This should be sent to me electronically no later than 10:00 A.M. Thursday. Type in your answers to the following questions. Limit your answers to the space in answer boxes. After typing your answers, use the “Submit” button to send this assignment to me. You will be also asked to print a copy of the answers for your own record. Warning -- If you go back to look at other pages while you are answer the questions below, you may lose what you have written.  In either Netscape or Internet Explorer you can easily avoid this problem by clicking on "File" in the upper left and then on "New" and finally on "Navigator Window" [Netscape] or "Window" [Internet Explorer].  You can go back to the other pages in this window without losing what you are writing in the "Assignment Window. Your Name: (required) Your Email: (required) I received no help from anyone on this assignment. (Check this box to acknowledge.) 1. Identifying theses and finding evidence to support them. A. In the box below summarize Corn and Horrigan's basic thesis about the impact of consumer culture on images of the future, as presented in “Selling the Future” from Yesterday's Tomorrows. B. Describe a bit of evidence from this week's readings by Rydell, Marchand, Gibbs, or Furnas that could be used to support or to undercut Corn and Horrigan's thesis. C. Explain how this example supports or to undercuts Corn and Horrigan's thesis. D. Describe a different bit of evidence from this week's readings by Rydell, Marchand, Gibbs, or Furnas [but not the one you used in 1B] that could be used to support or to undercut Corn and Horrigan's thesis. E. Explain how this example supports or to undercuts Corn and Horrigan's thesis. 2. Identifying what essay questions are asking you to do. Consider what each of the questions below is asking you to do: Question A. “Since the beginning of the twentieth century consumer culture has increasingly come to dominate Western notions of the future. In earlier eras generating the future had been a idealistic process, rooted in faith in God or faith in man. In the 20th century the future was sold, and the profit motive determined everything.” Do you agree or disagree. Discuss Question B. Discuss the manner in which advertising and world fairs served to shape images of the future from the late 19th through the mid-20th centuries. A. Explain the differences in what these two questions are asking for. B. Give an example of a bit of evidence from somewhere in the course that would be appropriate to use in answering one of these questions, but not the other. C. Explain why this evidence is relevant to one of these questions, and not the other. 3. Preparing to write the first essay: A. In the box below indicate what you believe the essay question that you are working on for next week is asking you to do: B. Describe the thesis that you will be defending in your essay: C. Find three pieces of evidence from this week's readings that you could use to support your thesis: Describe the first bit of evidence: Is it from a primary or a secondary source? Who wrote it? Where can it be found in the course reader? What is the nature of the evidence? In what way does it make your thesis more convincing: Describe the second bit of evidence: Is it from a primary or a secondary source? Who wrote it? Where can it be found in the course reader? What is the nature of the evidence? In what way does it make your thesis more convincing: Describe the third bit of evidence: Is it from a primary or a secondary source? Who wrote it? Where can it be found in the course reader? What is the nature of the evidence? In what way does it make your thesis more convincing: or your answers