<p>Should people always prefer new things, ideas, or values to those of the past?
New ideas are the off-speed pitch of life, anything from a backdoor slider to the loathed knuckleball, while old ideas are the very predictable fastball. Attempting to use untested ideas are dangerous, and therefore worse than the ideas of the past. The United States Federal Government is a paradigm of old ideas being preferable to new ones. Likewise, George Orwells Animal Farm portrays the evils of new ideas. History and literature prove that ideas and values from the past are more valuable than their neophyte counterparts.
The United States Government follows the doctrine of democracy to a tee. Shortly after gaining independence the United States set up a 3 branch system following the ideals of the founders of democracy like Montesquie with a system of checks and balances. These ideas were not new, they were in use for 100s of years elsewhere which proves past ideas are indeed more important. Furthermore, in the years of this nations existence little has changed, thus proving old ideas are imperative to the survival of the United States. The idea that the ideals of America have not changed and should not change is also conveyed in Animal Farm.
Orwells Animal Farm illustrates the evils of drifting away from the original plan and eschewing to nefarious new trends. Old Major, an Orwellian allegory to Karl Marx, delineates the ideals of the farm before the rebellion. After the Manor Farm is overturned anarchy breaks out, simply because the ideals of the farm (Marxism) were drifted away from and the three dictators like pigs became corrupt with power. The farms rebellion proved an inconvenient truth about dystopian societies: the oppressed become the oppressors because the original ideals vanish once the latter comes into power. Orwell vividly displays the evils of communism and champions the ideas of democracy, a political system from the Ancient Greeks. If Old Majors plan been followed in its entirety and avoided new ideas the transition into Animal Farm would have been a palatable proposal.
Succumbing to new ideas like in Animal Farm leads to nothing more than anarchy and chaos. The ideas and values of todays generation should heavily rely on those of our predecessors. Both history and literature prove that the advancement of mankind will be profound if the decisions made are based off of past decisions. The very delineation of the United States Government is the Constitution which was written in 1781; the Supreme Court determines if a case is justified based solely on this 200 year old document, thus proving that past ideas are indeed the best option.</p>
<p>5/6</p>
<p>Your writing was a little superfluous for the essay. Had you simplified your language, i probably would have scored it a 6. Your second example is a long stronger and better than your first example.</p>