<p>Practice essay, I know it's a train wreck. I was wondering if you guys could lend me your SAT experience and do a quick judgement of how you think it is?</p>
<p>Copied directly from my writing, grammar mistakes, spelling, punctuation included. Took up almost two pages.
Prompt: Is it important to question the ideas and devision of people in positions of authority?</p>
<p>Since mankind has existed, leaders have dictated to the main population what is correct and what is false. It is a decision made by the people where or not to accept the ideas presented by authority. Although quite often people of authority-scientists, politicians, or entrepreneurs-have apiphones that will aid that common man, investigation of new ideas and decisions is a vital part of the growrth of a society. In fact, some prominent times in history are marked by a figure of power being “incorrect”.</p>
<pre><code>Take the French Revolution in France. The gap between the wealth of the nobles of Louis XVI and the peasants of colonial France was massive. While the poor peasants were forced to perform backbreaking labor for a loaf of bread each day, patrons of Versailles feasted all day. If Robespiere and Marat had not questioned if what Louis XVI was doing was a good decision, the oppression would never have ended. Thanks to the two Frenchmen refusing to obey the king, France eventually established a democracy by the people.
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<p>Another great example of why questioning authority is important to a healthy society is the government of America. A complex system of checks and balances exists within the District of Columbia. If a figure of authority, such as the President, makes a decision, Congress is able to question the decision and vote on its constitutionality. The President can veto decisions made by Congress as well; this creates a healthy nation. If it were not for Abraham Lincoln putting down the extreme ideas of Radical Republicans, the free African Americans of the Post-Civil War may have been worse off than before slavery was abolished.</p>
<p>A third and lasting example of why questioning authority is a necessary means of evaluation is seen in science. Galileo Galilei, a renaissance thinker, proposed that the sun is the center of our solar system, and not the earth. Galileo insisted his oberservations were correct and went against the church. At the time herecy was a heinous act, and Galileo was put on house arrest. Even though it was not accepted for awhile, Galileo’s ideas and questioning of the church’s power made a major step in the human understanding of astrology.</p>
<p>Overall, it is important for people to question decisions made by people of authority, and doing so helps shape nations to be stronger.</p>