Write a humorous or absurd story in which a porcupine plays an important role.
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Write an article proposing that Canada adopt the porcupine, rather than the beaver, as its national symbol.
Author: D. Sader
Vandalism
Write a post in which you explore your thoughts and feelings about vandalism.
Mosaic vs. Melting Pot
Takes a side on the following: “A society deriving from a multi-cultural mosaic has distinct advantages over a society deriving from a melting pot.
A Special Day on the Assembly Line
Script a dialogue between two Ford workers in the 1920s after a special day on the assembly line, a day that included a visit from Ford himself.
A New Insight
Write a short story in which the central character is a child who gains a new insight into a parent or guardian, or in which an adult and child arrive at a mutual understanding and acceptance.
La Même Chose
Write a light-hearted post arguing the truth of the saying “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.”
Nursery Crimes
Select a nursery rhyme and analyze it. Write a parody of your analysis in the voice of a character from the TV Show “Big Bang Theory.”
Down Came A Blackbird and Pecked Off Her Nose!
“Let me write a nation’s songs, and I care not who writes its laws.”
Much has been written of the impact on children of mass media, with their excesses of violence and sex and their distortion of reality. The trouble may start at the parents’ knee with indoctrination through nursery rhymes.
Make a list of rhymes and stories that you remember and discuss their unpleasant overtones.
For example, did you ever think of the “four and twenty blackbirds” being baked alive?
Memoir
Write a memoir of a moment of discovery that changed your perception of yourself, of others, or of the world around you.
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 place in those circumstances.