SAT prompt examples
Following the Crowd Prompt 2 Are widely held views often wrong, or are such views more likely to be correct Thesis: Widely held views, though popular, may not always be correct Tragedy of the Commons Coin termed by environmental scientists Commonly held belief that one?s relatively small usage of shared resources will not affect Eventually, because everyone believes this, there occurs a synergistic effect, depleting the resources Although this is a common and popular belief, it is not necessarily true Louis XIV Established a court in which the popular goal was to succeed in court politics Do whatever the king does, stay with the popular trends, etc. In this belief, the nobles lost power, leaving Louis XIV with near unlimited power