I, Jury... iJury

The two big things that I got from reading other people's essays is that I really need to make my introductions and conclusions more smooth, as it really makes or breaks an essay.  I also feel that I need to summarize less in my writing.

Brave New World AP Essay 1

There are two sides to many people in this world: the outside that conforms to the world around them, and the inside that secretly wants to rebel.  When people do not agree with the society or culture around them, human nature often makes it difficult for them to make their concerns known to their peers, allowing this desire to go against the grain to grow inside them.  This inner want to change the system has lead to much literature, and many characters devoted to describing the difficulties of breaking the societal mold, especially in the modern era.  Bernard, the protagonist at the beginning of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is one of these characters who cannot break free of the culture around him that he knows is wrong.  The “tension” created by Bernard’s outward conformity and inward questioning is what makes the beginning of this novel so meaningful.

Brave New World AP Essay Question

The Question can be found here.

Although I would probably write this question on either Winston of 1984 or Jake of The Sun Also Rises, I would first go about answering the question by making a pre-write in the form of an organized list of the ways Bernard conforms against his better judgement, such as more or less taking part in the decadent love affairs of

BOB 1

I intend to bring my findings to class tomorrow, so they will not be represented here, but I was just wondering why I am getting the same amount of page views from the usual suspects when everyone from my class is supposed to be viewing my blog and then rating it... this just seems odd to me.

I also wanted to say that people should look at more blogs than just the first one on the list.  The first blog has way more views than others that are of equal quality that are lower on the list, and I feel that this is unfortunate, as people are just being lazy.

I Am Here, Here I Am... Here Am I

    I feel that I have made moderately good progress this grading period.  Although I have had more troubles with time commitments than usual, I feel I have worked well in the time I have been allotted.  My focus this grading period has generally been to improve my writing, as I am

Everything is Interdisciplinary

or, Welcome to the Interdisciplinary.
For my project, I intend to conduct a scientific test on the denizens of my school.  This test will cover a variety of disciplines, including classical scientific inquiry, the transportation aspect of civil engineering, sociology, psychology, community dynamics, law in respect to education, and the general learning process of students on my campus.  If my hypothesis proves correct, it may improve on all of the above.

Have To / Would Like To

Note: Sorry Doctor Preston, but I like my title better

I feel that people do what they want to all ready.  People generally do not like to do school work, and do not use their schooling as their medium to do what they would like to.  If people did not do what they wanted to aside from what they had to do, this world would not really have much music or any other thing of beauty.  If we did simply what we were told, there would be no scientific advances or anything, because we are not told to do that in school.  The Beatles did what they did aside from their school work, and I study culture and classical music, yet I do not have a music history class nor one for ancient culture.  People do what they want already.