1006G小九的备考日志——我心中有猛虎，细嗅蔷薇。完结篇

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小九加油，字会越憋越多，越憋越漂亮滴！:loveliness:

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To begin with the interesting title”Suspended Animation”, it means the art market is at the bottom because of the recession, but globalisation will help it recover in such a way as to expand market to Russia, Asia and other countries of Middle East. The most important thing we should know is the buyers buy the art works not only for interest but also for assets. In another word, they focus on if the art works would hold their value in the longer term. Buyers from different countries and cultures have their own opinions. So globalisation brings different eyes to the art market, it will help the recovery.
今天写comment比昨天顺利一点，虽然字数也不多，但感觉没有那么吃力了。
进步一点是一点，哪怕只有一丁点~

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12月20日
这两天都在发烧的浑浑噩噩中度过，头上像戴了个大头盔，那叫一个沉啊。
谢谢CC，小紫和reborn组里各位的关心，让我觉得很温暖。
原来组里还有一个校友啊，真是个surprise，嘿嘿。

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“A country does not have permanent friends, only permanent interests.” British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston said. It’s a explanation of the relationship between China and America that these two ideological rivals are friends even though they do not trust each other. The foundation of this relationship is not friendship but intersts. We no longer call America as US imperialism while American have not get off the words as authoritarian , bureaucracy , poor when they think about China. I believe we know the real America is far more than they know the real China.

I just watched the speech of “Chinese Dream” by Bai Yansong in Yale University, after the speech, there were interviews to American about their ways of looking at China. What impressed me most was the president of the US Asia Society Vishakhan Desai’s words. She said “I always ask my Chinese friends that would you want to be known for the growth rate of 8% GDP? Will people remember that in 300 years later? Would you want to be known for the bigger buildings or bigger role in the world? Or do you want to think about your 5000 years old civilization and how to use the values of that civilization?” I must say she’s right, we should pround of our long history and rich cultures which America is surely not to be compare to. But from another perspective, if  our economy haven’t grown rapidly or we haven’t played a bigger role in the world, who cares our civilization the world around?

comment是可以越写越长滴，虽然很多题外话。
这两天生病，大肆休息了一番~作业落下好多，抓紧补上

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COMMENT
Comparing with the health-care reform in China, obviously, Obama’s bill faced more blocks. Because the basis of health-care system in two countries are totally different. In China, a large number of people are uninsured and poor, so the reform will have a significant impact. But in the US, the bill will only benefit 15% people due to others already have their insurances. Even though China will be challenged by the fiercer competition in the near future, but in the long term, giving more people access to health care should boost the market. On contrast, in US, the reform will cost much more than it will benefit in such a economic crisis.

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12月25日
Merry Christmas
继续做作业、补作业、改论文。
好朋友住院了，希望他能快点好起来。
God bless everyone.

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我和你有同感啊，字数可以越写越多的，总会有一天能够爆发的，加油！

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12月26日 COMMENT We are getting used to rely on the computers for work, communication, and doing other things in our daily lives. Then it brings a inconvenience to our lives if the passwords are forgotten and a threat to our privacy if the passwords are thieved. The report describes how easy the thieves can guess an ordinary password or crack a hard one with software. So we need to choose passwords which are strong enough to protect them from thieving. The strength of a password depends on its length, complexity and randomness. The author also teaches us what should we do to choose a strong one. But we know the computer virus named Trojan horse, if our computers suffer from it, no matter how long, complex or random the passwords are, it can thieve them easily. What should we conclude? The computer has merit and demerit at the same time?

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12月27日
COMMENT
The article describes a phenomenon that the taste for clutter and realism is revalued. I interpret “clutter” as disarranged scene of real life, kind of naturalism. But I can’t figure it out at all point.

Besides, the title “Back to The Future” confuse me too. I think the author means that old-fashioned art will come to bloom again. But I disagree with the point of view that they are more valuable than other styles. You can make sure which style you like most rather than determine which one is most valuable.

Furthermore, just as it’s said in the report titled “Suspended Animation”, the dealers buy the art works not only because they like them but also because the works will hold their value for a long term and even increase in value. Some of the buyers buy the works for stock rather than collaction, just as Mr. Mason, what they care about is their asset but not the works’ own value. But it’s not ture that those dealers know little about art, maybe some of them do. While whether the dealers follow the fashion or whether the fashion follows the dealers is still a question, actually, most of the dealers understand art and have good taste on art works. If no, how could they make sure the works will hold their value to protect them from infloation?

