第一篇：SAT 作文素材思路

Hilary Rodham Clinton

Hilary Clinton was born in Chicago Illinois.In 1965, Hilary was enrolled in Wellesley College, where she majored in political science.Rodham then entered Yale Law School.After graduation, she moved to Arkansas and married Bill Clinton in 1975.In 1979, Rodham became the first woman to be made a full partner of Rose Law Firm.In 1992, beginning with the American Spectator article “The lady Macbeth of Little Rock”, Hilary’s own past ideological and ethical record came under conservative attack.Role as the first lady

In 1993, she became the first lady.She was the first lady to hold a postgraduate degree and to have her own professions up to the time of the White House.She was also the first to have an office in the West Wing of the White House in addition to the usual First Lady in the East Wing.Hilary Health Care Plan

It is a comprehensive proposal that would require employers to provide health coverage to their employees through individual health maintenance organizations.Lewinsky Scandal

In 1998, the Clintons’ relationship became the subject of much speculation when investigations revealed that President had extramarital sexual activities with the White House Intern Monica Lewinsky.New York Senator

After moving to the state of New York, Clinton was elected as a U.S.Senator in 2000.That election marked the first time an American First Lady had run for public office;Clinton was also the first female senator to represent the state.In the Senate, she initially supported the Bush administration on some foreign policy issues, including a vote for the Iraq War Resolution.She subsequently opposed the administration on its conduct of the war in Iraq and on most domestic issues.Senator Clinton was reelected by a wide margin in 2006.In the 2008 presidential nomination race, Hillary Clinton won more primaries and delegates than any other female candidate in American history, but narrowly lost to Illinois Senator Barack Obama.Presidential Campaign of 2008

10,000 Hour Rule

The research was done by psychologist Anders Ericsson in 1990s.---The man behind the 10,000 Hour Rule

The 10,000 Hour Rule was mentioned in the book Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell.---The man who has made it famous.The idea is that it takes approximately 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to master a skill.Ericsson claims that greatness requires enormous time, using the Beatles’ musical talents and Gates’ computer savvy as examples

The Beatles performed live in Hamburg, Germany, over 1200 times from 1960 to 1964, amassing more than 10,000 hours of playing time, therefore meeting the 10,000 Hour Rule.Gladwell(the author of Outliers)asserts that all of the time the Beatles spent performing shaped their talents, “so by the time they had returned to England from Hamburg, Germany, ‘they sounded like on one else.It was the making of them.’”

Bill Gates met the 10,000 Hour Rule when he gained access to a high school computer in 1968 at the age of 13, and spent 10,000 hours programming on it.Malcolm says if you want to shine, put 10,000 hours.The greatest athletes, entrepreneurs, musicians and scientists emerge only after spending at least three hours a day for a decade mastering their chosen field.Ability, according to Gladwell, is just one factor in success.Work ethic, luck, a strong support base and even being born in the right year play a far larger role.It is practice, however, makes perfect.It is not always innate genius or talent that will make you a success, it’s the hours that you put in, which means that ANYONE can do it.The 4-Hour Workweek

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich---Timothy Ferriss

Tim Ferriss advocates elimination and automation to liberate yourself from your work, thereby freeing up more time to do what you enjoy.Focus on tasks that produce the most benefit(eliminate the ones that waste your time), build a sustainable automatic source of income, and you can boil your working week down to a few hours, leaving the rest of your time for you to enjoy as you please.The “Pareto Rule”—80-20 Rule(80% of your benefits come from 20% of your efforts)

The Pareto Rule states that for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.It is common in business that 80% of your sales come from 20% of your clients.The original observation was in connection with population and wealth.Pareto noticed that 80% of Italy’s land was owned by 20% of the population.Sarah Palin, American politician, commentator and author.She was the first Republican woman nominated for the vice-president.The youngest and first woman to be elected Governor of Alaska

Palin enrolled at the University of Hawaii

In 1984, Palin won the beauty Wasilla beauty pageant

She received her bachelor’s in communications with an emphasis in journalism

After graduation, she worked as a sportscaster and sports reporter.In 1988, she became a mother and helped in her husband’s commercial fishing business.Palin was elected to the Wasilla City Council in 1992

