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去年AW考了4 为了提高AW又考了一遍 结果就变成3了 辛辛苦苦复习了半年实在是不服气 觉得问题应该主要出在issue上可能被判雷同了吧 先贴两篇issue的习作 lz看看有改判的可能么?考场上写的我再回一下 争取贴出来
ISSUE169 - "Those who treat politics and morality as though they were separate realms fail to understand either the one or the other."
Do those who treat politics and morality as they were separate realms fail to understand either the one or the other? The speaker claims so. On a large scale, this statement is quite reasonable to me; however, to completely separate the two items will also result in failure.
In politics, in order to hold one's position, the politicians cannot be stick to the high morality standards strictly. Since in the political world, there exist different interests' groups whose views and benefits may conflict each other, they are always struggling with others: try to collapse other group's leadership and construct their own. Therefore, to hold his/her position, a politician sometimes just cannot be a savant. Consider every 4 year's election. The candidates always finding out the fallacies of hid/her counterparts and fire at them. Even these flaws are peccadilloes, to strengthen the effects, they try to overstate them and criticize them. The elections are carried on just like this, in the fire and smog of interactive critics. However, just as the Bible and other classic tell us, one should love others, tolerate others flaws, and be friendly and mild to others, even they are your enemies. Obviously, politicians break these basic rules. In fact, they just cannot obey them, or else they will lose their political power.
Moreover, to protect the security and the stability of the community, the politicians, also need to play tricks to the public. One of the essential parts of morality is honesty. Nevertheless, politicians sometimes must not be totally honest and sincere. Many of the issues are concerning the classified information of the nation, which, once be leaked out, may hurt the well-being of the whole nation. Other policies making process, once be revealed, will raise great dissatisfaction of the public, since the masses are sometimes fail to view the whole picture. Consider the military information, much of which concerns the very security of the nation. If a politician confused the morality with politics and nascent believed that honesty should be applied in every issue, he may put the country's classified information under exposure, while, at the same time, wreak great havoc on the country's security.
However, one should not abuse their political power under the excuses that morality has nothing to do with politics. In fact, keeping high standards morality serves the basis of a good and successful politician. The rationale is quite simple: only when a politician behaves in an admirable and respectable way, can he/she harvest the respects from the public. Looking into the rear mirror provided by the history, the truly great leaders are always those who can try their best to stick to the high standards morality. Consider Gandhi. His success and greatness has been recognized by the history. Instead of winning by playing political tricks, he led his people to victory by behaving in a very respectable manner. Or consider Martin Luther King, the leader of the American's Civil Revolution. He did not try to cheat on the people nor the government to get his own benefits; on the contrary, King held all the African American's welfare in mind and called on the people to be calm and peaceful in struggling for their basic civil rights. Such behaviors, apparently, were based on the standards of morality. Without such morality serving as the basis, none could these political movements and these leaders are successful.
Truly, morality and politics cannot be mixed together, which will hurt both the future of a politician as well as the well-being and security of a nation. However, morality should not be therefore deemed as a redundancy of the politics. In fact, it serves the very basis of a successful political leadership and political victories.
TOPIC: ISSUE73 - "In most professions and academic fields, imagination is more important than knowledge."
WORDS: 664
TIME: 00:45:00
DATE: 2008-12-12 11:09:24
In most professions and academic fields, is imagination more important than knowledge? The speaker claims so. Though it seems that it is imagination that inspires those experts to discover the wholly new things which are great beneficial to the whole human civilization, I still believe that without the solid support of knowledge, all those beautiful mental image will just stay at the stage of in nascent, and will never truly benefit the society.
Of course, imagination, setting people free from the confinement of conventions and conforms, will stimulate people to think out of the box, and perceive things and the world in a different way, which provides the basis for creative invention as well as breaking discovery. Many of the conventions of traditional view point and culture, to certain degree, prevent people from truly creating study which keep them from making significant breakthrough. Such conventions in academic world, sometimes, almost equal to killing the experts and researchers' revolutionary inspirations in nascent.
Therefore, to break through such limitations, a researcher should employ the imagination to help him/her view the physical world and issues from a new perspective, which are more likely to lead to meaningful discoveries. Consider the Wright Brothers, the inventors of the airplanes. Rather than inspired by the existing knowledge, they were stimulated by human being's long-time dream--- flying, and their own imagination---flying like a bird, and finally created the vehicle which, not only bear significance in the intellectual world, but also have greatly moved human civilization forward.
However, without the support of knowledge, many imagination works risk being unfeasible, or totally wrongful, which carry no significant meaning to the academic world. Many of imaginations lacks the basis of solid knowledge, or even are in violation with those basic principles; thus, only by referring to specific knowledge can we identify whether the imagination are truly meaningful to the academic and even the whole world. Consider the permanent power machine----a fantastic imagination work of some physicians in the 19th century. Upon first glance, one may find it great and gorgeous. In fact, that was what many scientists thought. However, scrutinized by basic physic principles, it is not difficult to realize that such imaginative work violates Newton's basic physical principles. Thus, rather than a significant and laudable creation, it merely equaled to a dreaming unfeasible product, bearing little significance to the academy.
Also, relying on pure imagination, lacking the basis of solid precise academic knowledge, stands every possibility to just equal to pure fantasy, and cannot be realized in the real world, which is the basic means to bring imaginations to nourish fruits, benefiting the academic fields, and extand the profits of academic fruits to the social world. Most of the truly amazing discoveries in the academic world and professions are generated by bringing the imagination to the real world under the instruction of specific professional knowledge. Actually, only when the imaginations come into the reality and benefit the intellectual as well as the social world, can it claim that it is meaningful, and this process will not be going on without professional knowledge. Consider, without the exponentially development of computer science, which yield myriads of knowledge on electronic and software, how can the internet, whose benefits have already spread out the academic world, be feasible both conceptually and in reality. Lacking of the basic knowledge, the imagination will just like a kite without rope in the sky: beautiful and fascinating may be, rarely bear truly applicable meaning and always equal to pure fantasy.
In short, imagination, surely, is important and necessary in many professions and academic fields, which will free people's thoughts to gender more significant discoveries and breakthroughs. However, on the other hand, we cannot rely wholly on the imaginations to lead our intellectual world. Only by combining knowledge and imagination together, and letting the knowledge to instruct our mental imaging work, can we truly nourish great imaginative work that will serve as the motivation to move forward the academy and society. |
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