<p>How can I improve on this essay? I wrote the essay below for the Jan. SAT. I filled up both pages, used cursive etc. What went wrong and what can I do better in the future?</p>
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<p>ASSIGNMENT: Do people make the greatest discoveries by exploring what is unfamiliar to them or by paying close attention to what seems familiar? Plan and write an essay in 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>
<p>Although the unknown is almost always interesting, it is where close attention can be paid, and as a result, the greatest discoveries are made by exploring what is unfamiliar. Three examples from current events, history, and literature serve to prove such a notion.</p>
<p>Katie Couric is one of the most successful TV news personalities to grace the TV hemisphere in the pat decade. However, her relative newfound success is not without exploring unfamiliar territory. For example, after working on Americas most profitable news program, The Today Show, she stepped into unfamiliarity when she became the first female solo anchor of a network evening newscast. Such risks that she took in the realm of unfamiliarity allowed her to discover her greatest talent as a hardcore news journalist. </p>
<p>Sarah Palin`s rim for vice-president of the United States was certainly an àvant garde undertaking to say the least. Her pugnacious personality marked by her wit allowed the spotlight to shine on Palin. In a relative sense, the presidential candidate who picked her, John McCain, discovered her from the unknown; she wasnt regarded as an it in the political world at the time of her picking. But by choosing Palin, McCain energized the Republican base. Without McCains discovery of Palin, its almost certainly true that the Republican party would not be energized. </p>
<p>In the Gallic Wars, Emperor Caesar made one of the greatest discoveries of the Roman era with the discovery of Helvetii. The irony behind such a notion is that Caesar explored unfamiliar territory as opposed to attacking the yet familiar Germanic tribes of the Eastern front. In the offensives during the Gallic Wars, newfound successes were therefore allied. In the aforementioned example, the greatest discoveries of mineral resources were made during a time of relative unrest. </p>
<p>In closing, as delineated from examples from history, literature, and current events, the greatest discoveries are those that are derived from the unknown as opposed to the familiar.</p>