Questions and Topics We Can Help You To Answer:

Topic 2.

A public place you know personally has been changed by time or by human beings. Has the change been for the better or for the worse?

Tips:
The place has to be a personal limited place, not an entire city. It could be the shopping center that you used to go to with your family, or the restaurant where you ate with your friends, the park where you played sports with the neighborhood kids.  It has to be a personal place.

Examples: the park where you used to play has been replaced by a number of buildings; your old school has been renovated. Has the change been for the better or for the worse?

Guidelines

    In the introduction, introduce the place and mention briefly some memories of it.
    In the thesis statement, state whether the change has been good or bad.
    In each body paragraph compare one aspect of the change to what it was before and show how the change is good/bad.
    Address the counter argument: what do those who disagree with you think?

Do not get too cozy with the essay. Some students spend many sentences expressing their nostalgia and their disappointment that a place they loved so much has changed. This is too personal. Remember that the essay is about the place, not about you,  and that whether it has changed for better or for worse is in the general meaning, not in the personal meaning.