I'm a sophomore too! Love my English teacher for multiple reasons though >.>. Can't really help much, other than reiterate a story about rape.ElephantGuts said:
Help with an essay for school?
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Dear God... What have you done with the Education system? Has the hyper-active generation gotten so bad that it has to call an elementary-school essay a "story"?PlaylistOne said:
"If I had an idea..."PlaylistOne said:
Okay, here's your idea. Court room drama.
"I'll go with that..."
Good, there's your idea.
"What should the trial be about?"
... I'm sorry, are you sure you want just an idea?
Here's the deal, sir. You're procrastinating a 5-paragraph, single-paper (triple-spaced, 15 font) assignment under the pretense that you need a story idea to plug your five vocabulary words into for an English assignment. You've picked words that are so archaic and banal that they take more space to define than you have room to use them, much less while still giving clues as to their definitions through context.
When everyone says "Do your own homework," they aren't being rude. They're being realistic. You've landed an easy assignment in a floundering and drunken format. So, instead of submitting yourself to your effort in writing five paragraphs worth of story (which would likely be less words than your opening post, much less all of the responses you've made since), you've committed yourself to having others lay out your homework for you, agape as we tell you that you must be out of your mind.
So as we tear you asunder in retaliation for wasting our time, as you hope that we will conciliate to your assignment for you, so the only input on this essay on your part is a name. Well, I personally avidly await the day you reach college, where you must churn out essays at least ten times longer than these, with more depth and purpose, and have less than two hours to do so. Sure, it's succumbing to a base instinct, but your work is just that, yours.
Don't blaspheme us, yourself, or your education by asking of us an assignment of your English class. Ingratiating language like "Help please?" will not bypass my predilection of thinking your work is your own. Sure, this whole thing is contentious, I'll admit to that. And if you find this whole tangent dissembling your beguiled attempt as appealing to our "humanity." All you will find from us is an abyss of scorn and hatred only the Internet's inherent anonymity can provide. No one will ameliorate you here, and all will agree your "plea for help" is one of several calumnies you've forced upon us.
Frankly, I don't think The Escapist as a whole should stand for it, and neither should you. Do your own work, and when you do, I'll applaud your convictions. When you don't, I'll laugh at you.
So, go ahead and post the finished product here. I expect it to be an original idea not mentioned here, or at least deviated enough for me to believe you've done your assignment. Until then, I'd suggest everyone ignore you, then the only persons' time you'll be wasting is your own.
Chop-chop, that assignment isn't going to do itself.
Do five separate short stories, each one counts as an act. Have each story revolve around a topic that interests you: i.e. zombie apocalypse, sci-fi etc, and try to add the words where appropriate. Don't let the words dictate the story, just have them as a superficial thing in a better literary work. Knock the socks off of your teacher.
If your problem is "inspiration" I'd say you don't have a problem. Clearly the point of the assignment is to write a decent short story with those words salted in to show that you understand them. So write anything you want, anything you can think of, and make sure to write sentences in which those words are necessary - or you would use their simpler synonyms. No one here can offer you taht inspiration, because to simply give you an idea for a story would mean nothing - any idea under the sun could have these words squeezed in. To go further in depth, though - to explain the how and the why of each word's use in this hypothetical idea - would be to do half your assignment for you.
Edit: Do American high schools really set page quotas? I'm too used to word counts.
Edit: Do American high schools really set page quotas? I'm too used to word counts.
We've always done it by pages. Words makes more sense, but since just about any essay is Double-Spaced, 12 font, any number of pages is pretty much universally 700-900 words, so the arbitrary word-counts is usually 800 x number of pages.Saskwach said:
Although it's always been pages in my experience.
Jesus Christ, you had yo write a 5 paragraph paper a day, what school did you go to? although i agree 5 paragraphs is easy, especially since i use a few of those words on a daily basis.TheNecroswanson said:
on topic, just set it in the 1800's. everyone talked like that in the 1800's, you could do anything you want. oh wait i just got a better idea, make it about a family getting work done on their plumbing. here's a sample sentence; "Billy had a predilection to look where he wasn't supposed to, so without hesitation he gazed upon the gaping abyss that was the plumbers crack." there 2 words in one sentence. now go do your homework!
Dr. who fan fiction - you can set it anywhere and still have fun, and if the Dr. is the sort of person to use those types of words just for the fun of it.
My Freshman English class was filled with idiots. I remember every single kid complaining about some literary device matching section on a test and I had gotten every single one right quite easily. It took us like two months or something to read Romeo & Juliet in there too. TWO MONTHS! Seriously, there was no reading for homework and she'd stop every five seconds to explain that line she just read. She was a substitute that was filling in for a teacher that had just had a baby, but she ended up teaching us the whole year.TheNecroswanson said:
And we had to peer edit our essays in there too. It sucked for me, because I had to furiously scribble to attempt to edit their shit in time, and they wouldn't find a single mistake in mine, whether that was one or not. It basically meant I babied everyone else and had to edit mine as well.
