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English 101 Timed Essay Two You should prepare for it by identifying the passages from the texts we’ve read with which you’d like to work, by creating an outline of the essay you intend to write, and/or drafting your essay before submitting it

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English 101

Timed Essay Two

You should prepare for it by identifying the passages from the texts we’ve read with which you’d like to work, by creating an outline of the essay you intend to write, and/or drafting your essay before submitting it.

The essay should be 600 words long, at minimum, though it can exceed this number. You should take time, as always, to proofread carefully, as the clarity of your writing will contribute to the grade you receive. You do not need to format your quotations for the essay.

Please consult Blackboard postings for due dates.

The Topics

1. In Susan Griffin’s essay “Our Secret,” she uses the V-1 rocket and cellular biology as metaphors for human behavior and human tendencies towards compassion (our connectedness to others) and brutal indifference (our inability to connect to others). Use these metaphors to examine one or two of the people and/or concepts Griffin introduces, and then evaluate whether or not they are effective metaphors for describing human behavior. Be sure to quote the text when appropriate.

2. Susan Bordo quotes our old friend John Berger in her essay saying that in “both classical painting and commercial advertisements, ‘men act and women appear.” Bordo is arguing, of course, that while this remains true,  contemporary advertising is pushing male models toward poses in advertisements that are more traditionally female. Write an essay where you discuss the accuracy of Bordo’s argument, and then discuss what these circumstances say about the perceptions and cultural ramifications of representations of men and women in the media. In other words, who are we becoming, what are we paying attention to, and what does this say about us? Again, refer directly to the text where appropriate.