SAT写作素材——政治与政府

　　SAT考试的一个主要组成部分就是SAT写作，而写作也常常是一件令人头疼的事情，尤其在文章中需要举例说明问题的时候，很多学生往往很苦恼，接下来我们来看SAT写作中常用的例证素材政治与政府。

　　1787: Philadelphia Convention published the U.S. Constitution

　　The signing of the constitution is an unqualified benchmark in United States, and world, history. The constitutions four most important contributions were the electoral process, a system of checks and balances, federalization combined with state control, and protection of individual rights

　　1804:Napoleon declared himself emperor of France

　　Almost sixteen years after the French Revolution, monarchy returned to France when Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself emperor; thereafter he was known simply as Napoleon. His Napoleonic Code was a sort of compromise between the aristocratic regime and the revolutionarys egalitarianism, remnants of which are still law in Europe today. He built the largest European empire since the Romans.

　　1917:Lenin led Bolshevik Revolution

　　Led by Vladimir I. Lenin, the Bolshevik Revolution finalized the end of Czarist Russia and formed a new nation, the Soviet Union. Lenin moved the capital to Moscow, abolished private property, suppressed organized religion, and nationalized business and industry. He also set the model for totalitarianism in the twentieth century and was an impassioned advocate of the Marxist-Leninist system, which he successfully exported to nearly half the world.

　　水门事件

　　Consider also less egregious examples, such as President Nixons withholding of information about his active role in the Watergate cover-up. His behavior demonstrated a concern for self- interest above the broader interests of the democratic system that granted his political authority in the first place.

　　克林顿丑闻

　　The sexual scandal of President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky is not only a shame of them, but also in defiance of the societal moral standards based on love, honor, honesty, and duty.

　　Clintons reckless and immoral behavior and its public dissemination had reinforced the publication of sexual acts over the internet, radio, and television, and would inextricably aggravate the wrongdoings of the adolescence.

　　法西斯制度

　　In an autocratic society, people are not only encouraged but actually coerced into suppressing individual personality; and indeed these people are afraid to think and behave differentlynot for fear of being excluded but rather for fear of punishment and persecution by the state. The modern Communist and Fascist regimes are fitting examples. Every society has its own bundle of values, customs, and mores which most of its members share.

　　这些发明政府事件记录了政治领域的每一个关键时刻，如果你在自己的SAT写作中加入一两个这样的素材，一定会使你的文章增彩不少，而且用这样的例证来说明问题，也具有很强的说服力。