[i习作temp] Issue36 sisong2003--Hamming小组作文第十一次冲刺 [复制链接]

TOPIC: ISSUE36 - "The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries."WORDS: 448          TIME: 上午 00:42:00          DATE: 2007-1-27

提纲：观点：具体问题具体分析1.       体育界一般同时代的人可以认可伟大的成就 e.g. Michael Jordan2.       艺术界有些可以同时代承认e.g. Mozart 有些要后来承认 e.g. Van Gogh3.       科学领域一般后来承认 e.g. Bruno

Can the greatness of individuals be decided only by those who lived after them rather than their contemporaries, as the speaker asserts? In my view, whether the greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who lived after them is a complex issue, which varies from field to field. And I will discuss it in three distinct fields of sports, art and science as follows. 破题的思路很好，

First of all, in the realm of sports, greatness of individuals is usually recognized by their contemporaries. As one example, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time. His top accomplishments included the following: Five-time NBA MVP; Six-time NBA champion; Ten-time All-NBA First Team; Fourteen-time NBA All-Star; 50th Anniversary All-Time Team, to list a few. Even contemporaneous superstars recognized the unparalleled position of Jordan. Magic Johnson said “There’s Michael Jordan and then there is the rest of us". Thus, contemporaries can also recognize the greatness of individuals.这个结束句是不是和sports没什么关系啊？我也是这样完全不会写结束句

Yet in the field of arts, in some cases greatness of individuals can be recognized by their contemporaries, while in other case it is not. For example, the greatness of Mozart was immediately recognized by his contemporaries, and he was invited to play for the French and English royal families. And he was also granted most generous commissions by the monarchs who appreciated his talent. To the contrary, some other artist was recognized in retrospect. Consider, Van Gogh, who is considered to be the founder of impressionism on painting, received little appreciation during his lifetime. And his talent in painting was accepted many years after his death. Therefore, in the realm of arts, whether an individual's greatness can be decided by their contemporaries should be analyzed from case to case. 这段写得不错，正反对比，例子也很恰当

Finally, in the domain of science, great achievement of scientist is usually decided in retrospect, by those who live after them. Take Bruno as an example, who developed the theory of the universe that advanced the universal theory to a unified, material and infinite space. His theory claimed that the sun was not the center of universe and there were numerous worlds outside the solar system. Bruno's theory was so ahead of the times that he was imprisoned for a long time and eventually sentenced to death by the religious community. Almost 300 years later, his theory was recognized by the scientific community. 这段完全是例子阿？还要在多说几句，结尾处应该有个总结的

In conclusion, whether the greatness of individuals can only be recognized in retrospect is a complex issue as mentioned above. In the realm of sports it is usually decided by their contemporaries, while in the field of science it may be recognized in retrospect. Yet in the domain of arts it should be decided from case to case.