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Memoir
Write a memoir of a moment of discovery that changed your perception of yourself, of others, or of the world around you.
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Urban Dialogue
Imagine you are sitting on a very crowded public city bus. The large and aggressive-seeming person next to you keeps demanding in an obnoxious was that you move over to make more room, You can’t move over and there is nowhere else to sit or stand in the bus. Write the dialogue that might take…
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Canadian Ritual
Write a personal essay about a guest from another country who comes into your home. Specify a typically Canadian ritual in which your guest might participate, and suggest how he or she might perceive it.
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National News
Spend a week carefully observing news stories covered by the televised CBC news The National (10 or 11 p.m.) and the print daily newspaper The National Post. Which stories were covered on TV, which significant stories were only in the newspaper? Which medium provided the deepest and most thorough coverage of particular events? Write a…
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Reduce the Chance of War
Formulate a list of specific recommendations for political and social changes that might reduce the chance of war. Referring to current events in the world today evaluate the likelihood of such political and social changes coming about.
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How do you know it is good?
Select two works of art(visual, musical, or literary): one that is good and one that is bad. Explain the reasons for your judgements in a short piece of writing. Include a thumbnail, embedded clip, or snippet of each and ask your classmates to submit a comment with their own analysis and judgement. Respond to your…
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Extinct Civilizations
Write a story in which your protagonist has discovered that s/he is a rare descendent of an extinct civilization – East or West. Ancient Egyptian The Inca The Maurya The Toltec The Mayans The Phoenicians The Babylonians The Sumerian The Aztec The Minoans Extra ideas for consideration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogical_DNA_test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_genealogy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_profiling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology
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Sun in the Fog
Write a narrative in which you feature a detailed description of Waterloo Bridge: Sun in the Fog (1903) by Claude Monet.