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Post by The Smurf on Oct 10, 2006 20:58:06 GMT -5
so i get an english assignment today. we get the assignment sheet that barely tells us anything (nothing new...our teacher likes giving us practically no info on or stuff) and she explains the assignment using incredibly bombastic language and digressing around what she wants us to do (as usual). so while this isn't exactly what was on the sheet, it's a simpler version of what the assignment is:
write a two page essay on something that is imperfect, but whose imperfections make it perfect. then do something about anything.
is it any wonder that our whole class wants to drop?
-the smurf
edit: oh, yeah...best part, it's due thursday.
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Post by NASH7777 on Oct 10, 2006 23:41:11 GMT -5
I'd write it on the teacher's ridiculous assignment.
How it's imperfect because it lacked clarity and definition. How you were given nothing to go off of and how it was due on Thursday!
Then say that's it's imperfection makes it the perfect asignement cause it forces the student to think and be creative and blah blah blah suck up and BS time.
And guess what I bet if you did this you'd get an A ;-)
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Post by vespuleth on Oct 10, 2006 23:52:53 GMT -5
I'd write about how humans are imperfect, and therefore the perfect image of humanity. if a human were perfect, they'd be an imperfect image of humanity, as humanity is itself flawed.
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Post by Doan the Nado on Oct 11, 2006 12:42:46 GMT -5
Anyone remember the Adventures of Pete and Pete on Nickelodeon? There was an episode on there when there was a guy who was an underwear inspector (I think), and he always tried to be perfect. He never messed up or did anything wrong. Pete and Pete's family had him over for a barbecue, where they had barbecue chicken wings (again, this is all a bit foggy, as I saw the episode probably at least 10 years ago). He ate them all very carefully, one by one, getting every bit of meat off the bones, stacking them neatly, and not getting any sauce anywhere.
The problem with this, however, was that this is the incorrect way to eat chicken wings. Part of the fun of eating chicken wings is getting the sauce all over your face and hands, licking your fingers, and laughing at the different stages of disarray that everyone is in. They told him that in being perfect in the way that he ate his chicken wings, he was actually imperfect, and had missed the point.
So that is the opposite of your assignment, but I think the reverse must also be true. Extending it to life in general, perfection usually indicates predictability. For something to be perfect, it must follow some set of rules to the T, and in doing so, it is possible to know exactly what that thing will do. Imperfection implies spontaneity, which is the driving force behind not just entertainment and humor, but life in general.
Suppose DNA copied itself "perfectly", never mutating and always producing an exact replica. If this was the case, we would never see genetic mutations, and evolution would never have happened. The beauty of DNA is its near-perfection: it does a good job of copying itself most of the time, but there are occasions when it screws up and causes something to change. This change, however, is what leads to a new "more perfect" being.
So there you have a couple ideas: eating chicken wings and DNA. I'm sure you can find others (be sure to let us know what you come up with).
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Post by Neo Samurai on Oct 11, 2006 13:09:28 GMT -5
I agree with what Nash said.
That would be funny.
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Post by The zoradude on Oct 11, 2006 17:48:41 GMT -5
I hate getting messy when I eat things Doan o.O
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Post by The Smurf on Oct 11, 2006 19:29:48 GMT -5
wow...that was exactly what i was going to do. i explained humanity and how we are imperfect, and how even our genetic make-up was flawed. i was thinking about bio for some reason and had decided to put DNA in there for kicks (and big words). are you guys psychic or something? that's crazy. so that's what i did. i had no problem coming up with that stuff. it was this part of the project that pissed me off: it's like: no, you're being too specific...do you think you can broaden that out a little more? so i wound up drawing a picture of Fluffy the Bunny and some other characters to show artwork that was imperfect. i hate english...i'll post my essay later. i still think it's crazy that doan came up with exactly what i was going to do...i guess great minds think alike...heh, i'm kidding myself. -the smurf
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2006 19:47:52 GMT -5
It's perfect because it can be used as fertilizer and is easily obtainable... It's imperfect because it smells really in' bad... Poop!
