<p>Hey, I am sitting here and just wondering what everyone sent in to Middlebury as their graded essay with the application?</p>
<p>Ill go first. I sent in two.</p>
<p>One was a critique of The Heart of Darkness from a mythological perspective and the other was a discussion of federalism in the Rehnquist Court. Both of them were about 3-4pgs.</p>
<p>I'm going to send in a history essay on Hitler being the ultimate leader of Nazi Germany or something like that (don't remember the topic exactly but i know got high marks on it:)</p>
<p>Mine was a little more than 2 pages. It was about Beowulf, Grendel, and the Bible in relationship to Mark Twain's "What is Man?"</p>
<p>dresspanddance where in PA are you?</p>
<p>I sent a 5 pg paper I did for AP Eng Lit comparing The Age of Innocence to Ethan Frome. It was basically my best and most recent analytical essay, but I got a B on it. Does this matter? The paper is pretty good, and I think it's clear from my teacher's comments that he's a tough grader.</p>
<p>Pittsburgh. Are you from PA?</p>
<p>omgah bob3 im doing HOB now and im hating it.</p>
<p>omgah bob3 im doing HOD now and im hating it.</p>
<p>are you kidding me? I love Heart of Darkness.</p>
<p>i sent a 4 page essay on the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay regarding why it deserved the pulitzer</p>
<p>i sent an am lit essay about the romantic movement. it compared poe's "sonnet to science" and homer's painting "sunlight and shadow" and showed how they both contained similar romantic themes. it had really good comments but i hope it was the sort of paper they were looking for...</p>
<p>I sent in two. The first was a comparison of the use of imagery in Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" and Sylvia Plath's "The Mirror." The second was based on how the reader can relate with the protagonist in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible."</p>
<p>Can someone answer my question from before? How much does the essay/grade on it matter?</p>
<p>i don't think anyone knows... but i'd say it's just one of the things they consider when looking at each applicant as a whole.</p>
<p>a 45-minute long, in-class essay on an impromptu poem we had never seen before.</p>
<p>the poem was "blackberry picking"</p>
<p>that's funny, we did an in-class essay on Blackberry picking too! But I sent in an essay I wrote for theory of knowledge on the ambiguities of language. The prompt was: Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. Aldus Huxley. The essay was 800 words or so and had really good comments from my teacher.</p>
<p>does it have to be original copy of the essay? or a carbon copy...? also, must the grades and the comments made by the tutor be reflected? im asking because my country has a habit of giving out really LOW grades.</p>
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a 45-minute long, in-class essay on an impromptu poem we had never seen before.</p>
<p>the poem was "blackberry picking"
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<p>hahah seamus heaney</p>
<p>my ap lit teacher is infatuated with the man</p>
<p>as is mine. but ironically my teacher is a half-italian WASP but is OBSESSED with all things Toni Morrison, August Wilson, Maya Angelou and the like...I swear he was Black in a past life...</p>
<p>but this also makes a lot of people despise the guy. he's also a pompous twit. but thats besides the point.</p>
<p>keep in mind that italians are the black europeans</p>