There were TWO crickets in my house

The first essay that you had us write actually wasn't bad at all. I understood what we were supposed to write about and I actually did better than I thought I did. I don't have the greatest writing skills so I figured I did pretty poorly. I guess the only problem that I had for writing the first assignment was how to write why it was and American cultural icon, even though it was the American Red Cross. I know how to describe it and what the Red Cross does, but I had a somewhat hard time saying why it is a cultural icon. This second one is proving a little bit harder for me because I'm used to a structured essay, not an assignment where we have to come up with a community and then have rules and regulations and things like that. For the third essay, for me, I would prefer a structured essay or even a persuasive one (as much as I hate them).