Post by Scott Manor on Feb 28, 2008 19:49:41 GMT -5
I need opinions on this essay. It's an essay for english and basically is my response to my teacher for having an entire book, 2 essays, and 2 reading responses due the next day. Tell me what you think and sorry if I offend anyone. It's mostly directed at my english teacher.
Often times people require you to write an essay on an important decision that impacted your life. Most people write about some tragic moment that supposedly made their life better. Most people either only say it made their life better when they didn’t care. They usually only lie about either the event or the impact it had on their life. So here’s my important decision and it’s impact on my life. Basically, I recently decided English is a totally pointless and boring subject on it’s own and even more so when taught by a teacher who has no clue what they’re doing.
I always thought English was a dull subject that was extremely repetitive, but could never decide if it was totally pointless. You learn the same basics over and over each year. You learn what a metaphor, simile, or personification are almost every year on top of reading the same short stories and similar books. Most of the books usually have no appeal to most of the class and therefore drag the class down even more making it nothing more than a desireable nap time. In fact, when you watch a movie and it’s worse than the book you read, English can become worse than a torture chamber.
All this led me to the conclusion that English truly is a dull and pointless class that does nothing but repeat itself. On top of that, English is nothing short of pure torture when the class itself seems random and without direction as seems to be the case most of the time. This decision and realization of mine tremendously affected my life in that it greatly reduced the stress I had from actually caring about whether English was a useful class and on whether I cared about excelling in it.
Since English is nothing more than a midly decent at best, naptime it allows me to focus more on the classes I need to prepare and study for. Classes that I actually need more than the basics for when it comes to my career choice and English does not fall into that category. Yes, the basics of English are essential and useful, being reminded of them without learning anything new makes a class devoted to general English useless, especially when the teacher fails to provide items that actually stimulate a person’s creativity and isn’t assigned just to take up time.
Also, English classes teaches you to “beat around the bush” so to speak when you’re usually taught that you want to get straight to the point. For example, this essay is suppose to be 750 words, yet I am manage to accomplish the task in much less. How does this make English help you prepare for the future if you’re required to waste time and words saying the same thing repeatedly, which not only annoys most people, but gives off a negative impression as well.
The same thing could said about being encouraged to use “big” words. You can spend paragraphs, sentances, hours, and days saying something that most people could probably say with one mere sentence. It drags something out longer than it has to be and usually can make a person look unintelligent and like they’re trying to pretend they are intelligent.
Therefore I’m forced to conclude that English is an extremely dull, boring, and repetitive class that I could use the time I use for it much wiser, like more sleep. This is based on various points mentioned above and some other. Yes a person can write an essay explaining a piece of art, but an essay like that belongs more in an art class than an English class. Second, if the teacher is unable to provide materials and activities that actually stimulate the creative part of a student’s mind then it becomes nothing more than a period to kill time. Furthermore, big words, and large assignments that are required to be a certain legnth only teach students to drag something out when most people prefer to get straight to the point therefore cutting down it’s usefulness. Finally, all these reasons and the conclusion I have reached have allowed me to reduce the amount of stress I have about worrying about a class taught by a teacher who is either incompetent or overall dull and boring and turn my focus into worrying about classes that I actually need for my career and find a good time to take a much needed nap during the day when the homework from the class requires me to stay up until two in the morning or later and I have to get up at six in the morning.
Often times people require you to write an essay on an important decision that impacted your life. Most people write about some tragic moment that supposedly made their life better. Most people either only say it made their life better when they didn’t care. They usually only lie about either the event or the impact it had on their life. So here’s my important decision and it’s impact on my life. Basically, I recently decided English is a totally pointless and boring subject on it’s own and even more so when taught by a teacher who has no clue what they’re doing.
I always thought English was a dull subject that was extremely repetitive, but could never decide if it was totally pointless. You learn the same basics over and over each year. You learn what a metaphor, simile, or personification are almost every year on top of reading the same short stories and similar books. Most of the books usually have no appeal to most of the class and therefore drag the class down even more making it nothing more than a desireable nap time. In fact, when you watch a movie and it’s worse than the book you read, English can become worse than a torture chamber.
All this led me to the conclusion that English truly is a dull and pointless class that does nothing but repeat itself. On top of that, English is nothing short of pure torture when the class itself seems random and without direction as seems to be the case most of the time. This decision and realization of mine tremendously affected my life in that it greatly reduced the stress I had from actually caring about whether English was a useful class and on whether I cared about excelling in it.
Since English is nothing more than a midly decent at best, naptime it allows me to focus more on the classes I need to prepare and study for. Classes that I actually need more than the basics for when it comes to my career choice and English does not fall into that category. Yes, the basics of English are essential and useful, being reminded of them without learning anything new makes a class devoted to general English useless, especially when the teacher fails to provide items that actually stimulate a person’s creativity and isn’t assigned just to take up time.
Also, English classes teaches you to “beat around the bush” so to speak when you’re usually taught that you want to get straight to the point. For example, this essay is suppose to be 750 words, yet I am manage to accomplish the task in much less. How does this make English help you prepare for the future if you’re required to waste time and words saying the same thing repeatedly, which not only annoys most people, but gives off a negative impression as well.
The same thing could said about being encouraged to use “big” words. You can spend paragraphs, sentances, hours, and days saying something that most people could probably say with one mere sentence. It drags something out longer than it has to be and usually can make a person look unintelligent and like they’re trying to pretend they are intelligent.
Therefore I’m forced to conclude that English is an extremely dull, boring, and repetitive class that I could use the time I use for it much wiser, like more sleep. This is based on various points mentioned above and some other. Yes a person can write an essay explaining a piece of art, but an essay like that belongs more in an art class than an English class. Second, if the teacher is unable to provide materials and activities that actually stimulate the creative part of a student’s mind then it becomes nothing more than a period to kill time. Furthermore, big words, and large assignments that are required to be a certain legnth only teach students to drag something out when most people prefer to get straight to the point therefore cutting down it’s usefulness. Finally, all these reasons and the conclusion I have reached have allowed me to reduce the amount of stress I have about worrying about a class taught by a teacher who is either incompetent or overall dull and boring and turn my focus into worrying about classes that I actually need for my career and find a good time to take a much needed nap during the day when the homework from the class requires me to stay up until two in the morning or later and I have to get up at six in the morning.
