<p>what are good books and historical events to use within the essay? i'm hoping i can incorporate 1984, Jane Eyre, Macbeth, or Romeo & Juliet.</p>
<p>what books have you used on your essay?</p>
<p>and also, what events in history have you used? for this part, i'm hoping to use The Cold War; but if i cannot, i hope i can use the defeat of japan in WWII..</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>huck finn can be used with almost everything</p>
<p>amen (10 chars)</p>
<p>damn, i havent read that one.. </p>
<p>any other suggestions?</p>
<p>On the May SAT, I wrote a 5 paragraph essay using 3 examples completely up... I just made up a book/person/event and got a 11/12. The SAT people aren't looking for accuracy, just how well you can write so don't stress about remembering facts just make something up if you can't think of anything.</p>
<p>scarlet letter, hamlet, invisible man</p>
<p>Historical events are fine, but I prefer sticking to books and personal events. I can use my experience of skipping second grade for any of the overcome-the-odds things. For a literary work, I might use To Kill a Mockingbird or A Raisin in the Sun. 1984 is another wonderful book to use. Anything of literary merit will impress the essay readers. Furthermore, the readers are probably bored off their posteriors and want to hear something interesting every 10 or so essays.</p>
<p>Les Miserables is great, as is Sidhartha by Herman Hesse</p>
<p>Yeah, I always use Sidhartha, it fits with any topic :)</p>
<p>While I have yet to read it (I will this summer, promise ;)) I hear the great Gatsby works on almost all essay prompts</p>
<p>I used Macbeth for the May 06 essay... only got an 8, though I think it's because that's the only example I had time for.</p>
<p>Sozo:
Siddhartha is good in certain ways... but be advised NEVER to approach the information given in that book as historically accurate. It's good to relate to for literary value, but as far as history or religion most of it is useless, or a lot of it anyway. It's not in any way the real story of Siddhartha, real meaning the story buddhists go by.</p>
<p>what about their eyes were watching god?</p>
<p>Fahrenheit 451</p>
<p>..I don't have my scores back yet, though, so I don't know if it worked ;)</p>
<p>I used the following for today's essay topic on the effects of technology:</p>
<p>Books:
-Brave New World</p>
<p>Historical events:
-the agricultural revolution more 15,000 years ago</p>
<p>Current Events:
-the Iranian nuke crisis
-a poll suggesting that Americans today are not as happy as they were 50 years ago.</p>
<p>Philosophical:
-the recent change in human societal progression from physical comfort to mental comfort.</p>
<p>Never worry about what you use in an essay, only about how you use it. This is the best advice I can give you. When you look at an essay topic, start writing without preparation and just speak your mind about the issue. You'll find that you'll be able to express yourself more thoroughly and that information that you have stored in the past will come up as you write. An essay on the moment is better than a pre-planned essay. Ideas are spontaneous. You can't "think ahead" an idea. Ideas come to you as you come up with information that is congruent to the thesis. Just open your mind, take a stand on the issue, visualize how you want to set it out, and write as you do so. It will come out smoothly if you are an abled writer. I assure you.</p>
<p>Some books that are of help:
War and Peace by Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Any of Shakespeare's works
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Anything by the Greek philosophers</p>
<p>And always mention anything about history and/or current events that coincide with the topic.</p>
<p>For the April test, I used Brown vs. BOE and the Scopes Trial.</p>
<p>I used ONE historical example- The Battle of Thermopylae- and it got me a 12.</p>