<p>how do you guys think u did?</p>
<p>Horrible in comparison to my other one (10)…I only came up with 2 examples. I did write a lot but not as much. I think I might be getting an 8 this time…</p>
<p>It was such a stupid topic. I couldn’t use any my literary or historical examples, so I just used one from the news. I kind of wrote a little off topic though, I wrote that the internet makes creating friendships easier, but these friendships are often deceptive and create an impersonal society. Here’s hoping for at least a 10!</p>
<p>^same here. i was prepared with so many example in history and literature, then i saw the prompt and i was like…fuuuuuuuuuu.</p>
<p>My “reasons” were
Internet facilitating easier communication = friends
New liberating social reforms (like no more segregation between religion or race)</p>
<p>lol a lot of peop[le use the internet as an example. social reforms was a really good one. wish i thought of that during the test>.>
i used internet, better transportation, media. completely bs’ed it and had no idea what iw as doing. i just wrote down whatever popped into my head</p>
<p>i had the privacy and convenience one
this one was so dumb. I had no literary examples for it. I bsed most of it. I sided with the negative and talked about how it was morally wrong to invade privacy (expanded/ connected it with the american revolution and bill of rights (american’s rights)) and talked about the patriot act.</p>
<p>I used social reform and technology examples as well X_x. Then I made up a lovely example from literature…</p>
<p>I had the privacy one also.</p>
<p>I talked about 60% of teens talking on the phone / internet… lol BSing all my statistics.
And identity theft :U</p>
<p>/cry</p>
<p>For anyone who’s wondering, the privacy prompt was:</p>
<p>Should people give up privacy for convenience or free service?</p>
<p>or something along those lines.</p>
<p>I hated the prompt, it was technically very easy to write about but i couldn’t really use any of my prepared historical/literary references. I ended up using Forrest Gump and the Bush administration’s wire taping, and claimed that while as being the nation"america" we could not stop people from choosing to be brainwashed, but this vice would likely lead to a public of ignorant fools</p>
<p>I think it’s ******** how you have to have “examples.” I mean, sure, I guess, using examples are a great way to prove a point, but they’re not the ONLY way. I mean, you can make an argument based entirely on internal logic. I had no concrete examples for this prompt, so I just provided a purely logical argument. Unfortunately, I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out examples, so my essay ended up being incredibly short. Whatever. What’s there is good.</p>