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SAT作文素材段 挑战权威 Martin Luther King Jr. Born in Atlanta on Jan 15th, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. led a peaceful life with his parents when he was young. He was so smart that he got a Bachelor degree when he was only 19 years old in 1948. But unfortunately, the adversity happened that racial discrimination started to be prevalent in the U.S. again. Having suffered from all of the discriminations and humiliations to the blacks, Martin Luther King was nominated as the leader of the campaign in 1956. The most important moment took place in 1963 when he delivered a speech named “I have a dream” in front of the Lincoln Memorial to express the anger towards racial discrimination and hope to be equal with white people. Afterwards, the Kennedy Administration started to take actions and King won the Nobel peace prize one year later. Although he was murdered when he was 39 years old, the black would not have gained equal rights with the white people if King had not protested against the white supremacists. Steve Jobs Quit college in an early age, Steve Job established Apple with his friend in 1976. Soon after he started his own company, he and his friend made the Apple’s first computer Apple I, which marked the initiate of his career. During his life he went through the excitement of making huge profits and the loneliness of being driven away from Apple. But he went back to Apple 20 years later in 1997, a time when Apple was in a tendency of declining and Microsoft had dominated the software industry for nearly a decade. With the aspiration to succeed and the confidence to challenge the Microsoft, Jobs designed Mackintosh, a unique operating system and a computer---iMac. To his surprise, the Mackintosh and iMac received such a huge success that it surprised the Microsoft leaders and many computer users. In a way, it was courage that created a successful operating system, which was a landmark in Apple’s history. The Manchester City Established in the year of 1894, Manchester Ci