Need insight. Please, grade my essay.

rhshanks
Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:15:32 +0000

I wonder if you can help me with this other essay. I hope I’m not being too much…

Assignment: Is the way something seems to be not always the same as it actually is? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

As humans, the first impression we can imply from is what we perceive with our eyes. This is why our thoughts are mostly biased. However, as the famous proverb reads “Don’t judge a book from its cover”, in real life, what may seem to look good from the outside is not always the same as it actually is and vice versa.

This concept can be best exemplified through the renowned Arabian Literature, King Schahriar and his Brother from the true stories of the Arabian Nights. In the society where the residents live in constant terror from the barbaric actions of the King Sultan who would marry a virgin woman each night and kill her by the morning, an ordinary girl named Scheherazade of no special traits comes with a plan. She plotted to stop the Sultan and save the girls and woman from the awful fate that hang over them. She implored her father obstinately to become the Kings wife and expressed to him about her goal, astonishing her father of what she said. He couldn’t believe and allow such permission, for it was impossible for a weak, feeble girl to achieve such an ambition. However, he couldn’t stop her. Eventually, her plan rendered successful. She was able to change the sultan’s attitude and mold him into a different person. Looking at Scheherazade from the beginning, it seemed that she didn’t have a chance of becoming successful with her plan; however, this impression that her father had wasn’t the same as it actually became.

Secondly, looking at two personal experiences of mine and contemplating over their differing first impressions and the eventual outcome, we realize that what ‘seems’ isn’t always what it is. The first one is when I moved to a different middle school because of the low standards of my previous school. There was a student in our class who always sat in the back. He wasn’t gregarious and was a reticent person who all his responses were laconic. No one doubted that he was a failure because he didn’t seem interested in learning and participating in class. Surprisingly, everyone’s impression of this boy was refuted by his end tem grades; this boy was the highest in the class. The second experience is when I moved to a different high school last year. As my father and I were searching for good schools, we received information of some famous schools which were held in high esteem. However, what we were looking for, at that time, was a school which appealed to the eyes. We were following the concept of the proverb that reads “The first impression is the last impression”. We believed that what we saw well would eventually be good. We found a gorgeous modern school near a beautiful lake; it was called Brooks High School. Just a day in that school made me to immensely detest it. Surely, everything looked nice from the outside including all their facilities which no other neighboring school had; nonetheless, the students in that school were pampered. The teachers taught simple things that one would learn in elementary school. Furthermore, the students would be given most of the day for them to spend it on leisure and field trips. In addition, students were allowed to assault the teachers and report any shortcoming of a teacher and they would immediately be ousted. Again, the difference in what the school seemed to us and what it actually was was striking.

In short, we should not assume that everything we encounter and see is the same as what it is in reality. Therefore, we should not follow what many of us accustom of believing in the first impression of what we see.



Obviously, this essay took me more than the allotted time to finish; 31 minutes.