last semester i had to write an essay comparing bruce lee's performance in 'enter the dragon' to the degree of heroism in a hero in my own life your turn
At the moment I am writing an article on the silence in Raymond Carver's 'What we talk about when we talk about love'. I think it's an awesome topic, it's just been done to death. There are about 100 articles online that are pretty much exactly what I am required to write. Also, I once had to write a 2000 word essay on the banjo scene from Deliverance.
Sophomore year of hs, we had to critically analyze either an album or a film. It was really the teacher's plug at his own class (Critical Aspects of Film), but he had pissed me off earlier in the semester so I decided to make this paper very thorough. I wrote a 25 pg paper on just about every lead change in SDOIT.
5 most important music albums of all time and why. Had to do this twice (got a good grade on both but failed the year), and my top album was King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime by Faith no More the first year, and Ocean Beach by The Red House Painters the next.
The rat's behaviour in relation to price theory. What fucking bullshit. Aced it though. Thank you JSTOR.org!!!
relating to works of the mexican poet jimmy santiago baca to my own procrastination. i got a d on it because i wrote it 3 hours before class and it was 5 pages too short.
Right now I'm writing one about E.M. Forster's Maurice and how he handles being a homosexual in homosocial, Edwardian England.
This essay, which began as an English class assignment to write in response to Hamlet, in relation to modern society, and ended up as a pseudo-astral dadaist dreamscape mishmash: (tl;dr: just read section 3) Background: written from 12am to 6am on the day it was due, this piece is interesting in that one can clearly see where the writer was drifting in and out of consciousness in the middle of writing.
The Difference Between Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism from the View Point of a Wealthy Entrepreneur post 1935 or something similar to that. It was over a year ago. Literally.
