Reference no: EM133761946

Case: A young man wearing a baseball cap sits alone at a café patio table sipping coffee. He has a laptop and a stack of papers in front of him. He suddenly stands and walks around to the empty chair on the other side of the table and sits down, continuing to sip his coffee. He stares at the people walking up and down the busy street. A few minutes later two middle-aged men come over to the table. One man is very tall and is wearing an expensive three-piece suit and the second man has a long blonde braided ponytail. The young man looks up at the two men and smiles nervously at the man with the ponytail. The tall man frantically waves his hand in the air and yells at the young man. The young man slowly drops his head, and his shoulders fall forward. The man with the ponytail grabs the coffee cup and starts to bring it to his mouth to sip but not before the tall man in the expensive suit slaps it out of his hand to the ground. Then the tall man grabs the stack of papers off the table and runs. The young man chases him down the street while the man with the ponytail watches with a look of sadness on his face.

Initial Post (respond to both questions below):

Write an essay telling us what you think happened. What was the young man working on? Why did he move to the other side of the table? Did he know the two men? Why was the tall one waving his hands and yelling? Why did the man slap the coffee out of the hand of the man with the ponytail? What was in the stack of papers and why did the tall man grab it and run? Why did the man with the ponytail look sad? What was the relationship between and among the men?

Let your imagination go - there are no right or wrong interpretations!

Now tell us something about yourself. Specifically, describe a personality characteristic and at least one life experience that may have influenced your perception and interpretation of the events. Again, no right or wrong answers, but the reader should gain a glimpse of who you are from your response.