今天选了组，希望不要拖别人后腿，小九，你要努力哦。
PS， 大家还是很好相处滴，啦啦啦。

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当当当~当~
番茄童鞋和小九童鞋的argu过程记录，觉得很有意思，发现比平时写comment话多多了=。=
首先番茄童鞋发言（Plause)
Art comes from life and beyond life, as a result, it confuses the outsiders in certain ways. How to judge the value of it and by which way can you appreciate it keep us away. Without revelent knowledge, we are following the trend, objectlessly and unconditionally. Mostly, it shares the same signal with other goods, that is, money it has fetched.

As numerous cases were given from the article, i'm more likely shocked by the doubled or tripled price of a painting at acution. According to Mason, an active buyer, inflation enables the prosperity of the art market. In addition,he determines the art as quality ones, however, i see it in an irony way. Art today, is brewed by outsiders, who are more concerned about its value of potential price rather than of art itself. No wonder Vincent Van Gogh were getting famous long after his death.
接着，小九童鞋举手发言（Silent)
Vincent Van Gogh's brother was a dealer too. He found the value of Vincent's works, and believed that Vincent would be successful even though few people enjoyed his works at that time. Without his help, Vincent could not leave so many beatiful paintings to the world.

As far as I concern, it's not a tragedy or irony that the dealers buy the art works. From anther perspective, they value the art works of different styles and boost the art market, which can advance the arts.
番茄童鞋听到，高兴地说，小九，我们来argu~
Thanks to dealers, we have an opportunity to see masters' works. However, dealer himself is a business man rather than a critic. Apple in his eye is the potential value rather than art itself. I have been long informed that Vincent Van Gogh's brother is a dealer, and he can hardly sell Vincent Van Gogh's paintings until his death. Ideas like"why after?" keep haunting me.I'm not familiar with the running system of art market, but what i see in this field is that fate of an artist is determined by merchant rather by expertise.

You may argue, Vincent Van Gogh was not lucky enough to meet the right guy. I'd rather to take my stand from the article above. As the author put it，“They are happy to pay over the odds for top-ranking pictures, but leave the rest untouched.” If dealers boost the art market, they shrink it as well. Choosen ones fetch a great amount of money, while the unpicked ones can only stand aside. Who is judging the rules? Merchant only."Mr Mason said he bought the picture forstock, with no particular collector in mind.“To them, art is only a goods to invest, a better investment under the economical crisis.

When animal bronze heads from Old Summer Palace appears in the auction hall, we are lost under mere patriotism. What kind of art they are? Being titled with the heritage of Old Summer Palace alone,enables these kind of heads valve themself millions. Ironical, they are only faucets, even not a delicate decoration comparatively to the other lost heritage. What indeed make it valuable is the merchant, because they are known it by heart, Chinese will buy it someday out of patriotism.
小九于是吭哧吭哧憋了半天，写了一个比自己的comment还要长的argu~
First of all, I agree that dealer himself is a business man rather than a critic. But you know, most dealers have the same point of view with the critics. The same example of Vincent Van Gogh, who did not enjoy his works? Neither dealers nor critics. Maybe you will remember Gauguin Paul, the guy who was cut a ear off by Vincent, his works also were not accepted. The reason was the art circle did not see the value of post-impressionism at that time, but not because the dealers were not far-sights.

Furthermore, I disagree that if dealers boost the art market, they shrink it as well. How do they shrink it? Do not buy any works at all? It’s impossible. They only could buy a style of the works instead of another one. They could change their taste but could not change the proceeding that buy art works. Because they need the works to protect them from the inflation or increase in value as the report was concerned.

Finally, what is the purpose of the artists? To express their emotion, spirit, and show a world of heart to other people of course. But at the same time, they want to be accepted, want to be enjoyed, and also want their works to be sold for earn their lives. Maybe you should say it’s a pity for art, but it’s the reality. And the dealers buy their works can encourge or help them continue their work. What is there against it and why they can not go ahead with it?
小九刚得意地想，写了这么多字啊。窃喜中发现番茄童鞋的用词和句式都比自己丰富，自己只会they do, they do not~
a little down， 但是瞬间振作，要继续努力啊，我还是有成长空间滴，我还年轻~
（画外音：没老死你~pia 飞ing)

