the topic of the cultural artifact is Sons of Anarchy, please answer the following question:

Q1) Select a cultural artifact, an object that communicates something significant about the culture that created it. Develop a working thesis for a rhetorical analysis of this artifact. Remember: Try to make your thesis as arguable, specific and subordinate as possible.

Here's Trimble's advice on thesis statements:

A strong thesis is a theory about the meaning and significance of your evidence that would not have been immediately obvious to your readers.

In other words: it’s not self-evident. It required thought, analysis & argument to arrive at that conclusion.

It’s a viewpoint, a contention. A good thesis is above all arguable—that is, not everyone will agree with it. But please understand that it won’t necessarily concern a “right/wrong” issue. Often it will concern whether something is urgent or not urgent, interesting or not interesting, a good way to do something or a not-so-good way to do something, a can-we-achieve-this issue or a can-we-not-achieve-this issue. Whatever your position, it should involve some conviction, preferably bold, that even skeptics will approach with curiosity … Remember: Your thesis is not your subject. It’s your take on your subject. And it’s what you’d have us think and feel about it, too.

Q2) Locate and analyze three sources for this arguable word — and the larger debate that it connects to. Each entry should include the following three elements:

1) Complete (and accurate) bibliographic citation in MLA

2) A quick summary of the article/chapter/book’s main ideas (2-3 sentences). The goal is to identify the central point (or multiple points, if appropriate) of the source and put it into your own words.

3) An evaluation of the source’s quality, credibility, and usefulness to your project (2-3 sentences). What did you find most useful about this source? Any weaknesses? If it’s from a scholarly journal, the credibility may be apparent—but if it’s from a website, how does the source establish its credibility? How does the information you encountered here relate to your project? Do you know yet how you will use it?