<p>yeah topasz it's obvious they are bragging. i don't really care though.. i know i'm not dumb. haha.</p>
<p>Haha topasz, I agree. okaygogodoll's post just made me feel really stupid.
But like...the people who are reading these essays aren't geniuses or anything. There's no need to try and impress them with ginormous words and obsure historical facts, books, or philosophies. Just show that you know how to think critically and convey that through your writing. I think getting too complex would either give them a headache or make them go cross-eyed. Or at least I would.</p>
<p>lollerskates.</p>
<p>i usE mlk ,jonh scopEEs trila ,And prot. ref.</p>
<p>i hope you also used the basic rules of punctuation and grammar, mavman :)</p>
<p>"jonh scopEEs trila"? heh.</p>
<p>quick question, is it better to use 3 examples bc i didnt have room for 3, so i only did 2...?</p>
<p>I would say 2 is better then 3 since you can go into more detail.</p>
<p>I wonder if anyone in the entire country took the side of fitting in...</p>
<p>HAHA iin77. Good question! =)</p>
<p>see, iin77, if a person choose that route, they couldn't be "philosophical" (yeah right...)</p>
<p>My friend actually took the "fitting in" side. He only used personal examples though, and they were made up.</p>
<p>I used Galileo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Fashion trends (I couldn't think of anything else XD). For fashion trends I pointed out that in order for a trend to start, someone has to go past what is considered fashionably trendy and try something new. Otherwise, trends would never start. While people conform to the new trend, someone then has to step past it to start the next trend. I was so upset on my essay that I was two words from finishing when time was called T.T</p>
<p>Topasz, I do agree with you about the bragging incidence. I had originally thought the examples had to be derived from fictional literary or historical examples, if not personal or scientific. I had no idea that we could just incorporate the angry rants of philosophers ie (Nietzsche). I was considering quoting from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but decided it was impractical explaining master and slave morality in twenty five minutes on two pages of an SAT essay :D Instead, I wrote about my grandpa. </p>
<p>I have noticed a general trend that many of you guys used the conventional essay structure with three examples. Do graders like three examples better than two? (which is how many I included)</p>
<p>^ no, it doesn't matter as long as you go into detail. If you write in cursive, it can help :D</p>
<p>Conformity vs. unique essay. I defended "be unique."</p>
<p>I used the life & accomplishments of Einstein (different man, slow learner as a kid, brilliant), the novel Ethan Frome (felt he had to fit in [keep his relationship w/ Mattie secret ] and almost died from his urges + societal pressure, it was just too much), and "modern teen society": be different now or else we'll have a world of clones.</p>
<p>I got the one about lowering your expectations/goals. I used "To Kill a Mockingbird" and a personal experience <em>because I was out of ideas</em>.</p>