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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.
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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.
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To many people, a measure of success comes from material gains, or a position of power, or the influence they can exert. All of these are obvious and justifiable yardsticks of a successful life or career. However, are they the...
Posted on September 26, 2006 02:01 AM • 6 Comments •
It is not an easy challenge to determine whether success is measured by accomplishment or the struggles one has gone through. This is because there are a variety of perspectives on this issue, and each one will bring a unique...
Posted on September 26, 2006 02:01 AM • 1 Comments •
My belief on this topic is that success, as defined by realization of self- or externally- defined goals, is impossible without both struggle and accomplishment. To call struggle without accomplishment not successful flies in the face of ostensible American...
Posted on September 26, 2006 02:01 AM • 1 Comments •
Success is what the memory carries that makes you smile warmly in your old age. That's because everyone justifies their failures and nobody intentionally makes mistakes. So we carry with us the memory of pleasant relationship encounters. My brother...
Posted on September 26, 2006 02:01 AM • 2 Comments •
'I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.' -- Booker T. Washington According to Booker T....
Posted on September 26, 2006 02:01 AM • 2 Comments •
Dichotomies, almost by definition, reduce complex situations into manageable, reductive either-or binaries. Booker T. Washington's statement that he has 'learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by...
Posted on September 26, 2006 02:01 AM • 1 Comments •
I think it is true that success is better measured by the obstacles one has overcome, rather than the position one has reached in life. Ernest Hemingway, in his classic work, 'The Old Man and the Sea,' explored just this...
Posted on September 26, 2006 02:01 AM • 1 Comments •
One can and should admire the guts and determination that some among us show when facing obstacles to their goals. Certainly, one should take an example from those who do so, for without such determination we are doomed to failure...
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A common logical fallacy is that of the false dilemma: the proposal of two apparently opposed ideas, with the reader or listener expected to reject one and thus acceptance of the other. The thesis that 'struggle is a more important...
Posted on September 26, 2006 02:01 AM • 3 Comments •
A great opportunity to face off against the welfare-society, everybody's-special, politically-correct Gramscian-derived drivel that encourages us to forget our roots, most especially in a Darwinian sense, and follow our fellow lemmings (false story, but the myth lives on) over the...
Posted on September 26, 2006 02:01 AM • 3 Comments •