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Useful stuff
Wherever their investigations lead, all analysts of religion begin somewhere.多好的开头
The “beauty of holiness” in a British private school is a far cry from (大相径庭)the sort of religion that later came to interest him as a science journalist at Nature magazine and then the New York Times.
The customs of hunter-gatherer peoples who survived into modern times give an idea of religion’s first forms
In other words, he sides with those who think man’s propensity for religion has some adaptive function.(MS比support好)
Among evolutionary biologists, this idea is contested.就是想不起来用这样的词
As Mr Wade makes clear, the notion of religion as an “adaptive” phenomenon makes better sense if one accepts the idea of group selection.
Of course, the picture is muddied by the vast changes that religion went through in the journey from tribal dancing to Anglican hymns.形象~
And religious movements (from the “Deuteronomists” of ancient Israel to the English Puritans) that emphasise moral norms tend to eschew the ecstatic.
He endorses the radical view that the story of the Jews’ flight from Egypt is myth, rather than history.
He sympathises with daring ideas about Islam’s beginnings: so daring that many of its proponents work under false names.
In their view, Islam is more likely to have emerged from dissident Christian sects in the Levant than to have “burst out of Arabia”.
It lays the basis for a rich dialogue between biology, social science and religious history.
COMMENT
This artical is a introduction of The Faith Instinct written by Nicholas Wade. I read this artical over three times to try to figure out what Mr. Wade mean about evolutionary biologist on religion. It’s easy to summarize that a Darwinain approach offers the key to understanding religion because he believe man’s propensity for religion has some adaptive function. He guides the reader effortlessly through 200 years of intellectual history to convince them faith has helped the human race to survive by promoting moral rules and cementing cohesion.

What the author said “the more a religion stresses ecstasy, the less it seems hidebound by rules” do confused me. I can not understand the relationship between moral and mystical. Even though the author take some examples like Max Weber’s reserch and Peter’s trying. Maybe the religion is such a unfamiliar notion for me. I have no idea about mystical experience or ecstatic.

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Useful Stuff
Judging from the scientists I know, including Eva and Ruth, and those whom I've read about, you can't pursue the laws of nature very long without bumping into beauty.
The most incomprehensible thing about the universe, as Einstein said, is that it's comprehensible.
How unlikely, that a short-lived biped on a two-bit planet should be able to gauge the speed of light, lay bare the structure of an atom, or calculate the gravitational tug of a black hole.
I spent my teenage years scrambling up the mountain of mathematics. Midway up the slope, however, I staggered to a halt, gasping in the rarefied air, well before I reached the heights where the equations of Einstein and Dirac would have made sense.
I'm never more aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty.
"All nature is meant to make us think of paradise," Thomas Merton observed.
Have we merely carried our animal need for shrewd perceptions to an absurd extreme? Or have we stumbled onto a deep congruence between the structure of our minds and the structure of the universe?
By giving us a taste of the kinship between our own small minds and the great Mind of the Cosmos, beauty reassures us that we are exactly and wonderfully made for life on this glorious planet, in this magnificent universe.
COMMENT
This essay like a breeze among all the economical and political reports. It reminds me of flowery, blue sky, singing birds and sunshine in the cold winter night.

Generation after generation, scientists have drawn a beautiful picture of the order and power that permeate the universe through a simple, symmetrical, elegant and powerful way. The mechanics and theories toward truth of all subjects bring delight to us. We can see the world outside more clearly, and recognize the power, meaning of our lives in the incomprehensible universe.

Besides, we have enjoyed the treasure of nature. Have you ever seen a flower blooming? Have you ever heard a bird singing? Have you ever tasted a sun-sweet berry? If you have do, you can figure out the meaning of beauty by your own experience.

However, to perceive the beauty in mathematics or physics, to architect in a flower or a bird, we need training to pay attention. It is not a lack of beauty of life, it is our lack of discovery, said Auguste Rodin. We are all on an irreversible journey from birth to death. We keep running due to we have goals to pursue. But we run so fast that forget the beauty sight on the wayside.

I always think about when we are old and looking back, we will see the tracks we lived. At that time, our wins and losses once seem so important to us will fade away, the plans and to-do lists will shrivel to irrelevance. What we remember must be the beauties in our lives. Maybe the place we met our Mr./Mrs. Right, the moment we looked up at a skyful of stars, or once we fell asleep on grass in a sunny spring afternoon.

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12月31日
出门在外,暂停更新.
3号回来继续.
亲们,Happy New Year

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小九··HAPPY NEW YEAR``
3天后回来？真是ＨＡＰＰＹ啊～～呵呵
３天我就猫在图书馆里咯。。新年快乐｀

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小九～～HAPPY NEW YEAR!~
嘿嘿，上次ARGU真是意犹未尽哈～话说我还没REBUTTAL呢。。