She was elected the Mayor of Wasilla in 1996

In 2007, she was elected the governor of Alaska, the first woman, and the youngest oneIn 2008, she was Republican Party Vice Presidential candidate

After the Campaign, Palin formed the Political Action Committee, SarahPAC

In 2009, she released her first memoir, Going Rogue, An American Life, in which she detailed her private and political life.Then she released her second book: American by heart.She has five children.Tea Party Movement

It is an American grassroots political activity.It endorses reduced government spending, opposition to taxation in varying degrees.It’s most noted national figures include Republican politicians such as Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, with Paul described by some as the“Intellectual godfather” of the movement.Animal Farm

thAnimal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell published in England on 17 August 1985.The book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II.Time magazine chose the book as one of the best English-language novels

The novel addresses not only the corruption of the revolution by its leaders but also how wickedness, indifference, ignorance, greed and myopia destroy any possibility of a Utopia.Seven commandments

George Owell

Ben and Jerry’s

Microsoft Company

Steven Jobs

第二篇：SAT寫作素材

SAT寫作素材——名人生平

SAT考試的一個主要組成部分就是SAT寫作，而寫作也常常是一件令人頭疼的事情，尤其在文章中需要舉例說明問題的時候，很多學生往往很苦惱，從今天開始我們要陸續給大家介紹一些SAT寫作中常用的例證素材，有了這些素材寫作就不再那么難了。國外有很多為科學、文化、人類的發展做出突出貢獻的名人，把他們的事跡作為寫作素材不失為一種很好的選擇，首先來看名人生平。

Bill Gates

When Bill Gates made his decision to drop out from Harvard, he did not care too much of the result.Gates entered Harvard in 1973, and dropped out two years later when he and Allen started the engine of Microsoft.Many people did not understand why Gates gave up such a good opportunity to study in the world’s No.1 University.However, with size comes power, Microsoft dominates the PC market with its operating systems, such as MS-DOS and Windows.Now, Microsoft becomes the biggest software company in the world and Bill Gates becomes the richest man in the world.Thomas Edison

We can learn from the experience of the great inventor Thomas Alva Edison that sometimes a series of apparent failures is really a precursor to success.The voluminous personal papers of Edison reveal that his inventions typically did not spring to life in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly from previous works.Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, dedicated the majority of her life to helping the poorest of the poor in India, thus gaining her the name “Saint of the Gutters.” The devotion towards the poor won her respect throughout the world and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.She founded an order of nuns called the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India dedicated to serving the poor.Almost 50 years later, the Missionaries of Charity have grown from 12 sisters in India to over 3,000 in 517 missions throughout 100 countries worldwide.會員限時特惠最后一天，文檔免下載券特權立即送

Diana Spencer

Lady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, is remembered and respected by people all over the world more for her beauty, kindness, humanity and charitable activities than for her technical skills.Nelson Mandela

Mandela, the South African black political leader and former president, was awarded 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to antiracism and antiapartheid.Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country.Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the centre of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world.As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movem

ent, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule.He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality.George Bush

On January 16, 1991, President Bush ordered the commencement of Operation Desert Storm, a massive U.S.-led military offensive against Iraq in the Persian Gulf.In late 1992, Bush ordered U.S.troops into Somalia, a nation devastated by drought and civil war.The peacekeeping mission would prove the most disastrous since Lebanon, and President Clinton abruptly called it off in 1993.Jimmy Carter

President Carter's policy of placing human rights records at the forefront of America's relationships with other nations contributed to a cooling of Cold War relations in the late 1970s.In 1980, for the first time in seven years, Fidel Castro authorized emigration out of Cuba by the country's citizens.The United States welcomed the Cubans, but later took steps to slow the tide when evidence suggested that Castro was using the refugee flight to empty his prisons.Neville Chamberlain

In 1938, British Prime Minister Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler, an agreement that gave Czechoslovakia away to Nazi conquest while bringing, as Chamberlain promised, “peace in our time.”

