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    Yep, essays.

    Got one due in on Monday, title: 'Why did the Republic fall?'

    I'm going to have a field day! Of course, I should probably start it at some point... Sunday night perhaps.
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    Ha! That's nothing! I've got three essays due! One is due in a week time and it has to be the final one and it is (blame and kick meself for I choose this): "The Influence of Malory's Le Motre D'Arthur on Tolkien's Lord of the Rings" and another essay due in a week time which is a Theory of Knowledge Essay and a World Literature Essay 2 draft due next week. I want to cry!

    Have you heard of IB? I vote it the most taxing, irritating, paperwork-loaded, stressed-filled, annoying, party-pooper and difficult high school program/pre-uni program in the world.

    Take that IBO

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    Um. Yeah. Uni.

    Plus, haven't had an essay subject since GCSE.
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    Lucky you
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    I got science modulars tomorrow!!!

    I'm going on the no-revision strategy.

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    ugh, I've got an essay on how the Romans of the 1st century BC, and 1st century AD gained the favour of their gods for Tuesday...
    Then I have to write my Personal Study for English, for which I have chosen to write about the book "Bridge on the River Kwai" by Pierre Boule, and in particular how Saito and Colonel Nicholson have the same principles and beliefs, but enact them differently
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    I've got a lovely 4000-word essay as a piece of coursework for my economics A-level: "Would it be economically beneficial for the stock exchanges of Europe to be controlled by one firm?"

    It's due this friday, so I suspect thursday will be an 'all-nighter'....

    Oh and then I've got all those books that I said I'd read but haven't yet to read before my Cambridge interview next monday (oh Keynes, why must you be so nausiatingly boring?)

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    It's Mocks and resits for me right now, so I only have one essay on at the moment on Of Mice And Men.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Axeknight
    It's Mocks and resits for me right now, so I only have one essay on at the moment on Of Mice And Men.
    Axe....whens that due, cos i thouhgt it was yesterday, but it turns out i was wrong....and are you doing any science modules tomorrow?
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    Wow, two Manxmen!
    It was not theirs to reason why,
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    It was theirs but to do or die.
    -The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

    "Wherever this stone shall lie, the King of the Scots shall rule"
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    Quote Originally Posted by King Malcolm
    Wow, two Manxmen!
    In the same English class
    When I was a child
    I caught a fleeting glimpse
    Out of the corner of my eye.
    I turned to look but it was gone
    I cannot put my finger on it now
    The child is grown,
    The dream is gone.
    I have become comfortably numb...

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    Right. Finished the Roman one, now I've got one to do on the Greeks - archaeology this time. Nowhere near as much fun. But hey.
    Don't have any aspirations - they're doomed to fail.

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    I've got my final essay for two classes coming up. One on Book two, chapter eight of Locke's Essay's Concerning Human Knowledge, and one on whether or not pornography can/should be regulated. Hazzah.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Somebody Else
    Got one due in on Monday, title: 'Why did the Republic fall?
    I DARE YOU to write extensively and comprehensively on the ascension of Emperor Palpatine and his grand Galactic Empire!

    Corny, yes, but I couldn't give a carp.

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    I only have a 500 word essay on who influenced Darwin on his findings...

    One of my rather relaxed weekends I'd say!


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    I have three, two for Wednesday and one for the week after. The titles? ....

    Describe and evaluate the analogy that Plato draws between the structure of the soul and the structure of the state in 'The Republic'.

    Do you accept Hobbes' account of what happens to our natural rights on entering political society? Why?/Why not?

    “And what we are confronting here is an evil ideology. ... It is a battle of ideas, of hearts and of minds, both within Islam and outside it.” (Tony Blair) Is it fair to describe the terrorist attacks on the West since 2001 as the consequence of an ‘evil ideology’?

    Looking forward to the last one, might even post my response here, but as to the other two it is looking tough, a night before job.
    GARCIN: I "dreamt," you say. It was no dream. When I chose the hardest path, I made my choice deliberately. A man is what he wills himself to be.
    INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.
    GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.
    INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.

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    Quote Originally Posted by King Malcolm
    Wow, two Manxmen!
    I'm the handsome one


    Ginger Magoo has become rather the casanova of late though. Ain't that right, ya big loverboy?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Axeknight
    I'm the handsome one


    Ginger Magoo has become rather the casanova of late though. Ain't that right, ya big loverboy?
    ok...strawberry blonde
    and yes, i could be compared to cassanova

    EDIT: and uh axeknight? i aint the one with the giant hair that consumes his whole head
    When I was a child
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    I turned to look but it was gone
    I cannot put my finger on it now
    The child is grown,
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    I have become comfortably numb...

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    Quote Originally Posted by ian_of_smeg16
    EDIT: and uh axeknight? i aint the one with the giant hair that consumes his whole head
    Quiet sandwich boy

    Anyway shut up now, cause we seem to have ruined the page. Carry on everyone.
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    wehay done the two political philosophy questions - had to stay up all yesterday and all today to get them done though, over 40 hours. :(
    GARCIN: I "dreamt," you say. It was no dream. When I chose the hardest path, I made my choice deliberately. A man is what he wills himself to be.
    INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.
    GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.
    INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.

    Jean Paul Sartre - No Exit 1944

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    tough break JAG...i stil have an essay to write on "Of Mice and Men", but i finished a long-overdue history parer on the mormons the other day and got an A in it
    When I was a child
    I caught a fleeting glimpse
    Out of the corner of my eye.
    I turned to look but it was gone
    I cannot put my finger on it now
    The child is grown,
    The dream is gone.
    I have become comfortably numb...

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    I am on the other side of the spectrum. I have to write finals...gah!

    Five to do; History, Social Studies, German 1 and 2, and Business Studies. These are for the end of this and early next week...

    Always difficult to write tests so that the students actually have a chance in hell of passing...lazy sods! The youth of today, ts, ts, ts !

    thrashaholic:

    I think I have actually done that exact same essay about 10 years ago in economics A-Level...tells you something about the variation of topcs...

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