SAT写作素材分享：challenge authority

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Theme:challenge authority

Thesis: Question authority makes a society stronger.

Subject 1: Progressive Era ; Civil Rights Movement

Detail: The Progressive era,for example,is a time during which from president

to muckrakers,all aspects of American society parid numerous effort to improve

the way people live.President Theodore Roosevelt,who believed in equal

opportunity and adherence to the spirit of law,ordered his Attorney General to

bring suits against the growing monopolies which exercised enormous control both

in economy and in political sphere.Muckrakers,journalists who expose a vatrity

of problems in the society to the public,such as Upton Sinclair,who wrote about

the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry which eventually led to

the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act,and Ida Tarbell,who exposed a variety

of methods used by Standard Oil company to achieve a monopoly.Thus their works

more or less make some sweeping changes in the society. Another example comes

from the Civil Rights Movement which set the stage for the progress and turmoil

of the 1960s.At that time,despite the American creed of “equality for

all”,segregation was prevalent in the South.Brown v. Board of Education of

Topeka questioned the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Fergusor that “the

doctrine of separate but equal has no place”,and the successfully overrule of

this decision encouraged civil rights workers to press for equality and

freedom.

Subject 2: Copernicus's heliocentric theory ; 1992 LA riots

Detail: Copernicus's heliocentric theory in the 16th century was a direct

attack upon the accepted wisdom of the time, the geocentric view of the universe

po!u*d PCwbbs.gter.netstulated by Aristotle.When Darwin first declared that the

wide variety of animal species was due to a process of development over many

millennia, he challenged the traditional Christian belief and outraged the

religious fundamentalists. Mass resistance to authority can escalate to violent

protest and rioting, during which innocent people are hurt and their property

damaged and destroyed. The fallout from the 1992 Los Angeles riots aptly

illustrated this point. The “ authority” that the rioters sought to challenge

was that of the legal justice system, which acquitted police officers in the

beating of Rodney King. The means of challenging that authority amounted to

flagrant disregard for criminal law on a mass scale-by ways of looting, arson,

and even deadly assault. This violent challenge to authority resulted in a

turning back of the clock with respect to racial tensions across America.