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  • 27 years

    Kurt died at the age if 27. So did Janice Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, the woman who played the Yellow Power Ranger, and finally, the World Trade Center died at the age of 27 too. Also, don't forget all of the people who were never famous who died at the age of 27, poeple that none of us have ever heard of.
    • 26/04/2002
    • 13:19:41
    • Score: 7 out of 9 people found this comment useful.
  • Keep on rockin though...

    I'm not sure that this is really an essay. It doesn't take any postion, it simply seems to make a lot of unqualified statements. I'm not sure if these are the ideas of Locke or the writer or what?
    • 26/04/2002
    • 13:01:53
    • Score: 4 out of 4 people found this comment useful.
  • Mass participation

    I can follow the argument that living in an agressive or violent environment, in some cases, might beget a more violent and agressive tendencies in an individual. But, even though the essay draws a paralell betwene the representaions of violence in the media and violence in the lives of indivuals, I don't think the essay convinces the reader that those representtions are the cause of that violence. And, that would be a very difficult thing to do. The idea that that seeing violence, or listening to music that talks about violence causes violence is too simple. Of the millions of people who listened to the Blink 182 song only one person comitted suicide, so how can you say that that song causes suicide? This person who comitted suicide was responding to the overwhelming circumstnce of h/er life not to one song. Wrather than feeling oppressed by an overwhelming culture of violence as represented in the media, we need to explore strategies for constructing a culture of mutual support and mass participation. This is exactly what many of the artists and muscians are trying to do with their work but they often get lumped in with the rest of the media for some reason.
    • 26/04/2002
    • 12:41:47
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • They changed the world

    Wow, this is a really informative paper. This essay starts by describing three different theorists' developmental models and proceeds to point out some of the limitations of each model. It easy to understand because it it well organized. One thing that might improve it might be to go a little deeper into the criticism of each model, or too talk about how the ideas of all these theorists have become a part of our everday perception of the world.
    • 26/04/2002
    • 12:05:46
    • Score: 13 out of 15 people found this comment useful.
  • Education problems

    I don't think that this essay really speaks to the thesis of the paper, that schools fail to prepare students for college. Instead it is talking about a something that it much more important, the fact that the school system is ineffectual in teaching people how to deal with the mounting problems in the world. I would make the argument that the "mass media" is in some ways a more effective education system than schools. Also, it is good to come up with solutions to problems, but it is also okay just to talk about them and not have solutions. Solving problems is a long process and articulating the problem is part of that long process.
    • 26/04/2002
    • 11:18:04
    • Score: 17 out of 19 people found this comment useful.
  • Not all cultures hate sex

    This is a very ambitious paper as it tries to encapsulate a kind of histroy of sex, or of the reresentations of sex. But it think this is a problem because it uses the bible as its reference for early sexual culture. But the bible is generally very negative about sex. There are very many ancient and contemporary cultures that do not hate sex and are very expressive about it. I don't think that the history of sex is just a linear progression toward more and more liberal expression as this paper makes it out to be.
    • 25/04/2002
    • 17:45:44
    • Score: 15 out of 16 people found this comment useful.
  • Is that all there is?

    This seems more like part of an interesting conversation about this book than an essay about it. Often I find that it is more interesting and illuminating to read about why a book is good, what the author did that appealed to the reader, and how it releted to the reader's life than it is just read that some "liked" or didn't like the book.
    • 25/04/2002
    • 17:29:07
    • Score: 5 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • Sociologik

    This essay doesn't seem to follow the same structure as many essays, but it is still very clear and engaging. The writer uses therminolgy of from a sociological text to descibe her own life which seems like a very good way to learn thise terms, she personalizes them.
    • 25/04/2002
    • 16:42:58
    • Score: 6 out of 7 people found this comment useful.
  • Too general

    This is a huge topic and like the essay says it is also very complex. It is hard to adress this topic in a meaninful way when you just look at it in such a broad and general way as in this essay. With this topic it might be better to find something that someone else said and write a response to that, wrather than just ending up feeling like it is just too complex and large to say anything conclusive about.
    • 25/04/2002
    • 16:28:05
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • Loving families.

    This a well organized and straight forward essay witrh just few gramatical errors that can be easilly fixed if your hung up on that sort of thing. One way to extend the scope of the essay might be to look at some more specific reasons (with quotes and stuff) that people oppose same-sex marriage and make arguments against them
    • 25/04/2002
    • 14:58:52
    • Score: 8 out of 8 people found this comment useful.
  • Comunique

    This essay begins to talk about poigniant issues. I think that it might be more intersting to ask questions like, what problems do these new comunication technologies cuase? For example a lot of people talk about the "digital divide," not everyone has acces to expensive computers and not every body can take advantage of what the internet has to offer. Also, some people say that the widespread use of the telephone is disadvatagous to historians, because, unlike when people wrote letters to each other to keep in touch, there is noe eveidence of what people were saying to eachother.
    • 25/04/2002
    • 14:47:10
    • Score: 6 out of 7 people found this comment useful.
  • There are more kinds of strength

