<p>@Gottahavawawa</p>
<p>My prompt was something about careful consideration of mistakes leads to progress, not the discipline prompt.</p>
<p>When do essay grades come out? When will SAT scores come out?</p>
<p>Sorry, I was oblivious to the fact that you guys were discussing a different prompt.</p>
<p>I used Gandhi and American Revolution.</p>
<p>For Amer Rev, I put that the american soldiers were not very orderly and properly conducting themselves, and I then added that General LAfayette’s men aided in training the soldiers and they finally won pivotal battles and gained their freedom. I was going to add John Locke philosophy and stuff but i didnt have time 
. I think I got a 6-8 =/</p>
<p>discipline:
henry david thoreau (he lived in a wooden house alone, without rules of society. )
hester prynne from scarlet letter (i’m really freaking out about this one because i just realized some people used hester as an example to support discipline is good… but mine was about how her punishment made her alienate from society. how screwed am i???)</p>
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<p>Most beautiful essay I’ve ever read. Expect a 12 and a 800.</p>
<p>Thank you for sharing</p>
<p>Mine was the discipline essay.
Luke Skywalker (movie)
Moses (book)
& my dad, who is a Marine (real-life situation)</p>
<p>i used Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerburg as well. :)</p>
<p>I used:</p>
<p>Gandhi
Elie Wiesel/Night
Women’s Rights Activist</p>
<p>For the essay on discipline and freedom, I argued in favor of discipline for the sustenance of a free society, and used:
-Freudian psychology (how defense mechanisms such as sublimation allow you to be “freed” from the uninhibited urges of the id)
-Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own” (without a disciplined and unified movement, she felt that women would never gain liberation)
-Ancient Athenian government, as demonstrated in Pericles’ funeral oration (he felt that their freedoms were sustained by having a cooperative society in which people were inclined to be virtuous and have the golden mean between disciplined work and leisure). </p>
<p>I feel like my examples were kind of a stretch, but I liked the prompt.</p>
<p>Made up two BS examples on the spot…but they both fit nicely into the mistakes/progress prompt.</p>
<p>I guess my vocab usage was somewhat lacking, but at least I filled up both pages with my BS.</p>
<p>Discpline…</p>
<ol>
<li>Lacrosse - 3 mi. runs at 5AM and depriving myself of temporary pleasures to have athletic and academic success, so that I was free to pursue a bright future.</li>
<li>‘Siddhartha’ - Herman Hesse - discipline in meditation led to Nirvana.</li>
</ol>
<p>I filled it 100%. Hoping for a 10+?</p>
<p>mistakes</p>
<ol>
<li><p>scientific innvoations (mainly edison), talked about trial and error, checking and analyzing mistakes to improve the next set of experimtns</p></li>
<li><p>robinson crusoe, had to learn about the wet dry seasons through losing half his stock of seeds, had to spend a lot of time on building his furniture, etc</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Why didn’t I have that essay? :(</p>
<p>discipline one (weird essay question in a sense)</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Talked about the american constitution vs the Articles of Confederation (one has stricter rules but this is necessary to maintain the interests and freedoms of the people of America, while the Articles were too weak and led to unrest in the country)</p></li>
<li><p>How education and being disciplined allows individuals to make something of themselves in the world and achieve a “personal freedom and independence” to take care of one self. </p></li>
</ol>
<p>Are those too off topic? I was going to use 3 examples but ran out of time and just went right to the conclusion.</p>
<p>@NeedsHelp…
I wrote about #2. I think it’s fine. If you filled 2 pages, I heard that’s guarantee 10+?</p>
<ol>
<li>Jamestown Colonists</li>
<li>Personal anecdote</li>
<li>Jeanette Walls and “The Glass Castle”</li>
</ol>
<p>Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 led to the eradication of segregation on public conveyances.</p>
<p>Fredrick Douglas- An abolitionist leader who used deft oratory and incisive writings to gain the advocacy of many Americans to fight for freedom; he helped achieve it with the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (during the Civil War) and with his contributions to the “free nation” after the Civil War.</p>
<p>Mistakes and Progress:</p>
<p>1.Scientific Innovations, especially in medicine, Malaria (Plasmodium Virus)
2.Atomic Bombings of Japan, regretful yet insightful
3.My own blunders at learning the violin.</p>
<p>literally used every line! hoping for an 11!</p>
<p>Mistakes
Antigone (which I wrote was written by Socrates, not Sophocles, ULTIMATE FAIL.)
Thomas Edison</p>