<p>Is majority bad? Blah, blah.</p>
<p>As James A. Reed said, “The majority grinned and jeered when Columbus said the world was round.” Although the quote may be a clique, it is a remarkable little maxim. The majority can often be a poor guide because people are swept up in the furvor of popular opinion. Anybody who dare go against the majority are labeled as sinners and traitors. However, the majority is comprised of human beings, and human beings do not always have the right answers. As shown in Romeo and Juliet and the Spanish American War, the belief of the majority is frequently an errant guide.</p>
<p>In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, we see that the consensus of the two ruling families is poor regarding the issue of love. Romeo and Juliet are two young lovers from two different families, the Montegues and the Capulets, respectively. However, these families are engaged in a centuries-long feud. This means that the Montegues strictly prohibit Romeo from seeing Juliet and vice versa. These two families do not see, though, that these two lovers mean no harm toward the other family and just want to be with one another. Romeo and Juliet courageously ignore the majority opinion of their two families and strive to be with one another. However, their love turns tragic when both of them commit suicides after they cannot be with one another. Tragedy was not all that came out of Romeo and Juliet’s love affair, though, at their funerals their families realize that they were misguided and reconsile with each other. Clearly, the opinion of the majority was a poor guide in Romeo and Juliet’s case.</p>
<p>While the majority’s voice concerning love was poor in Romeo and Juliet, the opinion of the American populus and government was wrong in the 1898 Spanish American War. During this time, the U.S. was seeking to expand its influence around the world. However, the U.S. was paranoid because of Spain’s territory, Cuba, which sat a mere ninety miles off Florida. These tensions were further heightened when the USS Maine sunk off the shore of Cuba. However, instead of conducting a thorough investigation, the U.S. inavded Spanish Cuba because of this. The population was swept of in this and anyone who disagreed with the war was called a traitor. Surely, the majority opinion was wrong in the Spanish-American War.</p>
<p>Throughout history and literature, the majority voice is a poor guide. Next time, don’t be so sure to follow the majority.</p>
<p>This is the actual untouched manuscript from my essay. The part after next time did get cut off for some reason, leaving my intro have-finished. This might be why essay got an 8, but it seems like a bad reason.</p>
<p>Apart from that why else would this essay get a F U C K I N G 8!!! It was two pages long exactly, it described why majority opinion was bad in the intro paragraph. I’m ordering hand-scoring and seeing if the fact that my last sentence could be read would make any difference. WERE THESE GRADERS ON CRACK WHEN THEY READ MY ESSAY?</p>
<p>YOUR OPINIONS, people?</p>