Can the teenagers (and twentysomethings) please angst? — Page 67

I'll allow you, MMJK.

(Ak - I don't remember the first word, but it's __ + Monsters by Dan Brown.)

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I think you mean Angels & Demons by Dan Brown.

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I think you were thinking of "Gods and Monsters"
which was a fantastic film with Ian McKellan and Brendan Fraser. It got Ian his first oscar nomination.

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Memoirs of a Geisha is pure genius.

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Sorry to interrupt your book club discussion, but I need to have angst...

Ok, we had to do a campaign speech for Bush, Kerry, or Nader. I did mine on Wednesday (flawless, except one part where I was like "uhh"-- but I was the only one not to use note cards), and my stupid teacher gives people higher grades if they do one candidate over the other. So, I got my grade back today, and I got a lower grade because I did the candidate that she doesn't like! Even if your speech sucked, you would get a better grade if you do a speech for the guy she likes. I got a 94%, and I'm pissed, because someone who sucked got a 100% just because the teacher agreed with him. I'm not going to say who she likes and who I'm for because I don't want this to get into a political conversation, so I'll leave it at that. I'm FUMING at her and I think I should say something.

Thanks for listening. I needed to get that out of my system.

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Thanks, Tiff. That made me feel better. I guess 94% isn't the end of the world (but I'm a perfectionist who hates getting less than 95%). I hate teachers who don't grade fairly.

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That really does suck! I don't think I could take that. It's really not fair! These teachers should be professionals, not be bias, and give you BOTH sides of the argument.

I'm going to say something to my teacher about her unfair grading. She's always been unfair, but this crosses the line.

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Sure! She only clapped for people who did *BOB*, and said that everyone who did *BILL* was making up information and that *BILL* is actually a liar, etc. And she only pointed out mistakes on people who did *BILL*. And EVERYONE in my class knows this. It's SO obvious.

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Ha! I didn't even notice that! That's pretty creepy.... But now, we're definitely talking about Bush and Kerry here. Neither one of them is BOB or BILL.

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Good idea-- I'm definitely going to have a big argument planned, so I'll tell her after this weekend. I'll post here again if something does happen.

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Unfortunatly,a lot of teachers ahve strange grading plocies, but I have learned to live with them. I swear, one of my teachers last year used a random numbrs generater or something to grade. There were never any marks on our papers and sometimes people submitted essays that were supposed to be about Tale of Two Cities about there favorite bands and got 100% but then when they tried, would get a 70%. It's rough.


I read the Lovely Bones, and I loved itmore than I expected to. It made my cry, but it wasn't depressing. It's beautifully written. Right now I'm reading the Scarlett Letter for fun, but if you have read it for school it can ruin it sometimes.

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I read the Scarlett Letter for school and actually liked it. The Lovely Bones did almost make me cry, as did The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Lovely Bones sounds like a morbid story, but it's so poetically and beautifully told that it really isn't.

Never heard of the Dogs of Babel. That will go on my list too.