Essay ideas???

Question

Summer, ... was often more bearable than winter....
If you were given this essay title, what would you write about???

Yea... its meant to be a story...

Answer 1

what about dealing with Seasonal Affective Disorder? you could look into what its like for someone who suffers from this, and what available remedies there are...

Answer 2

This is your homework. Your teacher doesn't want people on Yahoo to do it for you.
If Summer is the only thing you have to work with; why don't you tell about all the great things that you did during the summer? You had to have done something exciting. Did you go on a great trip, or see some famous person that you like, or did you have an experience helping some people who needed it and appreciated it? Did you go out of your country? Did you work all summer to save for college or some other reason? Your life has to have something interesting to talk about.
After you pick what to write about; then build it up with the details and interesting things that you enjoyed or liked about it. It's what you do with any subject; that's going to make a good story.
You pick the subject and the title will be in it. The title will more than likely come after you write the story. Just leave space at the top for the title. Now...it will be easier. Just do a great job. Don't put it off til the last minute. The teacher can tell if you spent quality time writing it.

Answer 3

What comes to mind instant is a sad story about loosing something or someone as the word "bearable" to me could be things are still hard in summer but better than winter.
Or it could be a climate change like in a cold country where snow and cold are always there but winter worst.
Good luck

Answer 4

Since, from the essay title, I imagine your main focus would be on the weather/climate, it depends on what context you place the essay in, geographically, and historically

For example, geographically you might write about a country where the winters tend to be extreme while the summers are more bearable - Alaska, Greenland, Iceland, Siberia, etc.

Historically, you might write about the last Ice Age:

"There have been several ice ages in the history of the Earth. What is commonly called the ice age is actually the most recent (Quaternary) which began about two million years ago, and was characterized by cold (glacial), and relatively warm (interglacial) phases.
Four major continental glaciations are recorded in North America. The last (Wisconsin) began about 70,000 years ago, and ended 10,000 years ago. At the peak of the last glaciation, approximately 97% of Canada was covered by ice. Animals and plants that once lived in glaciated regions survived in refuges in Alaska and the Yukon, possibly on Banks Island, and in the northern United States. Probably the thickest ice (approximately 3,300 m) occurred over Hudson Bay. We are presently in an interglacial phase that could last for another 10,000 or more years. "

Personally, I'd go with the last Ice Age, if this is non-fiction rather than fiction (and it SHOULD be, if it's an essay - but I suppose it could be a "personal essay":
"The personal essay is often a free-wheeling device of self-expression. If you ever want to experiment with prose and with loosened structure, this is where you can do it. (If you're writing for a grade, though, make sure you understand what your instructor is looking for before you get too crazy!)
You will probably want to use quoted language in your personal essay. There is nothing like the "heard voice" to create the impression that this is real. Your readers are going along, reading your prose on the paper, and then they see someone saying "This is great stuff!" and they not only read and see, they hear. Spoken speech engages another whole sense and enriches the medium immensely. Unfortunately, using quoted language demands a whole set of typographical conventions — the quotation marks themselves and the various commas and end-marks
that are required."

For info about "personal essays", please go to link 2

OK, I just saw your "additional details" - go to link 2.
Or, if it's fiction, you could write about a human living during the last Ice Age.
"Four major continental glaciations are recorded in North America. The last (Wisconsin) began about 70,000 years ago, and ended 10,000 years ago. At the peak of the last glaciation, approximately 97% of Canada was covered by ice. Animals and plants that once lived in glaciated regions survived in refuges in Alaska and the Yukon, possibly on Banks Island, and in the northern United States."

Answer 5

Summer and how it was more bearable than winter.

Answer 6

Story or essay? They are very different forms.

Answer 7

the seasonal disorder sounds good

Answer 8

IS IT A STORY