<p>Hey!</p>
<p>It would be very appreciated if some of you would be so kind to grade my essay, I wrote as part of my SAT preparation.
I used one of the March prompts:</p>
<p>Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.</p>
<pre><code>* From the time people are very young, they are urged to get along with others, to try to "fit in." Indeed, people are often rewarded for being agreeable and obedient. But this approach is misguided because it promotes uniformity instead of encouraging people to be unique and different. Differences among people give each of us greater perspective and allow us to make better judgments.
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<p>Assignment:</p>
<pre><code>* Is it more valuable for people to fit in than to be unique and different? 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.
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<p>People who are truly unique and different than their contemporaries are often looked at in a pejorative way by society. The society's attitude towards idiosyncratic people is not only reprehensible but also detrimental to to the society itself: exactly these people who sometimes seem quirky or "nerdish" are able to ameliorate our world!</p>
<p>As a perfect example how unique talents are often devalued is the biography of Albert Einstein: already in middle school surpassed little Albert his maths teacher by developing clever strategies for more intricate problems. Einstein's abilities didn't help him much though: His grades were moderate and he was considered a quarrelsome boy lacking respect for authority. Fortunately Einstein was an obstinate boy, thus de didn't refuse from developing new theories for the sciences of physics and mathematics. If it weren't for Einstein, the unrule teenager, we probably wouldn't know today that time is relative and -- even more important -- that there is a direct correlation between energy and mass.</p>
<p>Another incentive to think about the way we're threatening non-conform people has been provided by the French author Albert Camus in his novel "The Stranger". The protagonis, Meursault, an introvert hermit was eventually sentenced to death because he derivated unappropriately from an idealized person: when his mother died, he didn't cry! Even more blatant, he smoked at her funeral! Obviously, these weren't normal reactions to a tragic loss and there can't be any doubts, concluded the jury, that this man killed his very own mother. The truth is, however, poor Meursault was suffering a lot. He was deeply hit by the death of his mother although he couldn't show any emotions. He had a different way of grieving, too different to be innoscent in this case.</p>
<p>Unique people don't have an easy life. If it wasn't for the few unique people who were obstinate enough (like the German scientist Alber Einstein) to stick to their uniqueness, we wouldn't be able to brag about so many human accomplishments today. However, if we don't want to stop at this point but to make more progress, it's absolutely necessary that we start to cherish unique people for their special talents even though they might seem valueless at first glance.</p>