1006G 备考日记 by qxn_1987——now

qxn_1987UID：2610437

1.20&1.21
过来补一下昨天的日志，顺便写一下今天的：
这几天作业都没写。。一天一科。。
明天就好了，全考完了，然后使劲补！！！
话说这两天真是有点恶心。。
I也没写，急！！！！
赶紧期末考完！！！补！！！！！
加油加油！！
加油！！！
peace。。

qxn_1987UID：2610437

01.22
终于终于期末考结束了。
开始补作业！！！

qxn_1987UID：2610437

01.19(comments)

In this long season of bailouts and federally administered stimuli, with seemingly every starving investment banker pleading to Congress that capitalism is just too hard, America’s artists had a golden opportunity to pull off the greatest piece of conceptual art since Marcel Duchamp realized that urinal-factory craftsmen in Trenton, New Jersey, were turning out far more graceful sculpture than he ever could. Instead, they sold themselves out at the ridiculously low price of $50 million. Andy Warhol must be spinning in（上床，就寝，睡午觉） his grave.

Wouldn’t it have been more provocative, inspiring, and educational if they’d simply said, “No, thanks”? If, say, they’d commissioned Karen Finley to storm the Capitol, her naked body decorated with a portrait of Milton Friedman fashioned from smeared Godiva chocolate? “We don’t want your money!” she could have exclaimed. “Not the $50 million mandated by the stimulus act, nor the $145 million in annual funding the NEA was already scheduled to get this year! Keep your soft-core socialism for Citigroup and the manufacturers of wooden arrows! We’re artists! Fiercely autonomous! Proudly independent! Unlike our cowardly, un-American counterparts in the world of big business, we’re committed to free enterprise and self-determination!”

Instead, arts advocates responded like every other underachieving opportunist peddling its troubled assets to federal sugar daddies（<美俚>甜爹(施恩或送贵重礼品以博取年轻女人欢心的老色迷）: They argued that our chamber music societies and tap dancing foundations are too economically significant to fail. The arts’ “role in generating billions of dollars in ancillary economic activity for stores, restaurants and the travel business has been proven in bucketloads of surveys and analyses,” exclaimed Chicago Tribune theater critic Chris Jones. “Even the smallest [arts] organization can record the fact that the parking lot down the street and the dry cleaner around the corner and the restaurant nearby all do better when the organization is functioning,” Kate D. Levin, New York City’s cultural affairs commissioner, told The New York Times.An NEA press release announced, “Nonprofit arts organizations and their audiences generate $166.2 billion in economic activity every year, support 5.7 million jobs, and return nearly $30 billion in government revenue every year,” with “every $1 billion in spending by nonprofit arts and culture organizations and their audiences result[ing] in almost 70,000 full time jobs.”

In the early 1960s, when our highest elected officials began evangelizing for the creation of state-sponsored arts programs, there was little talk of ancillary economic activity or job creation. At the dedication of a new library at Amherst College in 1963, President Kennedy said he looked forward to an America “which will steadily enlarge cultural opportunities for all our citizens.” At a groundbreaking ceremony for the Kennedy Center in 1964, President Johnson expressed his desire to “enlarge the access of all our people to artistic creation.” A year later, he approved the legislation that created the National Endowment for the Arts. Its first grant, for $100,000, went to the American Ballet Theater, a bequest which, according to the New York Herald Tribune, saved that institution from extinction.

In such a competitive, oversupplied environment, is a lack of funding really the primary reason that not every Midwestern dance troupe is thriving? Will throwing money at highbrow entities suddenly make people less interested in American Idol and YouTube and more interested in Alvin Ailey? At this point, it might be more beneficial for the kinds of arts the NEA has traditionally funded to create a federal agency that spends $150 million a year snipping cable hook-ups, sabotaging iPods, and paying modestly talented environmental sculptors not to create. That way, we might actually have some spare attention to give new orchestral works and accordion festivals.

In the early 1990s, when the NEA was helping underwrite artists who baptized Jesus Christ in urine（尿） or gave live tours of their cervixes, its value to our culture was clear: For less than a dollar a year per taxpayer, the organization served as a vivid symbol of our commitment to free expression. In other countries, the government might behead（斩首，看头） you for blaspheming sacred figures; in America, it was paying you to do so! Granted, the NEA did a far better job offending conservative sensibilities than liberal ones, but anyone with a taste for unfettered discourse could appreciate it on an abstract level at least. The arts bureaucracy was itself a work of conceptual art.

