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Writing: Your Essay
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ESSAY SCORE:
POSSIBLE SCORE: 2 - 12
ESSAY PROMPTThink carefully about the issue presented in the
following excerpt and the assignment below:
When people are very enthusiastic--always willing and eager to
meet new challenges or give undivided support toideas or
projects--they are likely to be rewarded. They often work harder
and enjoy their work more than do thosewho are more restrained. But
there are limits to how enthusiastic people should be. People
should always questionand doubt, since too much enthusiasm can
prevent people from considering better ideas, goals, or courses
ofaction.
ASSIGNMENT: Can people have too much enthusiasm? Plan and write
an essay in which you develop yourpoint of view on this issue.
Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your
reading, studies,experience, or observations.
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Essay Prompt
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following
excerpt and the assignment below:
1. Success in life is largely a matter of luck. It has little
correlation with merit, and in all fields of lifethere have always
been people of great merit who did not succeed.
Karl Popper, Popper Selections
2. As Colin Powell said, "There are no secrets to success. Don't
waste time looking for them.Success is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure."
Adapted from Barry Farber, "Selling Points"
Assignment: Is success in life earned or do people succeed
because they are lucky? Plan and write anessay in which you develop
your point of view on this issue. Support your position with
reasoning andexamples taken from your reading, studies, experience,
or observations.
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excerpt and the assignment below:
We must seriously question the idea of majority rule. The
majority grinned and jeered whenColumbus said the world was round.
The majority threw him into a dungeon for his discoveries.Where is
the logic in the notion that the opinion held by a majority of
people should have the power toinfluence our decisions?
Adapted from James A. Reed, "Majority Rule"
Assignment: Is the opinion of the majority-in government or in
any other circumstances-a poor guide?Plan and write an essay in
which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your
position withreasoning and examples from your reading, studies,
experience, or observations.
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ESSAY PROMPTThink carefully about the issue presented in the
following excerpt and the assignment below:
It is unrealistic to think that any group of people--a family, a
committee, a company, a city--can function peacefullyand
productively without some kind of authority. The needs and
interests of the individuals who make up any groupare too varied
for its members to operate as a unit without having someone to make
the final decisions. Somebodyhas to be in charge; somebody has to
be ultimately responsible.
ASSIGNMENT: Can a group of people function effectively without
someone being in charge? Plan and write anessay in which you
develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position
with reasoning and examplestaken from your reading, studies,
experience, or observations.
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ESSAY PROMPTThink carefully about the issue presented in the
following excerpt and the assignment below:
If an old tradition is still around today, we can assume that it
deserves to remain in existence. Well-establishedcustoms, styles
that are still popular, and ideas that people still find sensible
survive because these traditions arestrong enough to survive.
Continuity guarantees quality. Old-fashioned hospitality,
old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business--all
these traditions have qualities of survival. Fortunately, these
will always be withus.
Adapted from Jacob Braude, Jacob Braude's Second Encyclopedia of
Stories, Quotations, and Anecdotes
ASSIGNMENT: Do all established traditions deserve to remain in
existence? Plan and write an essay in whichyou develop your point
of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and
examples taken from yourreading, studies, experience, or
observations.
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Writing: Your Essay
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ESSAY PROMPTThink carefully about the issue presented in the
following excerpt and the assignment below:
There are those who believe that everything we do is inspired by
the desire for power in its various forms. Theymaintain that our
actions are nothing but expressions of a striving for power. In
this view, even when we act kindlytoward other people, we are
motivated, whether we know it or not, by a desire to have some
control over theirlives, for our act of kindness puts them
partially in our power.
Adapted from Leszek Kolakowski, Freedom, Fame, Lying, and
Betrayal: Essays on Everyday Life
ASSIGNMENT: Are people's actions motivated primarily by a desire
for power over others? Plan and write anessay in which you develop
your point of view on this issue. Support your position with
reasoning and examplestaken from your reading, studies, experience,
or observations.
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Think carefully about the issue presented in the following
excerpt and the assignment below:
We don't really learn anything properly until there is a
problem, until we make a mistake, untilsomething fails to go as we
had hoped. When everything is working well, with no problems
orfailures, what incentive do we have to try something new? We are
only motivated to learn when weexperience difficulties.
Adapted Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a
Novel
Assignment: Does true learning only occur when we experience
difficulties? Plan and write an essay inwhich you develop your
point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning
and examplestaken from your reading, studies, experience, or
observations.
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Think carefully about the issue presented in the following
excerpt and the assignment below:
People are happy only when they have their minds fixed on some
goal other than their ownhappiness. Happiness comes when people
focus instead on the happiness of others, on theimprovement of
humanity, on some course of action that is followed not as a means
to anything elsebut as an end in itself. Aiming at something other
than their own happiness, they find happinessalong the way. The
only way to be happy is to pursue some goal external to your own
happiness.
Adapted from John Stuart Mill, Autobiography
Assignment: Are people more likely to be happy if they focus on
goals other than their own happiness?Plan and write an essay in
which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your
position withreasoning and examples taken from your reading,
studies, experience, or observations.
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Writing: Your Essay
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ESSAY PROMPTThink carefully about the issue presented in the
following excerpt and the assignment below:
All people who have achieved greatness in something knew what
they excelled at. These people identified theskills that made them
special--good judgment, or courage, or a special artistic or
literary talent--and focused ondeveloping these skills. Yet most
people achieve superiority in nothing because they fail to identify
and developtheir greatest attribute.
Adapted from Baltasar Gracian y Morales, The Art of Worldly
Wisdom
ASSIGNMENT: Do people achieve greatness only by finding out what
they are especially good at anddeveloping that attribute above all
else? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of
view on thisissue. Support your position with reasoning and
examples taken from your reading, studies, experience,
orobservations.
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