<p>Can someone please grade my SAT essay within the actual scale?</p>
<p>If we valued honesty, we would be willing to risk our jobs to become whistleblowers and tell truths that our employers did not want revealed. If we valued success, we would give up our free time in order to excel in a subject or sport. In other words, the sacrifices we are willing to make reveal what we care about the most.
Assignment:
Can what we value be determined only by what we sacrifice? 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>
<p>The value of sacrifice is usually made because of love. What we love is what we value the most; examples are family, prized possessions, and friends. We are willing to sacrifice for the benefit of what we love the most. Sacrifice is the one and only measure of our reverence to others. Even simply helping financially is a sacrifice because you are going out of the way to donate money to a charitable organization.We are willing to sacrifice for the benefit of what we love the most. My mother's sacrifice of her career clearly exemplifies this. Therefore, what we value is determined only by what we sacrifice.
An aspiring biologist, my mother was bound to study microbiology in the doctorate level in the United States of America. However, two obstacles had blocked her goal. For one thing her parents didn't care or even encourage her to pursue her career; she didn't have moral support. In addition, my mother was about to get married. She contemplated as to whether she should sacrifice her career or not, but she was uncertain. Soon she got married and she moved with my father to America.
Then, she regretted suspending her career, but she still had a chance. On the other hand, life in America was much different for her. With no family member present except for my father, my mother was very lonely for most of the day until my father would reach home in the late evenings. She realized that family was more important than her career now, even though she still had a chance to go back into college.
After giving birth to me, my mother tried to apply to Rutgers and Temple, but she was rejected because the standards were much higher than that of her college in India. Moreover, she also had a chance to go on a doctorate program before she got married, but she sacrificed that too. She did this all because she valued family the most. Money or occupation would be worth nothing compared to the power of family to my mother. She became a housewife and has taken care of the household and me and my sister well ever since.
While my mother is just one example, society has another example too. When people volunteer at Soup Kitchen or at the Senior Citizen Center, they sacrifice their time to spend helping the poor and/or the elderly. People may also help constructing simple buildings or even create their own individual service projects such as food drives. People volunteer because they value the virtue of giving back.
Overall, what we value can be determined only by what we sacrifice. My mother sacrificed her career for the welfare of our family so that we won't have struggle by being independent at such a young age. Volunteering is another aspect of sacrifice in that people value the virtue of giving back to society. We sacrifice time, money, and prized possessions to what we value the most.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot</p>