<p>i think mine was-- do you jobs dictate our personal lives like our behavior and the activities we do? BUT i'm starting to have qualms that i misread it, of course, having after reading other prompts scattered across the board today...</p>
<p>WRite your prompt!</p>
<p>I used siddhartha and 1984 to show that the main protagonists did not identify themselves through their jobs and acted independent of these roles.</p>
<p>Yes, I had the same. There are usually a few essay topics, so there isn't any cheating.</p>
<p>I analyzed the lives/writings of franz kafka and gandhi through an existential framework to argue that a person's role is defined by the self and not by society at large's perceptions of one's profession. cited the trial and a few random works by camus and sartre.</p>
<p>I ran out of space near the end, so what should have been two paragraphs was condensed into one and I had a one sentence conclusion. Hopefully this doen't impact my score ;)</p>
<p>i wrote about two different people and about how their jobs affected their lives and interactions?? does that work? or did i misread the prompt?</p>
<p>I took it to mean how do jobs affect a person's social interaction with others. For this reason I wrote about my grandfather in the army making lifelong relationships, and The Catbird Seat by James Thurber where a man murders someone else for disturbing his daily work routine. I hope this is acceptable. I thought the prompt was not as straightforward as it could have been.</p>
<p>Uhhh, I wrote about Pa Joad in the Grapes of Wrath and how he needed to work in order to feel that he had a purpose and how without a job he became really passive and lethargic, then I made up a story about how I did an internship at a law firm and it allowed me to have more structure in my life and caused my grades to improve.</p>
<p>My crappy topics + my lack of a conclusion = probably a six or a seven on the essay :( oh well, there's always October 2005...</p>
<p>i had good length, 4 paragraphs with solid thesis/ intro and decent conclusion, however i feel i may have misinterpreted the quote. i basically wrote about how jobs brought more than income to ones life. such as the rewards of good work cultivated relationships and of having fun in your job. oops?</p>
<p>i wrote about the joad fambly from The Grapes of Wrath</p>
<p>wow everyone chose sophisticated topics.. i talked about personal experience and stuff from colonial America</p>
<p>I talked about Hitler, US Government, Olympians, and my personal life... 4 paragraphs... I liked it.</p>
<p>hey grey goo, i used kafka also (metamorphasis), i also used coolidge's quote "the buisness of america is buisness" and then had a third example with today's students and their work, blah blah, then the conclusion was kind of "a lesson can be learned from each of these examples" kinda thing</p>
<p>5 paragrphs by the way, full two pages</p>
<p>I used Willy Loman from Death of a Salesman and discussed how work consummed his life and the inherent evils of the business world. I also made an allusion (no lie) to Office Space; I feel that one should do what one wishes to do in life. "you tell work what you want it to do for you"</p>
<p>I used Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle." I forgot how I made it work, but it did. </p>
<p>It was the only thing I could think of after traveling an hour out of Orlando to take the test, only to forget my ID <em>and</em> I printed the wrong admission ticket.</p>
<p>I had a different prompt- but I also wrote about 1984, my volunteering experience with children of disabilities, and people's lack of reaction against religious intolerance.</p>