Curious about how this assignment played itself (literally!) out. For some strange reasons, the idea of using cheerleaders (writ large) to illustrate how to go about this popped into my brain--possibly because there's a whole soundtrack of songs, anti-songs, movie lines, SNL skits and other audio/video snippets that might very nicely help delineate the connections and disconnects. Plus, of course, oodles of the equal and opposite serious stuff. If the playlist can include images as well (static, too, not just moving), then that could be a heck of an essay. Not narrow enough, of course--probably an examination that could go on endlessly--but, as I say, it sprang (cartwheeled, too) to mind, entirely unbidden. Good chance to work some Zappa in, even, which is always a good thing.