<p>Do advertisments contribute to unhappiness?</p>
<p>Are people too serious?</p>
<p>Suggest examples please. What kind of examples should I prepare to be ready for any promt?
Thanks</p>
<p>Are those two separate prompts? </p>
<p>If so, for the first one, you could site Fahrenheit 451, since the people were inundated with advertisements (especially on that train ride with that jingle) and hearing the same thing over and over again got into their heads and messed with them. Montag was especially frustrated in the train.
You could probably say something about Pandora since they have advertisements and those are really annoying. There could potentially be news stories about that (“current events”) but I can’t think of any off the top of my head.</p>
<p>For the first one, you could use a personal example. Perhaps once you saw a really neat commercial for some product that made you go out and buy it immediately. However, you had such high expectations and hopes for the product because of the amazing commercial, that when you actually tried it out, it didn’t work as well as you imagined. The ads ended up making you unhappy, because you were so disappointed. </p>
<p>For both prompts, if you really couldn’t think of anything, you could try making up examples, as long as they seem legitimate. Like for the second prompt, you could make up a statistic. Ex. According to a survey from the National Emotion Association, over 50 percent of Americans felt the world should be more serious, a 10 percent increase from 2000…</p>
<p>Thanks for responses. Both of these promts appeared on actual exams. Latter apeared on november SAT</p>
<p>If I am aiming for solid score, wil made up examples work for me? (By solid I mean 10 or more)</p>
<p>The sources of the examples don’t matter according to CollegeBoard as long as you can connect it to the prompt.</p>
<p>If you see the Blue Book, tons of essays got a 12 using 1 or 2 detailed personal examples</p>
<p>I agree with newbie101. As long as you can relate the examples back to the prompt, made up examples work. Plus, the essay readers aren’t going to check if the examples you provided were true, since they are so limited on time.</p>