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« Reply #45 on: December 10, 2003, 07:29:12 pm »
Quote from: "Dr. Nancy Mitchell"
I'm sitting here, the day after Thanksgiving, correcting papers.  My mother is here.  I tell her, as I pick up yours, "This one's going to be good."  I read it aloud to her.  As I finish, she says, "Give that girl an A!"  

I agree.  It is a splendid paper: extremely well written, well researched, fun and interesting.  

All I would have wanted would have been some discussion of Shaw's and Saunders' sources, since you rely on them so much.  It seems important to discuss their reliability in the text.  Also -- if possible, I would have liked more discussion of how the film was recived in the US.  But I quibble.  It is excellent work.  

A


The paper in question is here, for those geeky enough to be interested.  

Wooo!  I win!  I win at life!
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« Reply #46 on: December 10, 2003, 08:13:24 pm »
Let me be the first to congratulate you on  your stellar achievment.

A splendid piece of work.  I think i'll read it again.

~Paul
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« Reply #47 on: December 10, 2003, 08:50:57 pm »
I like the look of this.
Two of my favourite things - politics and literature!
I'ma print it out shortly and read it.
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« Reply #48 on: December 10, 2003, 08:51:35 pm »
However, I should point out that this topic now has nothing to do with end of semester celebrations and should be split into it's own thread.  Might I suggest 'JL writes a grade A paper.'

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« Reply #49 on: December 10, 2003, 08:53:17 pm »
No, it's very much an end of semester celebration.  This is the grade for the big fat killer research paper I was dancing over in the first post of this thread.  We've come full circle -- for a change.
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« Reply #50 on: December 10, 2003, 09:04:14 pm »
Quote from: "V-Adore"
Honestly, I figure I'll go for the Ph.D., but that's because I'm going into biology and apparently getting work is heinous without the full doctorate in a specialty.


My older brother was a bio major.  When he got out, he worked in a bio-supply shop filling equipment orders for Ph.D.s.  It was the best job he could find, and there are a lot of biology companies around here.  Heinous a-ness.  Happy Ending: He's in grad school now for landscape architecture and loves it.

Edit: Some filter-fiend doesn't like certain words that sound like a-ness.
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« Reply #51 on: December 10, 2003, 11:36:47 pm »
Really?  Is anus filtered?

Anyway, congratulations JLD for your A.  You've earned it, kiddo.
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« Reply #52 on: December 10, 2003, 11:48:31 pm »
Congratulations, JL! A very nice paper.

Anyway, we finally are reaching the end of the semester; I've got two more finals (both tests, no papers) to go, and I'm cruising. First act of my freedom will be to do absolutely nothing on Saturday -- well, possibly play lots of Angband and post a great deal here, but that's it.
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« Reply #53 on: December 11, 2003, 01:05:24 am »
Good criminy, I'm not about to read your paper....but congrats on the grade. Grades are interesting, so meaningful in the short term. Like a picture of a flower; they last forever and always look nice, but so not real as time goes by.
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« Reply #54 on: December 11, 2003, 01:12:44 am »
Grades may fade, but comments on a paper like the ones JL quoted can damage a person for life - that's the kind of thing that makes someone think it would be a pleasant experience to go to graduate school...
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« Reply #55 on: December 11, 2003, 01:35:34 am »
I thought grad school was fun, but I did it the fun way:

1) the government paid for it
2) I did it while working my regular full time job
3) I got to fly to my classes, which lasted two weeks at a time on-site and the rest online

Everyone should do it this way. It makes it seem like it really has some connection to what you do in real life.
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« Reply #56 on: December 11, 2003, 02:09:02 am »
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Grades may fade, but comments on a paper like the ones JL quoted can damage a person for life - that's the kind of thing that makes someone think it would be a pleasant experience to go to graduate school...


Yes, I was exceptionally fortunate this time.  Graduate school is a hellish place where the students are verbally and physically flogged daily, and demoralization and apathy reign.  Don't give in to the siren's call of the master's degree.  You will emerge bitterly scarred.  You will learn, through hard experience, the meaning of the phrase "pyrrhic victory."
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« Reply #57 on: December 11, 2003, 02:14:30 pm »
Great paper.
And, even better, I didn't know about it either, but am always interested in politics.
You managed the holy trinity for papers - prose, fact and humour!
Well OK, it's my holy trinity for papers... And I either do well or hideously badly when it comes to grading.
We'll see how my next essay on Crime in the UK goes!

But anyway, good stuff...

*off to go track down Animal Farm*
Interestingly it also answered the question of why I didn't like it much when I saw it when I was about 8. I had real problems with some of it, and now I know it's because of it's propogandist messages.
Even at 8 I woudl have preferred the socialist message of it to come through.
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