Today the agency is careful to fund nothing more controversial than bilingual puppetry epics. And given the glut of cultural opportunities that now bedevil us, its status as a nurturer of the arts is less pronounced（（观点等）强硬的，明显的） than its status as an agent of state-sponsored moral engineering. Now, it exists largely to reinforce the notion that musicals are somehow more inherently suited to nourishing the roots of our culture than sitcom pilots. That ballet is a greater part of our national heritage than burlesque. That mediocre opera singers deserve more support than our best gangsta rappers.



Comments:

Nowadays some people think that the arts is so hand in glove with economic money, it isn’t pure or rustic any more. Admittedly, the arts plays an important role in generating billions of dollars in ancillary economic activities, including new jobs. Some people or government support the arts just for money not for its pure own sake of its true meaning or free expressing.

As a matter of fact, this passage is very usefull for the writing of issue, as far as I am concerned. It is related to issue 190 that whether government use the public resources to support the arts is inappropriate when people in a society are hungry, or out of work or lack the basic skills needed to survive. We can learn lots of things in the passage including opinions and materials. For instance, as to this iusse, then we can take the standpoint that the gvernment should support the arts though some people still go hungry, or are out of work, since the arts can bring millions of jobs, as well as a great amount of money.

qxn_1987UID：2610437

01.20(comments)

Comments:

The discovery of DNA indicates a splendid advancement in human history, in 1979. And yet, as the proverb goes, “Every coin has two sides.” There are both blessings and curses.

On the one hand, we can use it to cue some disease which is so difficult to cure by normal and traditional means, including Parkinson’s disease and schizophrenia, to alleviate the suffering of such patients; in the meantime we can use which to eugenics, which is so benefical for our enduring generations, then to make our country to be more powerful and strong in the long run.

On the other hand, it may be used by some people for a immoral or illegal purpose, though it has numerous of benefits. We needn’t to go too far to the terrible results if somebody use genetics or optogenetics to manufacture weapons or to subjugate the world.

And as to the technology or experiments relating to the gene, people always have different opinions, such as clone. I am not a backer of the technology of clone, which will bring more disadvantages, from my personal point of view, rather than benefits, as well as conflict with or challenge our religions or traditions.

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拼写：
illegal
clone
religion
challenge

qxn_1987UID：2610437

01.21(comments)

beef up（[口]加强，补充（人力，兵数等））
stainless steel（不锈钢）

Comments:
Nowadays the technology develops dramatically. EMPs is one of the good example, which is usually associated with warfare, now is spotted have peacefull uses, that is forming steel components. The speaker reckons forming steel components with an EMP device provides a number of advantages, which can reduce the expense as well, by comparing with other approaches, such as laser. We may expect the EMPs has a bright and brilliant future.

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brilliant

qxn_1987UID：2610437

01.22(comments)

Which of these two sayings is true? "Absence makes the heart grow fonder." or "Out of sight, out of mind." The answer is that both are true. "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" is true over the short term and "Out of sight, out of mind" is true over the long term. For example, when Charlie's girlfriend, Betty, is gone for two or three weeks, he misses her, or his heart grows fonder. Yet, if Betty were to leave for two or three years, Charlie could very well forget her and get a new girlfriend ("Out of sight, out of mind.").
The purpose of the example is to show that contradictions, inconsistencies, and paradoxes are perfectly acceptable. In fact, without them we could never understand the full measure of life. For life is complex. It can never be reduced to a simple statement. It cannot be described in black and white terms. When we grasp this truth, it helps us to see things differently. We learn to question, probe, and search for the bigger picture. Even the greatest of minds will occasionally slip and fail to see the big picture because they mistakenly believe that contradictions are irreconcilable.

The truth is individuality and conformity are merely different sides of the same coin. We cannot have one without the other. We cannot have conformity unless there are individuals to conform. And we cannot have individuality unless there is conformity to break free of. Although conformity can be interpreted as a loss of freedom, without it society would be reduced to chaos. 【Look at present-day Iraq. Citizens are pleading with（向．．．请求） the coalition forces to restore law and order. They are begging to be restrained by laws, for once they are, they will be FREE to wander in the streets without fear.】

Are you fed up with the many laws and rules you have to put up with? At times, you have a right to be, for the laws may well need changing. However, many times our dissatisfaction with the demands of society is because we have forgotten the benefits of conformity. Whenever we join a group, we share in the benefits, advantages, and power. And conformity is the price we pay to gain admission to that group. How can I have one without the other?

