<p>Here’s what we’re going to do… </p>
<p>Post your SATI essay, but don’t say what your score was right away, and we’ll see how close we can get to your actual score (on scale of 2-12). Please don’t negatively criticize anyone’s efforts. If you have CONSTRUCTIVE criticism then, by all means, post it.</p>
<p>I’ll start with mine:</p>
<p>Assignment: Does the success of a community–whether it is a class, a team, a family, a nation, or any other group–depend upon people’s willingness to limit their personal interests? 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.</p>
<pre><code> The successes of a community, whether locally or internationally, are indubitably determined by the willingness of individuals within that community to impose personal limits on themselves. This fact can be exemplified in America all the way from the nation’s founding to its present state and also in literature.
A popular topic currently pertaining to the issue is the Patriot Act. Many people have argued that it unreasonably limits the freedoms of American citizens. However, the majority of Americans have accepted the burden on their freedoms for the greater good. An instance of when the Patriot Act has worked occurred approximately three years ago when a California man had planned to construct and later detonate a “dirty bomb” in Los Angeles. This act would have killed, according to estimates, at least half a million people in the immediate vicinity of the explosion. Thus, the sacrifice of personal freedoms was able to save lives.
Historically speaking, the American Revolution can be taken into account. Prior to the outbreak of war the British East India Tea Company had been given a complete monopoly over the tea imports in America by the British King George. Though this act made tea significantly cheaper for the colonists, it would have devastated tea merchants. Recognizing the negative effects the acceptance this monopoly would have had on American merchants, the community at large defied the will of the British King, and in the Boston Tea Party dumped over a million British pounds (currency) of tea into the Boston Harbor. Again, the community unified to defend its members even though they were a minority.
Literature provides another terrific example of unification. In Twain’s [underlined] The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [/underlined] Huckleberry expressed a massive internal conflict between his desire to follow the rules of society and his desire to help his friend Jem escape from slavery. Huckleberry sacrificed his own freedom, he could have been hung as a conspirator, to aid Jem in the discovery of his own.
Thus, the world is filled with examples of people coming together for the greater good even if it requires the limitations of their own cherished liberties.
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<li>Yes, I made stuff up.</li>
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