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Post by doyleman on Oct 11, 2006 20:00:42 GMT -5
I'd write about how humans are imperfect, and therefore the perfect image of humanity. if a human were perfect, they'd be an imperfect image of humanity, as humanity is itself flawed. exactly... there's a jimmy newtron episode depicting that idea, lol
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Post by The Smurf on Oct 12, 2006 20:41:27 GMT -5
there's the essay. i love how the entire first paragraph manages to say absolutely nothing in that many sentences.
-the smurf
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Post by Neo Samurai on Oct 12, 2006 21:21:44 GMT -5
I love how you say being perfect is imperfection in itself. I believe, as humans, we should strive for the best, but if we try to keep everything perfect, we would become overwhelmed.
I've said it before in another thread. We need to learn from our mistakes instead of complaining about them. Otherwise, you might make the same mistake again, or you might think what you're trying to do is not worth it and give up.
Anyway, great job, Smurf!
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Post by NASH7777 on Oct 12, 2006 21:30:22 GMT -5
I liked it. Good job ;-)
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Post by vespuleth on Oct 13, 2006 1:06:04 GMT -5
i think its dangerous ground to suggest religion is a mental imperfection... otherwise, a good job.
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Post by mrbear on Oct 13, 2006 12:03:58 GMT -5
I get what your saying ves. But while the smurfs essay shows a definate secular-huamnist/evolutionist bent,(hey It's a high school paper, thats what they want) The particular religion mentioned is polytheism. which I think is pretty fair game these days. I know I find that sort of thing hard to take seriously anyway.
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Post by vespuleth on Oct 14, 2006 2:25:10 GMT -5
some sects of wicca are polytheistic.
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Post by Doan the Nado on Oct 14, 2006 6:08:23 GMT -5
Overall a good essay. I'm glad to see that some of our ideas made it in there, but then again, you did say that you had many of the same thoughts.
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Post by The Final Rune on Oct 15, 2006 0:55:05 GMT -5
[white]Man, I could really go for some chicken wings right about now.[/white]
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2006 14:41:56 GMT -5
Where's the mention of poop?!
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Post by mrbear on Oct 16, 2006 21:44:36 GMT -5
some sects of wicca are polytheistic. Wicca? really I gotta say once again, a little hard for me to take seriously, I mean IMO Wicca generaly fall into two categories. One being what I would call new age type practitioners, who in my experience, are rather on the secretive side, like to keep their religion on the downlow (yes I've known actual wicca, have you?) but it would seem to me that the religion is more one of passive worship rather than active. What I mean to say is that these wicca, worship the earth and forces of nature inasmuch as these things have power opver us all to an extent. but these people do not expect these forces to communicate with them in an intelligent fashion, much less activly govern their actions. It is more a code by which they personally run their own lives, but it is not the authority, they are. Then you've got the posers. kids make up a large percentage of this group. The kind of kids that frequent vampirefreaks.com then you get all kinds of bleed over between satanism and other forms of mysticism. and it is really once again not much of a real religion.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2006 21:58:42 GMT -5
THE POOOOOOOP?!!!!!
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Post by DYRE on Oct 17, 2006 18:56:56 GMT -5
Don't worry. I'm sure you'll find poop somewhere. In a toilet, perhaps.
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Post by mrbear on Oct 18, 2006 11:55:09 GMT -5
poop? wtf?
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Post by realitybites on Oct 18, 2006 11:59:48 GMT -5
Will has changed over the past months and he says poop now like nothing else lol.
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Post by vespuleth on Oct 19, 2006 1:22:54 GMT -5
just because you don't take it seriously doesn't mean that it is degradable. alot of people dont take countries other than america seriously. since there is no way to find definitive right outside of personal choice, one cannot assume that because they do not take it seriously, it isnt. I'm done.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2006 1:15:52 GMT -5
What do you mean? I was just spaming about poop 'cause this is the spam forum. Seriously speaking, besides my tremendously stupid posts, I thought everything people posted was quite brilliant. Is that better?
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