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SAT作文题目SAT Essay Theme Topic – Risk and Change

SAT Essay - Theme of Risk and Change

To change is to risk something, making us feel insecure. Not to change is a

bigger risk, though we seldom feel that way. There is no choice but to change.

People, however, cannot be motivated to change from the outside. All of our

motivation comes from within.

Adapted from Ward Wybouts, Planning in School Administration: A Handbook

Assignment: What motivates people to change? 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.

Sample Essay - Score of 6

What motivates people to change is a relentless and innate desire for

self-improvement. Rarely ever has history seen a man or society kick back,

relax, and say “Well that about does it. Not much else to do here!” Within every

person is the potential to achieve greatness in some form; be it athletically,

mentally, spiritually. This inherent potential demands that people continue to

explore and change both their environments and themselves throughout their

life’s course. Never should a man be idle for too long. After acknowledging the

changes a man has already made to his environment, the pursuit of

self-improvement will once again stir within his soul and call him to action.

This internal desire, this pursuit of challenge and perfection, does not

prohibit man from being happy with his status and achievements. On the contrary,

the device serves more to allow the man to constantly strive for greater change,

newer innovation. What motivates people to change is the ongoing need to

redefine people’s lives and identities –to elevate them to higher levels of

eminence and success.

A good example of this can be seen in clinical psychology. When patients seek

therapy for difficulties that have encumbered their daily functioning, they most

often arrive for treatment voluntarily and willingly-they consciously accept the

necessity of therapy and so participate without any duress. During the course of

clinical therapy, the patient’s concerns, anxieties, ideas, emotions, and fears

are brought to light. However, the clinician does not try to alter the beliefs,

feeling, and sentiments of his client; rather, he simply illuminates them in

order to provide the patient with an accurate view of himself. The process, of

raising concerns and ideas to the surface of conscious awareness, is known as

clarification. Modern psychology is a far throw from the psychoanalysis of

Freud’s time, in which psychologists attempted to “interpret” pre-and

unconscious feelings that had been repressed by the patient. Because clinicians

only clarify, and not dissect, alter, or interpret a client’s inner desires and

emotions, the client himself is responsible for instituting change. If he is to

change, he must dictate the course of therapy, and make the conscious choice to

improve himself. This widely used approach is called “client centered therapy.”

If the client’s ennui or ill feelings are due to situational factors or internal

designs (as oppose to biological changes that would qualify for a diagnosis of

psychopathology (mental disorder)), he must change them on his own accord to

pre-cipitate change within himself. The therapist will not “cure” him in any

way. He alone must answer the call within himself to refine and redefine his

identity and place in society. This need, of self-improvement, also initially

brought him to the therapist. He was able to recognize the disorder of his

environment and acknowledge his own negative feelings. This in turn brought him

to therapy, where he was guided through a process of introspection that

ultimately enabled him to improve himself, assuage his anxieties, and

right-fully continue on his lifelong pursuit of even greater achievements.