Essay 2 Assignment

ESSAY 2 WRITING 2 Spring 2010 Tim Fitzmaurice DUE Friday April 30th

You have many choices for this assignment. The essays in Chapters 7 & 9 of Ainsworth’s 75 Arguments provide us with discussions of many challenging topics.
In Chapter 7 we read about gay and straight marriages and divorce and about arranging the marriage of our children or suggesting they marry in their ethnic group. We also get some direct comments on sexism and the role of women and power in relationships.
In Chapter 9 we read about how we shape race and ethnicity and how it shapes us. We read about stereotyping and discrimination.
It is your challenge to take two or more of these essays—or any other relevant essays in our text—and shape a thesis that discusses the issues and helps the reader to understand your position on the matter and he position of the sources you are referring to.
On Friday April 26th we will look at the thesis you have chosen to write about. We will discuss Chapter 7 essays on Friday the 16th of this week and on Monday the 19th. We will discuss essays in Chapter 9 on the 21st and 23rd. I want you to write a response to two essays from these chapters and submit them during or discussion times. I recommend that you also look at the essay by Staples on Black men (421) and Takaki on Asian stereotypes (419). For your consideration, I want to add an essay from Chapter 3 by Sairra Patel on how the media represents Muslim women (157).
The essay should make references to at least two of our essays and avoid web or other references unless you ask me about it in advance. It should aspire to be four pages long.
The question for this open-ended essay can be understood as what is the nature of this so-called problem? Why does it occur? And how do we address it in a free society?
The essay should be four pages long and make references (quotes) to two of our essays using as many quotes as you find useful to be persuasive.
Preliminary Assignment: Write a response to the essays you chose or were assigned in two pages discussing how they made their case and whether or not they were persuasive. Experiment in Memory (extra credit)
Memorize these pegs
1. Gun
2. shoe
3. flea
4. door
5. hive
6. tricks
7. heaven
8. gate
9. mine
10. pen
Now make an absurd imaginative connection with the following and memorize them in order : 1.Clash of the Titans, 2.Date Night, 3.How to Train Your Dragon, 4.Why Did I get married Too, 5.The Last Song, 6. Hot Tub Time Machine, 7. Alice in Wonderland, 8.The Bounty Hunter, 9.Diary of Wimpy Kid, &10. Letters to God