E+Fer

I chose my topic for this first paper by simply thinking of all the themes in the first couple of readings, looking for something that I could make some sort of thesis out of. I initially just heard the word defiance in a hip hop song I was listening to during the week before our rough draft was due and it just stuck with me. That word is a very strong word and sounds powerful so I just picked that word without even looking at the sample theme choices and ran with it. I gained a lot of audible feedback not verbal. I just listened to my group members read their essays and gained some ideas about the type of direction I wanted to go in as far as analysis of certain readings. My paper looks nothing like my second. My first paper was just a mash up of random ideas and an actual thesis was constructed in my second with more in-depth analysis. I loved how I took just one vague word and idea, and turned it into three pages of pretty reasonable essay. I started with nothing and just built an essay out of one word which amazes me.