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Some people believe that government funding of the arts is necessary to ensure that the arts can flourish and be available to all people. Others believe that government funding of the arts threatens the integrity of the arts.


Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.  

这道题提出关于政府资助艺术的两个观点，一个认为政府的资助有必要且必要性体现在繁荣艺术及让所有人都能接触艺术，另一个观点是资助会威胁艺术的完整性，也就是说政府的资助可能会导致某些作品因为不符合主流意识形态而被封杀。这道题用分类讨论的策略来写可能不太合适，主要是因为艺术进行细化可能涉及到一些生僻的词汇，会增加难度。

这里可以考虑的一个思路：
首先同意第一个观点 指出政府资助的必要性 这里可以从两方面考虑 一种是非主流的艺术可能没有商业市场需要政府资助 另一方面有些人很穷 无法负担各种门票 需要政府资助提供免费的艺术

第二段讨论第二个观点 也就是政府资助可能会影响艺术的独立性 这里也可以举一些例子 比如 政府可能会选择性的资助那些歌功颂德的艺术作品  
这里讨论的语气要不太肯定 多用might could之类的情态动词 为第三段做铺垫  

第三段提出自己的立场 认为政府应该资助 但是资助的具体分配应该由一个独立的委員會來完成 這樣可以避免上一段所担心的问题

这样写有点像所谓的正-反-合的模板，但是并没有出现前后观点不一致的情况。  

Despite the industrialization of modern society, the arts and related activities are vital part of our daily life which provide important opportunities for entertainment, education and reflection.  While I agree that government funding is necessary for arts to flourish and for ordinary people to enjoy arts, the concern that government funding may compromise the integrity of arts is a valid one.  In my opinion, therefore, it is important for the government to sponsor arts indirectly through an independent committee as an antidote to potential threat of government funding to the integrity of arts.  

As a threshold matter, government funding and sponsorship are essential to the development of arts.  Unlike popular hollywood movies, which are often sponsored by big corporations through embedded advertising, many artworks could not attract a large number of audience who are willing to pay a large amount of money. If the government does not support the artists and their creative works, the public would not have the opportunities to enjoy high quality artworks.  In addition, arts and creative activities related to arts require infrastructure such as art museum and art schools that can offer space and training programs to exhibit the works and cultivate artistic talents.  Without the support from large corporations, the government has to allocate funding to build art museums and run art schools so that the public can access the museum and send more children to art schools at an affordable rate.  With more members of the public interested and trained in arts, artistic works and activities can then flourish.  

On the other hand, it is understandable to worry that the government's funding may threaten the integrity of arts and artists.  It is well known these days that arts are socially constructed artifacts that do not exist in political vacuum.  Any artworks can and must carry political meanings and messages, which may challenge the authority of the ruling elite.  Meanwhile, the government always has the incentives to sponsor arts that may help advance its own political agenda.  For example, in Mao's China, almost all the songs and movies were produced with a theme of revolutionary propaganda under the sponsorship of the Communist Party.  For Chinese artists at the time, there was virtually no freedom or integrity for arts, which has become a tool for legitimizing the Communist regime.  The last thing we want in China or any other countries is a government sponsorship program for arts that would silence the creative and political voices of artists.  

Given the tension between the need of government support on the one hand and the threat of government funding to the integrity of arts on the other, I would argue that the best solution is to create an independent commission that distributes government funding in a politically neutral way.  The commission should be run by a group of artists elected by their peers and receive government money regularly.  But the government would have no power or influence over how the money will be spent to sponsor different arts projects.  Sponsorships will be awarded to projects based on their merits, not their political or ideological stances.  In fact, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, an organization created by the government to sponsor art projects in Hong Kong, has been operated under this model.  As a result, artists in Hong Kong have enjoyed financial support from the government without any threat from the government on their integrity.  

In conclusion, given the profound impact that arts may have on the society, it is, on the one hand, necessary for the government to support artistic works financially; on the other hand, it is tempting for the government to influence the artists and their activities politically through such sponsorship.  To address this paradox, I have proposed a solution that has worked well in certain regions such as Hong Kong.  





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