<p>Scarlet Letter - self discipline helped her shape new identity (freedom)
The Life of John D. Rockefeller - self-control helped him maintain composure amidst volatile times, which aided him to becoming richest man of his time
Open - Agassi learned to control his serve which led to his tennis successes</p>
<p>What did you use? Gandhi must have been popular</p>
<p>The criticism prompt?</p>
<p>The Pearl (John Steinbeck)
Steve Jobs
Zuckerberg</p>
<p>Essay was surprisingly easy this time (atleast for us internationals)</p>
<p>Gandhi, myself (discipline in academics)</p>
<p>Criticism prompt:</p>
<p>Howard Roark in The Fountainhead
Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment
Ayn Rand’s Objectivism</p>
<p>Criticism prompt.
Charles Bovary’s character portrayal in Madame Bovary.
The political system in America.
Personal anecdote.</p>
<p>1984 – resisting totalitarian regime’s oppression by not being disciplined (not following Party’s orders…)
Huck Finn – Huck wasn’t disciplined, and it allowed him to escape his father + be free, as well as be “free” from attitudes of the time (racism and seeing Jim for who he truly is.)</p>
<p>Thoroughly BS’s that. Every example was such a stretch…the prompt was stupid in my humble opinion.</p>
<p>Critisicsm : ADolf Hitler, Nepal’s campaign against monarch for democracy and Britney Spears.</p>
<p>Discipline: Adolf hitler, sam Adams/John adams</p>
<p>Wasn’t the essay question “How does discipline lead to freedom”</p>
<p>I used gandhi and Martin Luther king for the discipline essay…cuz they boycotted buses and al that walking and temptation to use the bus took self discipline</p>
<p>Rocky, TR, and “Waiting for Godot”</p>
<p>to kill a mockingbird (racial progress)
antigone (gender equality)</p>
<p>Did anyone here get the prompt about looking back at mistakes?</p>
<p>@nikanon </p>
<p>Yes! I used</p>
<p>The Gold Foil Experiment
Einstein’s biggest blunder
Oedipus Rex</p>
<p>I had the looking back on mistakes one. I used two examples: a Washington state swimmer and a Dvorak novel. I’m thinking an 8 on it; I didn’t do too well, but I filled spaces.</p>
<p>Discipline Prompt:</p>
<p>Civil Rights Movement
Oscar Schindler</p>
<p>Trash essay, Im banking on 49/49 on writing MC to save my poor essay score</p>
<p>ah, for looking back at mistakes I used the failed Apple Newton and microsoft’s failed tablet PC and the successful iPad… i’m such a geek.</p>
<p>Social contract; it exemplifies the ability of the people to institute in their lives a system (government) to place necessary limits on their freedom. Yet at the same time it is also a ‘free’ choice by the people (they can make or break said government).</p>
<p>@Elementi - How did you relate the gold foil experiment to discipline’s leading to freedom (or lack thereof)?</p>
<p>For looking back at misTakes I used penicillin, chocolate chip cookies, and the lightbulb.</p>