<p>Am I the only one that used Bill Clinton? I mean seriously..fame = lack of privacy --> people find out about your affair(s) --> Grumpy Bill</p>
<p>i used Candide written by Voltaire, "the Bet" by Anton Chekhov, and "the Devil and Tom walker" by Washington Irving. It was about fame.</p>
<p>LOL. I'm beginning to wish that I had the fame one. To a poster (a page back, I didn't get your name) who thought that his one example was bad: They all seem bad after the test. :)</p>
<p>Do you guys think my MacBeth and Lear interpretations are accurate?</p>
<p>I used Ethan Frome and Kurt Cobain</p>
<p>mine was so bad. i had...
-opening saying that fame doesnt bring happiness (duh)
-wrote about brittany spears (only thing i could think of)
-then i wrote about myself (i know i know thats the worst thing to do)
-closing.</p>
<p>i couldnt think of a book for the life of me! it sucked.</p>
<p>I wrote one paragraph about Tommy Blake, a football player who suffers from depression. Then I wrote about Harry Potter. Surprised no one else has mentioned the latter as of yet.</p>
<p>1) Hester Prynee from Scarlet letters
2) james gatsby from great gatsby
3) michael vick</p>
<p>I absolutely **** on the writing.</p>
<p>Intro/Thesis: Closer you get to fame the further you slip from life/reality and whatnot, kind of varied a bit that may be my weak point</p>
<p>First Paragraph: Death of a Salesman</p>
<p>-Willy was destined to be a "low man"
-Wanted to be well liked, held it to the highest respect
-Worried about personal appearance
-Closer he got to fame the sooner he'd meet his demise</p>
<p>Second Paragraph: Fraudulent New York Times Poll</p>
<p>I stated there was a poll called "Who Wants to be Famous" where 400 people were surveyed and of the 400 the majority said that as a child they aspired to being famous but only a small margin actually reached a similar goal.</p>
<p>It came together really well, i used more examples it was two pages long.</p>
<p>I am SOOOO jealous of whoever got non-conformity!!!! GRR!... I could have tied that in with To Kill and Mockingbird AND 1984..... god...</p>
<p>I had the fame = happiness? question. I think I bombed it.... I wrote about Brittany Spears, and made up a story about my grandmother growing up in the roaring 20's.... I wasn't finished at the end of the time, I wrote like 5 more words after the proctor called time... god...</p>
<p>I had the essay on individual vs. group
my examples were civil rights movement and political groups</p>
<p>I feel so dumb right now. I said that fame does indeed bring happiness because I couldn't think of examples that it doesn't. I probably will get a 2 on the essay now...</p>
<p>^Are you freaken serious? I thought that was like one of the past SAT's prompt...</p>
<p>I had the individual prompt.....was talking about citizens needing guidance of prominent leaders to obtain social progression a good direction to take the essay? My examples were MLK and Susan B. Anthony.</p>
<p>my examples were a made-up book by Steve Chamberlain (made-up author as well) and something else but i don't remember. it wasn't the best essay ever written, but I had a thesis, 3 body paragraphs, a solid closing and i finished on the last line of the 2nd page.</p>
<p>how necessary is a conclusion</p>
<p>I had the one about conformity, and used examples from 1984, the revolutionary war, and nazi germany. zhaos, i think a couple of concluding sentences makes your essay stronger, and they might dock points for not having it.</p>
<p>I had the nonconformity one and f***ed up big time. I included no examples of books. I wrote about the if everyone was the same then our society would suffer. We would have no doctors, etc. It was about a paragraph and a half.</p>
<p>"I had the individual prompt.....was talking about citizens needing guidance of prominent leaders to obtain social progression a good direction to take the essay? My examples were MLK and Susan B. Anthony."</p>
<p>anyone?.....i'm nervous because i don't know if i approached the prompt correctly.</p>
<p>I had the one about fame, used Bill Gates as an example, and how he is now happily living with a stable family as a result of his fame(lol), then used gatsby as an opposing example, then (...) used Ulysses S Grant as another good example saying how as a result of his fame for being a great Civil war general was able to succeed in his goal of becoming president of the united states, making him a happy camper.(Didn't really say that, but hey). I got two complete pages done, so hopefully it counts for something.</p>