Never would I have thought that an essay would take me so long to kill. Imagine that I am a cheetah and the essay is a gazelle. I am wandering through the Savannah on the African continent when I spot a tasty gazelle.... instinctively you would think that I would be able to kill that gazelle in no time but I was stuck on my creeping stage. The stage when cheetahs walk really slyly and wait for the perfect moment to attack. I was stuck there for the longest time. I knew the objective: compare and contrast. I just did not know how to pounce on it. The gazelle which is symbolically my essay ran from me many times until I finally was able to conquer it.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that I did that gracefully like animal planet depicts. This was a messy fight and I'm looking forward to rewriting this catastrophe.
I liked the prompt for the essay, I just didn't know how to go through with it. This time I honestly did not know how to proceed with less caution. I didn't know how to write it with out it ending up being a confusing piece of paper made up of random facts, citations and the other stuff I fill it with. Think of it as a sloppy Joe. The bad kind. Not the Manwich brand but the kind you get at an elementary school cafeteria. That's what I am talking about.
It was not the reading that were necessarily difficult. It is safe to say that the hardest part was the structure of the essay. People say practice makes perfect. I'm not sure about that but I'm sure the more I do essay that have to be compare and contrast the easier they will become to structure. It was difficult to structure the essay when the readings where kind of similar but not really. It's like a Venn diagram that's really slim in the middle. I need more to work with. That added to the difficult factor.
It wasn't too difficult to get started mainly because while I'm writing the introduction I get more of a feel of where I'm taking the essay. It acts like a mental map in my head. It was hard to get past that stage though. The map i constructed mentally was filled with narrow roads that somehow ended abruptly; A crazy labyrinth if you will.
Overall, I'm glad I'm finally done.
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