<p>No school for me today (snow day :-D) so I decided to take my last full SAT exam. Therefore, I had to produce another essay which I'm about to post. Thanks for giving me scores. (I seriously need to learn self-scoring but I'm afraid that I'll be subjective :-P).</p>
<p>Prompt: Can any obstacle or disadvantage be turned into something good?</p>
<p>Essay:</p>
<p>When General Douglas MacArthur was relieved from his position for talking to prive reporters, he said to America, "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away." To MacArthur, President Truman and Joint Chief of Staff had obliterated his career in United States Armed force. but some historians view that his actions actually ameliorated him from a "good" soldier in the war to an "excellent" general who bravely stood with his beliefs. Anyone can do what General MacArthur did ----- to turn a bad situation (for him, President Truman) to something positive and perpetual.</p>
<p>Despite his negative appearance to General Douglas, President Truman also overcame an obstacle. Grown up in Missouri, Truman had lived through many jobs and failures and did not even go to the college. As a result, President Roosevelt's sudden demise was a huge obstacle to Truman, who now then had to deal with world's powerful leaders such as Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. But with his judicious ability as President, he not only finish the war safely but also, he made another stunning reelection as President. His reelection was exceptionally impressive upset in Presidential election because the Democrats (his party) had another Democratic candidate running as well. Souther Democrats, known as "Dixiecrats," refused to acknowledge Truman's civil rights plank, and everyone thought that the victory would go to Republican candidate Robert Dewey. But with his incessant effort to overcome his bad situation, he successfully won against Dewey in very close race.</p>
<p>Regarded as one of most brilliant geniuses of all time, Albert Einstein was another paragon of this case. He fled from Europe to America to avoid Adolf Hitler's holocaust to Jews. It certainly was an obstacle for him to adjust in the new life but also produced a good result as well. Working along with Italian scientist Oppreheimer, he successfully created an atomic bomb to end Japan's cruel attempts to pillage and conquer the world. Some people castigated that his so-called "good" act for United States brought several millions of deaths to Japan. But, if it wasn't for Einstein and his atomic bomb, more people would have been killed for invasion of Japan by forces.</p>
<p>It is a course of life for humans to meet obstacles in their life. It is not what obstacle that came but how they overcame it.</p>