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Game or Sport Participant
Describe your experience as a participant in a sport or game, developing that description in informative (objective) as well as experience (subjective) terms. Be sure that your primary purpose is clearly established.
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“I have always been a …”
Complete the statement, “I have always been a ____________,” and then write a detailed description in which you show your readers your implicit attitude toward that subject.
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Painful Aspects
Write a description of yourself in which you deal with pleasurable as well as painful aspects of your experiences.
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Significant Details
Write a description of a place that holds significant meaning for you, showing your readers why it has that significance through your use of specific details and images.
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Make Meaningful
Write a description of a scene or an event where something significant that you did not understand was explained to you so that the whole experience became more meaningful.
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Cemetery
Describe a cemetery that you have visited, showing how its appearance reveals a general concept of life and death.
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Scene It
Describe a scene or an event in which difficult circumstances are made pleasurable.
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Snowstorm
Describe your experience of city streets after a snowstorm.
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Debate: Ireland
Although Ireland has gained independence since the the events of the O’Flaherty’s story “The Sniper” or Jordan’s film “Michael Collins,” Northern Ireland continues to be a place of conflict, which can be viewed in at least two ways: Northern Ireland should remain separate from Ireland. Ireland should become one country without a north and south…
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The Sniper
Read “The Sniper,” by Liam O’Flaherty. Respond to the Story Reread the first paragraph. What details in the author’s description of the setting establish the tone or atmosphere of the story? What message about this civil war is Liam O’Flaherty trying to convey? How does his message compare to the theme in “War,” by Timothy…