<p>Suggestion, as someone who’s had to grade standardized test essays: don’t go for the incredibly obvious example if you can avoid it. That’s the downside of preparing examples. Everybody writes about The Crucible, The Great Gatsby, and World War II. Graders are human and get very bored.</p>
<p>Shameless bump… March SAT taker here. </p>
<p>How do I use The Gross Domestic Happiness of Bhutan in an essay? What are the themes, what type of essay prompts can I use this in?
My e-mail is - rachit733@ gmail.com. Please try and reply.</p>
<p>If any of you are into anime, many anime series have good plots and themes. Of course, you can exploit the fact that they can’t dock you points for historical inaccuracy, so to seem professional, you can say “Consider the 19th century novel “<anime name=””>" written by <make up="" random="" japanese="" name,="" or="" any="" name="" for="" that="" matter="">…" then go on about what the main character did and what themes he illustrated…</make></anime></p>
Little Shop of Horrors (stage play) -material wealth, greed
The Giver- individuality
Or make up a foreign-sounding name from russia or something and tailor their life to suit your prompt 
Where was this post when I was preparing for the SAT essay???
For what they’re worth, my favourites are:
The concept of Ubermensch by Friedrich Nietzsche: a madman’s cryptic nonsense, thus ideal for us to twist it into whatever image of heroes needed.
The concept of the Last Man, also by Friedrich Nietzsche: again, cryptic nonsense, but the opposite of the Ubermensch. Ideal for counterexamples.
Description of a Struggle by Franz Kafka: isolation, loneliness, inability to ask for help, oppressive society.
A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka: implausible dream, isolation, impracticality.
An Imperial Message by Franz Kafka: unwillingness to ask for help, secrecy, obscurantism, implausible goal.
Charles Darwin: following your dream, picking the path least taken, fighting for justice/the truth, discover the world. Everything, really.
Galileo Galilei: fighting for the justice/the truth, determination, never giving up, following your dream.
Copernican Revolution: Cooperation, creativity in adopting someone else’s work.
Molecular Orbital theory: same as above.
Friedrich Nietzsche’s idolization of Arthur Schopenhauer: idolization, creativity in adopting someone else’s work.
Tank Man: determination, the fight against an oppressive regimen, never giving up, great picture.
Antibiotic resistance: the evil in willful ignorance.
Alexander Fleming: success through luck, snap decision.
Penicillin: advancement that DID NOT come with a cost.
Maximilien Robespierre: tragedy through good intention, isolation, dystopia made in an attempt to reach utopia.
Animal Farms: same as above, without the isolation, oppressive regime.
Tenerife: lessons learnt from the past.
Pale Blue Dot: great picture.
I know this is really late, but to the OP, THERE’S NOTHING IMMORAL ABOUT STEM CELL RESEARCH. How the heck can something that can CURE CANCER be immoral???