Homework help PLEASE!!

[Jamieejo85]

Okay I am writing an "Explaining Concepts" paper for my English class. My professor told us that we have to define some abstract concept and show how it functions in the concrete world. Some examples he gave us were Conversation, responsibility, and honesty. I would rather not use these because most people in the class probably will since those are the ones he told us in class. Has anyone ever had to do one of these papers? Please any ideas would be greatly appreciated!!

[beeniesmom]

Ok, first you need to find an abstract concept to work with.

You could do a paper on "fear"

[beeniesmom]

or learning....

[Jamieejo85]

Thanks a lot Carmen!! I think I may use the learning one. I was just having trouble coming up with a concept.

[beeniesmom]

I think the learning one is good too. You could write about how differently people absorb / learn information.

[jackie]

What about love?

[Jamieejo85]

Thanks for the idea but my professor told us to stay away from really broad topics such as love. So I have chosen learning, Thanks Carmen!! LOL and now I have another problem. In the paper we have to do four things, in order. We have to explain the concept, explain how widespread it is, explain how it functions, and explain the advantages and disadvantages. I am having problesm with the explaining how widespread it is and explaining how it funcions. I am not asking someone to do it for me, just some ideas or a push in the right direction so to speak. Thanks a bunch in advance for any help, it will be greatly appreciated!!

[beeniesmom]

Widespread: Everybody learns everyday with everything that they do.

Functions: Here you can explain that it differs from person to person.

errr not very clear huh....

[Jamieejo85]

No actually Carmen that helps me out a lot! Thank you so much, I really appreciate it.

[beeniesmom]

Good. Glad if I could help a little.
I used to be really good at this.

[Lobodeb]

I used to be really good at this.

Evidently, you still are!