<p>I don’t think anyone has done that.</p>
<p>^ditto illuminar on the whole denouncing peers thing…
sure, sometimes I see people act in seemingly more juvenille ways, but who am I to say so? It won’t do anything to show your emotional maturity, and the fact that you’re criticizing your peers will make them question your openness/willingness to work with others, get along, etc… I dunno, just seems like not such a great thing to write about.</p>
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ahh, I know what your friends are talking about though!! hahahaha! I haven’t read your essays, so I’m not commenting about you in particular though at all 
- I’m sure your essays are great!
hahahaha but I LOVE how your friend put it in terms of “stages.” And I think I know exactly what he/she means… found it funny.</p>
<p>Oh, I thought illuminar meant on this thread.</p>
<p>yay just finished my essays! thought the conflict one was hardest… wrote about how globalization has turned america’s economic decline in the past seven years into a world issue and tied in a bit about the subprime mortgage crisis
my essays are short though 
wrote like 1.5 pages for each. how long were all of yours?</p>
<p>That’s great-- good luck to you. All of my essays have been different lengths, so I really can’t answer your question properly. (But, all of them are still being edited/finished out)</p>
<p>i
still
have
half
an essay
to go.</p>
<p>omg STRESS :(</p>
<p>and i have a math test tomorrow that will determine whether i have a 4.0. …i’m going to kill someone LOL.</p>
<p>hey btw, does anyone know the exact time we have to sumbit the essays by? if its friday 11:59, i will love my life.</p>
<p>if its thursday 11:59, i will hate my life. LOL</p>
<p>oh and PST? EST?</p>
<p>No idea… Hopefully, that won’t matter, and everyone will be able to finish them by a pleasant hour on Thursday… :)</p>
<p>LOL if its thursday… ALL BAD MAN. :/</p>
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<p>I interpret that as Thursday at 11:59, because they use the “by” preposition. I don’t think the application will suddenly close, though. But that’s just me speculating!</p>
<p>EDITEDITEDIT:</p>
<p>I just found this on a different part of the website:</p>
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<p>So, I take that to mean we have until Friday at 11:59!</p>
<p>great …</p>
<p>Yeah, I know, TASP is being ambiguous…</p>
<p>Critical analysis essay: When it asks for an argument, are we to argue for your interpretation, or are we supposed to argue (in our opinion) the validity of the interpretation?</p>
<p>i hate how they close so early! 4 PM EST time? that’s before i get out of school over here! arghhhh.</p>
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<p>isn’t that kind of the same thing?</p>
<p>Sorry if I was unclear… I’m trying to say that a person may not believe in the message of the interpretation, but are they trying to argue for what they got out of the book/poem/etc (what they find as the interpretation), or whether they agree with the message of the book/poem/etc.</p>
<p>I’m still struggling with the essay myself. The Picture of Dorian Gray is more complicated than I originally thought D:</p>
<p>It’s so irritating. The whole essay is virtually done, and the thesis is killing me. I wanted to make sure my thesis was really doing what TASP wanted it to do as far as guiding my writing.</p>
<p>^ sounds like me and his dark materials. so i scrapped that idea (haha, that’s like…4 different options i went through already) and decided on an essay that i felt like ripping apart. (though, honestly, i scrapped HDM mostly b/c i couldn’t figure out how to organize the friggin’ essay). 
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<p>finished my conflict essay in 45 minutes (beyond quick for me). it sounds like a weird mixture of depression/humor, and it’s all about the lack of communication between my brother and me. strange, considering my humor doesn’t translate well at all usually, and it’s probably crap.</p>
<p>but i need to finish all my essays by tomorrow morning before school b/c i don’t have internet access thurs or friday. and still have 2 more essays to go.</p>
<p>(sorry if above post is incoherent; i’m jumped on caffeine right now).</p>
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<p>i read the prompt as like. “tell your interpretation and back it up with textual support.”</p>
<p>yeah.</p>