<p>Pick one woman in history or fiction to converse with for an hour and explain your choice. What would you talk about?</p>
<p>I do not have a clue on this one! Can anyone please give me some suggestions? Maybe like a woman politician? or a fictional character? or even a actress or a singer? A woman who has something to talk about… Thanks so much，really appreciate it. Deadline is in like 20 days!!</p>
<p>This is all about your choice. Who you’d want to talk to. It doesn’t have to be history as in in the past, it can be someone from the present because ‘we make history everyday’. It could be someone big and famous or someone less renowned but more important to you.</p>
<p>If you want a little nudge, before tackling this question, I
<p>These just give you a nudge though, because eventually I picked the person I had in mind from before anyway. These just help with other examples, but in the end ‘your woman’ is all about you.</p>
<p>I picked an interest I had and just refreshed my memory on some of the ppl involved in that interest. For instance, if I was really interested in history, i could talk about isabella of castile and the spanish inquisition, you could do the same for NASA with sally ride, etc</p>
<p>They’ve changed the question since my daughter’s day. She was given the choice of any fictional character, and she chose Nausica from The Odyssey. I know if she was given your choice she would have chosen Hillary ( our senator at the time), but I think that would make a boring essay since she is such an obvious choice. She was rewarded by having Hillary as her commencement speaker.</p>
<p>Hi everyone!</p>
<p>I’ve been thinking about this essay as well. I’ve thought about writing about a few different women, but I am leaning towards writing about Peggy Olson from Mad Men. I know that it would probably be more unusual than someone like Hillary Clinton, but I’m not sure if it would be in a good way. I personally do love her character (she is basically the reason I even watch the show) and the essay would be about how I feel that her feministic views but hesitance to openly identify with the other movements and ideologies of her time really relates to my own conflicting views on modern feminism and my own hesitance in putting labels on myself when it comes to my views. However, I am afraid that this choice might come off as random, especially if the admissions officer does not know much about the series, and that choosing a television character might make me seem shallow. Other choices of mine include Jhumpa Lahiri (who did go to Barnard, and being South Asian-American and a writer myself, I can relate to a lot of her work and she is one of my favorites authors), Betty Friedan, Kate Chopin, and Gertrude Stein. I think it would be easier to write about a fictional character just because you know more about them, but I definitely could write about one of the other women. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>All good ideas. You have to choose. Personally, I think an essay on Fertrude Stein could be fascinating, especially if you incorporated some if her writing style.</p>
<p>Personally I love the Mad Men idea - It’s fresh, multi-dimensional and relevant to the dialogue we are having as women today. I too like Gertrude Stein, but its been done a lot.</p>
<p>Thanks guys! My choices are Katniss Everdeen from the Hunger Games, Jane Austen, and Erin Brockovich. I’m not sure about any of those…Katniss is a 17year old girl so maybe I can relate to her more than the other two, but that also bothers me. Maybe they will think my essay is too childish and immature. And about Jane Austen, I love her novels but maybe a lot of ppl have already wrote essays about her. Erin Brockovich…I knew her only from the movie named Erin Brockovich so I do not have as much information as the other two…</p>
<p>And also is it good to write about politicians? From the Middle East? Not Hilary. I have done some research on an outstanding woman politician but I am not sure I can “talk” to her for an hour about politics since its so complicated…
Any advice?
Really appreciate it:)</p>
<p>It’s about writing a good essay not creating a realistic situation. Make sure the writing is fresh and be honest. A great essay on Alice in Wonderland is better than a dull one on a politician and visa versa.</p>