<p>... in the third essay of the AP English Language and Composition?
Or maybe a better question would be "who didn't?"</p>
<p>Only you… Citing stupid examples will just hurt you. You are trying to relate to the reader, not write about your life.</p>
<p>Haha, my friend did. There are no stupid examples, only stupid ways of handling them.</p>
<p>ListenLoud, did you even take the exam? Either you didn’t, or you’re completely incompetent; otherwise you’d see that the example fits the prompt absolutely superbly. And in fact, I was not trying to relate to the reader–not at all. No essay on the AP English Language and Composition exam has ever asked one to relate to the reader. Ignoring that, how is writing about South Park the same as writing about my own life? Take your embarrassing stupidity and ignorance elsewhere.</p>
<p>For the record, over half of my class–the class of a top California private school–cited the episode.</p>
<p>I talked about Tina Fey’s impersonation of Sarah Palin. Haha…</p>
<p>I used Saturday Night Live as one example. Family Guy and South Park came to mind, but SNL seemed more sophisticated and less crude.</p>
<p>Someone has anger issues :). And yes, I did. When you write an essay, you are appealing to an audience, in this scenario, your AP grader. Just because a person goes to a good school, doesn’t make them any smarter, just cockier.</p>
<p>I used Dr. Suess:)</p>
<p>Haha, that’s a good one. Didn’t think of that. I used Voltaire for one of my examples.</p>
<p>I didn’t just cite it, I used it as the basis of my whole essay! lol
I acutally got excited when I saw the prompt.
My friends always told me that watching South Park is stupid and it wouldn’t help me at all in life.
Well guess what helped me get at least a 6 on that essay ;p</p>
<p>definitley contemplated doing it…but decided not to…</p>
<p>the synthesis killed me…did it matter what position we took?</p>
<p>I used the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. Using the Muhammad South Park episode is a really good idea though. I would have used that if I thought of it.</p>
<p>Two of my friends did. Unfortunately, I forgot about the Muhammad episode and talked about the Scientology episode…not quite as controversial but I made it work. My other examples were more “sophisticated” though.</p>
<p>I did! That was the greatest prompt ever.</p>
<p>Hmm … starting to rethink posting this thread. Admins, please delete it promptly.</p>
<p>We shouldn’t be discussing the essays yet.</p>
<p>Dave Chapelle, The Onion, and about boss tweed hahahaha </p>
<p>maaaaaaaayne that test was sooooo easy</p>
<p>Oh wow I didn’t even think about that lol.</p>
<p>I agree with ListenLoud. Even if the episode fits the prompt, that doesn’t mean you should use it. I haven’t seen the episode because I don’t waste my time with the show, but I could never cite an example like that - even if it supported the prompt. It just seems immature and really risky when your audience is an adult. Unless the grader is a South Park fan, which I doubt, I think he/she would question your support. Personally, I would pick something more concrete that the grader could relate to.</p>
<p>Hahaha I did. :)</p>