芝加哥大学申请Essay题目:Extend Essay (1).

Extended Essay 论文（5选1）

(choose one of five)

Essay Option 1

"At present you need to live the question."—Rainer Maria Rilke, translated from the German by Joan M. Burnham. 里尔克说：“人们需要带着问题去生活。”（琼伯纳姆先生翻译的德文作品）。Inspired by Sarah Marikar, a third-year in the College.

字数要求：中文大约1200字，英文大约800个单词

写作提示点：

学校要了解你，你的雄心，思考的兴趣点及结果。

可以结合一下中的几点来写：

i. 你的专业目标和梦想

ii. 来自家庭的影响

iii. 来自一个人、事物、事件的影响

iv. 你的某次贡献或成就， 来自于内在某种力量的经历和体会

v. 你曾经着迷的一个兴趣爱好

vi. 你打动大家的才能

vii. 你想改变的某种现象

Essay Option 2

The short film Powers of Ten begins with an aerial shot of a couple picnicking in a Chicago park. The camera zooms out ten meters. It then zooms out again, but the degree of the zoom has increased by a power of ten; the camera is now 100 meters away. It continues to 1,000 meters, then 10,000, and so on, traveling through the solar system, the galaxy, and eventually to the edge of the known universe. Here the camera rests, allowing us to examine the vast nothingness of the universe, black void punctuated sparsely by galaxies so far away they appear as small stars. The narrator comments, "This emptiness is normal. The richness of our own neighborhood is the exception." Then the camera reverses its journey, zooming in to the picnic, and—in negative powers of ten—to the man’s hand, the cells in his hand, the molecules of DNA within, their atoms, and then the nucleus both "so massive and so small" in the "vast inner space" of the atom.

Zoom in and out on a person, place, event, or subject of interest. What becomes clear from far away that you can’t see up close? What intricate structures appear when you move closer? How is the big view related to the small, the emptiness to the richness?

Inspired by Lee Burwasser, a graduate of J. R. Masterman High School, Philadelphia, PA.

《十倍焦距》短片发生于在芝加哥公园空中射击的野餐会。相机镜头拉出十米，镜头再不断拉出，焦距度数已提高到10倍，相机现在是100米以外。镜头继续拉出，到1000米、10000米甚至更远，移动到太阳系、银河系，最后达到已知的宇宙边缘。这里镜头停止了，现在让我们来探测宇宙广泛的未知世界，黑洞像小星星零星点缀在遥远的银河系。目击者说明：“这未知世界是正常的。我们的邻居的美妙之处是特别的。”然后镜头倒转眼前的旅行，对准了野餐会，相反的10倍焦距，对准了男人的一只手，他的手上的细胞，DNA分子，原子，核子。镜头在一个人身上推进又拉出，有趣的位置、事件或主题。什么使遥远的，你不能看见的事物变得清晰可见？什么当你靠近时，复杂的结构会出现？怎样使大视角换成小视觉，未知的到美妙的？

写作提示点： 同ESSAY Option 1

字数要求：中文大约1200字，英文大约800个单词