Essential Example Essays
Let’s be honest here, people have stopped reading “The Great Gatsby” out of pleasure a long time ago. The educational system pretty much guarantees it. And the sad fact is “The Great Gatsby” is actually an awesome book. So how about you take one of these 8 plans, quickly turn it into an essay and then read the book just because.
The essay plans themselves cover a very wide range of topics and quite coincidentally they cover pretty much every angle of interpretation ever studied in the classroom, which you must admit, doesn’t say much about the plans, but rather about our schools.
Top Character Quotes
It’s not just the quote, it’s what it means. Sometimes, the simplest words hide the most profound meaning. While arguably there are always multiple possible interpretations, knowing the mainstream theory is a great starting point to develop your own take.
Take a look at one of those quotes
Tips And Tricks
Quick question: What are English professors trying to do with their students? If you answered make English professors out of them award yourself a cookie. The real problem is that imagination, creativity and speculative thinking are encouraged only if the teacher walked that path himself. Depressing I know!
Our answer? Give them what they want. Seriously. Why bother trying to change a system that doesn’t want to be changed. Learn the tricks, tell them what they expect to hear, get your grade and move on to what really matters.
Memory Training
It’s quite fascinating to see such a system so devoted to memorization fail to teach the single most important required skill, more exactly how to memorize. Well, we’ve got you covered here: learn smarter not harder.
The really weird part is that the techniques themselves aren’t even that complex and require minimal effort, but then again I stopped trying to understand the system a long time ago in favor of a more practical approach: deal with it in the easiest and most straightforward route so you can get this stuff behind you and focus on the skills that really matter.