Most students believe they have too much homework and not enough time to complete it on time and it's killing them. In these two essays "Too Much Homework, Too Little Time" by the username Laxdoublek on Teenink.com and "Satire: Homework Epidemic" by Ellen Keith of Medford High School, present many similarities and differences on the subject of homework. Their tests allow everyone to realize the amount of homework given to students at the school. Keith does a better job of getting his message across to the reader than Laxdoublek. These two essays “Too Much Homework, Too Little Time” by Laxdoublek and “Satire: Homework Epidemic” by Ellen Keith have many examples in their essay on homework. One of the examples they share are personal examples. He uses sadness to make the reader feel sorry for him and another who has too much homework at school. An example of how he uses despair to make the reader feel sorry for him is by stating that he has no life and can't do anything because duties are taking his life. I could participate in extracurricular activities like before, but now I can't drop my grades because I didn't finish my homework. » (LAXdoubleK) Another sentence that helps the reader feel sorry for themselves is "homework takes away all my free time to spend with friends and family." spend time with their family. This is how Laxdoublek creates emotion in his essay. The author, Keith, also creates tragedy, but better than Laxdoublek. She creates tragedy by making homework worse than it actually is, which makes the heartbreak better in her essay. She makes the reader sad by making them feel pity for the students who died because of homework. “It all started with Amy Lam, the poor girl stressed herself to death. While studying for a Streff test, she knelt down and never took the test she so desperately needed to pass. we try to convince everyone, but especially parents and teachers. To parents, students receive too much homework and to teachers, they give too much homework. “”Keith's essay does a better job of using word choice to draw in his audience. Laxdoublek uses everyday words that everyone knows and uses all the time. " "While Keith, on the other hand, does a better job of using vocabulary that parents and teachers are familiar with and that not everyone uses every day, making his essay interesting to their audience than that of Laxdoublek. The two essays also contain many elements that are different from each other. One of them is their examples. Even though they had similar examples, they also had different examples. Laxdoublek uses statistics in his essay. While Keith uses examples from other people's lives. What differs between these two is their rhetorical strategies. Kieth uses