Hello,
below you will find the assignment for Packet 5, due on Monday.
Also, I have provided a copy of Out of Class Essay Assignment #2.
PACKET #5:
"Why Does Health Care Cost so Much?:
http://www.thedoctorwillseeyounow.com/content/healthcare/art2809.html?getPage=1
(Please note: this article is three pages in length.)
"Abraham Verghese: A Doctor's Touch"--TED TALKS
http://www.ted.com/talks/abraham_verghese_a_doctor_s_touch.html
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"Why Does Health Care Cost so Much?:
http://www.thedoctorwillseeyounow.com/content/healthcare/art2809.html?getPage=1
(Please note: this article is three pages in length.)
"Abraham Verghese: A Doctor's Touch"--TED TALKS
http://www.ted.com/talks/abraham_verghese_a_doctor_s_touch.html
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English 20, Spring
2013---C. Fraga
Date assigned: Wednesday, March 6
Rough draft
(optional): due no later
than Wed., April 3
Final draft due: Monday, April 15
Details:
1. MLA format
2. At least 4
outside sources on your Works Cited page. If you utilize personal interviews,
at LEAST two of the four sources CANNOT be interviews.
3. Please, no
Wikipedia as primary sources
4. No formulaic, 5
paragraph essay
OUT OF CLASS ESSAY
ASSIGNMENT #2
Among many things,
the series Breaking Bad focuses on the family entity and what happens
when something quite extraordinary occurs—how do members of the family cope,
adjust, and/or “deal” with the event/situation? (In the case of this series,
obviously it is Walter’s cancer that is the ‘event’).
I am not referring
to the everyday “bumps in the road” that occur for all families. Instead, I am
asking you to consider the family unit when faced with an especially challenging situation. These situations could
include but are not limited to:
• death
• birth
• infidelity
• serious injury
• dementia
• serious illness
• divorce
• unemployment
• new employment
• moving to a new
home/state/area/country
• the return of a
war veteran
• moving BACK home
after initially moving OUT
• alcoholism
• drug abuse
Select ONE
situation that you are most interested in exploring. You will conduct research
(and possibly personal interviews, if possible) in order to write an essay that
offers the reader background on the topic and
makes an assertion about what elements impact a family in the most challenging
of ways and supports it logically and interestingly.
Your thesis might
read something like this:
When a family
member develops dementia, the challenges are often devastating, yet the disease
definitely impacts family members more than the dementia patient.
Or…
When a couple
divorces, it most certainly impacts the children still living at home; however,
it is the older children who have already moved away that are most affected by
the split.
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