This might just be the assignment that gets my ass on track. There is no way I'm going to do well on this, and it would have been so, so easy to get things started on this earlier.
I have a term paper due tomorrow on the world's most boring novel [well, my opinion is based only on the 100 or so pages of it that I've read so far] and I have no idea what the fuck I'm going to talk about for 6-8 double-spaced pages.
I'm supposed to write "an interpretive essay that discusses the novel's illumination of one or more basic insights related to the Marxist theory of social class [...and] show how some aspect of the theory is illustrated in the novel."
First off, the fucking book is over 800 pages long and you can't find a goddamn summary of it anywhere online. Second, I suck at knowing how to apply theory to things other than the theory itself [well, I read on the back of the book that there's revolts and stuff, so that's...something].
I bought the book at the beginning of the semester; it's just been one of those things that's been so easy to put off and now, as usual, I find myself blogging about my schoolwork instead of just doing it.
One more year of this shit, then I'll hopefully get a job and at least be getting paid for doing things I don't want to be doing.
*later, motherfucker*
The professor apparently changed the due date of the fucking paper to next goddamn Tuesday last week when I skipped class due to rehearsal-induced exhaustion. Motherfucker. At least I wasn't the only one to turn something in today.
Still, though. Motherfucker.
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Better show that, even though Marxist theory is atheist in design, it can be applied to religious countries as well, espcially when you have places like Ireland which is thoroughly Catholic and Northern Ireland which is thoroughly Protestant and the people eat, sleep, and breathe the stereotypes, and they make such clear distinctions (and fuss) about it.
I have never heard of this novel and it sounds like the professor just wants to yank chain.
Put your head down and bull through it.
Ugh, Leon Uris.
I don't envy you with that muck.
Damn, your prof pulled the old, "let's use an acclaimed but little known book so they can't use the internet for help" strategy. Hope you make it through. When discussing anything Marxist, it's always safe to go with the rich suck and the workers are suffering motif, that should get you 2 pages.
Next time, just make it "the world's most boring term paper" and they'll probably just skim over it and pass you.
D@ng that book looks boring...I would say get the Cliff's Notes version, but Cliff probably fell asleep reading it and even HE was unable to finish his "notes."
Dude, yeah, I don't envy you. Any chance you can take back the assignment and re-work it a little? Or is that simply not worth the effort?
I don't miss book reports. I think they tend to be useless, but they gotta grade something...right?
hopefully you got everything done!
kilter: we didnt focus on religion.
hex: it was terrible. im going to have flashbacks about reading it
mnwhr: i got 5 pages, but it was supposed to be 6-8. i was not helped by not reading the book and hating marx [he's too simple, revolution is silly]
heff: sometimes i think professors do just put random grades on papers to save time
zen: there arent any cliffs notes for it...the wikipedia article for it sucks. when you google it all you get is places to buy it, which i don't understand bc who would want to buy it?!
tf: probably not. i could have asked for it back at the end of class but i just wanted to get out of there.
tr: dude, im in college. you think i was that stressed about a book report? seriously?
pop champagne: i got it done, but it cost me my sanity
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