may consider a variety of sources of information and mea ...

1. English 101 Research Paper
The research paper is the most important out-of-class
writing assignment of the semester. It will be peer-reviewed in
class before revision and submission in its final form. The due
dates for all drafts are given in your syllabus. The essay will be
graded on completion of the various phases of the assignment
(topic selection, preliminary list of sources, outline, peer
review) as well as the content of the final draft.
Instructions:
The paper must be written in MLA format, including a
formal outline.
The approximate length of the essay is 8 to 10 pages.
The paper must cite at least 5 research sources, including
the following:
- Doctor Zhivago
· One full-length text (book) by an authority on your topic.
Recommended sources are books and ebooks specifically on
your topic that appear in the LAMC library catalog. This
requirement may also be satisfied by citing a textbook for a
relevant subject such as political science, psychology, sociology
or history.
· One scholarly journal article from the LAMC library
databases. This will be an article designated “scholarly” or
“peer reviewed” in one of the databases such as ProQuest or CQ
Researcher.
· One other periodical. This may be a second scholarly journal
article, or it may be a major metropolitan newspaper or a news
magazine.
· One Internet site. This may be the web site of an organization

2. that offers authoritative information on your topic, a web site
that specializes in news reporting, or a web site you use as an
example of popular opinion or pop culture.
In some cases, other sources such as interviews or government
documents may be used as well.
Do not use or cite informal sources such as web sites that
collect or sell student papers (e.g. echeat.com or
123helpme.com),blogs maintained by individuals or groups that
do not have solid academic credentials, or Q&A sites such as
ehow or about.com. Acceptable web sites include those
maintained by university departments, libraries, museums or
government agencies.
You may choose to consult dictionaries and encyclopedias to
gain a better understanding of terminology and the history of
some aspects of your topic. If so, these should be listed on your
Works Cited page. However, they are not substitutes for the
required sources listed above, and the information you use from
them should be limited to definitions and basic background
information.
The required five sources must not only be listed on your Works
Cited page, but must be either quoted or paraphrased in the text
of your essay.
Topic Choice Guidelines:
The topic is the influence of public perception of/by a
social movement through the control of information in a
particular historical period. This may involve propaganda
techniques or censorship involving messages in entertainment
media, journalism, public assemblies, communications
technology, education and other institutions. You may consider
a variety of sources of information and means of influence from

3. among the following:
- Static imagery such as billboards, posters, Internet
memes
- Clothing, hair styles and mannerisms that identify
members of a group
- Slogans and alternative terminology; political vocabulary
- Popular music and the cultures centered around bands or
genres
- Educational approaches and content; historical
revisionism
- News reporting and journalism
- Social themes in books, television and/or films
- Social themes in art and performance
- Censorship
- Social media
- Online advertising
- Search engines and news feeds
- Parades and celebrations
- Symbols such as flags and logos
- “False flag” events such as staged attacks and paid
protests

4. - Celebrities and activism
- Funding sources of political or social activism
You may identify other influence techniques that are not
listed here. Your essay should identify some examples of
propaganda or censorship mentioned in Doctor Zhivago, and
you may include historical information on this aspect of the
Russian Revolution from other sources.
Running head: BLACK LIVES MATTER
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BLACK LIVES MATTER
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Black Lives Matter-Outline
Name
Institution
Black Lives Matter
Introduction
Black lives matter movement constitutes an activist movement
that is born of the African-American community. The
community advocates for a stop to violence and the racism
projected on the African people. The group irresistibly pushes
for a stop in police brutality through the killing of the black
people and discriminating against the blacks. The movement
employs many strategies of approaches in fighting to bring their
powerful message of liberation to the light. They point their

5. fingers at racial injustice in the United States criminal justice
system, the brutality of the police and racial profiling (Parks,
2018). This outline therefore focuses on bringing out an apt
description of the various methods used to gain public attention
by the Black Lives Matter movement.
Thesis Statement
The “Black Lives Matter” movement employs several
techniques in the fight for their concern of ‘blacks’
discrimination which involves media, activism, politics and
campaigns among others. These methods portray how influence
on people’s perception can be created through control of
information.
Arguments
i. Use of media.
ii. Through activists intervention.
iii. Direct action method.
iv. Use of campaigns and demonstrations.
v. Engaging politics.
The use of the media is broadly illustrated in the fight for their
rights by the African-Americans in agitating for a fair handle
for them. The movement utilized the use of a hash-tag twitter
page to create an immediate connect with a wide mass of people
in the US and even gain global attention. A report shows that in
2016 the “Black lives matter” phrase on Twitter had been
tweeted over for more than 30 million times. This is just
evidence of the amount of stir the slogan created all over the
globe (Khan-Cullors, Bandele & Davis, 2018). The direct

