Essay 3 Proposal

For essay 3 I was thinking of "I believe ignorance is NOT bliss". I don't really know, and I will continue to look at www.thisibelieve.org for more insight into the next paper.

The term ignorance is bilss is thrown around a lot in our house, and it sometimes gets an agrument started. I was also thinking of doing this topic due to the election, I know a lot of people who did not vote because of ignorance. Outside sources might be a bit tough, but I will use Google and see what might come up.

I do believe that this essay would provide two sides. Those who might be able to argue for it, and then me, who thinks "ignorance is bliss" is a load of crap. Ethos in this paper will come from personal experience and hopefully some outside sources. I don't think I will be preaching to the choir with this topic because, to my knowledge, I don't know of anyone besides my parents that use that term frequently, or even know what it means.

For the tone of this paper, I haven't quite decided. If this is the topic that will be approved and I can get 3 pages out of it, then I am thinking it is going to be close to an informative paper? I do not want it to be serious because then it will be boring and nobody will read it, but I don't want it to be funny either. I think that once I get started, I will know how the essay will end up looking like. Conventions, structure, language choice, etc. will be figured out as I go.