Final Exam
English 105.2
E. Siler

The final exam is a writing exam based on the readings you’ve done in class. Any war, including the drug war, can teach a lesson -- as long as we pay attention. Consider the quotation by Toft at the end of Killing Pablo: “I don’t what the lesson of the story is,” he says. “I hope it’s not that the end justifies the means.” Another possible lesson from the drug war is expressed in the tag line to the movie Traffic: “Nobody gets away clean.”

For this exam, you will answer the following question:

What are some of the important lessons to be learned from the war on drugs?

To answer the question correctly, you’ll need to think about all the sources we’ve read and seen in this class. What lessons can you extract from these materials?

Find at least three lessons we can learn from the drug war. Form an essay in which you explain and discuss these lessons with reference to the material we have read in class. You should write a well connected essay, with an introduction and a thesis statement (claim statement), and at least six additional paragraphs (approximately 2 paragraphs per lesson). Information in paragraphs should be well explained and well connected and the paragraphs themselves should flow together smoothly with transitions.

The essay should be well edited -- especially given that you have two weeks in advance to prepare it.

The only materials you may bring with you are a writing instrument and your dictionary. A blue book will be given to you.