Essay Essay Topics - How to Choose A Good One

Essay Essay Topics - How to Choose A Good OneThe first step towards writing a great response essay is to come up with different response essay topics. You can start by answering what is the most commonly asked question. For example, if you are a teacher and your students ask 'What would you do to improve the school?' you will need to write about what the best method is to improve education and what benefits they will derive from it.However, if you have the knowledge of how to write quality subjects but lack the time to spend on learning new subjects then you can learn how to create multiple topic sets for different subjects. It may be that you have been asked to write a response to an exam that requires a comprehensive understanding of the subject. If this is the case, you may want to consider a variety of different responses from the previous topics you have written and combine them into one essay topic.If you have not had any prior experience in writing, classic essay topics are a good starting point. However, if you have some expertise in areas like mathematics, physics or biology, you may also be able to create topic options for other subjects that you are particularly passionate about. If you are an avid reader, you may even be able to incorporate your interests into essay topics. For example, if you enjoy reading historical works, you could create essay topics on everything from Renaissance history to an edition of Captain Cook's 'Diary.'Once you have a list of essay topic ideas ready to go, you will need to figure out which topic is most suited to your specific area of expertise. For example, if you are an English major, you will need to identify which types of essays you are most interested in writing. Are you more interested in school books or poetry?Once you have identified your top essay topic ideas, you will want to break them down into individual sections so that you can create the paragraphs that make up your essay. By writing each paragraph as if it were the very first one, you will avoid having to re-read the piece several times as you edit. If you have any specific questions you would like to ask in your response, this can be done by writing the question in the first paragraph and then continuing to add the answer in the following paragraphs. Be sure to give specific examples for each answer you provide so that readers are able to get a clear picture of what your piece is all about.You will need to let your personal thoughts come through in your essay as well. For example, if you are writing about changing the way your children play, you may have had experiences that inspire your essay topic. If you have experienced problems playing with your children, chances are you may not have used them as examples in your essay.For those who are writing response essays to popular essay topics, there are some helpful tips to keep in mind. First, if you choose a topic that you do not have experience with, you may need to look into reso urces such as online classes or books on the topic. Second, if you have written a book or article about a subject you know little about, you may want to use it as a guideline for your essay.

Analysis of Tenth of December by George Saunders

Analysis of Tenth of December by George Saunders George Saunders deeply moving story Tenth of December originally appeared in the October 31, 2011, issue of The New Yorker. It was later included in his well-received 2013 collection, Tenth of December, which was a bestseller and a National Book Award finalist. Tenth of December is one of the freshest and most compelling contemporary stories, yet we find it almost impossible to talk about the story and its meaning without making it sound trite (something along the lines of, A boy helps a suicidal man find the will to live, or, A suicidal man learns to appreciate the beauty of life). We have to chalk this up to Saunders ability to present familiar themes (yes, the little things in life are beautiful, and no, life isnt always neat and clean) as if were seeing them for the first time. If you havent read Tenth of December, do yourself a favor and read it now. Below are some of the features of the story that particularly stand out; perhaps theyll resonate for you, too. Dreamlike Narrative The story shifts constantly from the real to the ideal, to the imagined, to the remembered. Like the 11-year-old protagonist of Flannery OConnors The Turkey, the boy in Saunders story, Robin, walks through the woods imagining himself a hero. He trudges through the woods tracking imaginary creatures called Nethers, who have kidnapped his alluring classmate, Suzanne Bledsoe. Reality merges seamlessly with Robins pretend world as he glances at a thermometer reading 10 degrees (That made it real) and also as he begins to follow actual human footprints while still pretending that hes tracking a Nether. When he finds a winter coat and decides to follow the footsteps so he can return it to its owner, he recognizes that [i]t was a rescue. A real rescue, at last, sort of. Don Eber, the terminally ill 53-year-old man in the story, also holds conversations in his head. He is pursuing his own imagined heroics- in this case, going into the wilderness to freeze to death in order to spare his wife and children the suffering of caring for him as his illness progresses. His own conflicted feelings about his plan come out in the form of imagined conversations with adult figures from his childhood and finally, in the grateful dialogue, he imagines between his surviving children when they realize how selfless hes been. He considers all the dreams hell never achieve (such as delivering his major national speech on compassion), which seems not so different from fighting Nethers and saving Suzanne- these fantasies seem unlikely to happen even if Eber lives another 100 years. The effect of the movement between real and imagined is dreamlike and surreal- an effect that is only heightened in the frozen landscape, especially when Eber enters the hallucinations of hypothermia. Reality Wins Even from the beginning, Robins fantasies cant make a clean break from reality. He imagines the Nethers will torture him but only in ways he could actually take. He imagines that Suzanne will invite him to her pool, telling him, Its cool if you swim with your shirt on. By the time he has survived a near drowning and a near freezing, Robin is solidly grounded in reality.  He starts to imagine what Suzanne might say, then stops himself, thinking, Ugh. That was done, that was stupid, talking in your head to some girl who in real life called you Roger. Eber, too, is pursuing an unrealistic fantasy that he will eventually have to give up. Terminal illness transformed his own kind stepfather into a brutal creature he thinks of only as THAT. Eber- already tangled in his own deteriorating ability to find accurate words- is determined to avoid a similar fate. He thinks: Then it would be done. He would have preempted all future debasement. All his fears about the coming months would be mute. Moot.   But this incredible opportunity to end things with dignity is interrupted when he sees Robin moving dangerously across the ice carrying his- Ebers- coat. Eber greets this revelation with a perfectly prosaic, Oh, for shitsake. His fantasy of an ideal, poetic passing wont come to be, a fact readers might have guessed when he landed on mute rather than moot. Interdependence and Integration The rescues in this story are beautifully intertwined. Eber rescues Robin from the cold (if not from the actual pond), but Robin would never have fallen into the pond in the first place if he hadnt tried to rescue Eber by taking his coat to him. Robin, in turn, saves Eber from the cold by sending his mother to go get him. But Robin has already saved Eber from suicide by falling into the pond. The immediate need to save Robin forces Eber into the present. And being in the present seems to help integrate Ebers various selves, past and present. Saunders writes: Suddenly he was not purely the dying guy who woke nights in the med-bed thinking, Make this not true make this not true, but again, partly, the guy who used to put bananas in the freezer, then crack them on the counter and pour chocolate over the broken chunks, the guy who’d once stood outside a classroom window in a rainstorm to see how Jodi was faring. Eventually, Eber begins to see the illness (and its inevitable indignities) not as negating his previous self but simply as being one part of who he is. Likewise, he rejects the impulse to hide his suicide attempt (and its revelation of his fear) from his children, because it, too, is part of who he is. As he integrates his vision of himself, he is able to integrate his gentle, loving stepfather with the vitriolic brute he became in the end. Remembering the generous way his desperately ill stepfather listened attentively to Ebers presentation on manatees, Eber sees that there are drops of goodness to be had even in the worst situations. Though he and his wife are in unfamiliar territory, stumbling a bit on a swell in the floor of this stranger’s house, they are together.