Had to do one today for english. we had to analyse some articles and write an essay on what we thought was the main poimt of those articles. we were not told what the articles were until we got them at the start of the essay. we had two hours to do a 600 word essay.

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your curiosity will get the better of YOU one day.
Jon`C:Irony is spelling 'quality' poorly.
Spork:Well I think 'Irony is spelling grammar poorly'
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That's pretty standard. I'm glad I don't have to do that anymore

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

Six hundred words is not all that much. I find word limits like that to be quite constraining. I could easily do 600 words in half an hour. This post alone is almost 10 percent of that length, and it took me less than 30 seconds to write.

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

well, there is a difference between posts and essays.

Hah, my mid-term exam was writing an essay over the three novels we had read that semester and how they were connected. (1984, Brave New World, and Wuthering Heights)

I ended up handwriting about three pages college rule front and back in a hour and a half. And I got a 95. Dam I love that class

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"The future is not determined by a throw of the dice, but is determined by the conscious decisions of you and me."
I am addicted to ellipses!!! AHHH!!! ...

Oh boy, so true! I have to do one for The Great Gatsby and the topic outline is due tomorrow. The worst part is getting "literary criticism" to back up my points. As if my word isn't good enough...
[angry, disappointed face]

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I am Darth Slaw.
The Dark Lord of the Sith,
And part of the Nightfire mod team

God, that book sucked.

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You're entering a world of pain.

Yeah, posts on these forums don't have any grammatical\spelling rules and you're not given a grade on them.

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Kids must be shot by Monday.

Honesty tests for workers can't be trusted, report says.

Psychopaths are unpredictable.

Jay Leno's Headlines > Everything

Heh, one essay.

Get to the point when you're forced to write two or so a week, then you'll know the true meaning of hate.

Essays are always good, if you can choose a topic.

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I’m not going to die, I’m going to see if I was ever alive. - Spike
It's not your right to decide whether they live or die. They deserve a chance! - Vash
BABIES EVERYWHERE!!!

Literary criticism is a blight on writing. English isn't a science: attempting to quantify subjective interpretations by reworking the same opinion and calling it "citing sources" is the epitome of idiocy.

Its even worse when your religion teacher grades homework assignments on your grammar only, and then claims its fair because she has an english degree.

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"No good can ever come from staying with normal people"
-Outlaw Star
"Some people play tennis. I erode the human soul"
-Tycho, Penny Arcade
"I'm a Cannabal-Vegitarian. I will BBQ an employee if there is no veggie option"
-DX:IW

I love essays. I can usually turn them around so it's just me *****ing and that's always fun.

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"The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else, if she is plain."--The Importance of Being Earnest

I. hated. Wuthering Heights.

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"The Oracle told me I would die with my boots on. I've worn tennis shoes ever since." - Axis

Ever heard of the AP English exam?

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WOOSH.
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Yes, I look forward to taking the exam very soon.
Our AP English teacher has us write at least one 45 minutes essay in class each week. Eventually you get used to it.
And I liked The Great Gatsby.

We don't have time to do one each week. I'm going to try for it, but i don't know if I can do it. 3 essays in 2 hours...ugh. Although, on the multiple choice, i blew everyone in the class away, i got almost all of them right. so hopefully i'll do that ont he real thing and it'll kinda make up for the essays.

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WOOSH.
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Same here, because when it can only be a certain length, you don't know what to focus on.

If your teacher assigns liek a 300 word essay, maximum, how the hell do you know what to conecnetrate your essay on. You certainly won't be elaborate in your explanation.

If it has to be, let's say, 1,500 words, and you come up short, then you are forced to write something that probably doesn't fit well in the paper.

I'm better at essays than I am at multiple choice. If it came down to an essay for a final, and multiple choice final, I'd do the esssay.

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Honors English > Reg English. Wanna know why? It has less work. I would've never guessed it, but it does. It's awesome XD

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Speaking of essays, I just finished a really crappy one about Invisible Man that was totally full of BS.

Of course I don't think I've ever written one that wasn't full of BS, but oh well.

Ugh, I hate that book...

[This message has been edited by Darth (edited March 11, 2004).]

the sci-fi series was pretty good though, in my opinion

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"No good can ever come from staying with normal people"
-Outlaw Star
"Some people play tennis. I erode the human soul"
-Tycho, Penny Arcade
"I'm a Cannabal-Vegitarian. I will BBQ an employee if there is no veggie option"
-DX:IW

Invisible Man, not The Invisible Man.

There's a tad bit of difference in the two.

What a bitterly ironic coincidence.

I'm working on 5 essays I have to turn in tomorrow for AP English right now.

And yes, I'm also browsing Massassi.

Hail MacBeth!

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"Your entire base belongs to us."
"It would be highly appreciated if someone would set the bomb up for us"
"Launch all of our ships, christened 'Zigs', to insure that justice will be achieved swiftly and powerfully."