Really, it's kinda sad that there are so few Honors English classes here. My teacher has two, and I see no evidence that there is another Honors English teacher for Sophomore year. Even other kids that are riding all Honors classes with me are in General English, and they seem like smart kids too. I fail to see why it's such a challenging subject for so many, it's really pretty simple (read, be able to comprehend what you just read, write well).
My Honors English teacher this year is awesome though, easily the best teacher I've ever had. We have to do quite a bit of work, but English is a really fun subject for me. I don't mind reading books at super fast paces and writing long papers because I can do it, and pretty damn well.
I also need to find a way to get ahead in Math too. I'm in Geometry now, but I'm way above this level. The only reason I wasn't taking Algebra 1 in 7th grade was because I switched schools and that my old school was horrible when it came to Math. But now that I'm clearly very good at it, I feel like I'm wasting time in Geometry. I think I'll see if I can get a tutor or something to teach me Algebra 2 over the summer so I can jump up a level. Or maybe even that and Trigonometry both in the summer and jump right up to Calculus, but I'm not sure if they'd let me try that, even if I could probably do it.
Yeah, no one read this. It probably came off as a really smug "Man, how smart am I?" rant anyway.
Rob Dudas
Mrs. Garguilo
English II
2 November 2008
?Mr. Thompson, please bring forward your first witness.? The court was silent, watching the trial unfold. The media had so far covered the story well. Hack Thompson was suing Radiostar games, for his usual accusations that ?Video games corrupt youth.? While he had avidly attempted to sue many other video game companies, he had never once succeeded, leading many people to believe that he was just making calumny to generate public notice for his cause. Hack Thompson, a middle aged man with grey hair and a constant nearly imperceptible look of discomfort on his face, walked over to a young boy at the witness stand. The boy was about fifteen, short, scrawny, and seemed to have eyes as deep, dark and empty as an abyss.
?So tell me?, Mr. Thompson said to the boy, ?when did you first play Radiostar?s game, Grand Theft Awesome 4??
?At a friend?s house,? the boy said, in a contentious way.
?Why did you play it,? said Thompson attempting to be conciliatory.
?Well, it looked like fun. You could blow stuff up, run anywhere in New York, and even get chased by the cops.?
Thompson turned around, and walked toward the jury. ?Later that week, this boy walked into his school with a gun, planning on killing his classmates.? The boy sunk into his seat trying to contain whatever level of anonymity he had left. ?This Grand Theft Awesome,? Hack Thompson said putting finger quotes around the games title, ?trained and motivated him to commit these violent acts.?
?Thank you Mr. Thompson. That is enough, have a seat. Will the lawyer for Radiostar please step forward, Mr. Bellic.? A tall, muscular man in his mid twenties stepped forward. Victor Bellic was born to Serbian parents who had fled the country during war time.
?Thank you your honor. Mr. Thompson attacks are base at best. He says nothing but blasphemous lies. I have everything to prove him wrong in a folder next to my briefcase.? He walks over to it, and pulls out a small stack of papers. He glances at them for a moment and then looks over at Mr. Thompson. ?Mr. Thompson, you do know that this child has been diagnosed with bi polar disorder, and clinical depression??
?I am not sure,? He said floundering through his papers looking for the boys medical records. ?I have it right here if you want to look at it.? Mr. Bellic said as he handed him the paper. ?Yes I do believe you are right Mr. Bellic, but what does that have to do with anything?? In retaliation, Mr. Bellic said ?It means that maybe it wasn?t the game that made him go into school that day with a gun. Maybe it was because he is always picked on in school, and that in combination with his mental disorders lead him to bring the gun.? Hack?s jaw was agape; he was confounded at how he shot down his most important point.
Victor walked over to the jury and paced back and forth a bit. ?Are you ladies and gentlemen going to believe him, when he is so obviously trying to beguile you? He has had a predilection against video games for a long time. He attempts to be dissembling and blame them on violence. He attempts to ameliorate his attacks by conveniently forgetting the medical records for his one witness. The same witness he has paid off to make him deferentially agree to whatever he wants him to say. The reason why he has this vendetta against games is unknown, but his ideas are unfounded with truth. I actually have a report from Gervais University that says playing violent video games does not cause these people to act out unless they have serious mental problems. For the average gamer the study shows that they are actually therapeutic. It is relaxing to be able to commit violence in a world where it doesn?t cause any actual harm.?
With that, Thompson knew he was finished. The jury made a unanimous decision in less than ten minutes finding in favor of Radiostar games. Thompson walked out of the courtroom with little deference for the paparazzi he was pushing through. He showed no ingratiating qualities, as he walked to his car to drive home. Later that month Thompson lost his license to practice law after it was found that he did in fact bribe his witness and their family to help him. It was a glorious day in the gaming community as everyone knew there would be no more Hack Thompson to interfere with their favorite games.
Ok so here it is, if anything sounds akward, or if the names are lame, let me know and I will change them.
For the people that didnt get the references:
Hack Thompson=Jack Thompson
Radiostar games=Rockstar Games
Grand Theft Awesome 4=Grand Theft Auto4
Victor Bellic= Based off of Nico Bellic from GTA4
Gervais University= The name of one of the stand up comedians that appears in GTA4. He is pretty funny, look him up on youtube if you get the chance.
