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'##::::'##:::'#####:::'########: VIVA LA REVOLUCION! CERDO DEL CAPITALISTA!!
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##:::: ##:'##:::: ##: ##::::::: THE HELOTS OF ECSTASY PRESS RELEASE #455 !!
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#########: ##:::: ##: ######::: ZIEGO VUANTAR SHALL BE MUCH VICTORIOUS! !!
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##:::: ##:. ##:: ##:: ##::::::: "Sincerely Yours" !!
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##:::: ##::. #####::: ########: by -> AIDS !!
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..:::::..::::.....::::........:: 1/21/99 !!
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Dear Mr. Arnold Klein,
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I find it exceedingly difficult to believe that the paper I
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handed in on May 2nd, 1997, for your Dramatic Poetry/Poetic Drama class,
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was worthy of a mere C+. In fact, as I write this letter, I find myself
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confused and befuddled as to the possible reasons I received such a low
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letter grade.
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To refresh your memory: The paper ran seventeen pages in length
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and addressed the issue of disguise and assumed identity in both The
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Revenger's Tragedy and Ben Jonson's The Alchemist.
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I chose these two plays because I felt they were the two in the
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class that I had learned the most from, and as things tend to work out,
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they also happened to be the ones I enjoyed seemed to me a good one.
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Disguise and assumed identity can be found in most plays from the
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Elizabethan and Jacobean era, but these two plays seemed to be making a
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comment about the nature of disguise and its effects on those it dupes,
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rather than simply being a plot device to move along the story. The two
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plays, in my mind, worked well together in terms of comparison, due to
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their darkly comical natures.
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As to the paper itself, I cannot express my shock and extreme
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dismay as my effort of over a fortnight was returned to me and I found a
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C+ loosely slapped on its back. I cannot further express the depths of
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repulsion I felt when gazing upon your final critical comments, which
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can be summed up, and in fact were summed up, as, "Pretty Literal." I
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might possibly be able to stomach the poor grade if I felt that you had
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given me some sort of justification for it, other than simply doling out
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a meager comment. But, of course, perhaps meager papers with meager
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grades require meager comments.
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As I am not by any means a teacher myself nor remotely qualified
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to judge papers accordingly, it seems a strange thing to me that I must
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produce this letter. Obviously, I am not nearly qualified as you are for
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such things, yet I can not help but feel that a C+ was an unjust grade.
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The amount of time and effort, (not to mention the countless hours of
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contemplation), that I witnessed myself put into this paper only spurs
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me on in my indignation.
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You may remember that only one other student besides myself
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managed to meet the due date for the paper. The grade of a C+ cannot but
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force me to question why I even put an effort into this paper. I now feel
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that even if I had put no effort into the paper, I would probably have
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received the same letter grade. Perhaps a C+ is all one such as myself
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should aspire to.
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I have become seriously concerned as to the outcome of my grade.
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The paper will have a major impact. Prior to receiving the C+, I assumed
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that I would do fine, as I had attended all the classes and read all the
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material when so prompted. The C+, however, puts me into a serious
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academic jeopardy.
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In conclusion, I seriously urge you to reconsider your decision
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regarding my paper's grade. I hope that on a second consideration of the
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paper, it will reveal itself, as it has done to me, to be worthy of more
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than a C+. The paper seems to me a good one, with obvious effort and
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thought poured in.
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Sincerely Yours,
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Jarett Kobek
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!!========================================================================!!
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!! (c) !LA HOE REVOLUCION PRESS! HOE #455, WRITTEN BY: AIDS - 1/21/99 !!
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