Practice Final Exam Topics
You have a favorite activity, yet your friend or parent or someone else cannot
understand why you are so interested and enthusiastic about the activity. Write
an essay to help that person understand you. If you wish, you may write a letter.
Your purposes are to provide information (facts, examples, a story, description,
etc.) and to explain why the activity is important to you.
Are there any television programs that are especially harmful to watch? Are
there any that are especially beneficial to watch? Choose one program or one
kind of program and explain your reasons for advising people to watch it or
for lobbying to get it pulled off the air.
A high school principal has asked you to write an essay to discuss how high
schools might do a better job. The essay will be duplicated and given to students,
teachers, and administrators. Make sure you identify a problem, provide a solution,
and back up your ideas with specific examples and details.
Suppose EKU instituted a mandatory community service requirement. Every student,
2-year or 4-year, would work for ten hours a year (that’s ten hours for
the whole academic year) at one or more community service agencies here in Richmond
or in their home communities, submit a three page report on the experience,
and receive one hour of general education credit. Would you be in favor of or
opposed to such a requirement? Why or why not?
No community is perfect. Regardless of size and the good intentions of its
inhabitants, every community, from a dormitory floor or a team or club, to a
small town, to a corporation, to a large, prosperous city, has its problems.
Identify a problem in the community of your choice, explain its history and
any past attempts to solve it, and suggest your own solution (it need not be
original, but creativity is always appreciated).
Identify a piece of technology that you think has significantly influenced
your life and is likely to continue to have an impact. Explain that impact and
why it is likely to continue, and discuss the benefits and drawbacks of the
technology.
Do universities have the right to monitor and restrict students' viewing of
certain Internet sites on university-owned computers? Or does the students'
right to free speech take precedence, regardless of who is offended or how?
Is it the university's mission to encourage and even protect free inquiry and
controversial speech and images? What do you think? Argue for or against the
right of universities to monitor and restrict, as EKU and many other institutions
do.
