Essay's

There were many interesting and not so interesting essay's that my fellow classmates presented. Everyone performed well, even on boring topics. I would have to say the essay that stood out the most to me and the one that was most intriguing was titled "How to know if you’re dead." The topic of this essay was over why being an organ donor is a good decision. The author is trying to inform society that being an organ donor helps others. In the essay the author was in a hospital watching doctors extract a person's organs. The author explains every detail of the process in which an organ is removed. The essay was well detailed, and made me think a lot about the topic. The author explains what the doctors do during the procedure an how preserving an organ(s) is done. It was very interesting to read how the author reacted to this procedure. The author even went on to ask if it was normal to like the smell of burned flesh. To me, that was weird, but a person does not know how they are going to react to something until they are put in the situation. Another crazy detail in this story is that the person's body was still functioning. The person was brain-dead, so he was considered dead. The person was also an organ donor, and that is why the doctors were preserving his organs. This essay was very interesting, not joyful, but the most intriguing to me.
The essay that was the most un-interesting to me was "How to Pull an All-Nighter." This essay was not even really an essay at all. This was a bulleted essay and meant to be informational. The essay described different techniques on how to stay awake all night to study. In my opinion, the essay was not very informational and not interesting. Most of the points that were made I already knew. I think most people already know the information that was in this essay, so the essay was bland. The essay was a brief topic that was not intriguing to me.