S.A.T. Essay

This is the practice SAT essay that I took.  I had 25 minutes to create it.  I hope that you like it.

      Destiny has been man's savior, man's curse, and man's love.  Through the course of history it has played many roles, under many names.  Throughout this, though, one thing has remained the same; destiny only comes to those who create it.  Destiny is achieved through a series of choices made in everyday situations, everyday.
      A great number of Americans believe in cause and effect; everything is done for a reason.  By this belief, one can explain all of life's phenomenons.  Destiny is the effect of thousands of everyday choices.  The saying, "If you do nothing, nothing will get done," has tangible truth to it.  If we wait all day for destiny to come to us, we will never get anything to happen.  This has been proven by countless other role models.
      The great world renown leader in human rights, Nelson Mandela, believed that to receive great things, you had to do great things.  Historians know that if it were not for Mandela's initiative, many other human rights activists would be without a role model to base themselves off of.  Nelson Mandela created his destiny, instead of waiting for it to come to him.
      Destiny is achieved through the choices we make everyday.  Cause and effect has proven this time and time again.  World leaders have been influenced by this.  Man has two choices concerning destiny; either to sit around and wait for it to come to him, or to get up and make his own destiny.