Grade my Essays? :)

jkjeremy
Sun, 04 Aug 2013 17:51:20 +0000

Your job is to analyze rather than retell stories or recite lessons from history or current events. In bold are the words and phrases in which you tell me something I didn’t know (or couldn’t have learned via an Internet search).

I wholeheartedly admonish you to ditch whatever source you used to find awkward, misused words like “pernicious,” “vice,” “sanguine,” and several others. Sometimes it’s easy to tell that you’re attempting to find “better” words than the words you really wish to use. Every word you choose must be as simple as possible and only as “big” as necessary.

The notion that people should conform to the society is absolutely false. Although some advocates may argue that the societal criteria are always appropriate, the ideology is too romantic. The prominent examples of Suzanne Collin’s “The Hunger Games”, Galileo, and WWII will show why the society shouldn’t always follow the majoritarian values.

Set in a futuristic background, “The Hunger Games” illustrates how pernicious it is to conform to the society’s value. The protagonist Katniss Everdeen refused to surrender to the corrupted government, which holds an annual Hunger Games to suppress the citizens. Although what Katniss does is considered hazardous, her refusal to conform to societal values gradually brings hope to the innocent citizens, who are tortured by the cruel government. The example of Katniss clearly illustrated why not to follow societal values.

Another example that parallels “The Hunger Games” and displays people should not conform to the society, is Galileo. The mid-14th century astronomer discovered a novel idea that contradicted the Bible, and was unfortunately punished for the rest of his life. Nevertheless, people soon found out that Galileo was actually correct. Gaglileo rejected the majority’s idea and presented what he believed in, and he was indeed correct. Again, Galileo’s story demonstrates the vice of conforming to societal values.

A situaltion that also express the virtue of not conforming to the society is Germany in WWII. Adolf Hitler was elected as Germany’s fury when he aroused German’s ethnic enthusiasm and began to slaughter other races. Germany was filled with joy of victory while bringing prodigious pain and fear to others. Germans at WWII were following absolutely wrong, cruel and unhumane value, but they did not notice their deleterious actions were wrong because they blindly followed the crowd. Germany at the period of WWII similarly illustrate why people should not conform to the society.

In summation, following societal values is a fallacy that will often end in failure because the majority may often be wrong. Only be believing in oneself and making individual decisions will the civilization be able to pursue peace and happiness.