Your incorporates DEFINITION and EXAMPLIFICATION to present a position in response to a particular theme or aspect of an assigned reading. This essay should be about 800-1000 words.
You do not need to rely heavily on the essay to which you are responding. Instead, you can assume that your reader has read that essay. Your primary focus should be on your thoughts and ideas.
1. In his essay "What is Happiness?" John Ciardi contends that "the forces of American commercialism are hugely dedicated to making us deliberately unhappy." Considering your own definition of "happiness" and using developed examples, write an essay that supports or contradicts this statement.
2. "Not unlike drugs or alcohol, the television experience allows the participant to blot out the real world and enter into a pleasurable and passive mental state" claims Marie Winn in her essay "TV Addiction". Considering your own definition of "addiction" as well as the influences of
various new media-such as video games, DVDs, cell phones, and social networking websites write an essay arguing that media addiction does or does not exist.