<p>Machiavelli’s the Prince - forgoing ethics for success (worked for the March SAT - 12)</p>
<p>Can you come up with anything to help me come up with any his/lit/or personal examples to the following?
NOTE: <strong>I have to have a his/lit/and personal example but anything will be helpful! :)</strong></p>
<p>Do we have free choice or are we bound by rules?
Does creativity help you understand yourself?
Do advertisers create desire for their product?
Is censorship ever justified?</p>
<p>THANK YOU! :)</p>
<p>Uhh… this is for the first post - it’s spelled Gandhi.</p>
<p>I just had to say it :D</p>
<p>I used “The Bear” to demonstrate respect of elders</p>
<p>The Giver - i used it in so many essays for my SAT prep class</p>
<p>Some of these examples are too trite.
You are better off using some esoteric data, so you seem smart, and your thing stands out.</p>
<p>I used these three and got a score of 12 on the essay (740 Writing though…fail)</p>
<p>Hedda Gabler
Oedipus Rex
Antigone</p>
<p>Demian - Hermann Hesse
You got everything from self-discovery to influencing other people to freedom of fulfilling your destiny, philosophy of life etc.</p>
<p>I combined All the Post here 
MLK - courage, sacrifice
Ghandi - courage, sacrifice, standing up, etc
Catcher in the Rye - Frustration, change, immaturity
Stem cell research - two sides to an issue, practicality vs. morality
Hitler - Power, corruption, propaganda
Julius Caesar (play) - Pride, downfall
Spider-Man - Responsibility that comes with power, perhaps loss of innocence
American Revolution : Tenacity, courage, British being overconfident
Ender’s Game - severe pressure, emotional distress, deception
Marc Antony (in the play) - style over substance, manipulation, trickery
Beloved - dwelling on/getting over the past, starting a new life, effects on human psyche
Advertising/Marketing - How first impressions/how something is presented affects a person’s view on something
Brave New World - role of technology in people’s lives, does personal freedom have to be sacrificed for a happy society?, etc</p>
<p>Lord of the Rings is infinitely usable.
Twain Novels are decent.
Abe Lincoln- courage, working hard/persistence/self-made man
Song of Solomon- self-discovery
I used Frederick Douglass and Winston Churchill for big expectations.
FDR - overcoming hardship, innovative
Macbeth - discrepancy of appearance v reality (Fair is foul and foul is fair)
Henry CLay – compromises
Munich conference - appeasing others’ wishes
Frankenstein: dangerous knowledge, secrets of science, monster being rejected by society, abortion.
The Great Gatsby: decline of America in the 1920s, deals with upper class throughout the novel.
And Then There Were None: justice, guilt.
Bill Gates/Warren Buffet: wealthy people who strive to donate to charities: money can or cannot be powerful - can argue either side; also, grew up with nothing, and accomplished a lot of things.
Malcolm X: civil rights leader - anti-racism.
The Once and Future King: force and justice, knighthood (bravery and becoming a man).
Adolf Hitler: power/corruption/ambition.
Animal Farm: corruption/communism, abuse of power.
King Lear: justice - believing humans get what is just since God is just.
Beowulf: bravery, loyalty - Wiglaf stays and helps Beowulf while the dragon ends up killing Beowulf; Wiglaf never leaves his side, while Beowulf’s other men have already fled.
To Kill a Mockingbird: prejudice, educating children’s innoncent minds.
The Hobbit: heroism - Bilbo who develops from an average, ordinary person into a hero.
The Odyssey: temptation.
Fahrenheit 451: censorship, knowledge vs. ignorance.
The Scarlet Letter: sin, identity.
The Outsiders: the rich and poor, when male and female interace = chaos, doing things to honor him and his gang.
Rosa Parks: anti-racism, stood up for what she believed in - equality among race.
Michael Jackson: abused fame - got abused by dad during childhood, then grew up to be a child molester. (Maybe this isn’t a good example to use.)
Les Miserables - potential of man, goodness of man, flaws of the criminal justice system
For historical, I use the example of attilla the hun - he turned a ragtag group of warring tribes into the most terrifying force in Asia that sacked Rome. Working together, united we stand, divided we fall, that type of stuff. Also shows that every crisis is an opportunity in disguise, because Mongolia was a podunk, nomadic land.
1984, The Giver- individuality
hercules- redemption for lost innocence
hector- pride, downfall
Rachel Carson - courage, persistence, launched the Global Environmental Movement
Is it beneficial to avoid using technology?" and I used the Soviet-American Cold War/Arms Race as one example, and my grandmother, who avoids technology like the plague!
st. francis of assisi - born into wealth but hated that lifestyle, chose a life of poverty and love, etc.</p>
<p>J. Robert Oppenheimer - genius, father of the atomic bomb, realized the horror of it and founded a commission that tried to stop the arms race</p>
<p>Vietnam - learning from our mistakes, a “failure”</p>
<p>Boo from To Kill a mockingbird - don’t judge a book by its cover</p>
<p>Tom Cruise - overrated haha</p>
<p>I generally use the following:
- Julius Caesar
- Macbeth
- Gandhi
- Hitler
- World War 2
- Books like Twilight
- personal examples…</p>
<p>P.S. Is it okay to use personal examples? Usually I just twist the same thing to suit the topic…</p>
<p>if you look at college board’s examples a lot of their “6-approved essays are personal examples”</p>
<p>Thanks a lot Dark_Angel… I was getting tired of scrolling through…
Anyone else have examples? SAT tomorrow…</p>
<p>Some examples I like to use include Microsoft (creativity I guess, change, technology)… you could just as well use Apple…
Anna Politskovskaya- truth and objectivity
Oedipus- excessive pride
Holden- detached from world (you could use him for so many things)
Napoleon/Hitler- History repeats itself
Kite Runner- Loyalty
John Rabe- Loyalty</p>
<p>My Name is Asher Lev - Two conflicting cultures
Bave New World/1984 - Product of the enviornment
Nineteen Minutes - Conformity
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail - Standing up for what you believe in, civil disobedience, simplicity, non confomity, protecting nature
The Great Gastby - Good intentions with bad actions, social rules
Death of a Salesman - Death of American Dream, capitalism, you make what you’re worth
The Importance of being Earnest - Defining a person by a name, social rules
The Strnager - absurdity of life, logic v. reality
Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Ends justify the means, society’s facination with violence</p>
<p>Do you guys think using current events/politics help?</p>
<p>Thank you dark angel</p>
<p>lol i dont deserve any credit.All is to those who posted such wonderful post</p>
<p>Word. I realized that taking the time to think of a book/play/event that really fit the topic well was more effort than its worth, especially since the two people reading it are spending a minute or so in total. Better to simply craft a plot that fits perfectly and make up a catchy title and some fun character names. </p>
<p>Although I will admit that taking AP US History helped for the occasional example.</p>
<p>Anyone got an example for ‘going against the conventional path to attain success…’</p>
<p>Bump!!</p>
<p>People I need this one…got my SAT tomorrow!!</p>
<p>HELP!!</p>