Lisa Stricks’s purpose of writing this essay “So What’s So Bad About Being So-So?” is to illustrate that we as individuals feel more pressured to excel in doing things we once did fun because of the competitive world we now live in. Strick would us to go back to the day which we just did hobbies for the fun of it. I don’t completely agree with her because I have a number of hobbies and I don’t feel pressure to be superb at all of them, only the ones that I want to be great at. I could relate to what she says because I had a friend took a prank too far because of competition.
When I was still in high school a couple of my friends had a prank competition. It started out innocent, a toilet paper house here, an egged car there, you know ,the basics. Then one day after a long day of school, a group of us went to our friend Jeremy’s house. So we were there in the kitchen drinking an apple drink (Dave Chappel). Alex, a participant in the prank,competition went into the bathroom. So Brandon, another participant, pulls out some eyedrops hearing that if it was consumed that might cause diarrhea. So Brandon places three drops into Alex’s drink. After Alex returns from the bathroom he finishes his drink not knowing what had happen while he was away. A few minutes later Alex started to cough, gages, and vomit. So much, in fact that, that we had to rush him to the hospital to get his stomach pumped. This prank is a prime example of taking competition too far.
Hey Dennis,
ReplyDeleteI don't feel like you went the same way as most. But the description had visual clarity. The ending was strong, though mainly caused by the event that went down.
Brain there was a few run on sentence on the first paragraph. But you answered the prompt correctly and you had good description.
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