Creative topic essay of university of Chicago

"Have you ever walked through the aisles of a warehouse store like Costco or Sam’s Club and wondered who would buy a jar of mustard a foot and a half tall? We’ve bought it, but it didn’t stop us from wondering about other things, like absurd eating contests, impulse buys, excess, unimagined uses for mustard, storage, preservatives, notions of bigness…and dozens of other ideas both silly and serious. Write an essay somehow inspired by super-huge mustard." Yellow,...

Read More

How does the use of genre and writing style support the main ideas in George Orwell's 'Why I Write'

why I write In ‘why I write’ by George Orwell, Orwell writes about the history of his writing and its motivation. He suggests four motivations, which are sheer egoism, aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, political purpose. The writer wrote because of three motivations except political purpose when he was young. However, he had changed and started to write for political purpose which means he wrote because of desire to push the world in a certain direction. In this essay, the writer unfolds his thought by dealing with political purpose...

Read More

Reflection on my in-class response to Body Ritual Among the Nacirema by Horace Miner.

The appearance of Nacirema that I assume  The first impression when I got the paper about Nacirema was embarrassing. This is because Mr. Menard gives a surprise present, surprising essay day. Then, when I read it, I become more nervous because the sentence structure and lexicons in the writing were so hard that I couldn't understand them easily. For example, the difficult expressions like 'incarcerated' or 'thaumaturge' kept me from understanding...

Read More