<p>I was going to do Great Gatsby, too. But the words "modern times" threw me off too. I didn't know if they considered the 1920s modern times.</p>
<p>Instead, I wrote about America's desire for the biggest SUVs, etc., as we sit back and relax while global warming sends the world to hell. I was a little harsh, huh?</p>
<p>Yea neither did I polka, if they didn't my essay is crap.</p>
<p>I kinda stated that back then I do consider modern times, they really didn't put a specific time frame to define as "modern times" so it's quite ambiguous.</p>
<p>I imagine Modern Times is WWII onwards.. thought I don't think ETS is gonna play semantics and hurt you for considering the early-20th century modern.</p>
<p>i had the same problem, I wasn't able to finish my second body paragraph...curses!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>It was very well written (i would say 11-12 if i had finished). Do you think i can still pull off a 10 or will I be condemned to (yet another) 8?</p>
<p>I saw post Civil War times as modern. Early modern, but modern nonetheless</p>
<p>Can Sb Pm Me The M-word????
It's Driving Me Nuts!!! :D</p>
<p>materialism</p>
<p>I said M was fine and used Communism as an example in favor of it...since you know...Communism doesn't work and all.</p>
<p>in theory it does. lol</p>
<p>communism hasn't really been implemented in its untainted form yet, so you can't use whatever "communist" regimes exist as examples against communism... vive la revolucion! :)</p>
<p>I said communism caused people to lose all drive since everyone got the same stuff. Materialism promotes effort and such...</p>
<p>Materialism also promotes greed =P</p>
<p>I used line from William Wordsworth's "The World is Too Much With Us" in my paper:</p>
<p>"getting and spending, we lay waste our powers"</p>
<p>I was wondering, I used two personal experiences and this literary example, does it really hurt me that I didn't add in an historical example?</p>
<p>Ecth, I'd assume as long as the literary as well as your personal examples are well developed and you have decent structure/vocab you'll be fine</p>
<p>Will it really hurt if I didn't finish my conclusion? I already had 2 sentences and I didn't get to put the last one..</p>
<p>It won't hurt much if your body paragraphs were really detailed</p>