Blog Post 2.1: Experimenting with Breaks
Noam: Tell me something interesting about yourself!
I was eighteen. My status was “legal”, my curfew non-existent, my beverage of choice was tequila (or whiskey if it was bought for me, or champagne if it was one of my weekly birthdays). My extra-curricular activities consisted of napping, dancing and eating french fries too late at night.
I was in Israel and my parents were in New York.
Me: I don’t know, you tell me something interesting about you first!
It was September of 2008, and I had embarked on a year-long journey to Israel on a volunteer program. Our only rules were to attend our volunteer jobs on time daily, keep our apartment presentable and to be present for one weekly meeting with our fellow roommates. Each night was a declaration of our freedom. People drank too much, conducted themselves poorly and were lucky enough to have friends whom were willing to drag them home. As the novelty of going out every night began to wear off we began to limit our nights out to Thursday nights because (at least for the ladies) while the novelty of drinking every night and waking up early to go to work lost its’ sheen, a strapping Israeli man in his army uniform did not. Thursday night marked the start of the weekend for Israeli soldiers and so did it mark the start of the American girls’ weekend. Clubs and bars were filled with extremely attractive men, only made more attractive by their well-fitted green uniforms.
Noam: I have have five cats!
This bizarre conversation marked the night of my first kiss.
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I chose to experiment with paragraph breaks by applying them to my first essay. Upon deciding exactly what I would utilize as my page breaks I decided to play with the assignment by breaking up the conversation I feautred and using those quotes as my paragraph breaks. I feel that it has the potential to be effective since upon my essay’s completiong I felt as if my message was almost too direct. By using the quotes as paragraph breaks I feel it maybe more engaging to the reader. Following the excerpt I’ve posted I was thinking of then making a break in the center of my original essay (signaled by stars) and only then start to relay my message to my readers.
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