Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Last round of papers for the semester

Once again, a student has enlightened me and I must share with you so that you can be enlightened, too:

"In the today's world the male society between the ages of 18 and 25 years old are some of the most observant and intriguing people when it comes to the viewing of women body, and love nothing more than just to sit back and enjoy the great creation that god put on the earth with us."

Aside from the oddly placed words and grammatical errors, there are so so many things that I want to say to this. Unfortunately my poor husband has passed his ability to be observant and intriguing. But then I am stunned by a later sentence:

"The ad makes the male wanted to do nothing but sit around all day and just look at the Hanes magazine and think about how much Hanes stuff he is going to wear next time he goes out at night."

So this is what college has devolved to since I graduated...
And finally,

"Another way that the image catches the attention of the male society is that she is showing a little skin and guys like when girls show a little skin."

I wrote "consider your audience" and "a little problematic in an academic essay." Pretty generous, I think, when I could have written something much more heated (I'll leave you to imagine this).