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      CommentAuthorDiamonte
    • CommentTimeNov 1st 2009
     
    I'm being a selfish brat and crawling to you smarter mortals for help. I have a paper to write for my rhetorical analysis class, and it has to be a definition paper. We can chose any word we want to define.

    I'm stuck with no ideas on what to do. Some ideas that past students used that our teacher mentioned included "defining pornography [and the difference between art and pornography, which made me think of that artist vs. pervert picture]" "different emoticons such as ;-) and =P, etc".

    Yeah. So it can be pretty much anything ranging from the humorous to the serious. But I have no idea what to do. If anyone has some suggestions on good topics for such instances, I'd appreciate it. My brain is close to fried right now.
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    Given the site we are on… bad books vs. good books?

    All I can think of X(

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      CommentAuthorDiamonte
    • CommentTimeNov 1st 2009 edited
     
    That's actually a decent idea. Better than my idea of trying to gain suck-up points [now that I know my teacher's doing NaNoWrimo] and rambling on about my definition of "NaNoWriMo/National Novel Writing Month"
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    Talent? I think it’s an interesting concept…

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      CommentAuthorDiamonte
    • CommentTimeNov 1st 2009
     
    I like it.

    I'm toying with the thought of doing an essay on heroes and heroism. I want an excuse to bring Captain Hammer into it. Surely no teacher would give such a paper anything less than an A+.
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      CommentAuthorTakuGifian
    • CommentTimeNov 1st 2009
     

    rhetorical analysis?

    Define “rhetoric”. Better yet, define “analysis”. Nothing like a bit of metatextuality to get a teacher’s blood pumping. You can even take a historical direction with the definition of “analysis”:

    etymology of “analysis” (from Online Etymology Dictonary):

    1580s, “resolution of anything complex into simple elements” (opposite of synthesis), from M.L. analysis, from Gk. analysis “a breaking up,” from analyein “unloose, release, set free,” from ana “up, throughout” + lysis “a loosening,” from lyein “to unfasten” (see lose). Psychological sense is from 1890. Phrase in the final (or last) analysis (1844), translates Fr. en dernière analyse.

    The relationship between the idea of ‘breaking things down into their parts” and the modern idea of literary analysis which is more about the discussion of themes and concepts, and often the invention of themes and concepts that were not put there intentionally by the author, could be interesting. Where the original term ‘analysis’ did mean breaking something down into its original parts, as in chemistry, in litarary analysis or deconstruction, the focus has shifted to ‘what does the analyser see in the text, regardless of its intended or actual parts?”

    That could be an interesting paper to write.

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      CommentAuthorMoldorm
    • CommentTimeNov 2nd 2009
     

    I’d go with the hero/ism idea. That gives you a lot to talk about, with different ideas of heroism, non-hero protagonists, heroic antagonists etc.

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      CommentAuthorswenson
    • CommentTimeNov 3rd 2009
     

    Also, you could mention comic books with a completely serious face.

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