Can someone PLEASE tell me if this is a good topic?

College Essays
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<p>believe it or not, i am applying ED to a top school yet i am still struggling with this darn essay. dont steal my ideas please :p this is so hard for me</p>

<p>topic number one: i start off with a little anecdote about the time i went canvassing (political stuff) with a group in 2008 in a poor urban neighborhood in a nearby state and how it reminded me of my neighborhood. from the people i encountered there, i was able to see that poverty/urban environ. vs disillusionment is not just a past theme from hughes' raisin in the sun. i then go on to compare it to where i live..my urban "no college-going" environ. I state what i believe to be the cause of it..and how my whole life has been a battle of not letting it affect my
thinking/ambitions. </p>

<p>topic two: i will just talk about my inner family independent of my environ. Within my family, no two people have the same religion--my grandfather (who is muslim) has always taught me to think. From a young age, he constantly gave me books. I enjoyed nothing more than to go to his house on fridays, sneak into his room while he took his afternoon naps (i still remember the snore lol) and take new books off his bookshelf. idk...then i just go into how those habits stuck with me throughout "life"</p>

<p>which topic is better? or are neither good?
please help</p>

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<p>yupss any help would be nice</p>

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<p>can a moderator delete this please</p>

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<p>why is no one answering my question? o_O</p>

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<p>I would pick the second one =)</p>

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<p>hmmmm why?</p>

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<p>How the essay is written is what’s most important, not what the subject of the essay is. That being said, essay #1 sounds most interesting to me. I think lots of people write about grandfathers’ influence, but not many people write about the similarities between their urban neighborhood and another poor urban one. That’s very different from the cliched essays written by kids from affluent areas who visit/volunteer in developing countries.</p>

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<p>do any of you mind reading what i came up with? i have a feeling that it’s very sloppy right now but im trying to pull it together</p>