Research Topic(s)

I haven’t fully decided about what I’m going to do the research paper on, but my two ideas are propaganda or the misrepresentation of history. I was thinking about showing the importance of pictures but also the negative effects of them and that’s how I got the idea of propaganda. But I think it fits more with the articles about advertising. I would focus on how propaganda came about, different forms of propaganda and its effects on people. I got the idea of misrepresentation of history from the stories we read about the Indians. If I choose this topic, then I will go into all kinds of misrepresentation surrounding the Indians, Pilgrims, Africans and others within books, movies, and textbooks. Some examples of movies, Elizabeth, Alexander, Hidalgo. I will also focus on companies and authors who choose to re write history for the sake of entertainment (Frank Hopkins, Disney).