Graded Essay You Sent to Middlebury

<p>are we allowed to send in history essays? on the midd website, it just says "analytical or critical essay", but it doesn't specify english or history... does it matter?
** in my case, the history essay would be from APUSH</p>

<p>I just sent in my paper on Hamlet's usage of his head rather than his heart (reason vs. passion).</p>

<p>B- on it...hope it doesn't kill me.</p>

<p>I sent in an essay on a short story from AP Eng Lit earlier this year. At the end of the essay, though, it says something about how my last paragraph needs work. However, mine too has good comments; my favorite is the one about how my teacher "is afraid I have a future in the field". :D</p>

<p>Ha! You guys are lucky. I have a choice between two college papers; one on 'either the woman is passive, or she doesn't exist' in Heart of Darkness, using literary criticism and analysing passive power and the role of Conrad's narrator which is 2000 words long, that I got a 17/1st class on, or I hand in an International Relations paper, either 'What is power in International Relations', using theory, Morgenthau and Waltz and relating it to modern day neo-realism, and then further exploring the connontations of power in a cosmopolitan world society, which I got a 16.5 on and scraped a 1st class on, or an IR paper on humanitarian intervention, why states undertake and fail to undertake action for humanitarian intervention, that explores soft power motivation, the balance of power and negotiation, and non-state actors like NGOs, corporations and looks at Somalia, Kosovo and Iraq as case-studies. I have no idea what my grade on that assignment was... I should probably find out.</p>

<p>But yeah. As far as university work goes, when they request 'teacher comments', I have a piece of paper stapled to the back that briefly states their opinion of my essay/thesis, and a mark. I'm applying as a potential international/political science major, but I might submit the English essay as it has a higher first class degree.</p>

<p>I submitted my history of philosophy exam. (I brought an outline and wrote the rest in 90 minutes). It was about how the Allegory of the Cave (by Plato) and The Grand Inquisitor (by Dostoevsky) use similar scenarios to convey their point. My teacher's really an arbitrary grader, so I don't know if my A- counts for anything, and he doesn't really write glowing comments. I hope it's good enough!</p>

<p>i just sent a 1 page poetry explication because it said a short english assignment</p>

<p>hey guys, if I write on the topic "Deforestation and the role of economics in adressing this issue", would it be a good idea in fulfilling their 'write a critical and analytical essay'? I would send this essay to my econs lecturer for grading. It would be quite difficult to write abt it nonetheless, but I feel this is where my interest is. Any ideas??</p>

<p>Okay, can I send in two drafts? In my AP Lang class, we wrote three drafts for each essay. My teacher's comments are in my second and final drafts.</p>

<p>Another AP Lang kid here, and I've got a bit of a problem. Last year most of my evaluative papers I wrote under the 30-min. time limit for AP exam practice. I have a bunch of good samples of in-class writing, but it's by no means polished, even though I got high AP-exam-style grades on them. This year I'm taking AP Lit, so hopefully we do some writing that's outside of class and more polished, but what should I do if I don't? Do many people send in timed prompts?</p>

<p>Do i have to send my graded essay if i'm applying as a international student? my teachers never been graded my essays.</p>

<p>i have the same problem Saruul.. none of my essays are graded. Can we just send in an essay without any comments and grade? I'm planning to send an analysis of the opening scene of Othello.</p>

<p>oh and I'm an international applicant too.</p>

<p>I sent in a film analysis of my favorite French movie, Amelie. It was a pretty whimsical essay, but the control of language and all that was fun to read, I'd say. Even though this piece isn't quite as serious as everyone else's, it fit with my application since I do want to major in French and since I did tailor my whole application toward that angle. I was also accepted EDI :)</p>

<p>Am I the only one submitting a history essay? Mine evaluates whether the North or the South was more successful in the years proceeding reconstruction.</p>

<p>I'm sending a history essay too, on the causes of the American civil war. :)</p>

<p>tan2007, your's sounds so great! I love that movie!
I was accepted ED1 as well, and I sent in a paper on The Age of Innocence. I also sent in a creative writing piece in case they had extra time to check my materials out. I hear that this part of the application is very important to them.</p>

<p>I sent an AP Eng. Lit timed essay analyzing Hamlet's syntax, language, and diction and what Shakespeare is trying to convey through these devices.</p>

<p>Yeah...I'm in AP Lit this year and I sent a paper on a summer assignment (In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien). Hopefully it works!</p>

<p>lol, yeah. It was an assignment we had to do for AP English near the end of the semester, i.e. the AP exam, so it wasn't too difficult. We just had to analyze how the director conveyed his/her point through the way they executed the films. I talked about the language in one paragraph, mentioning how the movie would have been shot in English if Jean-Pierre Jeunet hadn't decided that it didn't fit with the feel he was going for. So it was analytical :D</p>

<p>I'm sending a one page satire on American Imperialism.</p>

<p>So, now I'm worried it's too short too...</p>

<p>And I had to ask my teacher to comment on it, because he really doesn't do that. I'm not really sure if it's what's expected...</p>