<p>Did anyone else feel that essay topic was really hard?? I ran out of time so I was only able to write two examples.!</p>
<p>oh yeah, and I had pre determined examples - of mice and men, jack welch, american rev. I was not able to use any of these. it just ruined my whole format.</p>
<p>I failed the essay. I just rambled about my opinion without much structure and with only 1 or 2 vague examples.</p>
<p>I made up a book !!! come on!!!</p>
<p>How did you use American revolution when the prompt asked you to talk about how it is easier to form friendships in the modern age due to the internet?</p>
<p>^sounds like an ACT prompt to me…</p>
<p>prompt asked about is privacy more important than free services.</p>
<p>There were two prompts, and they both sucked.</p>
<p>was it especially looking for reasons because of the internet?</p>
<p>um well I based most of my essay on interactions with people on facebook college confidential and other forums. First: interaction through internet promotes an easier way to approach people; it eliminates visual bias and allows people to communicate soley through thoughts and ideas (written expression) there’s also a lot more security in being able to abandon/neglect a conversation/interaction that is unfavorable</p>
<p>i.e. ted45454: the yankees suck!
yankeedoodle: my dad owns the yankees and I’ll kill you if you don’t like them
ted45454: ted45454 signed off</p>
<p>I feel bad for you guys with the prompt about friendship…that sounds really tough and I’d probably only be able to talk about my facebook friends and then make up some obscene crap about fake books/personal experiences.</p>
<p>I got the privacy vs. convenience/free stuff prompt, and I wrote mainly about George Orwell’s 1984, the Patriot Act and one personal example that I was able to support very well even though it was false. I think I did well overall. Writing is my favorite subject, though =)</p>
<p>I had the Friend topic.</p>
<p>A little awkward, but workable. Used urban forums and a famous Econ book as topics.</p>
<p>how long was everyone’s introductions and conclusions??? I wrote a fairly long intro but my conclusion was only two (albeit long and conclusive) sentences, so I’m worried.</p>
<p>I totally agreed the essay sucked, I couldn’t think of any books or anything for like 5 minute and I ended up writing about social security number, hollywood(Britney spear’s turmoil life and her fame) yea i doubt i did well on the essay</p>
<p>This is the essay prompt for international testing:</p>
<p>“Is it a mistake to simply believe something that an authority claims to be true?”</p>
<p>Is my following approach OK?</p>
<p>I agreed with the statement and cited 3 examples, including the vicissitudes that the Joad family in “The Grapes of Wrath” faces on their journey West (all these hardships are due to their naive confidence in the mayor (whom I invented, lol)‘s claims), the misguided prejudices of the townspeople against Hester Prynne in “The Scarlet Letter” (again, due to a member of the controlling power ^^), and the unfortunate fate of the Space Shuttle Columbia (which is in sharp contrast with NASA’s leaders’ announcements). I literally managed to fill up the given space</p>
<p>I had the privacy one.
I wrote about how reality TV stars enjoy the incentives and later they usually regret what they’ve done.
Then I made up a story about how my grandfather was scammed b/c he thought he was doing a TimeShare, and the people stole his credit card info in the end. So he could never fix his credit and ultimately died of the stress it caused him (the fact that he faithfully gave up his time for TimeShare but was getting scammed the whole time) <— I felt so bad lol. I prayed during and right after that lie. I couldn’t think of any other example.</p>
<p>The friendship one was HORRIBLE. All that practicing, and unable to use any literary, or historical examples.</p>
<p>Everyone just talked about myspace/facebok I bet. That’s going to be fun for the graders to read…</p>
<p>If the essay was challenging, will they grade less harshly?</p>
<p>I also used 1984 and mentioned the patriot act in there
My thesis was something like: People should not give up their right to privacy, especially for commercial reasons, because in today’s standards it isn’t unconstitutional (I mentioned that it isnt’ actually in the const. but that we today take it as important) and it doesn’t follow the doctrines of democracy.
I hope I didn’t go off topic, but I mentioned privacy a lot so hopefully they will consider it.</p>
<p>As for the internet: Internet social networking sites, “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury where the wife uses the TV-walls to make a “new family” (using technology to make friends), and historically how technology has developed our world from taking 1 month to deliver letters over sea to virtually 1 second using Fiber Optics internet, an internet first made for Military use to communicate back in the 70s.</p>
<p>when the teacher said five minutes left, I was still on my first example. I spent all of my time making up three exampples. I had to cut out one and then just write fast as heck and didn’t care what I was writing. the teacher called time’s up as I was finsihing up my last sentence.</p>