horror essay

[missmacabre]

Thanks guys. I have chosen all my research. Unfortunately we had to have one of several kinds of sources. So I had to deal with the stuff I could find that fit into those.

I guess we can have extra research if it's relevant. I found a way to cite movies in MLA format, so I am going to use some situations from movies as attention getters since I can't use them anywhere else. Boo urns, college english.

I thought of going into females as villains but we are only supposed to be doing a 5 paragraph essay. Again, boo. My teacher doesn't want to stress the brains of all the pot heads in my class.

I think I might take all this extra research and make a really kick ass research paper including more of the monster side of the females because that's what I am really interested in.

Also would loooove to throw in some Jungian theory since I am a big fan of Jung. It's just going to be too difficult to put into the constrainst of such a small paper.

[neverending]

They call 5 paragraphs an essay now??

[missmacabre]

Originally Posted by neverending

They call 5 paragraphs an essay now??

Yep, and she doesn't even make us write long paragraphs. I would love to write longer papers but our college doesn't have TAs and no teacher is going to want to mark a huge essay so they make us keep it short enough to write in one hour. It's pretty bogus since I am an overachiever in a class full of people in a hurry to make it to the pub by 11am. When we had to write process analysis essays a bunch of people wrote about how to roll a joint. I wish I had more money, I would have went to University.

[Phalanx]

They call 5 paragraphs an essay now??

They call a spicket a tap, or faucet.
And a horseless carriage, they call a car.

[ferretchucker]

5 paragraphs! I'd kill for that. In English, I've just started my essay. It's seven paragraphs long so far and that only the first section out of five!

But as for women in the 2000's...

Hmmm. They seem to still be survivors, but I think the male figure has come into prominence, tending to aid each other. But I'd say not much has changed for women since the 80's in horror.

[The Flayed One]

Wow. Most of my Honors English essays in high school had to be at least five pages.

As far as overachieving, we at the HDC Encyclopedia of Horror appreciate you;)

[neverending]

Originally Posted by The Flayed One

Wow. Most of my Honors English essays in high school had to be at least five pages.

Yes- but now she's in COLLEGE.

[missmacabre]

Originally Posted by neverending

Yes- but now she's in COLLEGE.

The reason they make us do such short essays is because we have to do the majority of the work in class. The teachers want to see you do the writing so they know you aren't plagiarizing or having someone write it for you.

If we were doing take home essays they would be longer, and I would be making SOOO much money doing my classmates homework. I did that in high school and I made like 20 bucks per essay. They were longer than 5 paragraphs then too. I miss doing work for money. It's almost like having a job. Now I don't need a job because I get payed $75 from the school per person I take notes for in my Soc. seminar. By the end of this semester I will have $225 in my pocket for taking neat notes like I normally would.

[ferretchucker]

Wow. I didn't know people actually did homework for money. I thought that was just something Hollywood cooked up.

[missmacabre]

Originally Posted by ferretchucker

Wow. I didn't know people actually did homework for money. I thought that was just something Hollywood cooked up.

There are ALWAYS going to be spoiled, rich kids whose parents are paying for their education and they are just there to party.In high school there was this one girl in particular who was a ballerina and in my dance class, as well as history and english. So she basically just wanted to get good grades and get her dancing scholarship so she could go to school. She is also a model and made quite a bit of money so she just payed me to do all her work. If it was an assignment where you read the book and then answer questions I would charge less because I had to find the answers myself anyway, and then more for essays obviously because they took more time.