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This is the Official Blogger SAT Challenge web site. Here, you'll find the essays posted by the entrants in the challenge, with tools to allow you to rate them and see the "expert" scores.
The Challenge is the work of Dave Munger and Chad Orzel, and grew out of discussions on ScienceBlogs.
Special thanks to Kate Nepveu and Jeremy Campbell for help setting up the site, and to our expert graders: David Bruggeman, Suzi, Elisa Davis, Natalie Hudson, Battlepanda and Lisa.
September 26, 2006
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While the message may be consoling for those who have fought and lost, it is nonetheless false. The Southern California grocery workers' four month strike to preserve workers' benefits may have been heroic, but it was a failure nonetheless. Those...
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While I understand the sentiment that motivates Washington's assertion, I do not believe that struggle is a more important measure of success than accomplishment. Washington's quote appeals to our notion of fair play: we are not all born equal, and...
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Whether or not one achieve one's aims is dependent on many things. It might be argued that most of those factors are not within one's control. How does it makes sense for us to judge ourselves on 'success' or 'failure'...
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When one struggles to achieve, her success is that much sweeter. When gambling, the biggest payoffs are the ones for which you.?Tve risked the most. By risking more to reach a certain goal, you are guaranteed a rich reward. The...
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What really does it mean to succeed in life? Does it mean that you are the next Paris Hilton or Nicole Richie (i.e. Daddy gives you whatever you want and you are famous because your family is)? No this isn't...
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What is the nature of success? Success is a soft term and has many different methods of being measured. A common measure of success in western societies is in the accumulation of goods and currency. Another measure of success is...
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What is the most important way to measure success? Booker T. Washington, a figurehead in the black civil rights movement and by any measure a successful man, claims that success of a man is measured more by the 'obstacles he...
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Well, to be honest. If you don't succeed, you need to feed, and take heed of the heebeejeeb. OMGWTFPWNT this exam! Show the score given by the expert grader This essay scored 0. Did you write this essay? Share it...
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We take it for granted nowadays that we have to succeed in life. Yes, people argue about what really constitutes 'success' -- is it personal fulfillment? A lucrative career? But underlying all these debates is the shared conviction that our...
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Washington's point is well taken, especially considering that, as former slave, he had many obstacles to overcome and yet achieved a great deal. Generally speaking, I agree with Washington's statement. After all, the world is rife with people who have...
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