Imagine how the lives of Jews and Palestinians will improve when they agree to live in peace, harmony, and cooperation. By conforming to mutual expectations, they can transform a living hell to an earthly paradise. Such is the power and freedom we can gain by conforming to the greater good. When we learn to do so because of our concern for the rights of others, we grow in spiritual awareness and help to make the world a better place.

What should the goal of our lives be other than being ourselves? Although we were all born equal, we were all born different. Although we all share the same fears, feelings, and fancies, we express them differently. Although there may be little difference between one person and another, that little difference is VERY important. 【For as Hermann Hesse (1877 ~ 1895)
wrote, "Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again." So, to relinquish our identity by following the crowd is to deny the world of our potentially unique contribution.】

And how must we express our uniqueness? Isn't it by conforming to our conscience, conforming to our higher selves, conforming to the person we wish to become, conforming to our dreams, and conforming to our principles? How can we become better than we are until we first become what we are? The key to a successful life is always one of balance. It is no different here. We need to balance conformity with individuality. Both are necessary.

A word of warning: we have been socialized to conform to the wishes of authority figures. Too often we act out of habit. Yes, we need to cooperate and conform whenever it is fitting, but we need to question as well. 【Failure to question unscrupulous business accounting practices led to many people in the U.S. losing their retirement plans. Failure to question the government led to the loss of 58,000 American lives and perhaps 1,750,000 Vietnamese in the Vietnam War. Regardless of the authority figure, we need to question it. A quote attributed by Robert Green Ingersoll to Ferdinand Magellan (1480 ~ 1521) is a example, which writes, "The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the Church." [Yes, we need to conform, but not at the price of abandoning reason and common sense. 】

Not only do we need to question others, we need to question our own actions. Are we living with integrity and practicing individuality by being true to ourselves? If we stop and question ourselves, we may be surprised by the answer. 【When Emile Henry Gauvreau (1891 ~ 1956) stopped and questioned himself, he discovered, "I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike." 】Don't let that happen to you.

When you dare to be different, expect to be assailed. You may be labeled a misfit. But why worry about what others think, when as soon as you leave their company, they'll stop thinking about you anyway? Besides, 【it is as Mignon Mclaughlin (b. 1915) said, "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."】 We owe all progress, discoveries, and breakthroughs to those few men and women who had the courage to be different. Their differences made all the difference to the world. Our responsibility is no less than to follow their example.

Also part of our responsibility is to educate our children properly. When doing so, 【keep in mind the words of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 ~ 1900): "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." I'll end with another Nietzsche quote, "You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." So, dare to be yourself!】



Comments:

This article is so graceful and compelling, which is mainly on conformity and individuality. And as to this issue, I adopt an similar opinion as the speaker, that is conformity and individuality, as a matter of fact, is uniform, united and intergrated, intead of separated in our common sense. They just like the two sides of a coin, and we can’t have one without another.

Whereas, all too often we just pay too much attention or importance to only one of them, instead of treating or viewing merely only individuality or community while ignoring another. Many times we have forgotten the benefits of conformity to complain our dissatisfaction with the demands of society; and many times we are too habitual or craven to question.

In sum, it would be better if we could strike a balance between individuality and community.

qxn_1987UID：2610437

01.23
今天真是恶心透了！！哼，不管了，睡了！！
明天是新的一天！！
加油吧！！！

qxn_1987UID：2610437

01.23(comments)

Comments:

To be honest, this passage is so abstract to me. I can not understand it clearly, as a matter of fact, so I just write something might not relative to the thesis of this article, since which I am not familiar with. We have just experience financial crisis which is no denying that have influence all the world so deeply and widely, and the economy is recoverying from it gradually day by day. Amid the recoverying, we also should not deny that something is changing delicately and potentially, as well some strategies, perspectives, or structures are changing as well. In the meantime, we begin to be more circumspect about investment carries more risks.

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structure

strategy

qxn_1987UID：2610437

01.24&01.25(comments)

This debate has got off to an excellent start: we thank our debaters and the many people who have contributed online. Now the debaters have laid out their starting propositions, the arguments are beginning to deepen, with serious questions asked about what success means and what it means to say that women have never had it so good.

