<p>I would appreciate any guesses on the score I received. I'm simply trying to compare the mindset of the graders to the members of college confidential. I am well aware of mistakes and I don't necessarily need a critique as much as a concrete number. </p>
<p>Prompt 2</p>
<p>Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.</p>
<p>Whether it is a child pouting to get ice cream or a politician using emotionally charged language to influence potential supporters, all people use some form of acting to achieve whatever ends they seek. Public figures of all kinds would have short, unsuccessful careers without the aid of acting. Actingconsciously assuming a role in order to achieve some purposeis a tool people use to protect their interests and gain advantages in every aspect of life.</p>
<p>Adapted from Marlon Brando, Foreword to The Technique of Acting by Stella Adler</p>
<p>Assignment:</p>
<p>Is acting an essential part of everyday life? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.</p>
<p>It is not only celebrities who must assume different roles constantly. This multitude of charades one takes on is an act of its own. It is, in essence, a form of rhetoric, the art of persuasion. Day to day, individuals must act accordingly by being polite and thus adapt to the decorum of the situation. Others, like politicians, adjust to socially incorporate themselves and win support of a large body of people. Essentially, we are constantly acting on a daily basis, making what fundamentally are rhetorical appeals which we employ to develop our credibility</p>
<p>Conforming to the decorum or rules of conduct is an affair entailing the assumption of a day-to-day role. A prime exemplar of this scenario can be extrapolated from the very schools responsible for our education. In many of these institutions, students are mandated to forgo brash behavior and impulsiveness. Students, as a result, conform to a mode of quiet politeness. Additionally, with mandatory uniforms in select cases, students part with their preferred attire and assume a façade of homogeneity. The student, while at times not preferring to adapt to such rules on one hand, proceeds to avoid trouble on the other, climbing into the good graces of the faculty. Indeed, it is those who assume this politeness that are often given favor. The fundamental avoidance of punishment is, in fact, an almost subconscious method to elevate the child in the eyes of the faculty and student body.</p>
<p>The prevalence and importance of day-to-day acting seems more obvious in the political spectrum. Politicians often assume a confident and commanding air often citing credentials and qualifications as an ethical appeal. These individuals will often appeal in a pathological aspect by acting in accordance with peoples emotions Specifically, this is observed in the charged language and impassioned speeches targeting terrorists in order to garner popular support. The politicians do not even necessarily support their own words, but act constantly to be included and supported.</p>
<p>Fundamentally, acting is an integral and incessant facet of life. Whether one conforms to rules to gain favor or bends the truth and appeals to ethos and/or pathos, it is often and act. Acting is essentially hard wired into human beings and society and is, when it boils down to it, an art of persuasion</p>