Prompt 1
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
External constraints—factors that limit people’s plans and projects—can create stress, but this stress is not always bad and may even be necessary. In fact, the pressure of deadline, budgets, rules, and the demands imposed by others can push people to accomplish things that they would find impossible to accomplish with unlimited time, money, and the absence of pressure.
Adapted from Jena Pincott, Success: Advice for achieving your goals from Remarkably accomplished people.
Assignment: Do the demands of others tend to make people more productive than they would be without such pressure? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
Prompt 2
Are people entitled to have their own opinions? Yes and no. People can have virtually any opinion, no matter how illogical, uninformed, or foolish. But this does not mean that they are entitled to have their uninformed opinions taken seriously or that their opinions should be considered as valuable as informed opinions. Opinions are valuable only when they are backed up by thorough knowledge of the subject.
Adapted from John Chaffee, The Thinker’s Way
Assignment: Should all people’s opinions be valued equally, or should only informed opinions be taken seriously? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
Prompt 3
There are books that try to show the world as it is and books that try to show the world as it should or could be. Which sort of books should we be offering children and reading ourselves? One answer is the argument for the value of truth, for telling it like it is. Writers could promote certain positive ideals by being less realistic, but all of us—especially children—have a right to be told the truth
Adapted from Claudia Mills, “The Ethics of Representation: Realism and Idealism in Children’s Fictions”
Assignment: Should books portray the world as it is or as it should be? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
Prompt 4
Great discoveries often occur when a person explores the unknown, venturing far from what is familiar. But important breakthroughs—innovative solutions to difficult problems, for example—can also result when people take the time to look closely at their daily surroundings. In fact, the greatest discoveries often occur when people recognize in their familiar surroundings certain opportunities that others have overlooked or when people recognize that the way things have always been done is unjust or ineffective or unnecessary.
Assignment: Do people make the greatest discoveries by exploring what is unfamiliar to them or by paying close attention to what seems familiar? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
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