O-P-I-U-M

Releasing my frustration: GAARRRR!!! THIS PAPER WAS ..... GGGAAARRRR!!! OK, I've let it all out.


The coolest thing I learned about Opium poppy is that Canadians wear poppies on "Veterans Day" or Remembrance Day. It is a symbol of the author's (Lieutenant John McCrae) friend's death and Canadian school children recite the poem on that particular day. And of course, the fact that opium causes infertility rate to decrease (my thesis.)
I picked opium because it was ok. I mean, I didn't dislike it, so I guess it's ok learning about it. After I heard the other theses from the opium group, I chose to write something different from them. I was researching opium and reading the different titles of the articles, while keeping in mind that I had to write something that would catch the readers' attention. So... " Opium is negatively correlated with infertility rates". I thought that this would catch readers' attention.
I didn't know what about at first, because I had so many options. Because everyone else on Opium was writing about how the plant politically affecting a particular group of people, I wanted to reach out to everyone. I went back and researched on its health effects and came across some studies. So I decided to write about that with a brief history of addictions mentioned in the bible and the Muslim culture. After writing my paper, I felt that something was wrong with my conclusion....like it wasn't strong enough. Sometimes, you get that feeling when you're writing when you want to mention all of these random, but interesting facts that may help sway the readers to your side. I felt that I had a lot of those in my essays, and that my essay wasn't as organized as it could be if I could have spent more time on it. Oh well... did anyone else get the feeling that you were some kind of advertiser as you were writing this paper?