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Subject: The theme paper



I thought this was hysterical - enjoy...


>THE COLLEGE THEME PAPER: HE VS. SHE
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>Remember the book "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"?
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>Well, here's a prime example offered by an English professor at an
>American University. This really happened.
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>"Today we will experiment with a new form of composition called the
>tandem
>story. The process is simple. Each person will pair off with the
person
>sitting to his or her immediate right. One of you will then write the
>first
>paragraph of a short story. The partner will read the first paragraph
>and
>then add another paragraph to the story. The first person will then
add
>a
>third paragraph, and so on back and forth. Remember to reread what has
>been
>written each time in order to keep the story coherent. There is to be
>absolutely NO talking and anything you wish to say must be written on
>the
>paper. The story is over when both agree a conclusion has been
reached."
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>The following was actually turned in by two of my English students:
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>Rebecca -last name deleted, and Gary - last name deleted.
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>STORY:
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>(first paragraph by Rebecca)
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>At first, Laurie couldn't decide which kind of tea she wanted. The
>camomile,
>which used to be her favorite for lazy evenings at home, now reminded
>her
>too much of Carl, who once said, in happier times, that he liked
>camomile.
>But she felt she must now, at all costs, keep her mind off Carl. His
>possessiveness was suffocating, and if she thought about him too much
>her
>asthma started acting up again. So camomile was out of the question.
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>(second paragraph by Gary)
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>Meanwhile, Advance Sergeant Carl Harris, leader of the attack squadron
>now
>in orbit over Skylon 4, had more important things to think about than
>the
>neuroses of an air-headed asthmatic bimbo named Laurie with whom he
had
>spent one sweaty night over a year ago. "A.S. Harris to Geostation
17,"
>he
>said into his transgalactic communicator. "Polar orbit established. No
>sign
>of resistance so far..." But before he could sign off, a bluish
particle
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>beam flashed out of nowhere and blasted a hole through his ship's
cargo
>bay.
>The jolt from the direct hit sent him flying out of his seat and
across
>the
>cockpit.
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>(Rebecca)
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>He bumped his head and died almost immediately but not before he felt
>one last pang of regret for psychically brutalizing the one woman who
>had
>ever had feelings for him. Soon afterwards, Earth stopped its
pointless
>hostilities towards the peaceful farmers of Skylon 4. "Congress Passes
>Law
>Permanently Abolishing War and Space Travel," Laurie read in her
>newspaper
>one morning. The news simultaneously excited her and bored her. She
>stared
>out the window, dreaming of her youth, when the days had passed
>unhurriedly
>and carefree, with no newspapers to read, no television to distract
her
>from
>her sense of innocent wonder at all the beautiful things around her.
>"Why
>must one lose one's innocence to become a woman?" she pondered
>wistfully.
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>(Gary)
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>Little did she know, but she had less than 10 seconds to live.
Thousands
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>of miles above the city, the Anu'udrian mothership launched the first
of
>its
>lithium fusion missiles. The dim-witted wimpy peaceniks who pushed the
>Unilateral Aerospace Disarmament Treaty through the congress had left
>Earth
>a defenseless target for the hostile alien empires who were determined
>to
>destroy the human race. Within two hours after the passage of the
treaty
>the
>Anu'udrian ships were on course for Earth, carrying enough firepower
to
>pulverize the entire planet. With no one to stop them, they swiftly
>initiated their diabolical plan. The lithium fusion missile entered
the
>atmosphere unimpeded. The President, in his top-secret Mobile
>submarine headquarters on the ocean floor off the coast of Guam, felt
>the
>inconceivably massive explosion, which vaporized poor, stupid, Laurie
>and 85
>million other Americans. The President slammed his fist on the
>conference
>table. "We can't allow this! I'm going to veto that treaty! Let's blow
>'em
>out of the sky!"
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>(Rebecca)
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>This is absurd. I refuse to continue this mockery of literature. My
>writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic semi-literate adolescent.
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>(Gary)
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>Yeah? Well, you're a self-centered tedious neurotic whose attempts at
>writing are the literary equivalent of Valium. "Oh shall I have
>camomile tea? Or shall I have some other sort of ******* TEA??? Oh no,
>I'm
>an air headed bimbo who reads too many Danielle Steele novels."
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>(Rebecca)
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>*******.
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>(Gary)
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>Bitch.
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>(Rebecca)
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>******.
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>(Gary)
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>****.
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>(Rebecca)
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>Get fucked.
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>(Gary)
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>Eat ****.
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>(Rebecca)
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>**** YOU - YOU NEANDERTHAL!!!
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>(Gary)
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>Go drink some tea - you *****.
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>(Teacher)
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>A+ - I really liked this one.
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work765

that **** was good! I love english class