Have you ever moved from one place to another? What sort of experience was it? Was there an activity, an experience, or an object that helped ease the transition? Write an essay about leaving an old home and moving to a new one, making sure to address these questions.

Choose ONE of the following prompts below and write an essay that you develop primarily by example, just as both Quindlen and Staples did in their essays. Be sure to choose the prompt you care most about so that the examples are a means of communicating an idea (a thesis), not an end in themselves.

1. Have you ever moved from one place to another? What sort of experience was it? Was there an activity, an experience, or an object that helped ease the transition? Write an essay about leaving an old home and moving to a new one, making sure to address these questions. (Remember, in an essay story–telling exists for the sake of an idea, or ideas. Don’t just tell a story for its own sake.)

2. Consider more broadly than Staples does what it means to alter public space. Staples would rather not have the power to do so, but it is a power, and it could perhaps be positive in some circumstances. Expand on Staples’s essay by examining the pros and cons of altering public space. Use specific examples as your evidence.

3. Klass’s essay explores the “separation between doctors and patients.” Has this separation affected you as a patient or as the relative or friend of a patient? If so, write an essay about your experience. Did the medical professionals rely heavily on jargon? Was their language comforting, frightening, irritating? Based on your experience and Klass’s essay, do you believe that the separation between doctors and patients is desirable? Explain.

REMEMBER: Make sure your essay—regardless of the prompt you choose—abides by the points provided in the “Graded Essay Standards” doc in the Blackboard Classroom.