Part 1: (750–1,250 words, or 3–5 pages)
Part 2:(750–1,250 words, or 3–5 pages)
Part 3: (400–750, or 1.5–3 pages)
Part 1 Introduction
Specific Personality Theories.
Each section of the first two parts will explore the personality of a particular superhero from a personality theory perspective (a different perspective for each paper). The third part will be a discussion and conclusion for the first two parts. The superhero will be the same one for all three parts, chosen from the movie The Avengers: Age of Ultron. All three parts require that you do research and use recent academic (scholarly) sources.
Format
The paper must be presented in APA style (sixth edition) and must include 1 title page and separate reference list for each part, although these will not be included in the word/page count. They should be double-spaced and written in 12-point Times New Roman font.
Objectives and Outcomes
Examine a personality theory in-depth.
Apply concepts learned in the course materials.
Acquire knowledge about a specific topic or issue related to personality theories that is of interest to you.
Analyze and synthesize information about your chosen topic.
The three-part assignments for this course fit together and build on one another. The first part explores a specific personality theory applied to a superhero character. The second part explores a *different* personality theory applied to the *same* superhero character. The third part provides discussion and concluding remarks.
Instructions
Choose a specific theory from one of the five perspectives (psychodynamic, humanistic/existential, dispositional, biological/evolutionary, learning-cognitive), and write about how it relates to the personality of a superhero in the movie The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Please limit your comments to this movie and not other films or comics that relate to the Avengers.
You are given a choice of superheroes from among DO BLACK WIDOW
Iron Man (Tony Stark)
Captain America (Steve Rogers)
Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff)
Thor
Hawkeye (Barton)
The Hulk (Bruce Banner)
Choose with thought and care, because you will be analyzing the superhero that you choose *throughout all three parts*.
Your treatment of your topic must reflect the purpose of the course; that is, your essay must address the psychological theories of the major personality theorists and apply the ideas presented in the research literature to the superhero’s personality.
Remember, the aim is not to provide a film critique or your personal opinion of the film or particular superhero, but to engage with personality theory. The goal of the assignment is to demonstrate your understanding of the chosen theories and your ability to apply them.
For this first part, you must use 3 to 4 academic (scholarly) sources. These may include original research articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and secondary sources—that is, books or articles written by someone with appropriate academic credentials that criticize a piece of original research or that compare several pieces of research on a single issue. All of your sources should have been published within the past 5-10 years.
The only online sources that you may use are electronically published scholarly journals, such as those that you will find in AU Library’s journal database collection. Wikipedia, the Internet, newspapers, and popular magazines are not acceptable sources.
At least one of your sources should be a research report of an empirical study. You can read a brief description of empirical studies in Empirical Research in the Social Sciences and Education, from the Penn State University Library.
Acknowledge all of your sources in a scholarly way throughout the paper.
Structure
Introduction
The introduction to the paper should address these questions in a scholarly way:
What do you intend to do?
What issue(s) will you discuss, and from what point of view?
What approach to your topic will you take?
What will be the limitations of your research and your discussion?
This section should define what you will and will not cover.
Body
In the body of your paper, you should follow through on what you said you would do in the introduction. Make sure that your interpretation of the superhero’s character is clear, and make sure that the theories, concepts, and research findings that you use to support it are directly relevant to the personality theory that you have chosen.
It is important that you organize the paper in a meaningful way, that you express yourself clearly, and that you argue and document your ideas.
You are encouraged to use quotations from the movie relevant to your character, but use paraphrasing for the rest of the paper. Any ideas attributable to someone else must be acknowledged with proper in-text citations and listed in proper APA reference format at the end of the paper.
The Form of the Essay
Your paper should be written so that your ideas flow logically, there are connections between your ideas, and you use new paragraphs for new sub-topics.
Grammar, spelling, punctuation, and typing errors will be taken into account in the assessment, as will your careful use of APA style in your paper in general, and in your in-text citations and your references list in particular.
Refer to the Citing and Referencing section in the Course Information manual for several sources of information on APA style.
NO PLAGIARISM
Last Completed Projects
| topic title | academic level | Writer | delivered |
|---|
