American Idol Perpetuates Consumption Checkpoint

This is part of many check points. You already helped me with the first check poin: here https://www.studypool.com/discuss/9170630/checkpoint-1

You will keep working on the speech by Obama which called: Obama’s 2004 DNC keynote speech

You can view the speech at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueMNqdB1QIE

for check point 2 please do the following:

Write an approximately 3 pages include the following :

a) An explanation of the significance of your topic/artifact. (Talk about when the speech was given and the reason of it and why it is important. As you research Please indicate how many people watch the speech (the views), how many people physically attend, what its impact on popular culture has been and other Important information you want to add. (this should be one paragraph)

b) An explanation of what others (especially scholars) have said about your topic. Some have said, for example, that American Idol perpetuates consumption due to its frequent product placement, while others have said it promotes democratic participation.

I have attached some articles that you can use. You can search and use the once you like too but remember they MUST be scholars articles. Try to find some articles related to the speech and if you could not find many try to find articles talk about Obama. this is a good example https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/magazine/the-sp… and also try see the attachments.

C. For this paper, you should integrate this research to construct an argument as to why your topic is an important one to study and what the purpose of your original research is by using your research to:

a) Explain the significance of your topic,

b) Explain what others have said about it, and

c) Explain the purpose of your original research, i.e., what you hope to find out as a result of your original research. (you could talk about Obama is a great speaker that has talent in converting people…etc. and also talk about cluster method and how we can use it to find our how Obama is a great speaker.)

let me know if you have any question