I have to write an essay about not having health insurance, but I do. How do I write that in the first person.
2006-10-25 09:45:31 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Financial Aid
Pretend that you don't have insurance. Imagine how that would effect your daily decisions and write about that.
2006-10-25 11:19:51 · answer #1 · answered by Gypsy Girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basically you have to write the essay as if you were indeed the person who did not have health insurance.
2006-10-25 09:53:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
the 1st person is when you talk as though it is through your eyes instead of a narrator. just imagine what it would be like if you didn't have health insurance and write as though you were living in that scenario.
2006-10-25 09:57:11 · answer #3 · answered by sweetybabe 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Creatively. But otherwise just the same as any other first person narrative.
The assignment is probably just a test of your ability to view the world from another's shoes, and not a test of writing ability, spelling, or grammar.
Welcome to the adult world.
2006-10-25 09:53:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Consider this an exercise in empathy. Educate yourself about the issues of those without health insurance. Interview (if you can) someone who doesn't possess it. Research how much it costs if one's job does not have a plan and, how much it costs if one is self-employed. Research how rates are different from region to region. Research what happens if someone misses an insurance payment. Once you have all of these facts, then imagine yourself w/o insurance and integrate what you've learned from your research. Extrapolate the consequences should you develop a long-term or terminal disease.
2006-10-25 09:51:34 · answer #5 · answered by Finnegan 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
The essence of good first-person narrative is sharing an experience, letting the reader see and feel it, and reaching a resolution from which both reader and writer grow or have an 'aha' moment. Writers often confuse essays with a recollection of an event -- they fail to share how the experience enlightened them, affected them, changed their opinion. An essay is an internal journey of discovery. To work well, the reader takes that journey with you.
2006-10-25 09:47:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Write an essay in the first person "assuming" that you do NOT have insurance. Pretend, dude!
2006-10-25 09:47:36 · answer #7 · answered by gatesfam@swbell.net 4 · 2⤊ 4⤋
I'd imagine that all you need to do is write a fictional account of "yourself" in some situations requiring insurance.
2006-10-25 09:51:00 · answer #8 · answered by Horndog 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Make it personal. Use "I" instead of he or she.
If have to write about NOT having insurance, but you really do, just lie.
2006-10-25 09:49:22 · answer #9 · answered by chocolate-drop 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Think of yourself as a person without insurance and what happens to you when you can't go to a doctor or dentist when you need to.
What happens to you?
2006-10-25 09:48:56 · answer #10 · answered by the shadow knows 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