SAT Essay - Progress is not possible without sacrifice
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
Topic: Progress is not possible without sacrifice
Sample Essay
In order to reach the top of a mountain and for that matter of any professions, one must study and train for years, then even when ready still toil for hours or days before reaching the top. This is true of many of lifes worthwhile challenges. In fact it is often impossible to make progress without sacrifice.
For example, in To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus Finch, a small town lawyer, defends a black man accused of raping a white woman. He does this despite being threatened and disparaged by members of his community. The purpose is clear, so is the potential risks, consequence, and sacrifices. Yet because of his willingness to sacrifice his social standing to do the right but unconventional thing, Atticus was able to launch a brilliant defense of his client. The lesson here is loud and clear without sacrifice, life would be savaged; without sacrifice, humanity, not just an individual life but the human civilization itself, might be at the verge of devastation and vanish.
Ray Bradbury conveys a similar theme in his novel Fahrenheit 451. In this book, Guy Montag, a fireman charged with burning down the houses of book-lovers, sacrifices his wife, his career and his lifestyle in order to have books. Without his great sacrifice, Montag would have continued to live a half-life of boredom and unhappiness. And he never would have known the freedom of thinking and of being challenged intellectually.
Over a century ago another man, Charles Goodyear, was willing to make similarly large sacrifices in order to support his dream of making rubber useful for all mankind. Charles spent seventeen years of his life experimenting with rubber, borrowing money to finance projects, going broke repeatedly and nearly losing his wife and family before discovering the secret that made rubber useful--a process called vulcanization. Had Mr. Goodyear not been willing to make these sacrifices he would never have reached his goal and it might have been many more years before rubber was made useful to the world.
And the world needs the contribution of men and women willing to make these sacrifices, if progress is to continue. Our current social problems, which still include racism, need to be faced by people with social courage like Atticus Finch and Guy Montag. Our world continues to need new inventions to improve life such as that created by Charles Goodyear. We will never stop needing such brave individuals who help to make progress in the world.
分词独立主格结构的理解技巧
过去将来时的用法说明
过去将来完成时的用法
现在进行时用法详解
With的复合结构作独立主格
独立主格用作定语
现在完成进行时的用法
一般将来时用法说明
英语独立主格结构常见类型
过去完成时用法详说
独立主格用法详解
一般过去时用法说明
现在完成进行时与现在完成时的区别
独立主格用作时间状语
关于分词的独立主格结构
独立主格用作伴随状语
独立主格用作条件状语
分词作状语
过去完成时与一般过去时的区别
由“名词(代词)+过去分词”构成的独立主格
从一道高考题看独立主格结构的用法
与in the past连用的时态
独立主格结构介词使用的问题
由“名词(代词)+形容词”构成的独立主格
现在完成时用法详说
独立主格用作原因状语
一般现在时表过去的用法
时态详解:一般将来时
独立主格结构中的非谓语动词用法
英语独立主格结构说明
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