GMAT考试写作指导：Issue写作范文七四

　　74. I strongly agree that rule-breakers are the most memorable people. By departing

　　from the status quo, iconoclasts call attention to themselves, some providing

　　conspicuous mirrors for society, others serving as our primary catalysts for progress.

　　In politics, for example, rule-breakers Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King

　　secured prominent places in history by challenging the status quo through civil

　　disobedience. Renegades such as Ghengus Khan, Stalin, and Hussein, broke all the

　　human-rights rules, thereby leaving indelible marks in the historical record. And

　　future generations will probably remember Nixon and Kennedy more clearly than

　　Carter or Reagan, by way of their rule-breaking activities―specifically, Nixons

　　Watergate debacle and Kennedys extra-marital trysts.

　　In the arts, mavericks such as Dali, Picasso, and Warhol, who break established

　　rules of composition, ultimately emerge as the greatest artists, while the names of artists

　　with superior technical skills are relegated to the footnotes of art-history textbooks. Our

　　most influential popular musicians are the flagrant rule breakers―for example, be-bop

　　musicians such as Charlie Parker and Thelonius Monk, who broke all the harmonic

　　rules, and folk musician-poet Bob Dylan, who broke the rules for lyrics.

　　In the sciences, innovation and progress can only result from challenging

　　conventional theories―i.e., by breaking rules. Newton and Einstein, for example, both

　　refused to blindly accept what were perceived at their time as certain rules of physics.

　　As a result, both men redefined those rules, and both men emerged as two of the most

　　memorable figures in the field of physics.

　　In conclusion, it appears that the deepest positive and negative impressions appear

　　on either side of the same iconoclastic coin. Those who leave the most memorable

　　imprints in history do so by challenging norms, traditions, cherished values, and the

　　general status quo―that is, by breaking the rules.