In terms of the digital essay, I have several ideas. As of right now, I will probably end up working alone, unless there is somebody else in the class who would be interested in working on the same topic as me. I would like to know if the song/poem we choose needs to be about happiness, or if it can be about anything we want.
I would like to choose a song and analyze the meaning of the lyrics. I’m not sure if the best way to do it is through a very close reading, or if we should try to focus more on proving our points with the use of outside research. I’m guessing the paper will be the more involved with research, and the project should be geared more towards providing a visual image/idea of what our paper’s thesis will be.
So far, I’m not sure what exactly I want to do yet. If anybody wants to work with me, let me know. I’m thinking of making my thesis/theme “Money can’t buy happiness.”
The poem doesn’t necessarily need to be about happiness. That might be part of the reason our teach made the directions so ambiguous. Though with your potential topic, you wouldn’t have a problem linking it with happiness. As for poem ideas, maybe you can use “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” by Dr. Suess? I’m not sure if you’d want do do a poem about a miser, but the entire story epitomizes the emptiness of materialism. Well good luck!
I actually had that theme in mind on ‘Money can’t buy happiness’! I’m still not sure if I’m going to chose that topic though, but if I come across any ideas that relate to it I will be sure to share them with you!
Yeah, some of your questions are the same with mine as I have yet chosen a distinct theme/topic to do with a degree of confidence or certainty yet. Although Andre, was “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” really a poem? I mean I’ve always thought it was a story in rhyme….oh wait.
I think that money can buy happiness.
What a very interesting topic you’re choosing. “Money can’t buy happiness” has always been a very complicated idea and it would be interesting to see how you would incorporate your ideas into your digital essay to relate it back to this idea. Good luck! 🙂