Student Essays

I choose to look at Student Essay’s 4 and 8. Titled “Per Aspera Ad Astra” and “Watson’s Big Day”. Both start off with a single sentence before their body paragraphs. Essay 4 starts off with a sentence that reads “Seventeen seconds.  Seventeen goddamn seconds was all it took to lose those three men.” Not knowing what the title meant this statement grabs anyone attention. Essay 8 “Good afternoon, Mr. Trebek, I have been waiting for a very, very, very long time.” Neither statements reference what exactly is the topic of the articles but they get your attention or curiosity. This is what I will need when I write about the Higgs Boson. It is a big topic and can be very difficult to explain so I want a strong introduction so I don’t lose my readers right off the start. Both of these article have the one sentence introduction that does a strong job. After further reading we see that Essay 8 is about Watson the computer and its ability to communicate with humans and the article lead into Artificial Intelligence. Essay 4 is about the death of three men abroad a practice test. A fire broke out and burned the three men. This article has an interesting twist. They start with the opening statement but then go through to history and lead to their initial statement. Along the way there are short statements that are related to the fire and death of the men. The author keeps you reading since you get taste of what is to come after going through the history. I now have more ideas on how I will tackle the paper of writing about the Higgs Boson.