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28184, RE: OOOOOKAAAYYYY
Posted by The Damaja, Sat Aug-20-05 05:07 PM
>pick any sentence in the part of the essay about Pulp
>Fiction. Pick any paragraph. Now find his main arguments and
>their supporting points, or evidence.
>
>Just the fact that that simple task is not very easy, is a
>pretty good indicator of how much of a nothing ass article
>this is.
>

i've done that several times in this post
also, evidence is overrated. Crouch didn't use many quotes, but then when someone uses a quote in an essay, it can always be misleading, something taken out of context, or something that's isolated that the essayist is trying to use as "just an EXAMPLE"
anyway, for most of the things Crouch said, whether he provided evidence or not, I could use MY knowledge of the film to agree with them

sometimes the racial point is oversated, and sometimes the essay is confusing, but I find that with most pieces of criticism