<p>Okay ugh… Collegeboard Online course is so hard! Eh whatever.</p>
<p>Essay prompt for test #5:</p>
<p>Quotation: Many people believe that “closed doors make us creative.” These people argue that obstacles and restrictions are necessary, for without them we would never be forced to come up with new solutions. But “closed doors,” either in the form of specific obstacles or a lack of opportunities, often prevent people from reaching their full creative potential.</p>
<p>Assignment: Do closed doors make us creative? 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.</p>
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<p>People tend to say, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonades!” Do the “closed doors” count as those lemons that can benefit people to be creative? Or do they thwart people from thinking “outside the box”? In my opinion, closed doors play important roles to make people creative.</p>
<p>Many people ascribed Albert Einstein as a genius who worked on Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb. But, Einstein also had to endure hardships, or closed doors. As many Jews in the Europe, he immigrated to the United States for new lives from Germany’s Hitler and Nazis. To him, leaving his own country was a closed door in his life. Nevertheless, he became a successful hero and scientist because he came to United States where his intelligence was veneered. If he stayed in Europe, he probably was assassinated (because he’s a Jew), and even he did not die, he probably worked on very provincial areas of study ----- only the ones selected by the government.</p>
<p>A classic novel Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas served as an interesting case for man’s creativity to increase. In this book, the main character was falsely accused of crimes that he did not commit and arrested in his wedding. Not only did he lose his precious lover, but also he lost his youth, family, and basically everything that he cared for. In his prision, he acquainted this Italian priest who taught him knowledges and secret locations of wealth. As the book progressed, the man vowed to seek revenge, and he successfully did. This vengeance was only possible because he was considered as extremely dangerous complicit or accomplice of Napoleon. If his accusation or closed door was weaker that he didn’t get to meet the Italian priest, he probably failed to know who plotted against him, not to mention seek avenge.</p>
<p>Clearly, the closed doors “open” creative doors for people to continue their lives on.</p>