Terry O'Neill rightly objects to the complacency implied by "never had it so good" (which is why, of course, Harold Macmillan's phrase became notorious in the first place). This complacency implies that women should call it a day rather than continue to agitate for（鼓动） a better deal.

feminists（男女平等主义者, 女权扩张论者）

rat race（卑鄙的竞争, 你死我活的竞争）

Several studies also suggest that people are no happier than they used to be. The fact that women have conflicting choices—particularly over whether they should find fulfilment in motherhood or careers—is creating a great deal of angst.

【The problem with steering the debate in another direction, however much we may sympathise with（赞同） the arguments and frustrations in doing so, is that it avoids discussion of the specific motion.】Moreover, it removes the opportunity for women to take stock of their lives, to look around and to make some comparisons of then and now.

If we had been invited to discuss the plight of people—not just women—in the developing world, we would have needed far more than the space allotted（(按份额)分配, 分派） here. But this debate is focused on women in the developed world and the general question of whether they are better off now than they have ever been.

【As has been established, and I would not quibble with any of the evidence on women's pay, the struggle for equal pay for equal responsibilities in the workplace between men and women has a long way to run. But that is not the proposition.】

The question we are here to discuss is whether women in developed countries today are better off（境况好）
than their mothers were. I do not think that this debate is necessarily about pay and careers but about perceptions, and self-perceptions at that. What do we mean by "never had it so good"?

Are women simply going to measure their progress in society by financial comparisons? Isn't that the sort of thing that men do? I thought women were smarter than that.

【The answer depends on the way an individual woman understands her role in society. An important consideration here must be self-fulfilment and, as Fay Weldon the novelist once said, men are irrelevant in women's considerations. "Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men," said Weldon. That is harsh, but women must believe this of themselves if they are to reshape a better future than the conflict-strewn path of history carved by men.】

This brings us to the nub of the debate: do women have a better opportunity today to realise their potential than they did in the past? I think the answer must be a resounding "yes".

A generation ago there were few of the safeguards in the employment system that protect women today. 【Sexual discrimination laws were in their infancy and equal opportunities legislation was just beginning to make a difference.】 Today all that has changed.

If there is modern discrimination against women in contemporary education it is probably directed at those who might want to raise a family at home. That option is no longer on the agenda for those in school or college. Women are educated today in order to fulfil an economic role in society. 【The traditional role of motherhood, they find, must be slotted within career breaks, then juggled in ever more complex organisational demands of combining salaried work with domestic cares.】

For all the talk of growth economies, of productivity, of richer nations enjoying greater spending power than less successful neighbours, the end game of humanity is not a fistful of dollars but about relative happiness and contentment over a lifetime. Women play a unique role in that equation, always have, always will.

【Women know it innately but my fear is that in the battle for workplace equity they could lose sight of（不再看见，忽略，忘记） some of the defining aspects of womanhood（女人，女人气质）.】

【Why is the caring role—whether looking after children or the elderly—perceived by some as a raw deal（不公平的待遇）? Helping children to understand the world around them is one of the most rewarding experiences that life can offer, while sharing the twilight years of the elderly can be equally rewarding if we can rid ourselves of the shabby images of caring: brattish, screaming infants and incoherent oldies gathered round the TV. Care in the family need not be like that, but valuing everything in monetary terms has diminished humanity, importing elements of the production line to birth, life and death.】

We can all agree there are still too few women in politics, still too few in the most senior professional and management roles. But we should always take into consideration those women who do not choose this path in life. The late Mother Teresa seemed capable of finding a proper perspective that all of us with families, not just women, could adopt. She said: "Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world."

The women's struggle, the women's movement must carry on, but women might do themselves a service if they took stock for a moment, looked around and counted their blessings as much as their victories. It is good to celebrate now and then and women deserve to celebrate for just a moment perhaps. Tomorrow there will be more work and women should embark on（着手，从事） the rest of their journey, wherever they believe they should be heading, in the knowledge that they are second to no man. But today it is time to discover their own distinctive futures, an inclusive future for all, not the future of men.

orgasms（极度兴奋, 兴奋的高潮）

cheeky（厚颜无耻的）.