Mrs. Garguilo
English II
2 November 2008
?Mr. Thompson, please bring forward your first witness.? The court was silent, watching the trial unfold. The media had so far covered the story well. Hack Thompson was suing Radiostar games, for his usual accusations that ?Video games corrupt youth.? While he had avidly attempted to sue many other video game companies, he had never once succeeded, leading many people to believe that he was just making calumny to generate public notice for his cause. Hack Thompson, a middle aged man with grey hair and a constant nearly imperceptible look of discomfort on his face, walked over to a young boy at the witness stand. The boy was about fifteen, short, scrawny, and seemed to have eyes as deep, dark and empty as an abyss.
?So tell me?, Mr. Thompson said to the boy, ?when did you first play Radiostar?s game, Grand Theft Awesome 4??
?At a friend?s house,? the boy said, in a contentious way.
?Why did you play it,? said Thompson attempting to be conciliatory.
?Well, it looked like fun. You could blow stuff up, run anywhere in New York, and even get chased by the cops.?
Thompson turned around, and walked toward the jury. ?Later that week, this boy walked into his school with a gun, planning on killing his classmates.? The boy sunk into his seat trying to contain whatever level of anonymity he had left. ?This Grand Theft Awesome,? Hack Thompson said putting finger quotes around the games title, ?trained and motivated him to commit these violent acts.?
?Thank you Mr. Thompson. That is enough, have a seat. Will the lawyer for Radiostar please step forward, Mr. Bellic.? A tall, muscular man in his mid twenties stepped forward. Victor Bellic was born to Serbian parents who had fled the country during war time.
?Thank you your honor. Mr. Thompson attacks are base at best. He says nothing but blasphemous lies. I have everything to prove him wrong in a folder next to my briefcase.? He walks over to it, and pulls out a small stack of papers. He glances at them for a moment and then looks over at Mr. Thompson. ?Mr. Thompson, you do know that this child has been diagnosed with bi polar disorder, and clinical depression??
?I am not sure,? He said floundering through his papers looking for the boys medical records. ?I have it right here if you want to look at it.? Mr. Bellic said as he handed him the paper. ?Yes I do believe you are right Mr. Bellic, but what does that have to do with anything?? In retaliation, Mr. Bellic said ?It means that maybe it wasn?t the game that made him go into school that day with a gun. Maybe it was because he is always picked on in school, and that in combination with his mental disorders lead him to bring the gun.? Hack?s jaw was agape; he was confounded at how he shot down his most important point.
Victor walked over to the jury and paced back and forth a bit. ?Are you ladies and gentlemen going to believe him, when he is so obviously trying to beguile you? He has had a predilection against video games for a long time. He attempts to be dissembling and blame them on violence. He attempts to ameliorate his attacks by conveniently forgetting the medical records for his one witness. The same witness he has paid off to make him deferentially agree to whatever he wants him to say. The reason why he has this vendetta against games is unknown, but his ideas are unfounded with truth. I actually have a report from Gervais University that says playing violent video games does not cause these people to act out unless they have serious mental problems. For the average gamer the study shows that they are actually therapeutic. It is relaxing to be able to commit violence in a world where it doesn?t cause any actual harm.?
With that, Thompson knew he was finished. The jury made a unanimous decision in less than ten minutes finding in favor of Radiostar games. Thompson walked out of the courtroom with little deference for the paparazzi he was pushing through. He showed no ingratiating qualities, as he walked to his car to drive home. Later that month Thompson lost his license to practice law after it was found that he did in fact bribe his witness and their family to help him. It was a glorious day in the gaming community as everyone knew there would be no more Hack Thompson to interfere with their favorite games.
Ok so here it is, if anything sounds akward, or if the names are lame, let me know and I will change them.
For the people that didnt get the references:
Hack Thompson=Jack Thompson
Radiostar games=Rockstar Games
Grand Theft Awesome 4=Grand Theft Auto4
Victor Bellic= Based off of Nico Bellic from GTA4
Gervais University= The name of one of the stand up comedians that appears in GTA4. He is pretty funny, look him up on youtube if you get the chance.
It took us 5 months to read Romeo and Juliet, in Pre-AP English because my teacher was an idiot... I love read, and I'm fine with writing, but I've always had bad luck with English teachers so I took regular English this year. Way too easy, I did my Catcher in the Rye essay in 15 min. the morning it was due and I viewed it as a piece of crap, yet I got 100%. Oh, and I read your entire post. I'm considering taking Physics over the summer to make room for other classes, and I'm in Algebra 2 right now, (as a sophomore) if anyone cares.Shivari said:
>.>
Edit: Oh and Geometry is a major waste of time, I regret not taking it over the summer.
Im in Alg2 too, math has always been one of my strongest suits. Did you read the final essay?PersianLlama said:
I just did, and I think it's good. However, don't leave it to me to judge, writing is not one of my strongest suits. (Math/Science/Comp. Sci are)PlaylistOne said: