ISSUE61 写了好长时间 跪求狂拍【clover】 by a08805436

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TOPIC: ISSUE61 - "High-profile awards such as the Nobel Prize are actually damaging to society because they suggest that only a few people deserve such recognition."
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Are high-profile awards really damaging to society, as the speaker contends? In my view, although these kinds of awards offer only a fraction of people recognition, the awards are indispensable impetus for people to strive for their goals.

Admittedly, awards such as the Nobel Prize provide the honor to a specific group of people. When we see the chosen people on the ceremony, proud and ambitious, we should also be fully aware that there are thousands of other scientists, artists and experts working hard to achieve the goal but somehow failed. The prizes may dishearten them and thus make a negative impact on the development of science and arts. The same goes for the Olympic Games, when an athlete winning a gold medal, it is hard for people to consider other athlete aiming at the same goals. In a word, offering a small group of people such high-profile honor may constitute deteriorated elements to other people study on the same fields.

However, these kinds of prizes have their own function in the era of our time. The awards are spiritual impetus for all the society to achieve. With the inflation and expansion of modernization, it calls for swifter and more violent progress in both art and science. In order to achieve the goals in our society, we shall set a goal for all the people and thus make our world a different realm of existence. Nobel Price, known for its impartiality and equity, could give those scientists and artists a shot in the arm. For one thing, such kind of prize helps those people define their social identity and status, which may constitute beneficial influence on the development in specific fields. For another thing, when we see the splendid and glorious honor that the awards offer, we shall consider the enormous efforts as well as insightful aspirations and inspirations in science, arts and physical training. On the level of science, some scientific research, say, the study of astronomy, may take many years' observation and calculation before they reach the truth. In the artistic world, many painters devoted their whole life to the art but obtain nothing till they die. When it comes to athletes, the efforts are their perspirations and zeal. Therefore, we may safely conclude that it is the high-profile prizes that help steer the main mentality of our society.

Moreover, the fact that only a few people deserve such recognition does not depress or frustrate average people, but help them to better understand and orient themselves in the society. On personal level, most people do the researches not for the sake of high-profile prize, but for their own interests and curiosity. For these people, the scientific achievements or artistic work alone is their best awards. Furthermore, if people give up their work for the mere reason that they did not get the high-profile prize, it is hard for them to success in any other fields and consequently it is not necessary to give the prize to the mediocre ones. Perseverance as well as endurance is of vital importance in both scientific and artistic fields. On community level, the chief aim of the awards is not to honor the great masters that have won the prize, but to encourage and goad the others that study in the same area. While our world cannot be changed by the elites only, the efforts from all the people can add up to a lot.（这一段来自花之颜色~）

In final analysis, high-profile awards such as Nobel Prize propel human civilization forward in the course of human history and are indispensable in our society because it offers recognitions to people that gave rise to the development of modernization.