<p>I've just started preparing for the SAT. its the first time i've tried to 25-min essay. and i find it horrible -even more than the rest of the huge SAT books. When would you ever, in your entire life, have to write an essay in 25 min? Isn't it kind of encouraging people to procrastinate? since that would be the only time you would have to cram an essay in less than half an hour...
any ways... i just want to know what range my essay falls in...2? 3? 4? any advice on how best to approach the essay would be great, too!</p>
<p>The prompt is:
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."
-Eddie Rickenbacker
Does having courage mean that we have no fear, or that we act despite being afraid? Plan and write an essay in which you develop...</p>
<p>Eddie Rickenbacker wrote that "courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared". While many might not agree with his conclusion, it is nonetheless true. When you do something with courage in your heart, you do it despite your fears, which can take many forms -fear that others will not approve, fear that your actions may bring harm to yourself or others, or even fear that you will not succeed in what you try to accomplish. Fear is ubiquitous in everyday life, and when you can overcome those fear, then you are being courageous.</p>
<p>I often have to summon up the courage to do even the simplest of tasks -may that be raising my hands in class to ask a question, or asking a stranger for directions. In all these situations, I am overcoming my fears. If fear is non existent in these situations, then there is no need to be courageous. You simply do the things you want to do. Therefore courage cannot mean we have no fear.</p>
<p>In Of Mice and Men, George had to have courage to kill his best friend, Lennie. One cannot say that George had no fear at the time, that he was not afraid. He certainly was. He was afraid of the consequences of killing someone, even if he was doing it to save them from brutal beatings. George acted to spare his friend from possible suffering, despite being afraid.</p>
<p>From the above examples, one should clearly be able to see that courage does not mean we lack fear, but that we can ignore the fear we have.</p>
<p>this looks so much shorter when you type it up...</p>