Essay 2: Evaluating an Author’s Use of EvidenceThe PromptThe second unit for our course focuses on millennials and how the ever-evolving world around us has affected this particular generation. In his article, Joel Stein argues that most of these effects are negative—millennials are lazy, entitled, and technology-obsessed. For your second essay, you will discuss Stein’s […]

Essay 1: Rough Draft-Essay #1Purpose: In Essay 1, we will hone our critical analysis skills by considering how subtlety and omission impacts the reader’s experience of the short story.Required Texts: Your essay must incorporate Hemingway and at least ONE additional short story (either Baldwin, Kincaid, OR Poe) AND at least ONE of the essays listed […]

ESSAY #4: Extreme Sports Supermen/women on Plato’s Cave Page Requirements3 -4 pagesPoint Value100Percentage of Final Grade10 % Required Texts Needed to Write This EssayChapter 11 “The Flow of Next” from Rise of Superman (Links to an external site.) in which Steven Kotler argues, “This book has never really been about learning to do impossible deeds. […]

ESSAY #3: Flow States in Extreme Sports Athletes Page Requirements3 pagesPoint Value100Percentage of Final Grade10% Required Texts Needed to Write This EssayRead the following chapters from Steven Kotler’s Rise of Superman (Links to an external site.). (Not available through GCC bookstore. Please order on your own from your preferred online store. Also available for photocopying […]

ESSAY #2: FORMAT Movie: Vendetta for VendettaFor this essay I am going to ask you THREE essay questions; each should be answered in at least THREE fully developed paragraphs. This essay will have a body of nine fully- developed paragraphs, plus an introduction and conclusion paragraphs. THUS, THE ESSAY SHOULD BE ELEVEN [11] PARAGRAPHS TOTAL […]