Educational Ramblings

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Here are some essays and such that I've written for school assignments. I'm posting them here because I hate wasted effort, and I might as well do something with them. You might get something out of them; who knows?

By the way, have you ever noticed how double-spacing seems to do much more than double the length of a paper? Most of these were at least three pages long; single-spaced in the browser, they seem to come to about a page, if that.

If you like these, or even if you don't, you might want to see my thoughts regarding my school district and paranoia in general.

• "Politics" [HTML] [TXT]
  We had to write a parable. The title pretty much describes it.

  Yes, the English is somewhat...archaic. I saw a quote from Tolkien 5 minutes before writing it, and decided I should try for epic and lyrical myself. I don't know if it worked or not.

• What is the purpose of education? [HTML] [PDF]
  When assigned this question for our essay, most of my AP English class, encouraged by the teacher, began gushing about how education should stop bigotry, encourage individuality, help the underprivileged, et cetera. Bah. My opinion, stated more formally and at greater length in this essay, is that the purpose of education is to learn stuff. Anything else is just gravy.

  I got a B-. My teacher said my ideas were "unique" but "without clear organization".

• Government and the Individual [HTML] [PDF]
  I'm not very proud of this one. I discussed everything I wanted to get to, but couldn't seem to tie it all together... I love my concluding paragraph, though.

  5 out of 7. I got in trouble for not spelling out MIT and GNU, as well as not backing up my claims. I wanted to, but unfortunately was restricted in length. I think if I had gone into detail on all my points, the paper would have run to 10 pages or so.

• Living in Our Environment [PDF]
  I quoted Ayn Rand, the Bible, "The Matrix", and two essays, all in one paper! Am I cool or what?!

  This is the first essay in this whole series that I wrote without intentionally setting my own "unique" views against other views mentioned in my class that annoyed me.

  No grade on this yet, either.

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