In a lengthy, substantial wordprocessed essay (at least five pages, double spaced, with a font size of eleven or twelve), which is to go through multiple drafts, compare and contrast the effects and meanings of timepieces and time in your life and environment (including what you notice at school, around town, at work, among classmates, acquaintances, friends, family, etc.), and your society or culture, with what Hazlitt observes in his essay. Include also a comparison and contrast of what you think is implied by the timepieces you notice (including various advertisements for them) about the culture and people of modern America (in Augusta, Georgia) versus what Hazlitt asserts is revealed about his England and various European countries.
 

        Use lots of details and specifics both from your own life and Hazlitt's essay, and continually and explicitly refer to both general concepts as well as illustrations from Hazlitt's essay, to demonstrate familiarity with and mastery of it . For example, do you wear a watch? What kind is it--that is, what brand (what do ideas do brands bring up? do any of these ideas imply a difference between our time and place, and Hazlitt's?), what appearance (color, size, etc.), and is it digital or analog? Using a philosophical sort of analysis like Hazlitt's, discuss what philosophical difference or differences might be implied between the appearance or timekeeping of a digital versus analog watch. What other features does your watch have, if any? Why and where did you buy or acquire the watch; and do you use all its features--where and when? Do you own more than one watch? The same questions would apply to other watches you may own. What other things keep time in your environment (e.g., VCR's, oven clocks, clock radios), and with what implications (and comparison-contrasts to any of Hazlitt's points or observations)?
 

        Be sure to adhere to sections 11-18 of my handout on the reading-response essay (NNRRE). No formal Works Cited page is necessary for this first out-of-class essay, but parenthetical documentation is required. Avoid overquotation from the assigned reading, especially avoiding long quotations, but do refer to lots of specifics and details (from the required reading, as well as from your own life) , using for the required reading parenthetical documentation by paragraph number, as shown in the section on the out-of-class essay on my handout on the reading-response essay.