jeffhx
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wait for that crescendo!
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Post by jeffhx on Apr 16, 2008 4:32:52 GMT -4
essays suck
last minute attempt at essay completion suck even more
im experiencing cognitive breakdown at the moment
thank you for your time
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Post by Skeleton Keys on Apr 16, 2008 9:48:50 GMT -4
Just pull right on through her. I've done the same recently with a few papers, and it feels soooooooo goooowed to be finished with them in the end. best of luck freind.
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Post by iiholly on Apr 16, 2008 10:34:11 GMT -4
I'm working on an essay right now comparing the irony and humor in Huck Finn, Bartleby, and Rip Van Winkle. I completed the rough draft though and am just editing. Its due next tuesday. *pats self on back for the anti-procrastination*. I am leaving out the fact I'm working on this paper is that I don't want to start my world lit term paper that is due next Tuesday. Jeff you should have more than one rant a day. On a good day I go through... quite a many. Usually ranting to people who have no concept of what or why I'm talking again. I need my license back so I can hang out with people I want to and don't just show up randomly now. Grawr.
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Post by Akira on Apr 16, 2008 13:38:31 GMT -4
What happened to your license Holly?
I've got an essay to do at some point...
"The Answer my friend is blowing in the wind." Discuss, in relation to this Dylan lyric, the changing musical, socio-cultural and political face of the 1960's.
Any ideas?
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Post by Mr. G. on Apr 16, 2008 13:48:08 GMT -4
"The Answer my friend is blowing in the wind." Discuss, in relation to this Dylan lyric, the changing musical, socio-cultural and political face of the 1960's. my eyes just glazed over
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jeffhx
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Post by jeffhx on Apr 16, 2008 13:49:02 GMT -4
are contemporary intelligence tests such as the WAIS and the Stanford Binet valid?
im used to the concept of ranting to people abt stuff that they dont understand...im pulling an all nighter..thats always fun
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Post by earthman on Apr 16, 2008 14:13:12 GMT -4
im used to the concept of ranting to people abt stuff that they dont understand Then you should have no problem whatsoever finishing this essay. I'm positive half the profs out there make it up as they go along. That's all it is, man, bullshitting. You just have to say university-like words and you're good to go. Still not convinced? I just got an A on my art history essay by saying thinks like "tonality" and "societal imbalance" in reference to paintings. Paintings! I don't know what it all means, but I know how to make it sound like I do. And that's the real key to success.
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Rustee
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Post by Rustee on Apr 16, 2008 22:27:55 GMT -4
I'm positive half the profs out there make it up as they go along. That's all it is, man, bullshitting. You just have to say university-like words and you're good to go. Still not convinced? I just got an A on my art history essay by saying thinks like "tonality" and "societal imbalance" in reference to paintings. Paintings! I don't know what it all means, but I know how to make it sound like I do. And that's the real key to success. True bits of wisdom...no wait, no it's not, but yeah, that's kinda the point, so yeah, it is.
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Post by Akira on Apr 17, 2008 20:43:40 GMT -4
im used to the concept of ranting to people abt stuff that they dont understand Then you should have no problem whatsoever finishing this essay. I'm positive half the profs out there make it up as they go along. That's all it is, man, bullshitting. You just have to say university-like words and you're good to go. Still not convinced? I just got an A on my art history essay by saying thinks like "tonality" and "societal imbalance" in reference to paintings. Paintings! I don't know what it all means, but I know how to make it sound like I do. And that's the real key to success. Actually very true. I did that for the entirety of my A-levels. Of course things started actually meaning something when I start my degree.
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jeffhx
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Post by jeffhx on Apr 17, 2008 21:15:22 GMT -4
i actually have serious issues when it comes to writing essays..i realised im not as articulate when i try to express an idea or something..and i have a huge tendency to word things real bad.. which is real weird...when someone else corrects it i'd be like.. why didn't i think of that?
i understand academic writing when i read them but for some reason i can't seem to write in the same manner
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Post by iiholly on Apr 18, 2008 12:15:54 GMT -4
I was drinking. Not driving. First time alcohol possession charge in Virginia is 6 month license suspension and a 500 dollar fine minimum. I only had a 600 dollar fine for my dui in west virginia. The world makes no sense.
