Sample Prompt 5

Directions: Think carefully about the issue presented in the following paragraph and respond to the assignment below. You have 25 minutes.

Ideas about money have been on the minds of great thinkers for centuries. Henry Fielding said, “Make money your God and it will plague you like the devil.” Ken Hakuta once said, “Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.”

Maybe money is, after all, NOT, the key ingredient to providing some of life’s most sought-after answers?

Assignment: How do you feel about the idea that there are more important things in life than money? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.