Response Assignment #1:
In response to "Is It Philosophy or Pornography?"
Due October 11th (minimum 2 pages):
Find a bathroom stall or wall or some surface that has a lot of graffiti on it, jot down several samples of graffiti. Then write a MINIMUM two page response, keeping the following questions/thoughts in mind:
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Where did you find the graffiti? (School? Bar? What kind of bar? Restaurant? Hotel? Bus stop? Wall outside? And where? On what kind of building and in what type of neighborhood? Etc.) Give as many details about the place as possible. Describe the scene.
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How were the messages displayed? Etched in? Written on in ink? Pencil? Painted on? All of the above?
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What category did the majority of the graffiti fall under? (See article: Humor? Love and Relationships? Drugs and Alcohol? Sports? Sex? Philosophical?)
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Did the type of messages seem to echo or represent the place they were found in?
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Could you gauge what type of people might've written the messages? What sex (if you are not in a bathroom stall – unless the bathroom was unisex)? Sexual orientation? Race? Ethnicity? How?
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Take one particular piece/chunk of graffiti and try to imagine what that person that wrote it is like, how they dress, what they do for a living (or don't do), where they spend their days . . . write out a paragraph of what you imagine that person to be like, based on their graffiti. You can be as creative as you'd like.
** As you are writing, make sure to reference the graffiti, putting whatever graffiti you are talking about at the time in quotation marks.
** Attach a SEPARATE sheet of paper with your copied graffiti in a list (this will be the THIRD page).
** Always, always back up your thoughts with some example, quote, or explanation. |
