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lz辛苦!
刚刚开始练,写得很糟糕,请勿见笑
TOPIC: ISSUE169 - "Those who treat politics and morality as though they were separate realms fail to understand either the one or the other."
WORDS: 373 TIME: 00:34:06 DATE: 2010-2-5 15:58:01
The aim of politics is to make people live happily and conveniently, while the purpose of morality is to let one live with dignity and conscience. Some people take these two topics separately, but they'll suffer great failure from that because they will understand neither of them unless they combine politics and morality together.
As the Confucius said, "One can not live without morality", "Promise is debt ". If the head of the government didn't obey the morality, if the ruler couldn’t obey what he said, if the government often changed its words, can anybody put any confidence on that country? When we review the history, we can find that the most horrible memories are mainly caused by false politics, among which the Nazi hurt the human deepest. During the political activities, the lacking of morality will hopefully result in the lack of humanity, and then it'll become a hell above the ground.
On the other hand, we can not concentrate on the morality only. Dozens of years ago, China wanted to help colonized countries to be independent, so the Chinese Government output a mass of food to Africa as well as Latin America. Its aim was good, but the method is questionable. Behind the great amount of output is the greater even famine inside the country. China ignores its own political needs and pursues the morality only, which induced a great disaster to all the Chinese. That horrible memory reminds us that the political profits are always essential to a country.
Last year, almost all of the nations exist on the Earth attend the summit held in Copenhagen, in the good wish to make a solution to the urgent environmental problems. However, the result let every single one down. Every country is trying to fight for its own profit, and contradictions happened everywhere. The lack of the harmony for both politics and morality might be the greatest cause of this tragedy.
Nowadays, the world has become highly-internationalized, and the cooperation as well as negotiation between nations is more frequent and more important for both sides. The politicians should always try their best to balance their way between politics and morality, in order to bring hope and benefits to all the human beings.
TOPIC: ARGUMENT220 - The following appeared in an article in a magazine for writers.
"A recent study showed that in describing a typical day's conversation, people make an average of 23 references to watching television and only 1 reference to reading fiction. This result suggests that, compared with the television industry, the publishing and bookselling industries are likely to decline in profitability. Therefore, people who wish to have careers as writers should acquire training and experience in writing for television rather than for print media."
WORDS: 267 TIME: 00:22:31 DATE: 2010-2-5 15:58:01
The arguer presents his conclusion that the publishing and bookselling industries are likely to decline in profitability. To support his claim, he referred to a study that shows people are more likely to talk with TV than reading. A second thought on this problem will show easily how groundless such conclusion is.
First of all, the author fails to convince us that people's references in conversation have a direct relationship with the decline of the publishing industries. As the main method of mass media, TV is more popular with ordinary people. People watch the same program at the same time, which makes it easier for TV shows to become a common topic or reference. On the other side, it may very possible that both people don't share the similar reading experience, which makes it hard for them to resonant with the same reading material.
Secondly, compared with reading, TV shows are more social and closer to people's daily life. Since their purpose is to making money, TV shows are more likely to be down-to-earth, and the result is that they are more possible to appear during a daily talk. Suppose you hear a conversation about classic art, or such serious topics about science, it might hard for you to combine such conversation with daily, relax topics.
After this, the arguer commits a fallacy of red herring. Although there's no direct evidence that the publishing and bookselling industries are going to decline, the arguer gives the advice rudely that writers should change their jobs from writing books to writing for TVs, which may hurt a lot of writers. |
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