AP Writing Test Practice.
Preparation for the AP writing test. Here is the prompt.
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
Analyze the quote. You have five[more like 10, it's Mr. Archer] minutes. Go.
To be content is to be lifeless in our world. 'Real' life is defined as the struggle to improve oneself, or to improve one's station--one's 'lot in life'. Humankind, more specifically modern man, has changed human nature. Attainment of Happiness is a fallacy. It is no longer human nature to find happiness in things, but to create a shadow of happiness with things. Ever since Eve ate the apple, we have spiraled away from the true meaning of human and become something less, something unintended by God or by Nature, whichever you prefer.
Happiness is not the only thing that humans have forsaken in our search for meaning. In our strive to escape our lives of quiet desperation, we seek to answer every question, to make life a perfect thing. We cure diseases with chemicals that were never meant to be present in the human body, and we 'selflessly' save the lives of as many as we can. We have transcended evolution itself. The process of culling the weak has been removed almost entirely. How can humans change if we remove the medium of change itself? If you do not believe in the theory of evolution, however, and seek to discredit this statement with religious jargon, I ask you to first answer my question. Who is to say that evolution is not the hand of God? Maybe God, in his infinite wisdom, created the world to work as it does for a reason. Perhaps the strong were meant to survive and triumph over the weak. Every living organism on this earth, every living thing created by God, operates in the fashion except us.
So why do we do it? Why do we have codes of ethics and criminal law? Boundaries between Order and Chaos? It is because there is safety in numbers. With the incredible thinking brain of the human comes the idea that perhaps you will be one of the weak, one of those who is removed by default, so we band together, hoping that when the earth finally takes back the reins, it will miss us in the masses. This is why we live lives of quite despair, because we all know that we are killing ourselves through the blind act of trying to save as many of us as we can.
This is along the general lines of what I turned in[not the exact wording, of course]. I think Mr. Archer is going to shoot me in the face.
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
Analyze the quote. You have five[more like 10, it's Mr. Archer] minutes. Go.
To be content is to be lifeless in our world. 'Real' life is defined as the struggle to improve oneself, or to improve one's station--one's 'lot in life'. Humankind, more specifically modern man, has changed human nature. Attainment of Happiness is a fallacy. It is no longer human nature to find happiness in things, but to create a shadow of happiness with things. Ever since Eve ate the apple, we have spiraled away from the true meaning of human and become something less, something unintended by God or by Nature, whichever you prefer.
Happiness is not the only thing that humans have forsaken in our search for meaning. In our strive to escape our lives of quiet desperation, we seek to answer every question, to make life a perfect thing. We cure diseases with chemicals that were never meant to be present in the human body, and we 'selflessly' save the lives of as many as we can. We have transcended evolution itself. The process of culling the weak has been removed almost entirely. How can humans change if we remove the medium of change itself? If you do not believe in the theory of evolution, however, and seek to discredit this statement with religious jargon, I ask you to first answer my question. Who is to say that evolution is not the hand of God? Maybe God, in his infinite wisdom, created the world to work as it does for a reason. Perhaps the strong were meant to survive and triumph over the weak. Every living organism on this earth, every living thing created by God, operates in the fashion except us.
So why do we do it? Why do we have codes of ethics and criminal law? Boundaries between Order and Chaos? It is because there is safety in numbers. With the incredible thinking brain of the human comes the idea that perhaps you will be one of the weak, one of those who is removed by default, so we band together, hoping that when the earth finally takes back the reins, it will miss us in the masses. This is why we live lives of quite despair, because we all know that we are killing ourselves through the blind act of trying to save as many of us as we can.
This is along the general lines of what I turned in[not the exact wording, of course]. I think Mr. Archer is going to shoot me in the face.