100 Great Examples (SAT Essay):

1. Steven Job (Apple Computers) 2. Michael Dell (Dell Computers) 3. Richard Branson (Virgin Records) 4. Donald Trump (Real Estate Mogul) 5. Howard Schultz (Starbucks) 6. Jack Welch (General Electric) 7. The Google Guys: Larry Page and Sergey Brin 8. Andrew Carnegie 9. Nelson Mandela 10. 13 Days (JFK- Cuban Missile Crisis) 11. Augusto Pinochet 12. Manuel Noriega 13. Alberto Fujimori 14. Watergate Scandal 15. Enron Scandal (Sarbanes-Oxley Act) 16. Smartest Guys in the Room: Enron (movie or book) 17. Wall Street (movie CAUTION: Rated R) 18. Dot-Com Boom & Dot-Com Burst 19. Wall Street Crash of 1929 20. Ideologies: Liberalism / Communism / Socialism / Social Democracy 21. Capitalism vs. Anti-Globalization Movement 22. NAFTA / CAFTA (Pros vs. Cons) 23. Oprah Winfrey 24. Martha Stewart. 25. 9/11 (e.g. NYPD/NYFD, post-9/11, etc.) 26. Global Warming 27. Hybrid Technology / Full Cell Technology 28. Dependency on Foreign Oil 29. Vietnam / Gulf / Iraq War 30. French / Russian / American Revolution 31. Patriot Act 32. Singapore / China / North Korea (ideologies) 33. Socrates / Plato (the Republic->our constitution) 34. Glass Menagerie (movie or book) 35. Death of a Salesman (movie or book) 36. Birth of a Nation (movie) 37. Great Gatsby (book) 38. Scent of a Woman (movie) 39. Macbeth (book) 40. Merchant of Venice (book) 41. 12 Angry Men (movie) 42. Ethan Frome (book) 43. Citizen Kane (movie) 44. A Tale of Two Cities (book)

45. Scarlet Letter (book or movie) 46. Of Mice and Men (movie or book) 47. The Count of Monte Cristo (movie or book) 48. Metropolis (movie) 49. 1984 (movie or book) 50. Fahrenheit 451 (book) 51. One Hundred Years of Solitude (book) 52. Crime and Punishment (book) 53. War and Peace (book) 54. Inferno (book) 55. The Oedipus Play (book) 56. Othello (book) 57. Don Quixote (book) 58. Black Boy (book) 59. The Brother Karamazov (book) 60. Birth of a Nation (movie) 61. Great Expectations (book) 62. Little Women (book) 63. The Metamorphosis (book) 64. A Million Little Pieces (book) 65. Vertigo (movie) 66. The World is Flat (book) 67. Israel vs. Palestine (the bloodshed) 68. Candide (book) 69. VJ Singh (vs. Tiger Woods) 70. Lance Armstrong 71. Muhammad Ali 72. Steve Prefontaine 73. The Roman Empire 74. The Fall of Rome 75. Early Middle Ages 76. High Middle Ages 77. Italian Renaissance 78. The Enlightenment 79. The Scientic Revolution 80. The French Revolution 81. Napoleonic Europe 82. The Great Depression 83. The Civil Rights Era 84. Niel Bohr 85. Sigmund Freud 86. Vladimir Lenin 87. Georgia OKeeffe 88. J. Robert Oppenheimer 89. Max Planck 90. James K. Polk

91. Sacajawea 92. Harriet Beecher Stowe 93. Joseph Stalin 94. Woodrow Wilson 95. John Winthrop 96. Virginia Woolf 97. Werner Heisenberg 98. Friedrich Nietzsche 99. Pablo Neruda 100. Eva Peron