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1、谎言作文之sat作文谎言例子sat作文谎言例子【篇一：sat作文例子总结】 sat作文例子总结 sat作文例子总结great souls ? 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 lea

2、ders 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 cen

3、tre of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. as president of the african national congress and head of south africas antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. he is revered everywhere as a vital force i

4、n the fight for human rights and racial equality. (138) ? gandhi mahatma gandhi was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of india during the indian independence movement. he was the pioneer of the resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon total non-violence

5、which led india to independence and has inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. he is officially honored in india as the father of the nation. after assuming leadership of the indian national congress in 1921, gandhi led nationwide campaigns to ease poverty, expand womens r

6、ights, build religious and ethnic amity, and increase economic self-reliance. above all, he aimed to achieve the independence of india from foreign domination. later he campaigned against the british to quit india. gandhi spent a number of years in jail in both south africa and india. (128) addition

7、ally, gandhi influenced important leaders and political movements. leaders of the civil rights movement in the united states, including martin luther king and james lawson, drew from the writings of gandhi in the development of their own theories about non-violence. anti-apartheid activist and forme

8、r president of south africa, nelson mandela, was inspired by gandhi. prior to becoming president of the united states, then-senator barack obama noted that: throughout my life, i havealways looked to mahatma gandhi as an inspiration, because he embodies the kind of transformational change that can b

9、e made when ordinary people come together to do extraordinary things. that is why his portrait hangs in my senate office: to remind me that real results will come not just from washington they will come from the people. (129) ? martin luther king martin luther king, jr. was an american clergyman, ac

10、tivist and prominent leader in the african-american civil right movement. his main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the united states and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today. king led the 1955 montgomery bus boycott and helped found the southern christian leaders

11、hip conference in 1957, serving as its first president. kings efforts led to the 1963 march on washington, where king delivered his i have a dream speech. there, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in u.s. history. by the

12、 time of his death in 1968, he had refocused his efforts on ending poverty and opposing the vietnam war, both from a religious perspective. in 1964, king became the youngest person to receive the nobel peace prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobed

13、ience and other non-violent means. he was posthumously awarded the presidential medal of freedom in 1977 and congressional gold medal in 2004; martin luther king, jr. day was established as a u.s. national holiday in 1986. (192) ? mother teresa mother teresa was an albanian roman catholic nun with i

14、ndian citizenship who founded the missionaries of charity in calcutta, india in 1950. for over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the missionaries of charitys expansion. mother teresas missionaries of charity continued to expand, and at the time of her deat

15、h it was operating 610 missions in 123 countries, including hospices and homes for people with hiv/aids, leprosy and tuberculosis, childrens and family counseling programs, and schools. by the 1970s she was internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocated for the poor and helpless. she won the

16、nobel peace prize in 1979 and indias highest civilian honor, the bharat ratna in 1980 for her humanitarian work. (122) ? susan b. anthony although i am not a feminist, i admire susan b. anthony for her daring to hold on to her view even being mocked cruelly by her contemporaries.a tireless civil rig

17、hts worker, anthony devoted her life to the work which has guaranteed womens basic right, including suffrage and equal protections under law. she believed that men and women are created equal and persevered uemittingly in opening doors and expanding acceptable modes of behavior for women. in the pat

18、riarchy society of her time, people considered her unladylike and ridiculous. however, 19th amendment to the constitution gives womens rights to vote, which established susan b. anthony as a bold revolutionary feminist in history. (111) ? margaret sanger margaret sanger sparked the birth control mov

19、ement with the publication of the woman rebel, in which she encourages women to view conception as a choice rather than an obligation. in 1923, her tireless efforts resulted in the establishment of americas first legal birth control clinic, which served as a contraceptive dispensary and research fac

20、ility under the auspices of the american birth control league (one of the groups that eventually morphed into planned parenthood). the birth control movement has had far-reaching, worldwide implications, from womens rights to population control to the sexual revolution. (92) bright minds ? newton ne

21、wtons aim at cambridge was a law degree. instruction at cambridge was dominated by the philosophy of aristotle but some freedom of study was allowed in the third year of the course. newton had a golden opportunity to study an abundance of great minds: the philosophy of descartes, gassendi, hobbes, a

22、nd in particular boyle. the mechanics of the copernican astronomy of galileo attracted him and he also studied keplers optics. it is a fascinating account of how newtons ideas were formed. he collected all these thoughts and developed his own system by which he successfully explained a wide range of

23、 previously uelated phenomena: the eccentric orbits of comets, the procession of the earths axis, and motion of the moon as perturbed by the gravity of the sun, as well as the three laws of motion that made him an international leader in scientific research and the greatest pilot in humans civilizat

24、ion. (157) ? darwins origin of species the theory of evolution is one of the great intellectual revolutions of human history. hundreds of years ago, people were confused with the complexity of different species of the world, and believed that specieswere created by the mysterious god. however, darwi

25、n did not believe so. after several years study, he eventually demonstrated that species, however complex seemingly, all evolved by natural selection from simple and preliminary conditions. when darwin published his famous research results on the origin of species by means of natural selection, the

26、book encountered lots of controversies. members of the religious community, as well as some scientific peers, were outraged and protested. however, darwins idea of evolution eventually defeated the traditional belief and was accepted and acknowledged by some insightful scientists and finally by the

27、society. it is now reverenced as one of the greatest intellectual revolutions of human history. (144) ? nicolaus copernicus nicolaus copernicus was a polish mathematician and astronomer who proposed that the sun was stationary in the center of the universe and the earth revolved around it. disturbed

28、 by the failure of ptolemys geocentric model of the universe to follow aristotles requirement for the uniform circular motion of all celestial bodies, copernicus decided that he could achieve his goal only through a heliocentric model. he thereby created a concept of a universe in which the distance

29、s of the planets from the sun bore a direct relationship to the size of their orbits. at the time copernicuss heliocentric idea was very controversial; nevertheless, it was the start of a change in the way the world was viewed, and copernicus came to be seen as the initiator of the scientific revolu

30、tion. (129) ? galileo galilei galileo galilei was an italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution. his achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for copernicanism. gal

31、ileos observations about four satellites of jupiter with his new telescope convinced him of the truth of copernicuss sun-centered or heliocentric theory. galileo has been called the father of modern observational astronomy, the father of modern physics, and the father of modern science. stephen hawk

32、ing says, galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science. (96) ? christopher columbus in 1485, columbus presented his plans to john ii, king of portugal. he requested he be made great admiral of the ocean, appointed governorof any and all lands he

33、 discovered, and given one-tenth of all revenue from those lands. the king submitted the proposal to his experts and rejected it. in 1488 columbus appealed to the court of portugal once again, and once again it also proved unsuccessful. then, columbus travelled from portugal to both genoa and venice, but he rec