SAT Essay - Theme of Risk and Change
To change is to risk something, making us feel insecure. Not to change is a bigger risk, though we seldom feel that way. There is no choice but to change. People, however, cannot be motivated to change from the outside. All of our motivation comes from within.
Adapted from Ward Wybouts, Planning in School Administration: A Handbook
Assignment: What motivates people to change? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
Sample Essay - Score of 6
What motivates people to change is a relentless and innate desire for self-improvement. Rarely ever has history seen a man or society kick back, relax, and say Well that about does it. Not much else to do here! Within every person is the potential to achieve greatness in some form; be it athletically, mentally, spiritually. This inherent potential demands that people continue to explore and change both their environments and themselves throughout their lifes course. Never should a man be idle for too long. After acknowledging the changes a man has already made to his environment, the pursuit of self-improvement will once again stir within his soul and call him to action. This internal desire, this pursuit of challenge and perfection, does not prohibit man from being happy with his status and achievements. On the contrary, the device serves more to allow the man to constantly strive for greater change, newer innovation. What motivates people to change is the ongoing need to redefine peoples lives and identities to elevate them to higher levels of eminence and success.
A good example of this can be seen in clinical psychology. When patients seek therapy for difficulties that have encumbered their daily functioning, they most often arrive for treatment voluntarily and willingly-they consciously accept the necessity of therapy and so participate without any duress. During the course of clinical therapy, the patients concerns, anxieties, ideas, emotions, and fears are brought to light. However, the clinician does not try to alter the beliefs, feeling, and sentiments of his client; rather, he simply illuminates them in order to provide the patient with an accurate view of himself. The process, of raising concerns and ideas to the surface of conscious awareness, is known as clarification. Modern psychology is a far throw from the psychoanalysis of Freuds time, in which psychologists attempted to interpret pre-and unconscious feelings that had been repressed by the patient. Because clinicians only clarify, and not dissect, alter, or interpret a clients inner desires and emotions, the client himself is responsible for instituting change. If he is to change, he must dictate the course of therapy, and make the conscious choice to improve himself. This widely used approach is called client centered therapy. If the clients ennui or ill feelings are due to situational factors or internal designs ), he must change them on his own accord to pre-cipitate change within himself. The therapist will not cure him in any way. He alone must answer the call within himself to refine and redefine his identity and place in society. This need, of self-improvement, also initially brought him to the therapist. He was able to recognize the disorder of his environment and acknowledge his own negative feelings. This in turn brought him to therapy, where he was guided through a process of introspection that ultimately enabled him to improve himself, assuage his anxieties, and right-fully continue on his lifelong pursuit of even greater achievements.
畏惧心理是第一大障碍雅思口试的通关之道
雅思听力能力浅谈养成良好的听力习惯很重要
雅思考试高分作文欣赏及雅思满分获得者心得
雅思口语的各个部分如何评分和相关注意事项
名师答疑雅思考试口语部分如何才能考7分
雅思考试点评
如何能在短期内提高分数
雅思评分标准公布可减少估分误差和无效复议
雅思7分考生心得体会复习雅思要分三个阶段
雅思写作的重要变化
雅思考试报名有关事宜
写作并非高不可攀短期提高雅思写作有捷径
雅思暂不引入机考雅思官员表示尚在研究中
申请复审雅思成绩的方法及英文申请书信样本
变题的官方解释五年内无实质性变化
从题目要求改革看06雅思作文走势与复习策略
雅思学术阅读贯穿始终的黄金法则及解题攻略
雅思微调尝试机考但纸笔考试并不会被取代
雅思将有新变化时尚生活等话题将成口试题材
雅思首次公布评分标准考生复议将有明白账
典型简要分析
中国学生为何难考雅思高分硬伤何处
雅思考官Clark谈雅思考试角色问题及备考建议
雅思范文应先支边还是自由工作
英使馆雅思考试安排出台
专家谈雅思众多小变化貌似宁静的常换常新
雅思写作能拿到高分的秘诀多写多读多改
雅思作文思路提高道路安全须用重典
雅思写作批改老师浅析高分作文套路很重要
一些工夫在课外雅思口试时女孩应该如何着装
不限 |
英语教案 |
英语课件 |
英语试题 |
不限 |
不限 |
上册 |
下册 |
不限 |