April 2012
1 post
“The very next thing observed from the speech given by Mitt Romney is the straw...”
December 2011
1 post
“Thinking is a pain in my soul; it haunts me even when I slept.”
November 2011
4 posts
Did you know that Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote “A Letter from Birmingham Jail” while he was “incinerated in Alabama”?
Think of the children!
“Many couple don’t realize the strain they put on their relationships with their children due to divorce. Others decide to stay together for the kids sake. But does that help them or mutilate them?”
“Cars are lower to the ground than trucks making visibility in some instances...”
Considering I graded a TON of research papers in the last week, I wish I had more to post. But most of them made me want to cry, not laugh. There was very little laughing involved and few, if any, malapropisms. Mostly just shocking failures of logic.
Ah, well. I’m grading community college papers today and this weekend, so they may have some gems for me. Like this wise observation:
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October 2011
6 posts
The Effects of Molding on Adolescence
Why is molding so harmful to society? Molding is a career like any other, a career that emphasizes looks and status.
*The title to this post was the actual title to one of my student’s research papers. After a while I realized he was talking about modeling.
I also had a student this semester write a whole paper about VIRGINAL WOOLF.
Shoo, pain! Go on, affliction, get out of here!
His pain and affliction are being shunned away by anger and desire.
(from musicistheart)
"Villain of Majesty" would be a great band name
Manfred’s role in the fulfillment of the primeval foresight blinds him to his actions, forming a villain of majesty.
(from musicistheart)
"baron wasteland"
One of my students wrote this last semester instead of “barren wasteland.” I think it would be an excellent name for a villain in some kind of gothic romance novel: Baron von Wasteland
So sweet that my student compared his prom date, in her red dress, to a rose. Course, it was kind of ruined by the fact that he goes on to call her “a nice piece of arm candy” in the very next sentence!
May 2011
2 posts
“Tens of thousands that didn’t die where fatally injured.”
Polar economic demographics? Brrrr!
“Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was written over a European backdrop that consisted of revolutionary political schemes, evolutionary societies, and polar economic demographics.”(Thanks musicistheart!)
April 2011
1 post
(thanks Perko!)
People should not be so quick to judge others, yet it has been that way for hundreds of years and as shown in “Pygmalion” it will most likely continue to exist.
March 2011
4 posts
"Drinking excess alcohol is a mistake everyone...
(but just so I know…where can I find “excess alcohol”???)
It's probably my fault for asking for them to use...
“Driving at night can get pretty boring especially when you are by yourself, like when its time for one of those family dinners on a Sunday night.”
“When the fire began on September 2, 1666, Samuel Pepys heard of the happenings...”
How many #1 dangers are there?
“Cell phones are one of the number one dangers in society today.”
November 2010
2 posts
From a different paper, also on teenage drinking
“The problems start to occur when the students over use the alcohol, and this could lead to death or some other type of fatality.”
“People who start to drink at a young age may suffer from intellectual...”
May 2010
1 post
One of the major mistakes in the society during the 19th century was that of their inhumanity. There was prostitution, gambling, torture, and new scientific research.
March 2010
1 post
Sex on TV: Danger!
The idea of responsible sexual decision making is infrequent and fails to mention the various aspects of abstinence. Not only is safe sex not promoted, but the idea of unmarried sex is 4 to 8 times higher than that of married couples. Many young minds are getting the wrong ideas from these shows, they see it as sex and only sex, rather than the content that sex represents and the manner in which...
February 2010
1 post
“Studies have shown that boys usually prefer rap music to girls.”
November 2009
1 post
Blame the Greeks
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is an entertainment organization that provides entertainment to the people. It was started by the ancient Greeks who used to play the game during day time as they believed that by doing so their bodies would be blessed with energy.
September 2009
2 posts
The United States of America: now with 53 states!
As of now sports betting is illegal in 49 states in the US. The only states that sports betting are legal are Delaware, Montana, Oregon, and Nevada; where the entertainment capital of the world, Las Vegas, is located.
Quiz
“It is a bad idea to load your research paper with to many facts becuase, facts bore the reader and will not keep him hooked if you use to many of them. I was absent and to stupid to read sylabus for hw.”
April 2009
1 post
No sleeveless shirts for Irish Catholics
“Soon after his death Catholics lost their right to vote, to bare arms, to enlist in the military or to marry a Protestant”
March 2009
4 posts
“Chen also notes that ‘a gym in Little Tokyo could serve as a bong’ for the Japanese-Americans”
“All in all, fraternities, even though they have some bad eyes on their shoulders due to the stereotypes, members have kept high heads and shoulders in the society, have made a lot of positive impacts on people and have made role models figures for the young men of society.”
“Acting so superior, he feels as though a signed autograph of himself is enough to give for the loss of the family”
“The tone of these two pieces are very different, although the massages are the same.”
February 2009
1 post
“Andrew Kimbrell begins the article with statistics of how men are dying earlier...”