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[Ren]

boodeedeedoo said:

A nasty by-product of this is being forced to read Jane Eyre, Great Expectations and the worst excuse for literature ever conceived: The great Gatsby.

*GASP*

Heresy!

[keva]

oh no, I'm definitely an English person. I suck at math. I do it because... well, I don't know why I do it actually. I try to not look as incompetent as I really am? haha I'm in my last year of high school and nearly half my course is English. We're doing all this 19th century shit and I'm sorry Jane Austen et al but I'm just not sophisticated enough to enjoy the fruits of your labour. So we're in much the same boat in that respect... but for one part of English I have to complete a 'major work' of my choice and I'm making a music video for Final Fantasy English is a wanky subject as we all know so I'm attempting to make it all existential etc... I think philosophy would be a great subject! Although, essays on abortion aren't my idea of a good time

you could talk about the Final Fantasy shirts for the Gatsby essay haha... actually I've read The Great Gatsby and I liked it What's your giant objection to it?

[keva]

renegadeoboe said:

*GASP*

Heresy!

Looks like you've got some 'splaining to do for Ren ahaha

[pipipipipi]

boodeedeedoo said:

1. ‘They’re such beautiful shirts’, she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. ‘It makes me sad because I've never seen such – such beautiful shirts before’”

I'VE NEVER SEEEEEEN SUCH BEAUTIFUL SHIRTS BEFORE

that always makes me laugh

i hate higher English, it's awful, i hope you agree.

[boodeedeedoo]

I also need to ask, what is with the "Tasty" thing and stars? why don't I have more stars? ¬_¬

[cheshire]

It's a measure for how many posts you have. Like ranks or something. When you reach 50 posts it says something new under your name, I forget what. If you're a mod or something spiffy cool like that you get lots of stars.



I feel for all of you and your essays. My school is having exams right now, but lucky me I'm far too sick to attend.

[ancolie]

I'm studying biology but I heard about abortion not so long ago... with all the bioethical tralalala... and I would say: 1) precisely define foetus and diferenciate it from an embryo. an embryo comes before the foetus.
2) does abortion concern embryo or foetus?
3) an embryo is not an entity in itself as its vital functions are not activated, he totally depends from the mother, but he is a human... to be. not a human being but something potentially human, and potentially a living being too. I speak about a whole living being, as a cell lives but is not a living being in itself... complicated uh? in fact, there appears the problem of what is a living being. If you consider the embryo as a huge cell mass, it's just like your eye or your foot. would you say your skin cells have the riht to live? yes of course! but cells are programmed to die within a certain amount of time... and I know only one cell which is "immortal"... it's the cancer cell...

anyway, it's a way to put more "scientifical" arguments in your morale essay I think. And be very careful, thinking of foetus is a good idea but your subject is about abortion not foetus so you should speak about the embryo too I think.

[pipipipipi]

boodeedeedoo said:

pipipipipi said:

I'VE NEVER SEEEEEEN SUCH BEAUTIFUL SHIRTS BEFORE

that always makes me laugh

i hate higher English, it's awful, i hope you agree.

Have you ever seen the movie of it? Myrtyle gets hit by a car in slow-mo which I find fucking hysterical

ha yes, we watched it in class, the woman who played Daisy could be accused of more than overacting

[pearl]

ahha i just came in the last post here and knew THE GREAT GATSBY. in class we saw both the made for tv and the film version but when myrtle got ran over, everyone just gasped

[jessi]

keva said:

finalfantasyeternal.com/home.html

go to the website and just scroll down. There's info about the shirts on the new website + merch thread here I do believe...

I got my tee a couple weeks ago Getting mail is actually the best thing ever.

Although, not angry letters from the library. And I do get a lot of those... but Final Fantasy mail, well that's a different kettle of metaphorical fish.

Aww, i paid for mine on the 22nd and it's still not here I guess they must be busy, since it's supposed to come with a personalised note and all. Or, it got lost on the way to Australia D:

[victoria]

We watched The Great Gatsby movie in high school, but I don't remember it. I don't think I really liked the novel, either.

andandandandand . . . the essay is complete (well a bit short, but who counts pages?). Whoooo

[keva]

jessi said:

Aww, i paid for mine on the 22nd and it's still not here I guess they must be busy, since it's supposed to come with a personalised note and all. Or, it got lost on the way to Australia D:

hey no way, I'm in Australia too! Whereabouts are you Jessie??

[boodeedeedoo]

And I need to ask, Do you guy's have "The IT Crowd" over in Australia? I noticed the avitar, it made me happy.

[rue]

victoria said:

We watched The Great Gatsby movie in high school, but I don't remember it. I don't think I really liked the novel, either.

They made a novel of that? I think the only part I wholeheartedly enjoyed was when the narrator describes how keen Gatsby is at deception. The rest of the book was a little lukewarm for me, which I am sad to say.

I'm reading a wonderfully imaginative book called The Third Policeman. It's written by Flann O'Brien, which is a pseudonym.

What's everyone reading, or what has been read lately?

[Scarychips]

We are reading Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer in French class and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck in Enriched English class. Personally, I've been reading This is your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin and The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst. The two first ones aren't really great but the latter are really good. I've been enjoying them a lot.