# The latest assessment essay gems **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 23, 2014, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-assessment-essay-gems/686736 "2014-04-23T03:21:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-assessment-essay-gems/686736/101 "2015-03-10T12:52:17Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > ## The newest one: > > In life I have a passion that I am more passionate about than most of my life’s passions. My passion is music….It is my life’s most passionate passion. Are these supposed to be single sentences? ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-assessment-essay-gems/686736/102 "2015-03-10T13:48:22Z")
[Semantic satiation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation), much? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-assessment-essay-gems/686736/103 "2015-03-12T01:54:53Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Are these supposed to be single sentences? The first sentence was from the beginning of the student’s essay. Then ellipses, then the last sentence from the essay. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-assessment-essay-gems/686736/104 "2015-03-12T19:21:16Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > The first sentence was from the beginning of the student’s essay. Then ellipses, then the last sentence from the essay. Ok, you gotta do a word count. How many times does some form of the word passion appear in the essay? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-assessment-essay-gems/686736/105 "2015-03-12T19:24:01Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > I wish I had a most passionate passion, or even a passionate passion. These days even my passions are sadly apathetic. ☹ I too used to be passionate about the idea of being passionate, but my passions have dribbled away in other directions, my passions have been subdivided, and now I feel quite dispassionate about passion. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-assessment-essay-gems/686736/106 "2015-03-14T19:02:02Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Ok, you gotta do a word count. How many times does some form of the word passion appear in the essay? 😃 I didn’t, and we’re not allowed to take these home, but next time I will remember to count repeated words. Department of Redundancy Department calling… ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-assessment-essay-gems/686736/107 "2015-03-31T17:53:21Z")
One from the other day: In the past people used to live in a place full of darkness, where there was no light and you could see absolutely nothing. That is until the light bulb was invented. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-assessment-essay-gems/686736/108 "2015-03-31T18:40:46Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > One from the other day: > > In the past people used to live in a place full of darkness, where there was no light and you could see absolutely nothing. That is until the light bulb was invented. Unfamiliar with the story Prometheus? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-assessment-essay-gems/686736/109 "2015-03-31T18:56:20Z")
Now I gotta wonder, with so many electric stoves and flashlights, how many kids have never actually seen an open flame. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-assessment-essay-gems/686736/110 "2015-03-31T19:30:08Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > One from the other day: > > In the past people used to live in a place full of darkness, where there was no light and you could see absolutely nothing. That is until the light bulb was invented. Score one more point for Thomas Edison’s ego. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-assessment-essay-gems/686736/111 "2015-04-02T06:22:49Z")
Err … except during daytime. Or when you had your candles, torches, oil lamps, fireplace, or gaslight lit. Or when the moon was full. Or if you had a jar full of fireflies. Or if you lived in the land of the Midnight Sun. Or lived at a seashore that had bioluminescent algae. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-assessment-essay-gems/686736/112 "2015-04-02T13:37:43Z")
Nope. Everything was dark. EVERYTHING! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-assessment-essay-gems/686736/113 "2015-04-02T16:41:29Z")
Yes, you must remember that everything was in black and white back then. Without light to show the white, everything and everyONE was black. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-assessment-essay-gems/686736/114 "2015-04-02T16:44:49Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > One from the other day: > > In the past people used to live in a place full of darkness, where there was no light and you could see absolutely nothing. That is until the light bulb was invented. As a further poitless and pedantic citicism of the author’s scientific knowledge, “full of darkness” is an impossibility. There is only an absense of light, which APPEARS to make things “full” of dark. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-assessment-essay-gems/686736/115 "2015-04-02T17:46:59Z")
What if it were full of endless repeats of the Hawkins brothers? No, wait, that’d be full of The Darkness. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-assessment-essay-gems/686736/116 "2015-04-02T17:50:04Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > As a further poitless and pedantic citicism of the author’s scientific knowledge, “full of darkness” is an impossibility. There is only an absense of light, which APPEARS to make things “full” of dark. Are you saying this person is full of ignorance? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-assessment-essay-gems/686736/117 "2015-04-02T17:55:18Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Are you saying this person is full of ignorance? YES! Exactly! ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-assessment-essay-gems/686736/118 "2015-04-02T17:57:58Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > As a further poitless and pedantic citicism of the author’s scientific knowledge, “full of darkness” is an impossibility. Not at all. You simply have to modify the main deflector dish to emit an inverse field of de-photonized tachyons and infuse the subspace matrix ratio converter with a prime frequency modulation. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-assessment-essay-gems/686736/119 "2015-04-02T21:08:53Z")
Shut up, Wesley! ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-assessment-essay-gems/686736/120 "2015-04-03T21:46:54Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Shut up, Wesley! I have assessed your comment and found it to be of the highest value. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-assessment-essay-gems/686736.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-assessment-essay-gems/686736.md?page=7)