Snowflakes

Month: November 2012

  • Architecture: A Human Need

    Consider two different buildings with which you are familiar in terms of their responsiveness to “human need.” Write an essay contrasting several aspects of these two buildings

  • Exhilarating Challenge

    Write a personal narrative essay, feature article, or short story about a time when you were faced with an intimidating, yet exhilarating challenge. Use imagery in your writing.

  • Abstract Science

    Write an essay in which abstract science is made both interesting and accessible to the average reader (Hint: Stephen Jay Gould, David Suzuki, Steven Hawking, JAred Diamond, and Rachel Carson).

  • Canadian Ritual

    Write an expository essay that explains a Canadian or personal “ritual” for foreign readers. For example, you might explain the ritual of the graduation at your school; traditions followed in your family on birthdays or special occasions; or customs and procedures surrounding going to a big game or concert.

  • An Ideal

    Using a subject-by-subject approach, define and illustrate an ideal that you hold, and then contrast that ideal with a experience that you have had.

  • Canada vs United States

    Write a well-organized essay in which you contrast Canada and the United States in terms of your own experiences of these two countries, choosing either a subject-by-subject or a part-by-part approach.

  • Daydream vs Real Thing

    Using a subject-by-subject approach, write an essay in which you contrast a fantasy or a daydream that you have had about a person, place, object, or experience, with the “real thing” that you later experienced.

  • Life in a Small Town

    Using a subject-by-subject approach, write a contrast essay in which you discuss the differences between life in a small town and life in a large city based on your experiences. Be sure to use specific details and examples in order to create vivid images in your readers’ minds.

  • Analogy

    Choose a simile or metaphor that you believe is particularly interesting or appropriate in its expression of the similarities between two subjects. Write an essay in which you develop a full and detailed presentation of that figure of speech as an analogy.

  • Modern “gods”

    Consider modern “gods” that we worship in society. Then write an essay in which you develop an analogy between a person or a thing and a god. Be sure to use images, details, and words and phrases that clarify and support your analogy.