SAT ESSAY:
Prompt:
“The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration”.
Assignment: What is one important “easy and preferred answer” that we should resist? That is, what dangerous misconception do people commonly hold?
One dangerous misconception is that almost the majority always evaluate people via their external appearance. A good appearance before crowd attracts others but the majority’s ideas about someone should consider not only external appearance but also internal characteristic. The illustration about Susan Boyle - a Scotland singer who had participated “Britain’s got talent” and become special phenomenon in 2009, and Nick Vujicic, an disable Autralian without climbers prove that appearance do not confirm all of things about a person.
Susan was just a normal women but she showed that her aptitude in singing is wonderful. When she stood before a number of audiences with fat appearance and bad hair, and was self-confident to tell that she wanted to be professional singer, people mocked and doubted her. However, when her “I Dreamed a dream” song started, everyone was very surprised and admitted her talent and applaused. She was very successful, not because of her beauty, just because of her talent.
Disable people are victims of harsh judgments too. Others consider them weak and helpless but the truth is their strength is far better than normal people. Nick Vujicic is a perfect phenomenon
who overcome adversity and became a hero for people around the world. Although he had no legs and hands, he struggled and goto school with normal friends instead of school for disable children. By parent’s loves and encouragement, he faced the reality and tried to his best to study and get A university’s degree, and he also become famous speaker later on. He has visited many countries to light the fire and hope for young people. Clearly, without legs and hands, he can do more better things than others, he also has a good family and job through his efforts for future life.
It is easy to judge people by their appearances, but hard to know their true worth without knowing them better, see the appearance of people but we can not evaluate how they are and what they do like, majority’s thinking. We always get some mistakes from a person in the first watching so we must consider accurately for a long time what they have achieved and performed.