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美国中学生作文集 美国中学生作文集 写要渲染环境，生动感人。任何事情的发生、开展都离不开环 境，抓住环境的特点来写，会很好的渲染气氛，表达感情，使文章 更加生动感人。美国中学生作文范文有哪些? The following essay was written by Edmund N. Carpenter, age 17, in June 1938 while he was a student in Lawrenceville, N.J. Carpenter would go on to win the Bronze Star for his service in World War II and to a civilian career as an attorney. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he became president of Richards, Layton Finger, a law firm. He died on Dec. 19, xx at age 87 and is survived by six children and 15 grandchildren: It may seem very strange to the reader that one of my tender age should already be thinking about that inevitable end to which even the paths of glory lead. However, this essay is not really concerned with death, but rather with life, my future life. I have set down here the things which I, at this age, believe essential to happiness and plete enjoyment of life. Some of them will doubtless seem very odd to the reader; others will perhaps be pletely in aord with his own wishes. At any rate, they pose a synopsis of the things which I sincerely desire to have done before I leave this world and pass on to the life hereafter or to oblivion. Before I die I want to know that I have done something truly great, that I have aomplished some glorious achievement the credit for which belongs solely to me. I do not aspire to bee as famous as a Napoleon and conquer many nations; but I do want, almost above all else, to feel that I have been an addition to this world of ours. I should like the world, or at least my native land, to be proud of me and to sit up and take notice when my name is pronounced and say, There is a man who has done a great thing. I do not want to have passed through life as just another speck of humanity, just another cog in a tremendous machine. I want to be something greater, far greater than that. My desire is not so much for immortality as for distinction whil