Writing Feedback / If we learn to peruse the meaning of happiness, the life will be beautiful - SAT [2]

TOPIC:Is happiness something over which people have no control, or people can choose to be happy?

Sitting tranquilly, I reminisce about some bittersweet moments in my past school life. Every time I saw my classmates scrawling with a cloudy look from the teachers' office, I snickered and imagined my reverse play for the same scene - meekly embracing the instruction, and then throwing away my school bag to relish a mug a Starbucks latte. Without any levity, I meant to hold my own happiness.

To be frank, the indelible movie, Life is Beautiful, significantly influences my attitude toward plights. The Orefices' family had been the most auspicious one in the world. The little son was cherubic, like an angel disseminating wishes and fortune to the whole family as well as their dreaming bookstore. At that time, Italy was misty with chilly wind squeezing through the sleeves of passengers; only the ménage shared a corner of the warmth and harmony. However, the paradise was coercively carried by a roller coaster rushing toward the hell - the war broke up; the father Guido and the son was captured and put in the Concentration camp. They were jailed. Rather than counting backwards to be liberated, they were facing their obscure destinies with scare, and waiting to be killed as Jewish. To save his son till the last second, the father tried hard to subdue his fear, solitude and the affliction of starvation, and lied to his son that they were playing a game to win a tank. He should have been cadaverous wearing a somber face, as he could not control his fate, but he harbored fortitude and optimism to live happily in such a harsh predicament, because he raised hope for life, and burdened the responsibility for his son. He chose to smile, even when walking near to death.

Even the New York Times bestsellers Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert verifies that I am sagacious. Liz used to be a holy grail for every New York lady. Her husband, country house and successful career as a writer would have won her a fulfilling life, but she was raveled by panic and confusion instead. Therefore, she started her one-year journey in Italy after divorce. 'American are always ambitious', she confessed. She was not really happy. Fortunately, she sought out that ruin was the truth during her trip. Ruin is a gift. She ate spaghetti, pizza and other Italian cuisine for entire four months, and just put on big pants. Never mindful of time silently flowing, she heated the water in a pot to fill in the tub and take a leisure bath. She burned everything she earned, and she cannot be an American, but we should believe that even American are able to arrange their trains to happiness, basking in pieces of joy and inspiration.

Virtually, we are tasked with ceaseless ordeals by God in our life. Nevertheless, we human beings are born to strengthen our souls and disinter the truth of life. If we learn to peruse the meaning of happiness, the life will be beautiful.

Student Talk / My question about SAT score range (from 2050 to 2240) [3]

Hello, I am Charpay Huang. I always got a SAT score range from 2050 to 2240 according to the charts following the practice tests. So what score would be the most approximate exact score will come in the exam under real condition? As you can see, the scope of score band is too large, nearly 200!

Thank you for your opinions!! :)

Writing Feedback / The success of a community and people's willingness to limit their personal interests [4]

TOPIC:Does the success of a community - whether it is a class, a team, a family, a nation, or any other group - depend upon people's willingness to limit their personal interests?

When people dream a same dream, all becomes one; but if the partners touch an incongruity and burst into fracas, the cooperation will be terminated, spontaneously as foam is stabbed.

Literature bears a world of miniature and insinuates values in daily life. The stirring fiction, Kite Runner, recolors a real story about friendship and partnership, with an open of the kite running race. Amir is the master while Hassan is the servant. Once standing firmly on the racing field, they chased the kite together to gain fame among children for Amir. The two did become one, as their eyesight met on the same kite reel, which was controlled to beat down other vulnerable paper figures in the sky. It is not so much that there should be little self interests in a team as the participants were originally compatible with exactly an identical goal. They ultimately won. If they concentrated on their own different interests, they could not be companies; they should be enemies instead. But anyhow, this was the champion for their group, without any moment that each intended to sate a personal lust but with a common destination to contribute.

While Kite Runner indicates the veracity of the theory above, the plots of the movie, Social Network, wear on a mask of the verso. Mark and Edwardo were the only best friends to each other in the Harward campus. They shared a room, together with an aspiration to construct a castle of IT via an idea of Facebook; Mark acted as the programmer, and Edwardo was cast as the ardent CFO. The collaborations were esteemed the most fantastic combination, to fashion a legend of earning not only popularity in the artificial network but also money in the tangible world. However, before this chimera turns into a fact, their association collapsed, as Mark considered only the rampant clicks on his website while Edwardo should take a great account of the money management in the program. They finally picked up their personal choices out of incompatible thoughts and interest, and sped on the ramification.

