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AP Language Essay 8: Wartime Media or Happiness

Your last persuasive essay of the semester is due Sunday at 1:00 p.m. You’ll have a choice of two topics, either the role of media in wartime or the nature of happiness and money.

This is a critically important essay. It should demonstrate the skills we have worked on all semester with our writing. If you continue to struggle with these assignments, please review the materials located here:

Topic Sentence Cheat Sheet
Persuasive Essay Notes
Introductions

This assignment is worth 400 points.

January 5, 2014/by dpogreba

Debate Final: Personal Philosophy Assignment

Debate Class

Ralph Waldo Emerson opened his essay Nature by asking:

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

Your assignment is to develop your own philosophy of insight and not tradition, to write your own philosophy. The assignment and presentation will be do the day of the final.

The assignment sheet is located here.

January 5, 2014/by dpogreba