This is unsurprising.

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Shut up. I'm GOING to do this whether you like it or not.

Urgh.
I just finished MY five essays for Macbeth, one day after my 10 pages of "Quote Tracking" was an all night affair, and I'm excited and looking forward to the opportunity to write five more this weekend!
Assignments like this prove that beating a dead horse is just a bunch more work.

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I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
-Steven Wright

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your curiosity will get the better of YOU one day.
Jon`C:Irony is spelling 'quality' poorly.
Spork:Well I think 'Irony is spelling grammar poorly'
Snail racing: (500 posts per line)-@%

I think the parts of essays that we were shown in a lecture in the week before the essay were on that book.

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your curiosity will get the better of YOU one day.
Jon`C:Irony is spelling 'quality' poorly.
Spork:Well I think 'Irony is spelling grammar poorly'
Snail racing: (500 posts per line)-@%

I had to do two English Language coursework pieces on Writing to Persuade and Writing to Entertain.

For the first I did communist propaganda, and the second I did a children's story. The max word limit for the two combined was 3,000 words. I wrote over 5,000. :-( It was that damn story, you can't possibly write a story in 1,500 words.
Oh well.

800 word essay on how we respect others!

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Fight fire with fire! Fight EVERYTHING with fire!

"True as toasted toads!"

Two more inclass English essays and I will be done for the rest of my life.

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In Tribute to Adam Sliger. Rest in Peace

10/7/85 - 12/9/03

I much prefer essays to any other kind of work I get. I can usually produce a 1,500 word essay in under an hour that's worth about 75%...

I hate essays with low word limits, you hit the limit in about 4 minutes and you haven't even reached your main points.

The only time I've EVER been able to have FUN with an essay (which originated in hell, btw) is in my religion class. My teacher actually likes to have fun and I don't get points docked off for not being serious all the way through and cracking a joke or something.


OMG!!! WORST. BOOK. EVER.

I've suffered serious brain damage because of that book . Thank Bob it's over!

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I am Darth Slaw.
The Dark Lord of the Sith,
And part of the Nightfire mod team

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Have you ever read "The Sound and the Fury"? I've never read Wuthering Hights but i'm not sure if it can get any worse then that.

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"No good can ever come from staying with normal people"
-Outlaw Star
"Some people play tennis. I erode the human soul"
-Tycho, Penny Arcade
"I'm a Cannabal-Vegitarian. I will BBQ an employee if there is no veggie option"
-DX:IW

Nope, never read The Sound and the Fury. But WH is the worst read I've ever been forced to lay eyes on since forever ago.

Anyone read "Their Eyes Were Watching God" before? I heard it was horrible, and I have to start reading it next week. I have NOT read it yet--it's only what I've heard.

Jeez! We just finished the Great Gatsby, which we started just after The Scarlet Letter. This class is the most demanding...uhh...whatever it is, I've ever taken! I hate it, and everyone I've talked to about it does, too.

Sorry, had to blow a little steam. It's been a LONG week, putting up with English, and the SHORT weekend is finally here!

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I am Darth Slaw.
The Dark Lord of the Sith,
And part of the Nightfire mod team

[This message has been edited by Darth Slaw (edited March 12, 2004).]

"Their eyes were watching God" was not a horrible book. It was a nice oasis for me, because it was written in some sort of modern time period so I didn't have to worry about "wherefore" meaning "why", 200 word sentences, and goofy stuff like that.

The dialects are sorta hard to get used to...

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I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
-Steven Wright

Just to give a perspective, Slaw, the entire first quarter of the book is done in stream-of-consciousness. and guess whose consciousness. A retarted person. and i don't mean someone who is realy stupid. i mean someone with a veritable case of extreamly early-onset down syndrome. ANd to make things worse, he has no concept of time. his mind switches back and forth through flashbacks and reality, or in some cases to otehr flashbacks, so fast, that you can't even tell what reality is by the end of it.

Then it moves to an extreamly nuerotic person who has some odd fetishy about 'tricking' his shadow.

Then it goes onto the criminal brother, where, while the brother is (mostly), sane, the entire section is done in dialect, some sort of mix between gangster and idiot.

Lastly, It goes to the black maid, who is the only actualy sane person in the whole household. Now, normally this would be a good thing, except that after an entire 400 some pages of gibberish, even this brief respite can do absolutly nothing towards actually telling you what is going on, so you come out of reading it with a deep feeling of "WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED!!??" and the distict impression that you just wasted a sizable portion of your life.

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"No good can ever come from staying with normal people"
-Outlaw Star
"Some people play tennis. I erode the human soul"
-Tycho, Penny Arcade
"I'm a Cannabal-Vegitarian. I will BBQ an employee if there is no veggie option"
-DX:IW