申請(qǐng)康奈爾大學(xué)的Essay 3:A The Drama of Politics.

The Drama of Politics by Anonymous - December 01, 2002 Describe your intellectual interests, their evolution, and what makes them exciting to you. The history of politics reads somewhat like a petty drama. The son of the president who lost to Clinton later beats Clinton&apos&aposs vice president. His brother, Jeb, beats a guy who beat Clinton&apos&aposs attorney-general in the gubernatorial primaries. Mel Carnahan, Paul Wellstone, and Strom Thurmond die. Walter Mondale makes a bri return as a Senate candidate. And who will be the 2004 Democratic presidential candidate? And will Cheney still be on the GOP ticket by then? Strangely, some of my earliest memories are of electoral maps and my father rambling about class structure to himself. (He wasn&apos&apost very sociable.) Naturally, this was all unremarkable until I entered high school. Sophomore year, I began to dine my convictions. Having read some Ayn Rand in English class and participated in civics discussions in world history, I developed a more dinite interest in politics. That summer I took my first two AP classes online: Government and Politics, which was not offered at my school at the time, and U.S. History. From there, I started discussing politics more often with friends and on the internet. Part of my fascination was probably driven by a sort of strange emulation. As I learned more about political issues and personages, I wrote about them in a skewed satirical view within the realms of both fiction and nonfiction. In essence, I acquired a better grasp of politics and history partly so I would be able to craft stories such as these epic dramas myself.