<p>Hello,
When ever I start to write an essay for the SAT I usually take about 10 minutes to think and outline everything that I want to write and then the essay goes smoothly. If I could already have examples in my head prior to taking the test I think I can bring up the essay grade of a 10 to a higher grade. Please help me out form a list that is organized in there categories; personal experience, historical issues, and from a book. Here are some examples I use commonly</p>
<p>Personal experience: breaking a part of my body, time management
Historical: Louisiana Purchase (Jefferson doing it and violating his strict constructionist attitude and had to make a treaty)</p>
<h2>Book: "Grapes of Wrath" (hardships)</h2>
<p>Please follow up with your examples, the format is like this (you can list more than one example):
Personal Experience:
Historical Issue:</p>
<p>Mines are:
personal- an academic experience, you shouldn't follow what others say all the time
Books- a tale of two cities and sarlet letter- the effect of socciety on one's nature</p>
<p>I hope that others answer this excellent post as well.</p>
<p>Personal Experience: academic related things and attitude related things, seeing as how SAT essay prompts are very open ended. they want some insight - tell them how you feel when faced with x type of problem or person.
Historical Issue: my examples mostly come from current events (and MUN helps too). just read the paper/the economist/maclean's every day/week until the SAT and you'll have a ton!
Book: Heart of Darkness (journeys, contrast between good and evil... lots of good things in here)</p>
<p>Personal: some kind of academic subject, or maybe a sport. Make sure you are very specific and tell a good story. Then relate it back to your thesis. I recently used how my seemingly good decision to take Greek backfired, showing that good and bad decisions have the same likelihood of producing negative consequences.
Historical: WWII has an abundance of examples. A recent one I used was Hitler's Non-Aggression Pact with Germany, and then the betrayal showing that appearances can be deceiving.
Literary: 1984 offers a good example of how remembering and learning form the past is important, etc. </p>
<p>-misc: sport can serve as the las resort for salvation - magliniaggi-boxer, and rivaldo- soccer player; they rose from perdition and misery to fame and success through possibilities created by sport.
-misc- evil often posseses traits that are valuable in some, specially professional fields- maligniagii- boxer- and c. trask- east of eden; their "undesirable" and criticized nature promoted them professionaly to become the best at their trades.</p>
<p>Business- Need for adaptation - henry ford failed to promote and drive his business to its maximum potentail due to his reluctance to create automobiles of different colors( his T-model was only made in black). Causing GM,which offered a variety of cars with numerous colors, to control the car business for several years.</p>
<p>Business- need for flexibility and variety- Apple declined permission to allow others to write programs for its operating system. As a result, they fell from the lead of computer sales and up to this day has not being able to recover its original prosperity.</p>