<p>How'd you guys do on the essay? I think mine was a tad off-topic but I hate to dwell on because I get too worried.
I distinctly remember that I wrote 1 page and 16 lines (about 1 1/2 pages). it's the longest I've ever written.
(length is not a plus, right?)
but this was my first one-exapmle essay; I think it's a little more sophisticated that my 2/3 ex. I'm really hopeing for a 9 or a 10...</p>
<p>length IS a plus. writing more is always better, even if it is all noise</p>
<p>I filled up all the lines, but I still dunno if it was good...</p>
<p>I always run out of room before time is up, sucks for people who naturally write large.</p>
<p>i had the topic about literature and the characters. I wrote about King Lear, the Godfather, and the Fountainhead. I was little disappointed that this question had such a narrow scope. Was anyone able to cite history or personal examples and relate it to the prompt?</p>
<p>I talked about the effects of Uncle Tom's Cabin on Pre-Civil War tensions as well The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and its satirization of the South and how it showed the ridiculousness of (again) Pre-Civil War society.</p>
<p>I alluded to Greek culture as a society that was motivated by beauty and art (literature is a form of art). Also explored that famous quote by Oscar Wilde, "All art is quite useless," and a short story by Beckett.</p>
<p>i said literature teaches the wrong things and talked about the da vinci code</p>
<p>I wrote only one page + 4 lines, and mentioned
Aesop's fables which promote good morales and behavior
(detailed fox and sour grapes), how fictional stories can inspire,
specifically mentioning Sophocle's Greek tragedies that show even
heroes can fall, and something else I only mentioned in the intro
paragraph, and didn't get to in the body because I'm so horribly slow,
and I have small handwriting.</p>
<p>I wouldn't be surprised if I got a 6.</p>
<p>Edit: Yeah, I was also surprised and disappointed that the prompt
was so confined to literature. I was thinking, wow, sucks for all
the other people who practiced writing historical and literary factoids
about morality or the future.</p>
<p>And I also remembered another small tidbit... my third point was to be a
personal account on how I connected with some book and how it
got me through rough times.</p>
<p>we obviously had different tests. My essay was about: Do you think that success and happiness are a result of the choices a person makes or things out of our control (our circumstances).
The topic could not have been more stupid.</p>
<p>Yes! i had the same essay!</p>
<p>I had this wierd topic.. it was "do we put too much value and stuff on the individual".
I talked about MLKJR (how he was just an individual at the beginning etc.)
LOTF - ralph
Personal - (talked about school president. We had too many candidates and no one could put value on each individual. Kinda weak but meh)
conclusion - STRONG. I talked about how this was the belief america was found on. How they escaped the tyranny of britain etc. to promote the value of the individual.</p>
<p>gyros, i had the same</p>
<p>very easy</p>
<p>i talked about LOTF too!!
i used from history, FDR instead and some BS personal about like a club</p>
<p>first time i put all 3..hist, lit, personal...usually only get 2....</p>
<p>that was a much easier topic than the lit one others refer to</p>
<p>i hate this topic, i couldnt use any history/personal experiences on it..so i bsed some randome stuff and wrote a short essay about the great gatsby.. T.T its a disadvantage when you dont read much.</p>
<p>I read alot before this test but couldn't use any of them on the essay because the topic was so broad.</p>
<p>same thing as gyros.
2 pages.
grapes of wrath (ma and rose of sharon), mlk, gandhi, and something dealing w/ sports captains w/ a brief reference to the man, the myth, the legend, the air jordan.</p>
<p>I had the 'value of individual ideas' prompt</p>
<p>Said value of individual ideas was necessary and not overestimated</p>
<p>Cited:</p>
<p>Oliver Cromwell (Created a revolution in Britain from his notice of the tyranny)</p>
<p>Leonardo da Vinci (His ideas inspired not only in art, but in anatomy, the sciences and in engineering)</p>
<p>and Abraham Lincoln (His philosophies, although shared by some, aided by unprecedented action liberated much of America's slave population)</p>
<p>I tried to use literary examples, but couldn't think of any.</p>
<p>who else got the essay about the "circumstances"?</p>