…unladylike（不像贵妇人的） drive and ambition. Pundit Tucker Carlson, for instance, has referred multiple times to being afraid of Ms Clinton because he finds her "castrating, overbearing and scary". Ask any woman politician, including the former GOP vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, and I bet she has at least one story where she saw herself portrayed through a lens that focused on her "feminine" characteristics rather than her positions or qualifications. These assessments might seem slight, but they contribute to women not being taken seriously in the workplace, in all industries and at all levels.

lesbian（adj.（女性）同性恋的　n.同性恋的女性）

homophobia（n.对同性恋的憎恶（或恐惧））

【In reality, women's choices are severely constrained. Is it really a choice when a woman leaves an otherwise good middle management job because of relentless harassment by men unwilling to accept female leadership? Is it really a choice when a woman drops out of the workforce because her employer won't make any accommodations for her need to care for kids or other family members?】

I can think of no better example than women's fundamental right to abortion. We are about to mark the 37th anniversary of the US Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, which recognised the constitutional right to safe and legal abortion in this country. However, huge numbers of women have no reproductive choice because the government blocks their access to funding for abortion care, which is tantamount to blocking access to services altogether. Clinics and doctors who provide abortion care dwindle as anti-abortion violence and harassment drive them away. And when they continue to care for women in need despite continued threats, heroic physicians like Dr George Tiller are murdered.

Additionally, women's right to abortion care is a perennial political football to be put into play during critical negotiations, such as the recent health-care reform debate in the United States. We might gain a sliver of health insurance reform, but we will surely lose a significant degree of abortion coverage in the process. What other right in the industrialised world is under such constant scrutiny, under such concerted attack, but the right to abortion? That it is a right only women can exercise should not be lost on us.

Lastly, I can help Mr Donkin with the patronising question of what women want. I assure him that our pretty little heads can handle a vast array of choices. But those options must be honest ones, not Catch-22s or false promises. Women want full equality, and we want the space and time to tell you what all that entails. Oh, and we want to stop being told that we never had it so good.

Comments:

Though I am a female, as to this controversial debates and this article, Richard Donkin’s opinion and debates are more compelling to me rather than Terry O'Neill’s.

Actually, Richard Donkin’s debates which develop the position with compelling reasons and sustains a well-focused, well-organized analysis are so forceful, clear, and self-consistent, methodic, from my personal point of view, as well as analytical. What’s more, I feel that the whole debates connect the ideas logically and fluently. First, he confines very well his debates to relating to the controversial topic, then extend his rebuttal remarks in the range he has confined. Additionally, the way he analyse and demonstrate the topic is useful for me to learn while writing issue.

In contrast, Terry O'Neill’s argument seems a little limitted and radical to some extent, as to me. The example of abortion that she iterates is not so representive, compelling, in my view, even a little partial. Terry O'Neill seems to expect and argue a perfect world no sexism exists, whereas the topic is main about the comparsion of women status now in the developed world with decades years ago.

At last, I want to express my personal view on this issue. First of all, we should admit that it is no denying that the position of women have been improved gradually and the sexism is bating little by little from economic, political aspects, though sexism may still exist somewhere or sometime, and it’s not so perfect as we have expected. In the meantime, we also have to admit that in some areas or under certain circumstance, severely sexism still exist and hurt women deeply. Woman, nowadays, are facing more stress than has ever been before, both from work and family, though who may have more choices. We can see a numerous of examples around us that don’t need to deliberate.

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female
contrast
analyse

qxn_1987UID：2610437

01.24
汇报：
上午：补昨天的comments&单词
下午：导员弄丢照片，自己重办住宿，因学校巨低的效率，一下午就这么么有了，呼。。
晚上：今天comments
总评：做的事情太少！！
加油！！

qxn_1987UID：2610437

01.25
先来这主动承认一下错误吧。。
今天无比荒废的一天，做的事实在实在是相当相当有限！！
罪恶感！！！
应该使劲使劲使劲抽自己一通！！！
还有点时间，把今天先略挽救一下，学习去~

qxn_1987UID：2610437

01.26&01.27
有状况要先去青岛，再回家，不知道要几天，也不知道中间能不能上网。。
回来销假，然后全力补上！！

nieyongUID：2742661

支持~~~加油 ~~~~~顶~~~~

qxn_1987UID：2610437

02.03
久违的寄托。。
时间久的让我心生恐惧。。
杂乱的局面。。
。。。
回来报到！
加油！！！！！！

123runfordreamUID：2697608

加油加油加油加油！！！！

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