    I think that this essay excludes some types of strength that are very important. For example there is the type of strength that a person must have to stand by what s/he believes in, and to express h/er needs and desires, despite forces that try to keep h/er from doing so. Think about the strength it took for African Americans in the 50's and 60's to build such an effetive civil rights movement, the strength of AIDS activivists struggling all over the world to get life-saving drugs for everone who needs them, or the strength of Afgan women struggling to assert their power.
    • 24/04/2002
    • 16:18:50
    • Score: 8 out of 8 people found this comment useful.
  • Public service

    I've got to say that this in one of the more interesting essays I've read here on Cheathouse. I think that with a few changes and some more research it should be published in your local paper. It's intersting is that you really have a personal investment in your topic. I don't get the impression that it has just been written for a class assignment. I found the part about how the police used to supervise street racing very interesting. Were I live, we have a problem with kids opening fire-hydrants on hot summer days to cool off and play in. This can be dangerous because it disrupts traffic and so on. An older friend of mine told me that when he was young the fire fighters in the neighborhood used to come and open the hydrants for the kids and suppervise them while they played. It would be nice if public servants could be more involved in this kind of thing still.
    • 24/04/2002
    • 15:51:50
    • Score: 4 out of 4 people found this comment useful.
  • The problem is deeper

    While this is a well stuctured and clearly written essay and while I agree that teachers should be paid fairly for the very difficult work that they do, I think that the solution to the education problems in this country (and many other countries) will not be solved simplty by paying the teachers what they deserve. I think that eveyone desrves to be paid a living wage wheather they are teachers or flipping burgers. I think that what has been forgotten is that people are born with the innate ability and desire to learn but that the school system, as it is destroys that ability in most people and leaves students, who grow up to be adults, feeling powerless.
    • 24/04/2002
    • 13:43:14
    • Score: 11 out of 11 people found this comment useful.
  • Friday is good, but why?

    While I agree with the writer of this essay that Friday is a really funny, and good movie (I would even say that it is culturally important) I don't think that this essay convinces the reader that it is good. S/he talks in very general terms about what is good but doesn't make enough specific references to what happens in the movie and why s/he thinks that's good. Also I don't see how showing the use of weed and alcohol is any more offensive than using "midgets" for shallow comic effects.p.s. I like Next Friday better.
    • 24/04/2002
    • 13:16:58
    • Score: 4 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • More pain...

    This essay lists a lot of facts about the events of this famous and adventurous woman's life, and it does a fine job. It might be more interesting if the writer could invest more of h/erself in the essay. One way to do this would be to identify more with the subject, the famous aviatrix. Like, I thought that the part about how she had to sell her first plane was intersting, but it doesn't go into much detail about it. I'm sure that this was a very painful decision for Ms. Earhart and would like to hear more about why she did it.
    • 23/04/2002
    • 11:32:10
    • Score: 4 out of 4 people found this comment useful.
  • Incarcerated!

    This is an informative essay that does a good job of backing up everthing it says with histroical examples. I'm not sure that everone would agree with the last statement, that abolitionism has lead to equality for blacks. In fact, if you take a look at prison populations today you find that African Americans are much more likely to be incarcerated than white folks are.
    • 23/04/2002
    • 11:11:33
    • Score: 14 out of 14 people found this comment useful.
  • Geronimo!

    This is a pretty good essay full of some facts about the life of one of the great figures in the history of the United States. I think it especially with this subject to be very clear and not make sure the research is accurate. For example there are many people who might disagree that Geronimo's action "1886 was the last significant Indian guerrilla action in the United States" There have been many native American uprisings since then, such as at Wounded Knee in 1973! Which is a very significant and important moment in our History.Also it is not made clear what Chiricahua is, or how it relates to Geronimo. I find it very interesting that he was given that name by Mexicans.
    • 23/04/2002
    • 10:39:02
    • Score: 7 out of 7 people found this comment useful.
  • Class

    This is an intersting topic, I like the way that the writer breaks restraunts into three different categories as a way to structure the essay. I think it might be more interesting to talk about class as it relates to eating out. Asking questions like who eats at which restraunts, what type of people, what do they do, are they wealthy or working class, and so on?
    • 22/04/2002
    • 10:54:57
    • Score: 4 out of 4 people found this comment useful.
  • Why such a low score?

    I think this is an alright essay, with a bunch of information about the history of the Television networks. There are some parts which could use a little more explanation and detail.
    • 19/04/2002
    • 17:42:48
    • Score: 4 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • I don't like most shows

    I watch Seinnfeld a lot and I laugh at it and enjoy myself, but in the end I think it's a really really awful show. The characters are all jerks. I Iike how this essay draws comparisons betwene Seinfeld and older shows like I Love Lucy. This essay is not critical of Seinfeld at all.
    • 19/04/2002
    • 17:28:29
    • Score: 15 out of 17 people found this comment useful.
  • Is this an essay?

