Influences and Favorites: Part 2

The first two months were spent with the teacher (known throughout the school to be a hard ass) demanding rigid sentence and paragraph structure, one line of fact followed by two sentences of opinion, and so on. During the second month in class with terrible grades for my efforts I decided to rebel and write the essay the way I decided it should be written. When the papers came back I was surprised to have the equivalent of a “C.” Instead of reveling in the drastic improvement from previous a...