: Pick a subject that is important to you or about which you become very emotional. The subject you select does not have to be anything big, grandiose, or deeply meaningful to others. It just needs to be important to you. It might be about what movies you are allowed to see, what activities your parents allow you to do with your friends, or other things in your personal or family life. It may have to do with a situation with a friend, a team you belong to, a new law in your town, or anything else about which you have strong feelings.

Write a brief description of this subject or situation and how you feel about it. Defend your right to think and feel as you do. Write several paragraphs.

Briefly describe how someone in your life feels about this touchy subject that causes you to feel very emotional. This should be a person who has an opinion that is different from yours. Pretend that you are this other person and write a paper from his or her point of view. Defend her right to think as she does. Write several paragraphs.

Now write a third discussion in which you bring the two points of view together and find an amicable solution for yourself and this other person. Perhaps both of you need to change your points of view (sometimes even just a little movement can make the difference!), perhaps you need to just accept each other's right to disagree, or perhaps you need to find a middle ground on which to meet. Write several paragraphs about how this could be accomplished.