<p>Hello! I want to see if i improved even a little bit on my essay writing skills for the upcoming SAT, so if you could help me by grading this and giving me advice, i would greatly appreciate it! :]</p>
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<p>Quote:
I do not feel terrible about my mistakes, though I grieve the pain they have sometimes caused others. Our lives are “experiments with truth,” and in an experiment negative results are at least as important as successes. I have no idea how I would have learned the truth about myself and my calling without the mistakes I have made. – Adapted from Parker Palmer, “Let Your Life Speak”</p>
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<p>Prompt:
Is it necessary to make mistakes, even when doing so has negative consequences for other people? Plan and write an essay which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.</p>
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<p>Essay:
Mistakes are important and necessary for the growth of a person. Every person has learned in their early childhood – “no pain, no gain.” You really can’t achieve greatness without the nuisances along the way. These experiences of making mistakes may falter a person’s pride and hurt his feelings in the eyes of the people watching him/her, but deep down the person will learn from instead of bow down to the mistake.</p>
<pre><code> Mistakes are not necessarily bad things. One definition that “mistake” can take on would be “an outcome to a specific action that does not correspond to the results expected.” An action can have infinite results. The “right” result is like a needle in a haystack. Not many people have the ability to hit the bull’s eye on the first trial. Making mistakes along the way towards the final destination allows us to notice the necessary precautions we have to take and what to avoid. Without the valuable information these experiences give us, achieving success really would be as hard as finding a needle in a haystack.
No one in the world can say he/she has never once committed a mistake. It is human nature to perform them. Even the people who seem as though their lives are perfect and no fault or bad luck may fall upon them. In the award winning book “The Soloist,” by Steve Lopez, the main character, Nathaniel Anthony Ayers was one such character in his early years. When he was still young, he was obsessed with music and became a prodigy – enrolling into the Juilliard School of Bass Performance on a scholarship. That was a one-of-the-kind at the time because he was a black teenager living and going to school among a racially tense New York City. It seems that he made the right choice to Juilliard to pursue his future dreams of performing in the Cleveland Symphony. But not only was it a bad choice, it was the worst mistake he could have made. And after 50 years, while playing on the street in Los Angeles and meeting Steve Lopez (who wrote this book), he recalls that the stressful Juilliard did not fit for him because he loved music not because he wanted to make a living with music, but because he loved playing it. Even though now late in his age he is living on the street, his mistake of going to Juilliard made him realize that he doesn’t need a career to make himself happy, all he needed was to play his music, even if it is on the streets of Los Angeles.
Mistakes are not bad. Some mistakes are minor. Some mistakes are life-changing. Some mistakes are deadly, such as a surgeon performing a deadly mistake on a dying patient. But on the long run, anyone who makes a mistake will take in into heart and be aware of the necessary actions to avoid in similar future events. A person will always be able to find some positive outcome from a negative result, whether it be knowing what to study for on the next test or be careful not to kick the soccer ball into your own net. Nathaniel, from “The Soloist,” was the perfect example – he found happiness in just playing simple music from the mistake he made.
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<p>Thank you so much for reading this! I really appreciate your help! :]</p>