Were the member of a community climbing to conflicting mountain peaks, they will never stand the national flag together.

Writing Feedback / 'Aladdin's lamp antique aroma' - Do memories hinder or help people? [5]

The January SAT test is coming, and I really need your help! Thanks! :)

Do memories hinder or help people to learn from the past and succeed in the present?

Our country teaches history in the schools, while some writers organize biographies with famous names and rarely known anecdotes printed on them. The past records both sweetness and bitterness, from nationwide to personal, to delineate truths and values in the almanac.

None of any Chinese will forget the humiliating time of the Sino-Japanese War. During that eight-year bestial period, the whole land of China was crowded with slaughter, rape, bully and taunt. Never could a pregnant woman or an innocent child be granted a charity to escape from the evil cruelty. On the street crawled helpless people waiting for the deprivation of their last breath, and the ownership to become one of the cadavers. Living in the sedate harmony nowadays, hardly could we imagine these dread ages ago, but we learn much from that certain part of history: only strong men is capable of embracing his destiny. If we desire to stand firmly on the world, we have to develop our homeland by releasing actions on military, politics, technology, education and so on. God will not reach out an olive branch to us until we are determined to guard our state. To our pride, we have united to nurture the young but energy People Republic of China and have exhibited our brilliant achievement to the world, via the stage of Beijing Olympic Games 2008, Shanghai Expo 2010 and Guangzhou Asian Games 2010, for instance. Moreover, not only we but also the outsiders of the war have come to touch the brittleness of life and realize the importance of peace. We should cheer for our insights from yesterdays indeed.

For myself, I always appreciate my memories of the school life, which almost alter my life. When I was in the Senior One, I preferred walking alone to prattling alone the way with buddies. There was no need for me to be accompanied with or even to send an invitation to befriend anybody. I enjoyed the feeling of isolation. Time is flowing. I gradually found that I was not so much self-help as supercilious. Other students were all jovial and elated playing and sharing together, leaving me in a silently chilly corner excluded from an ocean of memorable campus life moments. Then I came to change and join activities with my classmates. They had been mad witches in my heart, but they were actually singing goats on a green pure meadow. Nowadays, I can also 'sing' gracefully and joyfully in this team, as these fellows treat me as a true friend, as rather, a perpetual member of this big family. Instead of achieving a smart score in the exam by myself as usual, I now lead the whole class to be the top one in the school.

Every time when we flip the tales of wither the nation or ourselves, we smell the antique aroma, just as we rub the Aladdin's lamp from which blows out a genie with wishes.

Writing Feedback / Younger people are not suitable for important positions in government of countries? [8]

TOPIC: some people think that younger people are not suitable for important positions in government of countries. Other argue that younger people have new ideas in these positions. Discuss that advantages and disadvantages for that.

Will you vote for a 30-year-old young man to be the mayor in your city? Perhaps in this occasion, it is not easy for you to make a decision. Via this essay, I aim to help you with some analyses of the benefits as well as the drawbacks on this issue.

From my perspective, it is the truth that the young can bring a great number of new ideas and change to the development of our society. The governments of China, for instance, stimulate graduates as officers to contribute themselves to the construction of the countryside. To our joy, most of the country areas have put on new looks thanks to the performance of these young people. What's more, as the new generations are better educated, they are capable to deal with a majority of problems with specialized knowledge of diverse aspect. If an elder officer is assigned to design a reasonable setting of the traffic lights, he or she may have to conduct lots of experiments. However, a younger qualified man can accomplish this task using statistics in just a few days. From these two points, it is appropriate to appoint younger people to take some important positions in the government.

In contrast, we have to take a view of another side of the coin. Initially, since young men are always the freshmen in politics, they are in fact lacking experience. When the economic crisis comes, we cannot expect these 'babies' to save the world of commerce successfully. Also, younger people are less patient and circumspect than elder people when facing a position to reach a conclusion. In case that they determine to execute their commands hastily, there may be a catastrophe to the whole nation.

As far as I am concerned, there are certainly young talents that are suitable for certain positions of the government. Nonetheless, we should consider more cautiously with strict tests when choosing new members of the government.