For my memoir, the topic that would probably interest me the most would have to be education. A great example of a personal experience that I would be interested in writing about would be the time period 6 years ago of me obtaining my driver's license. I would be able to think back into those days and the personal process that I went through from asking to go for my permit test, throughout going to driving school, to my driving lessons, all the way up until the day of my driver's license test. I could also explain the observations I made of how my parents drove and how it helped me learn more about the whole process itself. And the topic I could argue regarding this essay could be switching it from you needing twelve lessons now before being able to go for your license test instead of the six lessons I needed back when I was doing it. I think I could definitely get creative and into detail with this subject, as I have gone through the actual experience and understand the arguments of it because I have a brother now that has to do twelve lessons before being able to get his license.
A second topic that could interest me for my memoir would be sports. I would talk about my experiences being to professional sports games like the Boston Celtics. I remember last year when I went to a playoff game that came down until the very end and the Celtics came out on top. From my memory, I remember all the observations I made of fans, players, coaches, etc and could get into detail about the trip up there, the actual game, and the aftermath of it all. A third topic I could write about would be business and economics. For that, I'd probably write about my work experience just within this past month. I've been through a lot of changes, between 3 jobs! Just two days ago I finally got the job I had been looking for. I could talk about all the different observations I made while being trained at the jobs I worked at and what I liked and disliked about them.
I'm not quite sure these are in order of preference. You need to pick one theme that all of your essays for the semester will center on (personal, ethnographic, and argumentative). which theme do you think will work best to let you do that?
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