Talladega Nights Movies Shapes a Core Value of Winning

I picked the topic Talladega Nights Movie because he always wants to win first place and has based his life on winning first. I'm a Texas Tech college rodeo calf roper and I always want to win first place as well.
Unit I: Exploring Mediated Values
Project 1: Mediated Values Essay
Prompt
Construct an essay that informs your audience (your teachers and classmates) about how a specific
piece of media (e.g., a book, a movie, a television show, a song, an album, a magazine, etc.) has shaped
a value you hold. Use your personal experiences with this media to explain how that media has shaped
your understanding of this value and how it is shared with others.
Further Explanation
This prompt asks you to reflect on how one of your values has been shaped or formed through your
experiences with a particular piece of media. Our goal, then, is to consider critically where our values
and beliefs come from or how they are shaped. You should identify, analyze, and communicate how
your personal experience with this piece of media has shaped the specific value you are discussing. The
more focused and specific your discussion, the better. (For example, some values are so broad that they
can become muddled and nearly meaningless, like freedom; a better approach to freedom might focus
more specifically on a type or aspect of freedom, like the ability to make decisions about one’s own body
or the ability to challenge an authority figure.)
The style, tone, and organization of this essay is largely up to you, as long as it is guided by a discussion
of how a specific piece of media or text has shaped a value you hold. For example, you might deploy
personal narrative and then reflect on that experience, or you might discuss a particular text or piece of
media and analyze it, then move into your experiences. This essay is not a review of the text or media
you’re discussing, nor is it a recommendation (so, your goal isn’t to evaluate the text like a movie review
does). Rather, you might think of this project as sharing an experience with a text or media and a
reflection on that experience.
Importantly, this essay should avoid surface-level observations. Instead, this project should involve in depth reflection.
Minimum Expectations & Guidelines
Your essay should conform to these guidelines:
• Be a minimum of 500 words
• Be written in a readable, 11–12 pt. font
• Have a title that is inviting to your readers (your classmates)
• Identify and discuss a specific piece of media important to you
• Identify and discuss a specific value you hold that this media has helped to shape
• Use specific details, including personal experiences, to explore the relationship between this
media and this value
• Show a degree of analysis (that is, it does not just describe, but reflects on and analyzes your
experiences or the media you’re discussing)
• Be effectively organized, use clear language, and be carefully edited
This essay will be evaluated on a pass/fail basis. On-time submission of a satisfactory essay that meets