사실 토플계를 떠난진 몇달되었는데.. SAT를 독학하다보니..(학원비가 너무 비쌉니다.) 에세이 도움받을 곳이 도저히 없네요.. 커뮤니티도 못찾겠습니다. ㅜㅜ 개인적으로 어려웠던 주제입니다.
주제가 토플과는 다르긴 하지만 글을 배우는 입장에서는 많은 주제를 읽고 써보는것이 중요하다고 생각해서 한번 올려봅니다.
그럼에도, 많은 분들이 TWE게시판에 어울리지 않는다고 생각하시면 자삭하겠습니다. 참고로 시험시간은 25분입니다.(여간 빡센게 아니죠.)
Direction: Describing his vision for the world’s future, President Franklin D. Roosevelt told Congress in 1941 that “…we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression…. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way…. The third is freedom from want…. The fourth is freedom from fear.”
Assignment: All four freedoms are crucial in a free society. Yet, Roosevelt may be faulted for not adding a fifth, a sixth, or even more freedoms to the list. Given the opportunity to add another freedom, what would you choose? Feel free to invent a new freedom or simply pick one that already exists in the Bill of Rights or elsewhere.
I think Roosevelt neglected a very important aspect of freedom, equality. At that time, those rights mentioned by Roosevelt were only for whites. For black Americans, severe discrimination still remained. If I had been given the opportunity to add other rights, I would have included Civil Rights and Voting Rights for all races.
Before Civil Rights Movement of 1950s to 1960s, black American suffered from racial discrimination; blacks went separate school, rode at the backs of buses, and prevented from living in with white neighborhoods. Although Roosevelt spoke about many freedoms, at least, it is clear that his speech wasn’t for black people. For all that the equal right, the birthright, already existed in the Bill of Rights, and the freedoms were also for man, those were definitely not for African Americans. So then, it remains one question. Were black not human being?
The equal right should precede any other right. Roosevelt said, “the first is freedom of speech and expression.” Without Civil Rights and Voting Rights, speaking and expressing about one’s opinions and ideas are only a useless, impotent revolt, since no one has any “real” voice through participating in politics and since no one pay attention to them. For whom is this freedom intended? Without equality, there is no freedom.
Although black Americans had all four freedoms mentioned by Roosevelt, they had to fight against severe segregation just because they didn’t have the equal right, actually already given. If Roosevelt had included the equal right for social minorities in Congress in 1941, and white American had esteemed the right, there might have been no intensive, gory resistance, but only a peaceful melting pot. These are why I believe that these four freedoms should follow the equality.