Eleven months after the signing of the Munich Pact, Germany broke the peace in Europe by invading Poland.A solemn Chamberlain had no choice but to declare war, and World War II began in Europe.Winston Churchill

In the early 1930s, Conservative M.P.Winston Churchill issued unheeded warnings of the threat of Nazi aggression from his seat on a House of Commons backbench.With German tanks racing across France, Churchill spoke to the British people for the first time as prime minister, and pledged a struggle to the last breath against Nazi conquest and oppression.In the summer of 1940, the democracies of continental Europe fell to Germany one by one, leaving Great Britain alone in its resistance to Adolf Hitler.The Nazi leader was confident that victory against Britain would come soon, but Churchill prophesied otherwise, telling his countrymen that the Battle of Britain would be “their finest hour.”

Bill Clinton

In 1994, President Clinton authorized a military operation to overthrow Haiti's military dictators and restore its democratically elected leader.On the eve of invasion, bloodshed was prevented when former president Jimmy Carter brokered an agreement with Haiti's leaders in which they pledged to give up power.Dwight D.Eisenhower

On June 5, 1944, the supreme Allied commander ordered commencement of the D-Day invasion,the largest combined sea, air, and land military operation in history.Eisenhower told the 3 million men of the Allied Expeditionary Force, “The eyes of the world are upon you!”

In 1956, Israel, Britain, and France invaded Egypt in protest of its nationalization of the Suez Canal.The U.S.S.R.and the United States, both vying for greater influence in the Middle East, forced the three nations to end their occupation of the strategic canal.Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret

During the Battle of Britain, the children of King George VI delivered a radio address to British children who had been evacuated abroad.Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, like their parents, weathered the dark days of World War II in Britain.Gerald Ford

Nine days before the fall of Saigon, President Ford spoke on the resignation of South Vietnamese President Thieu.Soon after, the United States launched a massive helicopter evacuation of tens of thousands of anticommunist South Vietnamese and the last few Americans remaining in the country.Mohandas Gandhi

In 1931, Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, was released from prison to attend the London Round Table Conference on India as the sole representative of the Indian National Congress.Gorbachev

As leader of the U.S.S.R., Mikhail Gorbachev was a great force for peace, even at the cost of the Soviet government's downfall after 74 years in power.Adolf Hitler

A few days before his occupation of the Sudetenland, a confident Hitler addressed a Nazi rally at Berlin's Sportpalast stadium, and reassured the crowd that if war came with Britain and France the German Wehrmacht would be victorious.Pope John Paul II

In 1995, the pope addressed the United Nations on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.Reaffirming his support of the ideals and goals of the U.N., he praised the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and called for the U.N.to become the moral center of a family of nations.Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon

In a defining moment of the Cold War, Vice President Nixon and Soviet leader Khrushchev engaged in an impromptu debate about the merits and disadvantages of capitalism and communism.Th

e exchange, which took place in Moscow in front of a replica of a suburban American kitchen, was known as the “Kitchen Debate.”

Douglas MacArthur

On September 2, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, the most destructive war in human history officially came to an end as representatives of the Japanese government and military signed their country's unconditional surrender.After clashing with President Truman over war policy, MacArthur was relieved of his command of U.N.forces in Korea and returned to the U.S.for the first time since before World War II.Given a hero's welcome, he addressed a joint meeting of Congress, where he declared, “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.”

Richard Nixon

In 1973, after five years of talks, the United States and North Vietnam reached a peace agreement to end U.S.involvement in Vietnam.Two years later, Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces and Vietnam was unified under Communist rule.Ronald Reagan

In 1984, Reagan called for an international ban on chemical weapons.Six years later, President Bush and Soviet leader Gorbachev would sign a historic agreement to cease production and begin destruction of both nations' sizable reserves.In 1987, during a visit to Berlin, the president made a dramatic plea to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down” the Berlin Wall.Two years later, Berliners would do so on their own

第三篇：SAT寫作素材

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807-1882), the most popular American poet of the 19th century, whose works are still citedher dress caught fire from a lighted match.Longfellow settled in Cambridge, where he remained for the rest of his life.Longfellow's later poetry reflects his interest in establishing an American mythology.Among his other works are Tales Of A Wayside Inn(1863), a translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy(1865-67)and Christus: A Mystery(1872), a trilogy dealing with Christianity from its beginnings.The poet's 70th birthday in 1877 was celebrated around the country.Longfellow died in Cambridge on March 24, 1882.In London his marble image is seen in Westminster Abbey, in the Poet's Corner.人生禮贊 朗費羅

