I completely disagree. He who dies with the most toys wins, as the license plate frames say on all those toy haulers that I see. Never let it be forgotten that Booker T. Washington lived in a different time and a different place. I'm not entirely sure of when or where that was, but I am also equally sure that it was not now and here.
With all due respect to Mr. Washington, he could not invision the microwave oven or plasma televisions or power boats or any of our other modern accoutrements.
Furthermore, I find this question and the desired response extremely negative and quite possibly this is an attempt by the people behind the SAT to accustom their young charges to failure. What are we doing, raising a country of people accustomed to failure, and prepared to consider it commendable not to succeed?
Why is the SAT trying to prepare students to fail? Should they not encourage them to succeed, and make them painfully aware of all penalties for failure? This essay should instead offer intense opprobrium to all those who think failure is an option. We must go for the gusto, and we must encourage the same in the youth.
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Posted by: LonewackoDotCom | October 2, 2006 2:04 PM
I was about to rant on how idiotic this essay is, but then the lack of misspellings gave me pause. Typically, when someone adopts such a pro-yuppie stance, the screed is peppered with misused 'YOURs,' 'THEREs' and 'TOs,' but this writer even spelled "opprobrium" right. It's gotta be a parody; I wonder if that was taken into account by the grader. Just shows to go ya how hard it has become to do satire nowadays.
Posted by: BDM | October 2, 2006 8:09 PM
invision --- envision
Well written.
Posted by: Nik | October 2, 2006 9:58 PM