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唉..这是第一篇issue...还是照着提纲写的...用了一个多小时....4.21就要考了....
求好心人喷...各种指点.....谢谢
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Issue28
The surestindicator of a great nation is represented not by the achievements of itsrulers, artists, or scientists, but by the general welfare of its people.
According to the speaker, it’s the welfareof its people that plays the major role of representing the nation’s greatness, ratherthan the achievement of its rulers, artists or scientists. AlthoughI agree that the welfare of the citizens is the basic standard to evaluate anation, the achievements of those elites are also involved as the prompt to theimprovement of the people’s welfare, thus plays an indispensible role in representingthe nation as well.
As it’s all known that there exists many aspects of the criterionto evaluate a nation----from the justice of the course and control overcorruption, to the development of economic and reform of many systems. One maytry to figure out which of these perspectives is the most essential for theevaluation, while all these aspects share the common objective, that is, to providea better live for its citizens. In another word, it’s for the welfare of itscitizens.
All of these commonplace facts which we encounter in ourdaily lives, are based on the principle of democracy. That is, we, the people,are in responsible for and in charge of our own interest and that the welfareof the people is considered first. As is known as axiom to all that howdemocracy can influence a nation, thus people’s welfare, an aspect of the democracy,thus remain the significance for representing a nation.
Nonetheless, the speaker ignores the important role, evendetermining, that the achievements in every field play in the development ofthe citizen’s better life. And these achievements, can even be regarded as theunderground and premise for citizens’ better living, not only in terms of material,but also in terms of spirit.
Think about the Ancient Greek, the origin of Westerncivilization, which has exerted great influence over on the world’s civilizationin every aspect, from its philosophy to its achievement in arts. Without Platoand Socrates, think about how the following philosophers, such as Hegel, would putforward the Materialist Dialectics. Without the Athenian democracy, the democracywould not have come “easy”, absence of which may leave us in the dark autocracyfor long. Thus the term of “welfare” is meaningless at all, and in no way availableis the evaluation of nation. Without the literature, including the famous Epic poetry suchas IIiad and Odyssey , and the Lyric poetry, what todays’ literature is goingto be is unimaginable.
Besides, considerThe Industrial Revolution and the scientists that devoted themselves into theirresearches, which bring us a total different lifestyle, such as Wattand Von Neumann. Without the achievement of Watt, which props the IndustrialRevolution and also gets us rid of the carriage into the engine-providedtransportation, the subway today may still be a dream one even dare not toimagine. Without the achievement of Von Neumann, the invention of the personcomputer and internet, which we can’t live without, may be postponed to a fewdecades later, or even will not be created at all. Thus the electronic commercesuch as Amazon and eBay, and the social network such as the Facebook andTwitter, from which we benefits the convenience brought by the technology, arestill a portion of the blueprint. No one will deny that all these are part ofour welfare.
In sum, the speaker’s claim overstates the importance of thewelfare of citizens in representing the nation, at least to some extent. Whilethe principle of democracy requires us to emphasis the welfare, the achievementof the rulers, as well as the artists and the scientists are also indispensiblefactor in determining the greatness of the nation, one that may even play amajor role in determine the improvement of the welfare of the citizens.
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