<p>Personally, I thought it was a little dry. There was nothing that persuaded me to keep reading. It seemed like a juvenile attempt to write about free speech in the face of censorship that tried, but failed, to take a humorous approach to a fourteen year old’s perspective on the situation. If this essay was one out of a daily reading of a hundred, then there’s nothing that makes this memorable. It really just seems to tell a story about your fourteen year old self and shows nothing about how you have morphed and changed over the past few years to who you are today or how that event shaped you. On a 1 to 10 scale, I would give this a 4.</p>
<p>Since you seem so adamant about seeing other essays, i’ll give you a glimpse of one of my essays; I don’t want to violate any sort of honor code by posting my essay fully or have anyone copy it. This was also written for the page 217 UPenn prompt and I submitted the complete essay for UVa free response prompt.</p>
<p>" I slowly staggered toward the ambulance and saw Jessica’s crumpled body on the asphalt. White bones jutting from her body gleamed in the moonlight, their misshapen positions accented by bright crimson blood. I just stared in wonder, thinking it was a horror movie. Things like this only happen in horror movies. The shock wore off and I realized the consequence of my words. "</p>
<p>For those who are writing the Penn 217 prompt, open a page of a book, ANY book and look at the page. Study the page and look at the characteristics of the page and the content. Does a page of a book reveal an entire story within its limits? Or does it run into page 218 and 219? The essay prompt was created to test your creativity and your ability to understand what the prompt was asking you to do.</p>