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11"All nations should help support the development of a global university designed to engage students in the process of solving the world's most persistent social problems."

Outline：
1.analyse the origin of the persistent social problems(it is the increasing gap between developed countries and developing countries and the inherent difference of cultures that course those persistent problems)
2.a global university can not decrease and eliminate the factors that cause the problems,though it has some merits
3.it is also unpractical for all nations to participate in supporting such a university.

The twenties' century saw tremendous changes to our human beings at many aspects. On agriculture, high technology was used to promote the productivity of farming and save a large amount of people who were in the danger of hunger; on industry, various electronic appliances are invented and applied to our daily life. Technology advancements solve many problems and indeed improve our quality of life.  However, some problems continue to bother our humans when we has stepped in to new century, such as pollution, depletion of resources, race conflict, terrorism and so forth. Thus, some people argue that, in order to address these world's most persistent social problems, all nations should participate in supporting the development of a global university.

As the advocates believe, in such global university students are educated and specialized with those continuing problems and after they graduate they can play an important role in the process of solving them. Is it really so? In my view,to judge whether such a university is necessary and effective, we should first turn to examine the factors that cause those persistent social problems.

Having a closer examination of these problems, we can find that it is the increasing gap between developed countries and developing countries and the inherent difference of cultures that course those persistent problems. Why people never stop polluting the environment and exhausting the limited resources while they have noticed the serious environmental problems and the depletion of resources? While developed countries call on reducing pollution, they gradually move their industries to developing countries; while they advocate restricting the explore of resources, they have to demand a large amount of gas, petroleum,coal,etc.to maintain the high level of everyday consumption. The developing countries, in order to keep pace with the development of the global economy or compensate the exchequer of the country, would rather ameliorate their economy condition at the expense of depleting resources and polluting environment. Similarly,why race conflicts always occur in the world, like between Israel and Palestine, while people have realized that peace is the foundation of the development of society. It is the inherent difference of culture formed in history that leads to the ceaseless conflicts. In sum, to address these social problems, we should try to eliminate or reduce the effects of these factors, such as  the gap between developed and developing countries and the difference of culture.

Turning back to the global university, is it really conducive to solve these continuing problems? As a matter of fact, although it have some merits, a global university is not effective to help addressing these problems.  A global university provides an environment for students from different countries to communicate with each other, which can facilitates the mutual understanding and enable students to share the unique ideas of other cultures. However, limited by the number of members, only mutual understanding among these students is far not enough to reduce the inherent difference of cultures. Many Israel' and Palestine' students study in the same university in Europe and North America, but the race conflicts continue. Moreover, the gap between developed countries and developing countries will not be mitigated because these students equipped with special knowledge may not take essential position in governments. Whether the ideas are adopted and the graduates are employed in governments is determined by the policy of each country. In addition, with regard to the complexity of the issue about those problems which have bother humans many years, it is difficult for professors to teach students how to solve them properly. These issues should be left to those diplomats, leaders and economists--not to professors and students in university.

It is not only less effective but impractical to require all nations to participate in building and supporting such a university. Many poor countries are more likely to spend the money and resources on feeding their hungry people and building public facilities rather than support a global university. If only a few developed countries support and are in charge of this university, they will be more concerned with those issues that have the direct influence on themselves and neglect those bothering other countries altogether. In that case, a global university defeats its goals and can not be called "global" any more.  Even if such a university is built and supported by all nations, controversy will arise when it comes to decide which issue to be the most urgent problems and how to allocate the resources of university. Different countries have different views, and they may all insist that the issues which influence themselves are more pressing and should be solved first. Therefore, such a university will cause new problems before it really solve any one.

In sum, building a global university is not an effective and practical way to solve the persistent problems in this world. It will be a waste of money to require all nations to join in this program. Although it has some merits, a global university will achieve little and disappoint its advocates.

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[同主题temp] issue11 我根据那第二个提纲写了一篇，大家看行不行，imong哥和hatty姐也帮我看看 [复制链接]

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