Prospectus-Self Project

Description of Project
The project that I chose to do is a paper about a life experience that I had that made me be more appreciative of my background. Specifically I am going to discuss how as a child I was unappreciative of having a Swiss background. Because my dad is Swiss, we go to Switzerland at least every other year, if not every year. When I was young I was never very crazy about going, even though my whole dad’s side of the family lives there. I was so used to my own life at home with my friends, TV shows, sports teams, and general activities that I enjoyed, that I was unwilling to give going to Switzerland the chance of being a very memorable experience. Even though, my mom would always tell me how lucky I should feel cause other people would give anything to have the oppurtunity to go to such an amazing country in Europe, I viewed it as something ordinary and unspecial. However, as I grew older I realized the importance of my background and learned to love going to Switzerland and visiting my family and being part of the culture there. Now everytime we go I get excited, not only to see my family, but to experience the aspects of Switzerland that I am not used to at home: the amazing food and the great scenary. Further, I have grown to appreciate even the simple walks through the woods that we often take and the great dinners that we have as a family at my relatives or in the city of Basel. I think writing about this part of my life as my self-project will be something that I actually enjoy writing about. I think it will be a great way to express a part of my life that I have come to enjoy and be thankful for.

Genre
The genre for my project will be a written essay. I will use my own experience and lesson to construct an essay that both relays something important about me, while also using a hidden form of persuassive writing to attract the reader and influence him or her to go and evaluate experiences or parts of their own life that are more important now as they have matured.

Intended Audience
The intended audience for my paper will be the general public. However, I hope to focus more on younger readers around my age or even in high school, who would be most prone to learning how to appreciate parts of their lives that they couldn’t as a child. I hope that this paper will appeal to those young adults the most, and get them to focus on finding things in their lives that have more meaning now than when they were younger.

Purpose
The purpose of this paper that I want to write is to get the reader to open his or her eyes and look back on their own lives and see what they have learned to appreciate as they have matured. Further, I hope to get the reader to search for something else that they can now learn to see the meaning of, and how up until now they didn’t appreciate it. Hopefully, by reading this paper that I construct, I will persuade readers to look at their own life and compare their growth to the growth I experienced in my own life. By proving that I was able to learn to appreciate my background, others will hopefully believe that they can too learn to appreciate their own experiences in life.