考前4天 求板砖 I104 A33 【有拍必回，可能时效上会慢些】

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TOPIC: ISSUE104 - "It is primarily through formaleducation that a culture tries to perpetuate the ideas it favors and discreditthe ideas it fears."
WORDS: 540
TIME: 00:45:00
DATE:2010/3/1 9:30:51

In an era that more and more information is accessible toevery one on this planet, it is a question to hold the tradition of culture inthe trend of globalization. According to this situation, some one claims that aculture primarily through formal education to perpetuate the ideas it favorsand discredit ones it fears. In my opinion, I agree with the speaker'sassertion and to let its value system last long, a culture also use othermethods besides formal education, such as the media and traditional rituals andceremonies.

To perpetuate some idea it like and give up its dislike, aculture is the planer of this large plan of inheriting the core value systemand judgement on good and evil. However, since culture is such an abstructconcept, it is the society that carrys out this plan to teach people what itprefers and hates.

Admittedly, formal education plays an important role ininheriting a culture's core value and judgments of good and evil. For the needto train or raise the kids to suit a particular society that deeply influencedby a certain culture, teachers in schools have to assume the responsibility tomake children to understand and follow the social behavior, which means whatthey should do and what they should not do. Another reason that to perpetuatethe preference and discredit the dislikes via formal education is that childrendo not have a clear view about the society and their minds are easier to bechange than adults. Thus, the kids, who are the masters of the future of a particularsociety get the value system that is commonly agreed in their society. Forexample, my uncle lives in Japanand have a son there, although both the kid's parents are pure Chinese, thislittle boy's mind is almost like Japanese. He handles things like Japanese andfollows their thinking pattern and social value system. It obviously shows thatthe great effort and effect of the education system in culture inheriting.

Nevertheless, a society does not only to perpetuate what itlike and discredit what it dislike through formal education, but also by othermethods, for instance, medias and the traditional rituals and ceremonies. It isright that kids are the future of a certain culture or society. However,children are still a small group of people in the society. Ignoring largequantities of adults and senior citizens, to pass on the value system a culturehold is impossible. Television programs, newspapers and other media carry outthe large plan of culture in daily report, stories or animations to conduct thecore value system in sentences. In China, television programs alwaysshow the prosperity of the society while in western countries the failures andmistakes of the administration are the headlines, for the different view onsocial affairs.

During the inheriting of culture, there are several pointsthat should be pay enough attention, like the same style or pale explanation,which would apparently damage the effect and efficiency of culture inheriting.

To sum up, I agree that formal education is a important rolein culture inheriting, which means perpetuating the ideas a culture favors anddiscredit ones it fears. At the same time, many other methods, like media areused. Those methods are equally conducive for they aim at different areas.Finally, I think society should be aware of some problems that may hamper theprogress of culture inheriting.



TOPIC: ARGUMENT33 - The following report appeared in anarchaeology journal.

"The discovery of distinctively shaped ceramic pots atvarious prehistoric sites scattered over a wide area has led archaeologists toask how the pots were spread. Some believe the pot makers migrated to thevarious sites and carried the pots along with them; others believe the potswere spread by trade and their makers remained in one place. Now, analysis ofthe bones of prehistoric human skeletons can settle the debate: high levels ofa certain metallic element contained in various foods are strongly associatedwith people who migrated to a new place after childhood. Many of the bones foundnear the pots at a few sites showed high levels of the metallic element.Therefore, it must be that the pots were spread by migration, not trade."
WORDS: 370
TIME: 00:30:00
DATE:2010/3/1 9:30:51

The arguer claims that those pots were spread by migrationinstead of trade for the reason that the bones near the pot have a high levelof a certain metallic element. At the first glance, the arguer's statementseems reasonable, however, after careful reasoning, his statement suffers from severalflaws and is not convincing.

Firstly, the arguer does not make it clear that the highlevel of a certain metallic element of prehistoric human skeletons is aphenomenon that only occurs in a certain area. If the bones of prehistoricpeople in many areas have the same high level of an element, we can not settlethe question and believe its answer is migration. Maybe traders of the potssold them to the local and they left, when local people died, pots were leftaround them.

Secondly, even if the high level of element only occurred ina certain area, we can not be sure that the pots were spread by migration.Imagine the master of those bone was a trader who left his hometown to earn aliving far away by selling those pots, and because of some factor we do notknow, he died on the road towards the next market. This is a possible situationfor those pots and bones.

Thirdly, the arguer mentions that bones are found near thepots only at a few sites. This is enough to show that the conclusion of thearguer just a kind of situation that is possible. Maybe the proportion of thesites where people found bones is very small compared with the total sites ofpots. Then, the arguer's reasoning may not be right when using his theory todecide the spread methods of other pots.

With the discussion above, we can see that the solution thatarguer gives out can not settle the debate on how those pots were spread. Tomake it unwarranted and convincing, the arguer should provide the data of areasthat the high level of element occurs and other things can prove that thosepeople died near the pots were in migration. Then we can conclude a possiblespread methods of a few pots and other pots remains mysterious before newevidence is discovered.