<p>What do you guys think of my topics for high/low expectations?
I first said "Red Badge of Courage" and used Henry first thinking the war to be a walk in the park but is dumbfounded. He later puts more effort into his and instead of modest plan he leads his regiment to victory.
The second for society was how tubercolosis was once considered a death sentence. I said, "what if the scientist who invented the cure to TB had low expectations.. We still may be plagued by TB today. I also alluded to how close the scientists are to curing the HIV virus.
My personal allusion was how I thought Physics was impossible and had low expectations. I raised my expectations and ensuingly my effort, not my goals, were the reason I achieved success in the class.</p>
<p>I had the conformity/ individuality essay and i used the examples of Brave New World, Henry Thoreou, and the Nazis the WWII. However, I didn't have any room for a conclusion. How do you think this will effect my grade?</p>
<p>YouTube --- I talked about how they had a really unique idea and were willing to step out of boundaries and comfort zones; I also mentioned TIME Magazine dubbing the Person of the Year as "You," and how they referred to this generation as the "YouTube generation"... unique with new ideas, not fitting in, etc etc LOL.</p>
<p>Dude I hope they understand. I get a lot of weird looks when I tell people this.</p>
<p>o_0 If i could, I would give you a weird look too... I don't get it...</p>
<p>i'm old and have heard of you tube, look at it whenever i need to check my exact quotations for a southpark episode.
Time Magazine and the shiny PC screen on their cover brought the whole thing to the attention of the older generation. The Time Mag was the link, gave it credibility for the older generation readers, so GREAT that you mentioned it.
Whoever Time calls "person of the year" gets onto the national news for days and days. Even oldsters who don't subscribe to Time heard about who Time chose as person of the year. Just as you know who won the Grammys or Academy Awards. This TIME was especially talked about since it wasn't a person but had that shiny metallic computer screen. (The "person of the year" is...YOU!..and you could see your reflection on the cover of Time that month. Some vinyl thing that looked like the computer screen. And they swore the company to secrecy that produced the mylar sticker that went onto each cover... even THAT story was CNN news...you're okay.
...and if they don't know they feel stupid and ask someone sitting in the coffee break room.</p>
<p>Plus, aren't a lot of these scorers high school teachers, grad students and so on? So they're in touch with what the younger generation is doing (evenif they don't agree with or like everything that's going on).
If you put You Tube into context as a new technology and made cool points and insights about it, you have nothing to lose sleep over.
It's as good as writing about the steam engine!</p>
<p>i used gandhi and Atticus Finch they work like a charm</p>
<p>molldoll, much on this forum about how the conclusion is the least important part of it; please use search word "conclusion" in SAT prep and see what you get.</p>
<p>Do they take hand writing into account? I mean its legible but not like writing I would do if I took my time more. I was rushing so much to get in my examples and complete the essay that my hand was really cramping by the end. I don't know why but maybe its because I was writing so fast. I barely finished the concluding paragraph...my hand hurt so bad..lol. I got done with like minutes to spare.</p>
<p>Matt</p>
<p>Snake13, I used Gandhi too!</p>
<p>then I used Steven JObs, then I used myself as an example</p>
<p>Wow haha i also used Fahrenheit 451 but wrote it as Fahrenheit 411 ( changed it while proctors weren't looking) and Copernicus too.</p>
<p>Oh, I surprised that no one mentioned this...</p>
<p>I used Ralph Waldo Emerson and his essay "Self-Reliance" for my first example (literary) and his quote from it, "To be great it to be misunderstood."</p>
<p>Then I went on with the idea that all great men of history are great because they were unique--because they were non-conformists--that non-conformity is a prerequisite for being remembered in history. I mentioned Galileo and then Jesus as examples of men who were persecuted for their controversial beliefs but still held to them in spite of their persecution. </p>
<p>I think I may have carried the comparison too far when I mentioned that even though we remember men for being "common", we really remember them for being extraordinary. I used William Jennings Bryan, a populist, to make that point; he was not remembered for being common, but for the great things he did--his oratory and his unpopular views such as the silver standard ("Humanity being crucified on a cross of gold."). Unfortunately, I'm afraid that that example was a bit of a stretch. What do you all think?</p>
<p>ya i said fahrenheit 911 instead of 451.. i dont know what the beep came over me. how many pts will they take off lmao</p>
<p>evanw, I mentioned Emerson on the first page and a quote from his essay. I think a lot of other people here used Transcendentalists too.</p>
<p>I know, I know... Transcendentalists were such an easy example for this particular essay; it's as though they existed for moment in time. Who can say whether they came into the kingdom for such a time as this? ha...</p>
<p>Anyways, I was just surprised that no one used that particular quote which was almost tailor-made! I talked with the other people taking the test with me after it was over and I asked them what they had used and not one person I talked with used a transcendentalist...</p>
<p>Yikes, Fahrenheit 911 is hot enough to burn two piles of books! (get it? 45 x2)</p>
<p>I had essay prompt #3... it was about benefitting from all situations.. i have not been able to find anyone else who had this prompt or any of the reading comps on my test.. did anyone else have this prompt?</p>
<p>uh...no? I've never heard of that prompt before.</p>
<p>These are the only prompts:</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>I had individuality vs. fitting in.</p>
<p>I wrote about Nietzsche and his philosophy about the ubermench, as well as Joseph Heller's Catch-22 with a focus on Yossarian's choice for individuality.</p>
<p>Sound good?</p>
<p>skateboard- look at the last essay on that site... that is the one that I had.</p>
<p>Not to be offensive, but most people who are posting what they wrote about are totally showing off. "Sound good?" you know whether it sounds good or not. If you managed to stuffed Nietzche and Catch - 22 into your essay I don't know why you come on here looking for reassurance / praise / insert word here. Are you really worried; what about? </p>
<p>Seriously, I honestly don't know why this is so irritating to me. I feel like I wrote a great essay.</p>
<p>But on a different note, you can choose all the 'right' (read: lofty) topics to write about, but if you're not a good writer, you're not going to get that elusive 12. Of course, if you read transcendalist literature in your free time, you probably ARE good writer. So it's a little silly to ask something like "does this sound like 12 material?" </p>
<p>(( BTW, okaygogodoll, it's "ubermensch", not "ubermench". ))</p>