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Dear Santa...
Dear Santa,
This year I've been busy!
Last Tuesday sugapie13227 and I donated clothes to the needy (11 points). In June I put gum in __skyscrapers's hair (-12 points). In February I donated bone marrow to pinkone54 in a life-saving procedure (300 points). In October I turned lostreality246 in for tearing the tag off a mattress (3 points). In March I bought porn for daschmittah (-10 points).
Overall, I've been nice (292 points). For Christmas I deserve a toy train!
Sincerely,
commodore_perry
I definitely like derek's gift the best.
I hate school work.
Here's an essay I wrote for CP English, you don't necessarily have to read the parts about the actual book we're reading
The Restrictions of Society
If I had my way, I would spend proportionately more time playing video games or Dungeons and Dragons than schoolwork. Being a good student is a great thing, and I am not saying that I hate being smart, but I wish I had more free time. Being in so many high-level classes, I get a great amount of homework that I must do each and every night. This, combined with all of my extracurricular activities leaves little or no time to kick back and enjoy myself aside from the intermittent non-booked weekend. One thing that I have noticed is that it is always the smart students doing the most work for the most time. It is also the smart students who participate in the most extracurricular and community service activities, and we never get a break.
Society is holding us back from enjoying our teenage years. Three out of the past four summers I have been weighed down with an amazingly disproportionate amount of summer homework, as have my other intelligent friends. Instead of enjoying the summer the way it was meant to be, we are stuck reading up to eight books as well as teaching ourselves math lessons that we do not understand and writing three papers, all due on the first day of school. When I asked a teacher about the rationale of this work load, she claimed it was to prepare us for college, yet do colleges give work over breaks, and if they do, is it this much? I think not. Also, give us a break! And I mean that quite literally. The honors-track students are the ones who do the most work during the school year - why not let them have the summer off and relax for once? I do not think anyone will tell you that they will forget how to read or even that they will not pick up a book for two months, if they are not forced to do so for their honors English class. Instead of having an enjoyable summer relaxing, we are stuck with our noses in The Odyssey or A Tale of Two Cities while sitting at the beach.
Nora Helmer, of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, faces a similar plight, if only in principle. Nora would like to be allowed to think freely and do as she pleases, yet the society of the late nineteenth century will not let her do so. Nora is stuck under the belittling thumb of her husband Torvald, as well as plagued by fear of Krogstad. Torvald views her as a child, an ornament, and a play-thing. He enjoys watching Nora dance, looking at her beautiful frame, and showing her off to the rest of the world, but he does not love her, he uses her. Krogstad is also using Nora to pressure Torvald to promote him at the bank, and he does this through blackmail. Throughout all, Nora feels very much like a doll, and she resents that.
In both my current-day situation and Nora’s nineteenth century, fictional situation, society - in the form of the education system or of men - does not allow a person to achieve his or her goals. Torvald can be likened to my own teachers, causing such distress for not understanding the effects their actions have. We feel much put upon not to stray from what is “right,” but what it comes down to is that we are afraid; afraid to voice our opinions and fight back. Fifteen months ago I had planned on putting these same ideas into an essay of my own, but the time never arose that I could spend on extra work, because there was no time to spare due to all of my previous obligations.