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ESSAY #1
Prompt:
Is it important to question the ideas and decisions of people in positions of authority?
Essay:
Being Indo-Chinese, I am always faced with the notion that one should all respect one’s elders and figures or people of authority. Though this may be the right action to do morally (at least, by our standards), I do believe that questioning people in authority sometimes has its own benefits. I would rather question such people to get closure, instead of being left with a question mark on my head.
In our Cambridge-curriculum school, one of the subjects I learned was Physics. Advanced Level Physics, according to my class, is unsurprisingly “one of the hardest subjects” ever put to existence, but they never knew why it was “difficult.” One day, I realized why. That day, our physics teacher asked us if making a “spherical magnet” was feasible. Being overanalytical, I answered this teacher’s question with a solid no. However, the teacher prompted us all to say yes, and eventually, all my classmates but me said yes. I questioned why the answer was “yes,” but the teacher wouldn’t budge. This made me even more curious why “spherical magnets” are able to be made. That night, I extensively grew attached researching these beauties. Because of this, I had gained more insight on magnets than anyone had ever did. An improved “critical thinking” (and also physics) skill was imprinted upon me, and these newfound skills I learned translated to an outstandingly high grade on my magnets chapter test. And still, others wondered why physics is “impossible.”
Sometimes, questioning the people above us may lead to progression, not regression. People may argue otherwise, but I know that this is true. During a field trip to a school in Semarang, I noticed something odd with the math teacher as she was discussing a question students could not be able to answer in their homework. All her workings and values were wrong! These errors were extremely easy to notice, yet no one in the classroom I was in notified of her mistake. Had they did, the teacher might have arrived at a correct answer, and this in turn would at least make the students there to understand what they did wrong in their work instead of confusing them further.
In addition to this, questioning people in authority may change lives. In the TV series Gotham, had The Penguin not informed crime boss Falcone that the woman he loved was a spy, the Falcone family crime business would have insidiously been deterioriated.
What I’m saying may seem rude, but your “rebellious side” may actually be important. Don’t ask “what,” ask “why.” It might benefit you in return.
ESSAY #2
Prompt:
Should people take more responsibility for solving problems that affect their communities or the nation in general?
Essay:
Some people are inclined to believe that a country’s government should always manage all of its country’s problems. These people truly believe that they’re just spectators in the area they live in, possessing absurd and impractical expectations that their leader will keep them tranquil (away from chaos) all the time. In contrast, my beliefs are the complete opposite of these people’s. Other people also keep our community from horrible fates too.
Let me start off by saying that my country, Indonesia, is one of those countries that have an abnormally high crime rate. Our country, to be honest, is filled with corrupt political businessmen. And as kind as our government may be, our government sometimes fails to recognize these flaws that ruin our country’s economy. This was when us citizens tried to make that change and take responsibility: we raised petitions and public strikes to warn the government to deal with these problems. We took responsibility to fix what we saw was wrong in our country and fixed it. It showed how people in our country, Indonesia, took responsibility for the problems we saw. This also is similarly exhibited in other democratic countries that make use of community voting or support: we do it if we agree.
We should also take responsibility to the problems we see wrong, because the government’s attempts at solving problems are far from enough. Allow me to show you why. In the movie Batman Begins, Bruce Wayne, the main character, saw that the city he lived in, Gotham, is slowly collapsing into ashes and felt that this “regression into anarchy” wouldn’t change if he didn’t do anything. This was one of the reasons he became the Batman: to fix Gotham and free it of criminal actions. He saw that, sometimes, the police was simply not enough in dealing with insane criminals. Being a vigilante was the only thing he could do to supplement his team and bring justice back to Gotham.
In the end, though some people may argue to always trust your leaders, sometimes, one should always be faced with the fact that even leaders and governments make mistakes. We shouldn’t stay and simply do nothing and presumably make things worse than before. Well, come on. Do something!
Thanks in advance for reading these filled-with-mistakes-in-grammar essays! xD