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Hunter60
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Post by Hunter60 on Apr 18, 2008 12:41:14 GMT -4
What happened to your license Holly? I've got an essay to do at some point... "The Answer my friend is blowing in the wind." Discuss, in relation to this Dylan lyric, the changing musical, socio-cultural and political face of the 1960's. Any ideas? Sure. The song was really Dylan holding up a mirror to the society that was changing under society's feet. The Civil Rights movement was in full swing, the Beatniks and folkies were morphing into damn, dirty hippies (kidding, kidding...), Vietnam was becoming a focal issue and the gap between 1950's Eisenhower, Levitown-suburban social sleepiness and a youth culture with disposable income and liberal college education was widening. It has been said many times that Dylan was leading the charge. Not true. Dylan, like most writers/performers of that time was not so much acting as a leader but an observer of what was happening. Some things were happening at the direction of some but more often than not it was the natural extension of money, politics, war and media. In other words, they fed off of each other. I used to have this book a while ago that was a collection of essays published in Esquire magazine in 1960's that really put it in context for me. I was a little kid in the 60's but I renember some of the images that used to pop up on television. Vietnam war body counts every night on the evening news, the footage of Wallace getting gunned down, Bobby Kennedy getting shot, the confrontation between Chicago police and demonstrators at the Demoratic Convention in 1968, riots, Kent State...etc. The other thing to keep in mind is that the 60's mindset really didn't start until around 63-64' and didn't end until Watergate. Watergate really destroyed youthful political involvement, at least until recently. I was a teenager when Nixon resigned and most youth turned to loud music, drugs...etc rather than giving two squats about politics. We lost all faith in our government and adults in general. They were no longer the enemy. They just were. Okay, I've gone on enough. Hope that helps.
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Post by earthman on Apr 18, 2008 13:27:58 GMT -4
Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming, that's all I can say. We're finally on our own.
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Post by Akira on Apr 18, 2008 13:47:51 GMT -4
What happened to your license Holly? I've got an essay to do at some point... "The Answer my friend is blowing in the wind." Discuss, in relation to this Dylan lyric, the changing musical, socio-cultural and political face of the 1960's. Any ideas? Sure. The song was really Dylan holding up a mirror to the society that was changing under society's feet. The Civil Rights movement was in full swing, the Beatniks and folkies were morphing into damn, dirty hippies (kidding, kidding...), Vietnam was becoming a focal issue and the gap between 1950's Eisenhower, Levitown-suburban social sleepiness and a youth culture with disposable income and liberal college education was widening. It has been said many times that Dylan was leading the charge. Not true. Dylan, like most writers/performers of that time was not so much acting as a leader but an observer of what was happening. Some things were happening at the direction of some but more often than not it was the natural extension of money, politics, war and media. In other words, they fed off of each other. I used to have this book a while ago that was a collection of essays published in Esquire magazine in 1960's that really put it in context for me. I was a little kid in the 60's but I renember some of the images that used to pop up on television. Vietnam war body counts every night on the evening news, the footage of Wallace getting gunned down, Bobby Kennedy getting shot, the confrontation between Chicago police and demonstrators at the Demoratic Convention in 1968, riots, Kent State...etc. The other thing to keep in mind is that the 60's mindset really didn't start until around 63-64' and didn't end until Watergate. Watergate really destroyed youthful political involvement, at least until recently. I was a teenager when Nixon resigned and most youth turned to loud music, drugs...etc rather than giving two squats about politics. We lost all faith in our government and adults in general. They were no longer the enemy. They just were. Okay, I've gone on enough. Hope that helps. Thanks for the help! Definitely gives me some food for thought!
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Hunter60
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Post by Hunter60 on Apr 18, 2008 13:52:49 GMT -4
Not a problem. See, we old-timers are good for something aside from just yelling at kids to get off our lawn!
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hdj
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Post by hdj on Apr 18, 2008 14:50:56 GMT -4
"The Answer my friend is blowing in the wind." Discuss, in relation to this Dylan lyric, the changing musical, socio-cultural and political face of the 1960's. Any ideas? "Pissing in the wind". That pretty much sums up the 60's... Ignore me, I'm being stupid...
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Post by docsimon on Apr 19, 2008 1:39:09 GMT -4
you think writing essays is a pain, wait till you have 30-40 to mark. 3-10 will be good and make you happy 20-2 will be adequate and very boring the rest will be incoherent gibberish written by people desperate for some marks with no clew about the subject matter / didn't read or understand the question.
This leaves you desperately depressed wondering why you spent all those hours preparing lecture notes and spoon feeding people in tutorials ! Honestly it is not even funny !
Man I cant wait for the exams !
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Post by iiholly on Apr 23, 2008 8:24:25 GMT -4
Do you actually read the entirity of all of them though? I know I wouldn't.
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Post by earthman on Apr 23, 2008 15:35:21 GMT -4
You probably didn't even read the last post.
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Post by docsimon on Apr 24, 2008 10:02:35 GMT -4
yep I did, and yes I do, and yep it is a nightmare
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