6. impact is also explained by the emergence of the black
university student era. Many sources have approved the kind of
attention created by the media. This brings out how media is
really an influence on the perception of the people.
Employing the use of activism is also one important technique
that proved extremely instrumental in the fight for recognition
by the African-American during the Black Lives Matter
movement. Several activists came out in support of the
campaigns. This activist included Alicia Garza, Patrisse
Cullors, and Opal Tometi who also played a mammoth role in
the development of the slogan. They were the very instrumental
personalities who pushed for the recognition through media and
also mobilized people for regular protests. Eventually, the push
from the activists pays when the issue comes out in the concern
of the entire globe (Films Media Group & TED, 2017). This
proves activism an elementary tool in influencing people’s
perspective.
The direct action method is also an elementary method that was
vastly used in the protest for African rights in the US. The
movement held demonstrations all over and created discomfort
among the masses enough that addressing the issue was
rendered the only option. The protesters also staged a die-in and
engaged one in the 2015 Twin Cities Marathon. In the process
of all these they chanted slogans in a way to emphasize their
concerns. Eventually they were able to capture the attention of
the government as well as that of the people (Lowery, 2017).
This therefore rendered the direct action method valid as far as
the fight for the influence of perception is concerned.
The use of campaigns and demonstrations proved extremely
viable. The members of the movement engaged in
demonstrations in towns and on the streets of cities. Amidst
these demonstrations were loud chants of the phrase “Black
Lives Matter”. This took a toll on the media stations on

7. televisions and even rendered progress impossible without
attending to their concerns. Through these therefore the whole
world to concern on the happenings in the US hence influencing
great support from within as well as beyond the US boundaries.
There also surfaced the application of politics in the agitation of
the African-American rights. There emerged several politicians
who raised concern over the issue of protection of African
rights .among these politicians was Scott Walker who advocated
for reforms in the police training system and proper law
enforcement system. Marco Rubio also sympathized with the
blacks and played a role in portraying his sympathy publicly
apart from dispensing his dislike for inequality experienced
(Black, 2011). These politicians also contribution to drawing
concern for this matter. This portrayed politics a suitable
procedure for creating influence on people’s perception.
Conclusion
In conclusion, there are many different methods that can be
brought together to enhance the influence of people’s
perception through control of information as illustrated in how
the African-Americans push for their concerns to be attended to.
Through such methods as campaigns, media, politics and
activism among others, they are able to win the attention of the
entire globe.
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Black, S. V. (2011). Live your life like it matters. Flower
Mound, Tex: Walk the Talk.
Films Media Group, & TED (Organization). (2017). Alicia
Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi: An Interview with the
Founders of Black Lives Matter.
Khan-Cullors, P., Bandele, A., & Davis, A. Y. (2018). When
they call you a terrorist: A Black Lives Matter memoir. New
York: St. Martin's Press
Lowery, W. (2017). They can't kill us all: The story of black
lives matter. London, England: Penguin Books.
Parks, P. J. (2018). The Black Lives Matter movement. San
Diego, CA: Reference Point Press
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Getty, Alice. The Gods of Northern Buddhism: Their history
and iconography. Courier Corporation, 1928.
This is a book by Getty and Alice that talks about eastern
philosophy and religion. It has a productive inclusion of arts of
historians as well as information on names, symbolism
representation of pictures of divine structures, especially in

9. Mahayana pantheon. These Gods were majorly worshipped in
the northern parts of Europe. The article contains photos of the
major and minor Gods as revered in the region. This article
majorly concentrates on Buddhism religion. The article is of
paramount importance in my research on the ancient rituals as it
provides limelight on the Buddhism religion which is a part of
my research. The photos in the article make the study very easy.
These photos are in the black and white form.
Davidson, Hilda Ellis. The lost beliefs of Northern Europe.
University of San Diego, 2002.
This article by Davidson presents various myths used in the
ancient times and the way they were mingled with the Christian
dogma and the folklore and the way the original beliefs have
been lost in these myths as well as in the psychological
developments in the past years. It shows how the views of the
pagans have been misinterpreted by the Christians as well as
indicating how the Christian religion has progressed and how it
has been preserved and the pre-Christian believes. The article
also tries to explain the beliefs of the ancient people in
Northern Europe as well as teaching the difficulties and the
possibilities of getting the lost religious believes of these
people. This article will be of great importance in this research
as it describes the gods worshipped in the Northern Europe
which is a region of interest in the study.
Davidson, Hilda Ellis. "Milk and the northern goddess."The
concept of the goddess. University of San Diego, 2002. 105-
120.
The concept of the Egyptian goddesses goes back to the very
ancient times as described in this article by Davidson. The
article describes the early Egyptians and how they worshipped a
cow-goddess named Hathor who protected pharaoh, and it is
depicted in the human form and wears a sun-disk on her head
flanked by cow’s horns, this creates a link between this goddess
and milk from a cow. The sky was seen as a cow which
produced a calf every morning. With the calf here referring to
the sun. Milk was heavily drunk in the land of Egypt as

10. described in the article. The article has a description of a
Mesopotamian goddess who was believed to be the protector of
all the animals in the world including domestic heard. This
goddess was named Ninhursag. As described in the article, the
author tells that sacred animals like the sheep and cattle were
kept at her temple and milk milked from these sacred animals
was given to the children of the royal family. This article will
be of paramount importance in my research about the ancient
religions as it has precious information about the Egyptian
goddess. The material is rich in photos of the goddess and the
environment in which she was kept.
Davidson, Hilda Ellis. Roles of the northern goddess. University
of San Diego, 2002.
This book by Davidson describes the Northern Europe
goddesses. The roles played by these goddesses and the way
they were worshipped by both men and women in the Northern
parts of Europe in the ancient times. This book describes the
various goddesses in this part of the world and the various
duties they were involved in including hunting and other farm
activities and household activities. The book describes these
goddesses as compelling individuals who could either be
destructive or constructive. The paper presents photos of these
goddesses in the various environments in coloured form. With
the research area being on the old religion matters, this book
will consist of paramount importance.
Fleming, Andrew. "The myth of the mother‐goddess."World
Archaeology 1.2 (1969): 247-261.
In this book, Flemings describes the faith of the tomb builders
in the ancient times in Western Europe and their belief in a
goddess whose face glared out from the pot and a phalange idol.
This idol is found to have had a significant influence on the
lives of the people of Western Europe in those ancient times.
This book enriched with information about people of western
Europe. The book provides photos in black and white of this
idol and the people worshipping it. The author offers very
reliable evidence to his discussions in the papers supporting it

11. with existing things in the present times which trace their roots
to the ancient times. With the Western part of Europe being one
of the regions of interest in the research, this book will be of
great help.
Jochens, Jenny. Old Norse images of women. University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1996.
This book describes a religion shared in the ancient times by the
British people and the Europeans. The paper describes a pagan
god who had a figure of a lady. In those times according to the
book, women were portrayed and grouped as warriors,
prophetesses, the Avengers and inciters. The book explores the
legacy of the females and provides photos of both the human
and divine. This book will of great help in the research of
goddesses being the central area of this research.
Ann, Martha, and Dorothy Myers Imel. Goddesses in world
mythology. Abc-Clio Inc, 1993.
In this book, the authors describe the myths told in the present
times concerning the goddesses and elaborated on the truth, and
miss tells of these myths. The book provides clear evidence on
the arguments posed about the legends. The book also contains
photos of these goddesses. The authors describe the goddess
involved in the various activities like farming, herding, hunting.
These goddesses are the ancient gods of the Northern region of
Europe. This book provides limelight in the research on the
myths related to the goddesses in this region hence will help n
this research by shading light on the believes and what is real
and untrue about these goddesses.
Achebe, Nwando. "Farmers, traders, warriors, and kings:
Female power and authority in Northern Igboland, 1900-1960."
(2005).
The authors in this book talk about the importance of women in
the ancient times by using the goddesses. Most of the gods in
those times bear women features and names, and this shows how
women were prominent in those times. The book has photos of
these goddesses and the description of the various works they
were involved in. This article also describes why most of the

12. goddesses used female figures hence will help in this
understanding in this research.