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Standardized Testing is such a sham:
ESSAY PROMPT
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below:
Many persons believe that to move up the ladder of success and
achievement, they must forget the past, repress it, and relinquish it.
But others have just the opposite view. They see old memories as a
chance to reckon with the past and integrate past and present.
Adapted from Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation
Assignment: Do memories hinder or help people in their effort to learn
from the past and succeed in the present? Plan and write an essay in
which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your
position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies,
experience, or observations.
My Response:(and sorry for the typos, the site only gives jpegs of the essay so Ive got to retype it)
Pretty Much any line of work requires some knowlege of the past, some
more than other of course. But really, in order to answer the
questioning of the link between past experiences and success, you must
first put into consideration your idea of success. To me, success would
be spending nearly four decades searching for a fabled white whale,
then after years of desperate limbo between you and the leviathan, it
escapes forever into the aquatic abyss. Seemingly a failure, I would
feel completely accomplished in knowing that I spent my doing something
truly noble.
However, others may have a completely differant perspective on the
whole idea of success.Some may feel that thier entire life was in vain
based solely on the completion of the arduaous task they set for
themselves, be it fighting a kangeroo, becomming the world's premeir
jazz floutist, or say capturing a white whale. For this group of
people, I would say that past experiences and memories would seem
petty, only to be tossed aside in thier struggle to complete thier
dream.
Then
finally there are those who guage success completely in the financial
aspect, such as my friend Gordon Gecko, who was so handsomely portrayed
by a young Orson Welles in the critically acclaimed movie
ROMPERSTOMPER. This man, despite his rugged, handsome, and seemingly
jovial demure, would ruin somone's entire life by running thier
father's airplane business into the ground simply if it meant getting
sweet new racing stripes on his new superyacht. These types of people,
although drawing from the past, do it selfishly, and for thier own
gain; for they have lost sight of the white whale that is true, lasting
success.
In
summation, in order to fully attain my idea of true success, you must
not merely learn from and remember your past, you must do so in a way
that is spiritually benefitting to your'e lifelong happiness with teh
scientologists, for they will consume us all. It is solely within your
own hands whether or not you will be successful in the truest meaning,
but I think it is best illustrated in the immortal words of a true
hero, Captain Planet, as he proclaimed after defeating Dr Cornelius
Doom's CFC war machine, "The power is yours!"
Followed promptly with this:
And fucking rediculous as that is, I recieved this the other day:
ESSAY SCORE DESCRIPTION
Your essay score of 10 (out fo 12 max) was obtained by adding the
scores of two readers. For your score of 10, each reader gave your
essay a 5.
This score represents the following set of criteria:
A score of 5 is effective, demonstrating reasonably consistent mastery,
although it will have occasional errors or lapses in quality. A typical
essay
* effectively develops a point of view on the issue and demonstrates strong critical thinking, generally using appropriate examples, reasons, and other evidence to support its position
* is well organized and focused, demonstrating coherence and progression of ideas
* exhibits facility in the use of language, using appropriate vocabulary
* demonstrates variety in sentence structure
* is generally free of most errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics
I swear to god, I might aswell just jackass my way through life...
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