    This seems more like a writing experiment than an essay that is trying to get a point across. None of the statements are qualified or backed up with any examples, I don't know what the writer is trying to say.
    • 19/04/2002
    • 14:47:10
    • Score: 4 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • Okay okay

    This is a well organized essay and a good overview of O'Keefe's life and accomplishments. There were other women artists working at the same time as her and it would be ineresting to discuss what made O'Keefe so popular and what kept the other's out of the spot light. Also it would be interesting to read what some of the critics wrote about her work at the time it was made.
    • 18/04/2002
    • 17:49:09
    • Score: 13 out of 14 people found this comment useful.
  • Quotes help.

    I think this would be a more convincing essay if it used speciffic quotes from the book that talked about corruption. I get the impression that corruption is an important issue for the writer of this essay but this essay doesn't quite show how s/he relates that to the book.
    • 18/04/2002
    • 16:50:14
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • What's the ffa?

    This essay could be improved if it told the reader wha the FFA is. Without that information it is very hard to tell what the resat of teh essay is talking about. Though I'm sure most teachers would not like it, I really liked the last paragraph. Awsome!
    • 18/04/2002
    • 16:33:32
    • Score: 4 out of 7 people found this comment useful.
  • Not true

    This essay has nothing to do with censorship on the internet. It doesn't even use the word censorship. Also the internet began to form a lot earlier than 4 or 5 years ago; the information in this essay is wrong. There are a lot of good information about the history of the internet on the web. Look it up!
    • 18/04/2002
    • 15:48:52
    • Score: 3 out of 4 people found this comment useful.
  • Greight

    First of all this is an impressive piece for an eighth grade paper. It is basically a list of facts about Arthur Milller's life. It might be more helpful if it listed the sources from which it got all of the information. For a high school or college level paper it might be much more interesting to discuss Miller's writing more.
    • 17/04/2002
    • 17:51:45
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • Sweeping statements

    This essay doesn't really adress the question asked: "is there a god..." The question, too, is a very bad essay question. It is much too general and large for a short essay.Further more, the essay makes sweeping statements:"there is no truth so certain as the existence of God. He is the groundwork of all our hopes, and our foundation of morality and society."For many people the above may be true, but for many others it simply does fit with how they see the world. I think these statements need to be qualified, for whom is god the ground work of all hopes?
    • 17/04/2002
    • 17:33:51
    • Score: 3 out of 4 people found this comment useful.
  • More specifics...

    I'm not sure what the intention of this essay is, it seems more like a journal entry. It describes a kind of personal revalation of the writer's but in very general terms--not refering to any specific events in h/er life or to what brought these revalations about.
    • 17/04/2002
    • 17:06:06
    • Score: 3 out of 4 people found this comment useful.
  • Not very deep

    This essay, though it has a lot of what might be considered gramatical errors, is a good overview of some facts about the 1969, Apollo 11 moon landing. However it does not go into much depth, seeming only to list facts straight outa the encyclopedias that it sites as sources. It might be more intersting if more sources were used, there are tons of web sites about NASA and the space program.
    • 15/04/2002
    • 11:47:57
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • Seems incomplete.

    This essay seemed to end too soon. It has some good description of what Earth First! is but that could have been organized better, then it goes into a long description of one Earth First! action and just ends. maybe it would have helped to explain more the connection betwene Earth First! and the tree sitting action. There is a lot of great info on the web about Earth First! Usually mainstream media (New York Times, Time, Newsweek, etc...)doesn't treet Earth First! very fairly. Just type it into a good search engine (dogpile.com).
    • 04/04/2002
    • 17:01:59
    • Score: 4 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • more direct comparisons..

    This essay does a good job of using examples from the two stories but I dont think it did a good job backing up its arguement that The Lottery and Araby had similar themes and symbolism. It might have worked better if more direct comparisons had been drawn.
    • 04/04/2002
    • 16:32:45
    • Score: 9 out of 17 people found this comment useful.
  • This is not male bashing!

    This is a very good essay with clear description of this important subject, which ought to be common knowledge in today's world. Don't let anyone tell you this is 'male bashing.' There is no such thing as 'male bashing,' often that is a term used by people who want to dismiss powerful and important ideas about women (and girls) in power. It is important for people not to get deffensive when they read an essay about critical ideas like this, and not to dismiss ideas because they might make them feel deffensive. If anyone (girls or guys) is interested in reading a good, easy, and fun to read book about femanism try a book called "Cunt" by Inga Muscio or "Feminism is for Everybody" by bell hooks.
    • 04/04/2002
    • 16:10:06
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • There's more in Banana Fish

    I think that this essay on Salinger's short story, A Great Day for Banana Fish, has some good description and summary of the story and is very useful on that level.But I think that some of the moral analysis of Seymour's character need a little more thought. For example, I've always felt that Seymour actually really admires Sybil Carpenter and gets some pleasure out of their interaction. It is common in Salinger's stories that Children are benevolent forces.
    • 03/04/2002
    • 11:31:04
    • Score: 5 out of 6 people found this comment useful.