Could someone help grade my essay pleasseee? :)

<p>Should people take more responsibility for solving problems that affect their communities or the nation in general?</p>

<pre><code> A lot of times we don't bother to participate in social movements nor advocate about humanitarian issues. We seem to think that these issues are beyond distant from us, and we choose to apathetic. But somehow when you think the other way, "If not us, who?" You would understand the importance of solving problems of the society and the nation using our own limited power.

In Hong Kong, protestors have been occupying different parts of the city to urge the government to respond to their requests. Protestors are against the unjust and unfair "democratic" electoral system foisted upon them by the People's Republic of China. Aware of Hong Kong's plight of losing their obsolete freedom, students were the first to stand up against this manipulated puppeteer government. It has now been over a week and the movement "Umbrella Revolution" has attracted the attention of the international community, all hoping Hong Kong can successfully fight for a change. In light of this social movement, it would be easy to predict, without this movement, without people willing to stand up against the decision, how easy would it be to pass this legislature, how easy would it be for Hong Kong to lose its autonomy and freedom? People should definitely take more responsibility to solve problems that affect their communities to strive for a better future.

Moreover, under the integration of the world, nations are a lot more closely allied with each other in global politics, but still they have to face a global enemy: climate change. Climate change, or in other words, more explicitly, global warming, is induced by human's extravagant deploy of fossil fuels and natural resources. Not only are fossil fuels burnt, trees are burnt as well, and even animals are forced to depart from their habitats. The ecological balance is basically incorrigible.
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<p>If humans do not take the responsibility to pay more attention to our activities, do not set up environmental protection NGOs such as "Friend of the Earth" and "Green Peace", do not advocate about environmentally friendliness, do not host any international environmental summit, not negotiating a carbon cap amongst countries, willingly allowing all maladies to further exacerbate, the world is not going to save its own. Most important of all, these are all non-retractable actions and the harms done to the Earth would be no way compensated in the future.</p>

<p>For the world, for the country, for the city , for your family, for your life. The world is evermore so interconnected and interdependent. We are no longer isolated individuals buried in our own worlds, but global citizens and national citizens that have the responsibilities to fight for a better world and a more righteous future.</p>

<p>I actually LOVE your examples. This essay is close to being perfect. As you can tell, I said CLOSE. Why? Because there are some major grammatical mistakes (Lack of subject-verb agreement and so on. Example:If humans take the responsibility to pay more attention to THEIR activities. OR, if we take the responsibility to pay for more attention to OUR activities.). BUT should not start a sentence, and a quotation mark shouldn’t end a sentence. Those little things actually matter when it comes to grading an essay, and they’re the only weak points that are palpable. (Maybe some redundancy, but you rephrase, so that’s good)</p>

<p>I’d give that a 9/10 out of 12, by the way. :slight_smile: Just keep in mind that with those kind of examples, you can easily score higher, just work harder on the sentence structure, which is, by the way, easily ameliorated. :slight_smile: </p>

<p>@FaithElamin‌ Thanks a lot for the comments!! Should definitely work on grammar >.< Glad you liked the examples :slight_smile: what made you think they’re special?:smile: </p>

<p>SAT essays ask for ANY sort of examples, whether personal, historical, political, environmental, or scientific; however, political and historical examples are much MUCH preferred. I like your essay because it has a convincing, DETAILED, and relevant political example, that is written with a sparkle of simplicity that only makes it better. (I also LOVE the environmental example, I just think you aced the examples, they were very convincing and strong)</p>