Anyhow, for the document-based essay, the prompt was to argue for or against the abolishment of the penny. It seemed really silly for an essay topic, and a bunch of people started laughing after seeing it. What was really funny was the last document: some scanned images of pennies, heads and tails. I was just wondering how someone would even use that source to support their argument.
One of the sources was about some internet group that advocated for the “retirement of the penny”, and it was also pretty silly. There was some guy named Jeff Gore who was like “pennies waste valuable time,” yet spends his time creating a site and coming up with these calculations for how much time and money are wasted yearly by pennies, which apparently comes to $10 billion a year. The argument he makes can be found on the site (scroll all the way down), word-for-word as it was seen on the AP exam. It’s just really silly, and although pennies are annoying, I don’t like that guy’s reasoning. Anyway, I thought I wrote a pretty good essay for that prompt. I really liked it, despite how silly it was (I kinda made fun of that Jeff Gore guy a bit).
Oh well, AP exams are over for me now, which is nice. Next year, I have four AP exams to look forward to (statistics, calculus, physics, English literature). Greeeeat.
I guess I’ll update create.swf tomorrow. If you have any suggestions for new items, accessories, backgrounds, etc, and character, that’d be nice.
Edit: Oh yeah, and here’s a Touhou SRPG concept by Fawkes using characters from create.swf. Yay.
BAN THE PENNY! D:
KEEP THE PENNY
GIVE ME THE PENNY
And then he autographed it!
.. hahaha oh my god
It’s okay for you to talk about the essay portion of the test now that 48 hours have elapsed, but no portion of the multiple-choice exam may be discussed until the questions have been released (in ten years or so). I WILL BE NOTIFYING THE AP BOARD, ENJOY YOUR INVALIDATED TEST SCORES. Next time be sure to read the fine print before opening your exam booklet.
Also: No AP US gov next year? WEAK.
Haha, oh wow. Pennies. :D
Suggestions? Uh! Add Sanae’s spatula looking thing. Or whatever it is. There’s a real spatula, but not that thing. :o
That actually is a retarded prompt… It makes sense though seeing as basically the same kind of people make those statistics problems about people keeping track of ridiculous things…
Maybe it’s long haired character’s work.
Either way, I would like to see Reimu’s turtle put up on create.swf.
⑨th!
When are you going to add unnamed char to update.***?
I understand you’re taking all these AP classes to get into a good college, but ask yourself:
is this worth it
NO
DON’T ABOLISH ME.
LOL, Statistic, Physics, Calculus? I had to go through that classes wothout any exams xD . Even though here we only have up to 11th grade, we have Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Geometry, Trigonometry, Chemistry, World History, Honduran History, Psychology, Sociology, P.E. (LOL), English Literature, Algebra,, Pre-Calculus, Calculus , and they are mandatory!!! There might be more I don’t remember high schools classes even though they were just 2 years ago xD. I went to high school from 7:00 Am to 3:00 pm, with a 50 min recess at 10:30. Al those are from 10th & 11th except fro algebra which is 7th grader’s stuff.
:( I guess this “hilarious” thing got my hopes up. That’s still pretty dumb.
And my suggestion for create.swf? Hmm…how about Kurumi?
Also, you have to add Evil Eye Sigma at some point. I HATE fighting that thing, so why not corrupt create.swf with it too.
But the penny should be abolished. It holds no actual application other than to be another useless amount of spare change.
In the past the penny was highly useful prior to inflation, however in modern times the penny has lost a great deal of power. Consider that there are machines which press pennies into souvenirs when destroying legal tender is illegal. This shows that we already hold a great deal of disdain for the common penny.
Hmmm, if the penny is abolished, will taxes round up to the nearest 5 cents then? Doesn’t that mean you can lose up to 4 cents per purchase? Considering how often people buy stuff, I’m sure it’ll be more than or at least equal to ten billion dollars in extra money that the government receives. And really, do we trust the government with more money?
I meant to compare the extra ten million in taxes to the ten million dollars wasted according to that guy… Jeff Gore. Yeah, I dunno how I managed to leave that out.
I took the test as well
I think the key point was that it has been a large symbol in America- the differences between the 1793 penny and the 2005 penny you could see were different but were still pennies none the less
…
oh my god i wrote a terrible essay
I’m poor, give me the pennies!
Suggestion for create.swf:
Add two flavors of heterochromatic eyes, al la Suiseiseki and Souseiseki.
Ah, pennies…
Back when I was in USA for a competition in Atlanta, the last days of it, my wallet was about to literally explode for all the pennies I had. It looked like I carried a tennis ball in my pants! They were so freaking annoying and getting them out was a real pain since it was so cold (and I mean Cirno-and-Letty-like cold) my hands were burning.
The worst thing is that automatic machines (I dunno if all of ’em) don’t accept pennies; thus making it a waste. If they could accept it, maybe the waste properties would go down.
Hmm… that could be interesting as an essay. But, yeah, I can see the sources were laughable.
On a side note:
Suggestions for create.swf: A bubble-text creator =D
@Anonymous: Well, it says not to discuss multiple choice questions, not passages. It actually says never to discuss the multiple choice questions… not just 10 years, but never! Oh well, even though I only talked about the passage and not the questions themselves, I guess I’ll take it down. Don’t wanna risk anything, since they specifically mentioned the internet as well.
