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English 1301 students:
For your last blog of the semester, please submit a comment of at least two well-developed paragraphs on the following topic before Monday, December 10th, at midnight:
What is one of the pet peeves in your life that makes you feel the same way that Stanley Fish feels about fancy coffee shops, as he explains in “Getting Coffee is Hard to Do” (pp. 286-89 in our textbook). Here is a link to the article as it appears in The New York Times
As you think about your pet peeve, you might want to consider this critique of Fish's editorial by Ron Rosenbaum: "The World Op-Ed Ever Written?"
And, just for fun, you might want to listen to the pop song to which the title of Mr. Fish's editorial alludes. Here's are links to two versions of the song, written and performed by Neil Sedaka, on YouTube: fast version of "Breaking Up is Hard to Do" and slow version of "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" Personally, I like the slow version better, but the older, faster version is especially old-fashioned, so it seems especially relevant to the old-fashioned attitudes about coffee in Fish's editorial.
After you submit your comment, please reply in one well-developed paragraph to at least one of the other students' comments.
Happy Holidays,
Dr. K
