# Assessment essay gems **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 3, 2018, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assessment-essay-gems/813490 "2018-05-03T02:18:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assessment-essay-gems/813490/21 "2018-05-05T00:21:21Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Assessment essay gems I’m confused. Doesn’t one _ **assay** _ gems? ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assessment-essay-gems/813490/22 "2018-05-05T18:58:50Z")
> [@](#): > > During Kennedy’s presidency, the Great Depression played a part in people’s lives even after it was over > [@vivalostwages](#): > > We’re laughing at the first three words of the sentence, not the rest of it. Okay, folks, please fight my ignorance. … What’s wrong with the first three words ? (I don’t mind being told that I’m being whooshed–just do me a favor and explain how I’m being whooshed.) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assessment-essay-gems/813490/23 "2018-05-05T19:09:07Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > Okay, folks, please fight my ignorance. … > What’s wrong with the first three words ? > > (I don’t mind being told that I’m being whooshed–just do me a favor and explain how I’m being whooshed.) I’m wondering if it’s the antecedent for “it”: does “after it was over” mean “after Kennedy’s presidency was over” or “after the Great Depression was over”? If that’s not it, I’m confused too. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assessment-essay-gems/813490/24 "2018-05-05T21:22:06Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > I’m wondering if it’s the antecedent for “it”: does “after it was over” mean “after Kennedy’s presidency was over” or “after the Great Depression was over”? > > If that’s not it, I’m confused too. That is correct. But there’s also the trivial matter of who the President was during the Great Depression. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assessment-essay-gems/813490/25 "2018-05-05T22:00:17Z")
Oh, that’s easy, Hoover. Deciding which Hoover, Herbert, J. Edgar, or the talking seal, makes it harder. I’m leaning toward the pinniped. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assessment-essay-gems/813490/26 "2018-05-06T00:15:05Z")
I thought, “…after it was over…” referred to, “…their lives…” :smack:😃 ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assessment-essay-gems/813490/27 "2018-05-06T06:36:30Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > That is correct. > > But there’s also the trivial matter of who the President was during the Great Depression. I’m reasonably sure that it was not John F Kennedy. Then again, I’ve collected such gems as “Cleopatra was one of our national heroes” and something about people watching television during the Great Depression to get their minds off of their problems, so what the hell do I know? ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assessment-essay-gems/813490/28 "2018-05-06T06:45:23Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > During Kennedy’s presidency, the Great Depression played a part in people’s lives even after it was over. Actually, I think that we are still, to this day, dealing with the fallout/residual effects of the economic turmoil, and the social upheaval and population displacement caused by The Great Depression. So, as theses go, I don’t find it particularly implausible; how it effected the Kennedy Administration in particular is a bit baffling to me, though. As a standalone sentence, yeah, it kinda comes out of nowhere, stops abruptly, and does nothing else of note. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assessment-essay-gems/813490/29 "2018-05-06T11:25:46Z")
I suspect what the writer was trying, and failing, to say was something like: “During Kennedy’s presidency the Great Depression still _influenced_ people’s lives even _though_ it was over” ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assessment-essay-gems/813490/30 "2018-05-06T21:15:09Z")
To me, the sentence read as if Kennedy had been the president during the Great Depression. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assessment-essay-gems/813490/31 "2018-05-06T22:03:53Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > I suspect what the writer was trying, and failing, to say was something like: > > “During Kennedy’s presidency the Great Depression still _influenced_ people’s lives even _though_ it was over” Well, it was JF Kennedy’s father’s stock trading before & during the Great (Hoover) Depression which made the family rich enough for JFK to run for President. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assessment-essay-gems/813490/32 "2018-05-14T01:04:40Z")
I hope to gather up some new gems this week. In the meantime, take a look at this feature on Tumblr: > **[Shit My Students Write](https://shitmystudentswrite.tumblr.com/)** > > Evidence of the true cost of educational funding cuts: a compendium of reports from the field ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assessment-essay-gems/813490/33 "2018-05-20T03:38:27Z")
Well, the effects of AB 705 are already taking place. I showed up for assessment on Monday, there were only five papers, one reader had been canceled and the other was late, so I read the papers for 10 minutes and got paid for two hours (that’s the minimum). I got cancelled for Thursday. There were only 25 papers that day. Normally we would have read at least 50 and sometimes many more than that for three hours. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assessment-essay-gems/813490.md?page=1)