在世界這個遼闊的戰場中，在人生這個壯麗的舞臺上，我們不能做任命運屈辱的牛羊，我們要在戰斗中當一名闖將。

不要空想未來，不管它多么令人神往，不要留戀過去，要把逝去的歲月埋葬。

行動起來吧，就在生命的此刻行動！

讓生命之舟乘風破浪！

偉人們的足跡向我們昭示，我們也能使自己一生變得高尚。

當我們離開人間時，也能讓足跡遺留在時間的沙灘上。

在生命神圣海洋的航程中，也許還會有別人擱淺、絕望，當他看到我們的腳印，他又會重新斗志昂揚！

讓我們振奮起來行動吧，讓我們學會沉著穩重地面對風浪，不斷追求，有所作為，永遠滿懷著理想和期望！

第四篇：SAT寫作素材

SAT寫作素材

沈陽中睿瑾成國際教育——

SAT寫作素材：The Crusades

Theme:both sides of an issue

Thesis:Everything has its benefit and its drawback

Subject:The Crusades

Detail: The Crusades, profoundly altering European history, were a series of attacks organized by Western Christians in order to take control of the holy city of Jerusalem from Muslim powers.Although they generally failed in their chief purpose, the Crusades exercised an immense influence on Western civilization by bringing the West into closer contact with new ways of living and thinking--stimulating commerce, giving fresh impetus to literature and invention, and increasing geographical knowledge.Example also serves:It is really impossible to fail.SAT寫作素材：The Critical Period

Theme:disadvantage/obstacle/advisity

Thesis:Every fresh crisis we encounter is an opportunity in disguise.Subject:The Critical Period!

The Critical Period was a decade during which the United States

underwent a hardship under the Article of Confederation.The Articles had weakness that hampered efficient operation of the gorvernment:with no provision for an executive branch,it lacked the ability to enforce laws that Congress passed,the Congress had no power to collect taxes,raise a

military,coin money,or regulate interstate commerce.The desperate condition of people was made plain by the Shay’s rebellion and several meetings held by some states to modify the tariff walls that had been erected by each of the 13 states against imports from any orther states.The new nation was

staggering.The Founding Fathers,who hoped to make America one place in world where freedom and love of humankind could flourish,soon realized the powerless central government under the confederation forms of country was undesirable and impratical.It turned out to the Philadephia Convention of 1787,which produced one of “the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man ”---The Constituition of United States.It established a federal forms of government that has a seperation of power among legislature,judicious and executive branch and a division of power between states and central government.Further more,it sets a great precedent for future generations seeking liberty and freedpm as Amerca did.Example also serves : Dissatisfaction motivates people to change

SAT寫作素材：Change

Theme: Change

Thesis: The world isn’t always changing for better.Subject 1: Environment pollution & Economic inequality

Since the Industrial Revolution,our encironment has been in imminent danger.For example,a dramatic summer drought helped public focus their attentions on the greenhouse effect,a general warming of temperature on

Earth,which is caused by an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels like coals,gasoline products and rapid

deforestation.Along with the rapid technology advance is the emergence of acid rain,ecological wasteland and natural disasters such as flood and

hurricane.Not only to encironment,but also to some people changes in today’s seemly progressive world are not always good.The booming America saw a growing economic inequality.In 2004,number of millionaire household in

America increased by 14% as the number of people living below the poverty line rose to about 37 million,including 15 million children.The annual budget passed by Congress in 2005 severely cut programs essential to strggling families,including child assistance and medicaid funding for the poor.Left in

such desperate condition, the poor could hardly appreciate these changesSubject 2 : Technology changes

Detail: In a culture which emails,cell phones and internet chat room have become everyday modes of communication,we are on the verge of breaking down all barriers to the complete and constant transfer of information.But if we seem to be moving toward unfetter union,we could also be seen more isolated as individuals than we have ever been before.Changes in technology

definitely make our lives easier,as shopping at home becomes easier than driving to the store,as meeting people online eliminates the need to spend a lot of time traveling,and as faxing someone a blueprint gets rid of necessity of meeting to disscuss a plan.However,the very techonology that purports to make connections and bring people closer together is helping them drift apart.One can absolutely recall some scenes which you was sitting alone in your bedroom busily talking to someone on msn whild rejecting the proposal to shop with your families or you was having lunch with friends while talking to someone else on your cellphones.All these convenient technologies including online services that prevent us from going out and meeting a real person,and cellphones that reduce the real human interaction,do not necessarily make us better.Example 2 also serves:The benefit of technology dose not always outweigh the cost.

