<p>The one about materialism. I felt like I was on topic, but I didn't use any examples of books or anything like most of you here did, I just went off of personal experience and such. I got a 5-paragraph essay about it, the middle 3 being about why it shouldn't be criticized and reasons why materialism is so prevalent. I mentioned the common nature of man to compete against one another and try to obtain the most, advertisement leading to materialism, and advancements in technology. The latter is a bit sketchy, I basically wrote about how companies releasing new things (iPods, cell phones) causes people to feel like they need these things and how these things weren't available until recently, and because of this the teenage-young adult age group doesn't know anything else but to be that way.</p>
<p>At the time I thought it was pretty good, but I'm starting to have doubts. How do you guys think that will score?</p>