Prompt 1: WISDOM: Write a persuasive essay that defends, challenges, or qualifies the assertion that “For in much wisdom is much grief, and increase of knowledge is increase of sorrow” (Ecclesiastes).
Prompt 2: SOLUTION/COMPROMISE: Choose a controversial local, national, or global issue with which you are familiar and use appropriate evidence in an essay that carefully considers the opposing positions on this controversy ad proposes a solution or compromise.
Prompt 3: OPINIONS: From talk radio to television, to popular magazines to Web blogs, ordinary citizens, political figures, and entertainers express their opinions on a wide range of topics. Take a position on the value of such public statements of opinion.
Prompt 4: CHARITABLE ACTS: Develop a position on the ethics of offering incentives for charitable acts and support your position with evidence from your reading, observation, and/or experience.
Prompt 5: BUY NOTHING DAY: The first Buy Nothing Day—a day on which people are urged to purchase no goods—was organized in Canada in 1992 as a way to increase awareness of excessive consumerism. Consider the implications of a day on which no goods are purchased. Then write an essay in which you develop a position on the establishment of an annual Buy Nothing Day.
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