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 look at the "hypotheticals" you were assigned last week (#5). I would like also to collect the essay topics you were asked last week to think about, for use perhaps on the final exam, scheduled week 10.
Essay #6: In 350-500 words address address an idea that you hold as an article of faith or philosophical belief, using narrative or descriptive examples to support and flesh out the basis of that belief. I have several examples to give you from a book collection called This I Believe II: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women. Other examples may be found at thisibelieve.org. You may summarize and quote from any one of these as a lead-in to your piece, or structure the piece as a response to any of the examples, though it is not a required element of the essay. The topic you address will reflect your particular experience and corresponding beliefs or concerns–whether of religion, money, competition, struggle, survival, relationships, love, death, sickness, health, meaning itself, the nature of existence, the human condition, the fate of life on this planet, etcetera.
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