<p>Here is a real essay I wrote on the May SAT sitting. What do YOU give this essay? I will post the score up tomorrow. Or better yet, if a lot of people apply, today.</p>
<p>There is no progress unless someone comes up with a new way of looking at things, of trying things that have never been done or thought of before. We cannot move forward by looking backward to old customs and past experience. There can be no advancement or improvement unless there are people who look forward in pursuit of the new and untried.</p>
<p>Novel ideas and concepts are characteristics that define the term "progress." It is clearly evident that individuals with creative, and, deviating ideas are the ones who form a society in progress. Such phenomenon is portrayed through the past and the present.</p>
<p>During the eighteenth century (1700's) in Europe, a new era often indicated as Scientific Revolution emerged. Since Aristotle's theories, Europe had been hindered of progression in creative thinking, and those who would challenge his universally accepted ideas would often receive harsh punishments. The most controversial of Aristotle's beliefs was the geocentric theory, in which the earth is the center of universe. As the scientists during this new era found the theory with skepticism, complex mathematical calculations soon proved Aristotle wrong. Major contributors of the advancement were Galileo, Kepler, and many others who endeavored to prove geocentric theory wrong and the Copernicus's heliocentric theory (in which the world revolves around the sun), as an accurate measure. Thus, one can vividly see how radical ideas that are new, and vice versa, contributes to the progress of society.</p>
<p>Not only is such phenomenon evidenced through the past, but it is also made valid by examining the world today. In today's society, rapid technological advances are changing the structure of the of society. Among the contributors of such advancement are computers. Until late twentieth centry, personalized computers were not in wide use. However, as more and more people gradually started using them, our lifestyles changed drastically. Through such technology, new ideas were formed, such as surfing the World Wide Web, in which every general information can be found--thus indicating possibilities of emerging novelty.</p>
<p>Clearly, through Scientific Revolution and today's society and computer's role in it, we have examined the validity of the claim that progress does indeed depend on individuals with new ideas.</p>