Friday, October 23, 2009

Coming Up With Sesame Street

At first, I was not really sure what the third essay was really about. The librarian had thrown me off when we had the library presentation because she kept talking about pop culture. I had been pretty sure that that was the topic of the second essay. I played along and acted like I new what was going on even though my brain was really making a strand of question marks throughout most of the presentation. Once we got back to class and actually spoke about the topic of this last essay, my brain became focused again. The strand of question marks from the class before was finally broken up. I went home trying to focus on a topic that I would be interested in. When I first heard the essay was suppose to be about art, I thought of famous artists and writers. I even played with the idea of writing about Shakespeare or Oliver Twist, but I knew I was not really interested in those topics. Those were just ideas that seemed relatively possible given the subject at hand. I thought a little harder and came up with "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugar Hill Gang. It was the first rap song. That has significance, but then I remembered I wrote an 18 page term paper on hip hop my senior year. Wouldn't that be just a little repetitive? There was no challenge there. I threw that idea out the window and thought some more. My brain popped when it thought of Sesame Street. If light bulbs really did hang over people's heads, I'm pretty sure mine would have lit up. I knew Sesame Street was perfect. It was a subject that most would never come up with and one that many could probably never link to art. This paper might be the most original analytical essay that I have ever written.

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