The AP exams are serious business. They make you seal the packet after you’re done with it, and they give you some labels with secret codes on them! It’s like some top-secret document or something.
@Chicle: Well, I’m not actually taking the AP courses for college credit, I kinda just want to take them so I can learn more. It sounds kinda stupid and cheesy, but that’s actually why. I just think the regular non-AP classes at my school won’t be as challenging and I know that if I take them, I won’t be learning as much as I can. When my math teacher described the difference between non-AP calculus and the two AP classes, he drew lines on the board to show how much we’d learn in comparison. The line for BC calculus was like, twice the length of the AB calculus line and waaaay longer than the non-AP line. Although the line thing probably only applies to math, I’m guessing it’s still a similar concept for the other courses.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this on an AP… something. I want to say test, but I didn’t take the AP English test in high school, but I’m sure I saw this prompt on something very similar.
Abolish Penny and Inspector Gadget never solves a case.
Pennies!!
Hmm. You know, I think … I dunno who to add to create.swf … maybe ZUN or something?
Here’s a political cartoon about pennies! Here’s another!
What does the AP stand for anyway?
Ooo, you know, that text bubble idea sounds like a good one.
And yeah, pennies have started to be kinda wasteful (I think I heard that the metal that makes them is worth more than the penny itself): I could see them being ‘abolished’ in the sense of ‘not handed out in favor of bank transactions if reasonable.’ Though that would make paying in cash take as long as paying with debit…
WTF that’s kind of an absurd document to give you. Wonder what they really intended for people to do with it.
I’m in favor of keeping the penny so we don’t have to round to the nearest 5 cents whenever we do any multiplication of money by a fraction such as sales tax.
Thanks for plugging my project!
@T_U: AP stands for Advance Placement. A very basic way of explaining it is: Smart Peoples High School Classes.
A more elaborate version: Advance Placement classes are there to challenge smarter students with a possibly usual reward of a GPA multiplier, which can boost your academic standings greatly. Those who are in the top 10 of their class usually take nothing but AP courses.
The only AP course I took in High School was AP Computer Science, where we worked with Java the entire time. It was pretty good. Real Easy. and I made a couple of basic games in it :P
heh, I just took the AP stats it wasn’t too bad. Calculator does most of the work
@Project_Mars: Darn, I wish my school had more (or any) computer-related classes for us to take. I’d totally take AP Computer Science if it existed at my school.
create.swf needs VIVIT! There’s not nearly enough love for Seihou, the neglected sibling of Touhou
Create.swf could use PC-98 Marisa, Alice and Yuka since it already has Reimu.
I got to take AP Computer Science A when it was C and then AB when it switched to Java. Which I found frustrating at the time since I would have rather had a fuller experience with a lower level language, especially one as pervasive as C .
AP classes are highly underrated when it comes to their credentials. Getting them accepted in a college is not guaranteed, and is even less so in a university, not to mention that those that do accept them sometimes accept them under very strict criteria, such as a score of 5 on the test (as opposed to perhaps 3 or 4 and up). As they are now, AP classes serve primarily to give students a “heads-up” on college courses; AP calc went up to integrals and then some, equivalent to about 1 and a half to 2 college courses, and I have yet to have a programming class that covers data structures or algorithms that I haven’t seen before.
I actually agree with that whole thing.
See, everytime I cash a check or get paid, or buy something and get change back, I get friggin’ pennies all the damn time.
I got pennies up the yang, and i’m always like “WTF, i’m never going to use these! When’s the last time I was at Sears or McDonalds or paying my utility bill, or my rent, and I have to be like “Well, damn, I’m glad I have all these pennies on me, or i’d be screwed.”? Never. That’s the last time that’s happened.”
Pennies are the only form of monetary value in the world that I could, theoretically save them out of sheer annoyance, or lack of having anything else to use them for, until I had like $35 dollars worth of friggin’ pennies… and NOT spend it simply out of embarrassment of having to deal with $35 dollars worth of single cent coins in public.
Pennies. Seriously. GTFO.
…of course… well, I probably could exchange those pennies in a huge jar, and receive a twenty, a ten, and a five dollar bill.
But I just feel that in a country that prides itself on being economically viable even when it isn’t, at least I shouldn’t have to deal with that crap. :P
If everything in this country was rounded down to the nearest dime, people that pay tax on goods would be happier, cashiers would be happier, my dog would be happier, and rainbows would shine down on the world and everyone could afford a dancing leprechaun that serves them free beer.
Well, maybe not that last one. But still. Awesomeness would abound.
Pennies could still have a place in the grand scheme, though. They could be used to buy cigarettes in hell, perhaps. :P
Heh heh
Pennies
I have like… a very heavy jar full of em
I bet it amounts to less than $10
I thought it was that, but decided not to post about it.
BRING BACK half-cent and two-cent COINS!
The primary issue, I believe, with “abolishing” the penny is that despite being generally useless, pennies are practically necessary. How can a dollar bill represent 100 cents if 1 cent is not a form of currency? It’s the same with a dime or a nickel.
pennies aren’t annoying!!!,that’s abraham lincoln!!!,it doesn’t mean that he has a beard,doesn’t mean you don’t like that guy!!
(sorry), but pennies are part of life,so you have to count them
to get what you want.I think some people complain about pennies to much,just keep the penny!!,don’t complain about others to it!!!,
just keep it!!,don’t tell the wrong things to people!!.