Exercise 5

1.      1. After re-reading my essay I don’t think I have a great project statement.  This is the closest I have. “What type of society do we live in where people don’t think about just using their words?  Not one in which I want to live. 

2.      2. The most important idea in my essay is the importance of manners in our society.  I believe we will never succeed as a people and a country if we can’t be kind to one another.  If charity starts at home kindness must too.

3.       3. "Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last."  I choose this quote because it supports my thesis.  The reason (I believe) so manner young adults lack manners today is because they’ve never truly learned anything for themselves.  If they, like Descartes, can unlearn what they think they know they will see their biases and become better people. 

4.      4. I summarized the idea that one must unlearn everything they know.  This is an ongoing theme in my essay.

5.      5. The idea that I am a Millennial introduces my essay. 

6.      6. My struggle to understand others in my generation concludes the essay.  A good essay sometimes leads you to more questions than answers.  I still don’t understand my generation but I know I can effect change. 

7.      7. I recently learned the brain does not stop developing until the age 25. 

8.      8. I believe my personal experience makes my essay unique.  Often when reading a essay I become bored because I feel as though the topic isn’t real to the author.  I didn’t want this to be the case with my essay so I was sure to add a personal touch.