LSAT综合辅导：LSAT考试范文24

　　Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion expressed above. Support your point of view with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.（统一和分歧）

　　I strongly agree that rule-breakers are the most memorable¹ people. By departing from the status quo, iconoclasts² call attention to themselves, some providing conspicuous³ mirrors for society, others serving j as our primary catalysts⁴ for progress.

　　In politics, for example, rule-breakers Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King secured prominent places in history by challenging the status quo through civil disobedience. Renegades such as Ghengu Khan. Stalin, and Hussein, broke all the human rights "rules," thereby⁵ leaving indelible marks in f historical record. And future generations will probably remember Nixon and Kennedy more clearly than Carter or Reagan, by way of their rule- breaking activities-specifically, Nixon s Watergate debacle and Kennedy s extra-marital trysts⁶.

　　In the arts, mavericks⁷ such as Dali, Picasso, and Warhol, who break established rules of composition, ultimately emerge as the greatest artists, while the names of artists with superior technical skills are relegated⁸ to the footnotes of art-history textbooks. Our most influential⁹ popular musicians are the flagrant rule breakers-for example, be-bop musicians such as Charlie Parker and Thelonius Monk¹⁰, who broke all the harmonic rules, and folk musician-poet Bob Dylan, who broke the rules for lyrics¹¹.

　　In the sciences, innovation and progress can only result from challenging conventional theories, i.e., by breaking rules. Newton and Einstein, for example, both refused to blindly accept what were perceived at their time as certain "rules" of physics. As a result, both men redefined those rules, and both men emerged as two of the most memorable figures in the field of physics.

　　In conclusion, it appears that the deepest positive and negative impressions appear on either side of the same iconoclastic¹² coin. Those who leave the most memorable imprints¹³ in history do so by challenging norms, traditions, cherished values, and the general status quo, that is, by breaking the rules.