SAT June 2013 Essay

Dawn001
Sat, 25 Jul 2015 19:28:11 +0000

Well, I am preparing for the SAT. At the moment, I am working hard for the essay part. Please grade my essay out of 12 and give some feedbacks.
Thanks for advance!!!

Prompt 1:

Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
Our cherished notions of what is equal and what is fair frequently conflict. Democracy presumes that we are all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every contest would end in a tie. We talk about a level playing field, but it is difficult to make conditions equal for everyone without being unfair to some.

Adapted from Nancy Gibbs, “Cool Running”

Assignment: Is it possible for a society to be fair to everyone? 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.

My Essay:

“All the world is a stage ;And all men and women merely players”, this is how humans live, as Shakespeare reckons in his master piece “As You Like It,”, despite what democracy and reason suggest, people engage, since birth, in a harsh competition in which people’s chances are unequal. And no matter what we do, society will remain fair to some and unfair to others.

A tendency to prejudge is one aspect of thinking in which society is completely subjective and unfair. During the 18th and 19th centuries, white race was considered as the ultimate race, proclaiming all the rights, society view every white as honest, smart, beautiful and thus superior. At the other side, most of other races were considered as barbaric, violent, ugly and thus inferior. Blacks in the U.S. suffered a lot from persecution, segregation and hate. All this suffering took place in a country that prides its blue-sky thinking and its role to protect people’s rights manifested in the Bill of Rights, enacted in the late 1600s.Democtratic societies were unfair to minorities, not to mention, other societies where hunger, illiteracy and social strife is common place. During decades, society was unfair to Black and more broadly to ethnic minorities. This fact demonstrates that it is quite impossible to be fair to all.

At this context, I can point, also, to my experience. A friend of mine was brilliant in solving enigmatic mathematical problems. He had an astonishing capacity to deal with complex algebra, equations and geometry. But, in addition to his poverty, he has limited abilities in languages especially in English. Consequently, he failed to get accepted in U.S. universities because of his weakness. if he was accepted into one of the U.S. top universities, he would probably achieve something great in the field of science. Yet, society and hard realities were against him, he was a great mind but, lacked the opportunity to shape his skills. Ultimately, he live in the street working volatile jobs to earn money for food and shelter.

Society is nothing but a race in which competitors have starkly different abilities; some are weak, others are strong, which is unfair but it’s our life and none can escape human tragedy.

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