Week 7

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else. –Joseph Campbell
 

Good day to you all. I hope you had a nice weekend. Today I will pass back the many essays I collected last week (many very good ones).  We will review handouts, some grammar and punctuation practice.  Yeah!  Then we will have time to begin our next piece, the requirements of which I describe below.

Essay #6:  In 350-500 words address some topic of interest that you find recently in the news, be it a story, a video, an interesting or beautiful photograph, art work, recipe, fashion item, or new website (new to you).  You will want to describe the particulars of your subject. For example, a news story or report must be summarized to provide context; readers must be able to understand what you have read to understand the response or point you derive from it.  A photo, art piece, video, etcetera, must also be described in such a way that readers can well imagine what it looks like (you may also embed an image but still the written description is a thing apart) and the cultural or aesthetic appeal of it in light of your comments.  Give particulars of the source site so that readers could, if they wanted to, find their way to the story or item addressed in your essay.  You should imagine your audience our class and all others who appreciate being shown or told something that might otherwise have escaped their notice.  Therefore, choose a subject that really registers in some way so that your interest and humor and "passion" or heartfelt concern register too.


Now I'm no expert in art, but at the following link, on a page recently sent me by a friend, is the work of remarkable street artist: http://www.zimbio.com/Edgar+Mueller/articles/2/Edgar+Mueller+Amazing+3D+Sidewalk+Paintings


At the link that follows, you will find an essay example that more or less illustrates the essay you've been assigned:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-chavez/rolling-blackouts-silence_b_857252.html