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Richie’s SAT Essay

By Korea Herald

Published : April 20, 2015 - 13:26

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Example: A good example of this can be taken from the story of what happened on the morning of 9/11/2001 in the United States. Unbeknownst to anyone in the US at that time, two Saudi terrorists had entered the United States through Canada, and were planning to attack the US by hijacking airplanes and flying them into various buildings. On that morning, however, the two Saudi hijackers were late arriving to the airport, and were both carrying box-cutters with them. Rather than being disallowed from boarding the aircraft, or having their box-cutters confiscated by security, the two were allowed to board even after the boarding time for their flight had officially passed. The small decision that the security personnel at that airport made in allowing the hijackers onto the airplane (even though they arrived late and carried box-cutters with them) cost thousands of Americans their lives.

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Example: Another, even more deadly example comes from the daily, seemingly small decisions of millions of people all around the world to eat unhealthy food, smoke, or do drugs. The attacks on 9/11 caused the US incredible, national pain, yet, sadly, more people die every day around the world from heart-attacks, lung cancer, or drugs than died that day because of terrorists. The decision to have one more cigarette, to have unhealthy food, or to get high one more time may seem small to those who make those decisions, but those small decisions turn into habits, and those habits turn into death. The very decisions that we classify as small often are the ones that impact our lives the most because they are the ones toward which we have let down our guard.