<p>Rupss, I had that one also.</p>
<p>I used Lincoln as a model for controversial ethical decision, and how he still managed to gain fame. </p>
<p>Huck Finn going against his Southern values and helping Jim</p>
<p>Was running out of time, couldn't do another example so I closed it off more abruptly then I would have liked to.</p>
<p>I used Enron, Progressive Era, made up a ******** statistic, made up something about rampant cheating at my school, and was going to make up a Virgil quote but I ran out of time. I had around 2 inches left.</p>
<p>ah furby, you stole my enron idea! jk</p>
<p>boddah, i was thinking of using huck finn, but didnt get around to it</p>
<p>rupss - there are always 3 prompts for each testing date</p>
<p>I used Lord of the Flies and Real Life Common Sense. Hoping for a 8-10.</p>
<p>ah.</p>
<p>i got stuck with a stupid one. :( the polite one. i had to stretch my examples a bit.</p>
<p>i wish i had the ethics one -- i've done something like it before.</p>
<p>Gatsby and Hitler(WWII)</p>
<p>I had to stop mid last sentence, but I had 2 sentences down in the conclusion already.</p>
<p>@rupps: I did, and I used two examples of women's rights in two different time periods: flappers and women's right to vote, and a relationship abuse activist.</p>
<p>barry bonds, war, scarlet letter.</p>
<p>Used the quote for my intro and social dwarwinism for the conclusion.</p>
<p>I used Bonds and A-Rod and then Blagojevich. What do you guys think of those two? The scorers should pass on some extra points for spelling Blagojevich!</p>
<p>ETHICAL prompt</p>
<p>To Kill a Mockingbird (Atticus Finch) and The Fountainhead (Roark vs. Keating)</p>
<p>I didn't reach 2 pgs (1.5)---damn my narrow writing---is that automatically a problem? Last time, I still got a 10 and was closer to 2 though. I always try to use "good" words too, haha.</p>
<p>write your prompt when you reply in this thread, there are different ones</p>
<p>I had "Is impoliteness ever justified" or something like that. VERY open ended in terms of what impoliteness really constitutes, since the quote talked about being civilized. I wrote about Truman's "impoliteness" to USSR demands for concessions in WW2 and his uncivilized nature towards Nagasaki and Hiroshima and how it effectively deterred the Soviets from acting as aggressive as they would have. And then Rorshach from Watchmen, and the March on Washington civil rights movement during WW2.</p>
<p>I still had a good third of a page left on, dunno how that effects your score...but I said everything I needed to.</p>
<p>I forgot to pay attention to vocab...whoops >_<</p>
<p>I basically said ethics can help you succeed, lack of ethics will bring your downfall, blah blah blah</p>
<p>examples:</p>
<p>-personal story, told teacher about a grading mistake on a test, got extra credit for it</p>
<p>-animal testing for make-up, how companies like mac/etc are ethical and not only are sales not hurt, but they also gain a broader demographic that includes people concerned with animal rights</p>
<p>-nixon and watergate (I haven't studied that yet and don't know much about it so hopefully I didn't say something wrong/stupid, lol) and how lack of ethics brought about political downfall</p>
<p>my intro sucked. ending not bad. it will be interesting to see this essay...I don't think it was as good as my last one, which got an 11, so...</p>
<p>March on Washington for civili rights movement was NOT during WW2...WW2: 1941-1945...MLK "I Have a Dream" speech: 1963 (1960s=civil rights movement in general)</p>
<p>Theo. Roosevelt, The Great Gatsby, Machiavelli's "The Prince" + Personal Exp.</p>
<p>oh i was gonna use the prince, i forgot to! crapp</p>
<p>i used macbeth, old school (narrator gets kicked out for plagiarizing), and watergate</p>
<p>Wow. I got the impoliteness one. Used Thoreau, civil rights movement, and Bill Gates.</p>
<p>I wish I would've gotten the ethics one. I would've so owned that one.</p>
<p>how much does length matter to these readers?</p>