Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Blog Prompts (Thank You Ms. Eddy)

1. Pretend that you are talking to a blind man and have to describe for him what "red" is. You should use narrative and descriptive writing techniques, and try to appeal to his other senses! 

2. How does competition function in our society? To what extent is it healthy/unhealthy? Offer some real world examples taken from your life, community, culture, state, nation, or world. 

3. How have you taken something that you have learned in the classroom and integrated it into your nonacademic life? 

4. If you could go back in time and be someone in history, who would you choose to be? Why? 

5. If you had the responsibility to decide where $1 million should be spent to improve conditions somewhere in the world, what project(s) would you choose? Why? 

6. How have you tried to effect change in relation to an issue of personal, local, or national significance? 

7. If you could introduce one new idea or material thing to a primitive culture, what would it be? 

8. If you were to describe yourself using a quotation, what would that quotation be? After you have chosen a quote, then write a bit about how it relates to you and reveals what kind of person you are. 

9. Given the authority to establish a holiday, what would you choose to commemorate? Why? What would the celebration look like? 

10. What is the best advice you've ever received? Explain. 

11. Ask and answer the one important question that a university won't ask you, but you wish they would. 

12. Your life is a movie. Describe the first 15 minutes. 

13. Write a letter to your future college roommate introducing yourself and your background. 

14. Please describe your reactions/ideas to the following quote: "He does not possess wealth, it possesses him." 

15. What is the most valuable contribution you could make to a college campus? Explain. 

16. Explain a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dillema you have faced and its impact on you. 

17. Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you. 

18. If you could choose two things to change about our high school campus, what would they be and why? 

19. Should school attendance be mandatory? In your answer, be sure to explore what the function of education is, and what our nation would look like if the masses were less educated. 

20. If you had the ability to talk to one species of animal, which animal would you choose to communicate with? Why? 

1 comment:

  1. Should school attendance be mandatory? In your answer, be sure to explore what the function of education is, and what our nation would look like if the masses were less educated.


    School attendance should and always be mandatory to all students that are willing to comply with the rules and get the education they need to make it out into the real world. Education is what we all need in order to be able to function in life and do what we really want to set our minds to. Without education, everyone around us would be doing crazy, selfish things that wouldn't even matter because we'd be too uneducated to even know what the consequences of the situation really are. It's the only thing that is keeping us & our next upcoming generations smart and efficient for their turn to be able to postively change the world.

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