第五篇：sat寫作素材整理

Lincoln & Helen Keller & Forrest Gump:

In addition, through experiences of lives burgeon the individual achievements in the future.Instructions and inspirations in the early time of one’s life can bequeath one the advanced personality and practical skills, which probably results in success when they grow up.Numerous examples stand for my point on this topic, such as Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller and Forrest Gump.On one hand, the poverty in life and failures during elections did not despair Lincoln, and he nevertheless triumph in his political life with his perseverance, and abolished the slavery for his dream of equality and human rights;

on the other, the innate physical imperfection could not prevent one from success.Helen Keller, inspired by her family teacher, stood up in adversities and became the most famous moral writer throughout the globe.Her personal experience rescued millions of people from the depth of desperation;what is more, people can benefit from others as well.The intellectual defect never discouraged Forrest Gump.Instead, encouraged by his mum and friend, he learned to keep on chasing what he considered precious and understood the essence of the life.Environment technology:

The unlimited use of fossil fuels, which became indispensable to our industry today, really gives rise to unexpected catastrophes.Although changes in energy uses ushered in a new era of Scientific Revolution, the burn of fossil fuels, rather than a clean and efficient way to get energy, will finally strike the human society.The natural gas, coal and oil used to power industrial processes and motor vehicles put harmful compounds into the atmosphere, such as CO2, CO, SO2and tiny solid particles.The emission of these chemical gases may cause disasters.In 1952, about 4000 people died in London in the notorious event called London Fogs.What is more, this burning activity is also bringing about a global-scale climatic change, known as the Global Warming.Warmer temperatures are expected to partially melt the polar ice cap, leading to a sea-level rise of 1 meter by the year 2100.If sea levels do rise at this rate, Florida Ever glade would be inundated under salt water in the next century!

The seemingly advanced technology, rather than benefits us today, induces more trouble out of people’s expect.On one hand, the newly-invented appliances may deprive us of our opportunities and interests to get close to the nature.We have color television to enjoy the televised view of Rocky Mountains, but we lost the primitive beauty of nature in a concrete forest;on the other, new

technology may contradict to our extant standard.Gene technology, considered one of the greatest inventions in the world, places doubt on the moral criterion;Furthermore, some so-called powerful weapons we invented can finally become the tools of terrible war.We vaunted of creating the atomic bomb, however if used improperly, we may ultimately destroy ourselves.Einstein&John Nash & Galileo

Challenging authority always leads to a social progress in science.The current main views, obviously, were once novelties impelling the world.However, every time has its own motif, and the previous impetus may stand as an obstacle in the way of social progress.Thus, only through changing these decrepit theories can the whole human beings benefit.The example of Einstein, John Nash and Galileo justify me view.On one hand, the new theory may help in completing the current one.With the help of Relativity, initiated by Albert Einstein, nowadays scientists can explicate the motion of objects which speed comparable to light;on the other, new perception gives a new outlook on life.People come to the negotiating table, inaugurating a new era of commerce, and attribute the most to the author of a revolutionary theory—John Nash;furthermore, the novelty may provides impetus to a new domain.Abandoning the previous geocentric view, the world begins to probe the cosmos under the guide of Galileo’s heliocentric theory.Were there not so many individuals daring

to challenge, our society would never have developed to the current height.Humanity：Mother Teresa& Helen Keller

By taking social responsibility, the famous set up a model for the future.With the indication of the past examples, most of individuals may feel confident when toiling onward into the progress of humanity.The examples of Helen Keller and Mother Teresa justify my point.On one hand, the humanity of individuals may inspire the whole world to devote on this field.Abandoning the previous comfortable life as a teacher, Mother Teresa, defying all the obstacles, set up the foundation called Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta.Consequently, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and other celebrities donated most of their money to their own foundations, after being encouraged by Mother Teresa.One the other, the struggle of disabled may have the bracing effect on the desperate.Helen Keller, deprived of the ability to see and hear after a severe fever, stood on the adversities and fought inexhaustible till the final victory.Her process spurs numerous people, no matter healthy or disable, to strive for their own winning