So… basically, I had to sign up for an English class for college last year. I went into the class expecting to have boring topics shoveled down my throat, and wound up getting absolute freedom to write whatever I wanted, with some minor guidelines. Among rants about ignorant game violence bashing and monologues from the point of view of Yoshi, I chose my final project in the class to be about Bioshock. A couple of people expressed interest in some of my projects, so I’ll be posting them here under the category that pretty well expresses my intent for the entire class: “English Class Trolling”. Whenever I post one of my papers, I’ll give the outlines for the project.
The outlines for my final projects were as follows:
- Write a poem in the style of James Wright.
- Poem must be about a crime.
- First part must contain an introduction, where you were born, and a description of your location in relation to the crime.
- Second part must contain a confession and an expression of disgust.
- Third part must begin with the word “Idiot”.
- Fourth part must begin with an expression of pity.
- Fifth part must contain references to a king, a kingdom, and a prince.
- Sixth part must contain a quote and be no longer than 3 lines.
- Seventh part must contain a declaration in parenthesis.
Other than that, we had total freedom for our topics and our analysis of the topic. So I give you, “The Failed Utopia”! For the record… my English teacher had no idea what the hell was going on. Read the rest of this entry »
