essays are pointless if you don't have a passion in the topic. how the hell do teachers expect me to write about something i don't give two shits about. this is why our environment fails. if you want to encourage something, the least you can do is make it more worthwhile. what the hell am i going to get out of writing this? learn about something that will probably never happen? LOL we're only in 8th grade, no one's going to read our letters no matter how fabulous it is. plus this is basically for jackson heights, WHAT'S SO SPECIAL ABOUT JACKSON HEIGHTS? considering that new york has 4 other boroughs, why focus on such a small portion of one? asdfghjkl;'