<p>for the prompt that had to do with acting on feelings/emotions</p>
<p>Mine were pretty stupid… I used My Name is Asher Lev, which I read in 9th grade, and the life of Demi Lovato, who I’m not really a fan of, but seemed to fit based on what I know of her. They were just the first things that came to mind… But I think I made my point as well as I could in 25 minutes and 2 pages.</p>
<p>I used the U.S. entering World War II and a personal example.</p>
<p>Did everybody have the same essay prompt? I think mine was whether we should accept social inequalities or try to change them. Did others have this?</p>
<p>@kielan1 I had the same prompt I used Mandela and Gandhi</p>
<p>Neville chamberlain, appeasement WWII, yalta conference and some cold war stuff… Lol hope it fitted…</p>
<p>^ same. I used Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks as examples</p>
<p>I hardly had time to write anything though -.-</p>
<p>I had the taking actions on feelings one…
I used the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and To Kill a MockingbirdXD haha I think I nailed it</p>
<p>To Nemesisnyx:
My daughter used Demi Lovato also in her essay. But her prompt was about acting out or talking about feelings.
I couldn’t get much info out of her about the test, she thinks she did pretty bad on it, especially the math-as usual.</p>
<p>For taking actions/talking, I used Rosa Parks and The Scarlet Letter…hope I get 10 because I did horribly in the mcqs lol</p>
<p>On Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, 1984, Steve Jobs’s ‘wilderness years’ as a direct result of inequality – unfairness prompt.</p>
<p>MomTheChauffer: Yeah, I had the one about feelings too. Haha, I guess that would be a more common example than I thought? Hopefully we don’t get the same grader, so we can seem more unique. xD I hope she didn’t do as badly as she expects!</p>
<p>I had the prompt about withholding feelings and acting upon them.</p>
<p>I was in my conclusion when time was called, in my second to last sentence… Considering I didn’t get my thesis statement in, how badly will this effect my score?</p>
<p>I also had the talking about feelings versus acting on them prompt.</p>
<p>I wrote about Crime and Punishment, the Columbine shootings, and a story I made up about a girl who killed herself that was loosely based on a real incident. I was basically saying that since they didn’t talk out their feelings and outwardly rationalize them (before it was too late anyway), they ended up with negative results.</p>
<p>^I have a similar concern as well. I wrote one long, decent sentence in my conclusion (but with my thesis), a shorter one reemphasizing, and then I had two words in my final sentence when time was called, but didnt have time to erase. Will this be a detriment to my score?</p>
<p>I had the prompt that talked about injustice and inequality.</p>
<p>The quote talked about how some people believe that since pure justice can never be achieved, the effort put in to fighting for justice is not worth the result.</p>
<p>I combatted this with the civil rights movement by basically saying that no reasonable person could say that the effort put into ending segregation was not worthwhile/did not improve the world just because of the fact that there are still racists that exist in America.</p>
<p>I also used the oppression in North Korea of an example of how the effort put into the fight for justice could improve the world and should be used.</p>
<p>My conclusion said that anyone who believes that it is not worthwhile to fight for justice because complete equity will never be achieved has too much of a black/white view on the world.</p>
<p>@lemniscate</p>
<p>Of course I don’t know how it will affect our scores, seeing that I have the same question.</p>
<p>But I wouldn’t erase anything mid sentence. If you did so, the CB might have though that you were finished with only 2 sentences in your conclusion, which I would imagine is worth than not finishing a more complete conclusion.</p>
<p>Also, I simply couldn’t think of any historical/literary reference to the feelings vs. actions essay prompt…</p>
<p>So my essay consisted of an introduction, a very long paragraph about a personal experience, and a (almost completed) conclusion. Is it bad that I didn’t use any other reference besides one of my own?</p>
<p>I had the prompt about acting on feelings or something…
–I just used a personal experience and an example. Wish they would have supplied 3 blank pages instead of 2.</p>