【1010G精英组】ISSUR&ARGU 习作——by Group Choice

toywangUID: 2700880

131"The arts (painting, music, literature, etc.) reveal the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society."
艺术 比如 绘画， 音乐， 文学 等 展现了其他方面隐藏的社会理念和动力




I agree with the speaker that the arts show the ideas and impulses of a society, and they reflect the deep thoughts of the artists. Meanwhile I cannot hold the same stage with the speaker that the things that are reflected by the arts will otherwise be hidden. Artists lead the same simple lives as the others, I seriously suspect how can they know the hidden part of the society? Therefore arts do reveal the ideas and impulses of a society however which have probably been known by the people at the same times as well.

The arts are activities to create work which express serious meaning of ideas or beauty, and through which artist show their optimism attitudes to the society and life when they were young, then the artists lived in the unexpected society, sometimes they were happy for selling their first works or anything else, and sometime they were sad because of their low position in the society or poverty, anyway what they felt and what they thought would spontaneously outflow into his work inadvertently. As a consequence the works they created reveal the society or even just for describing the society. Take Michelangelo’s David for example, in the Renaissance, the prosper of the society made the people at that time like heroism and make contributions themselves, and David just reveal it and became the symbol of the city.

At the same time the things artists pictured in their works may not be hidden anyway, it may be known by people at that time, but years after the society changes and people get the ideas and impulse of society at that time through the works and they consider the things these works revealed were hidden even in their created time as well, which I think is not correct. Most of the artists did not have a special live or lived to a great respect, and the majority of them suffered from poverty and illness, even some of them got their reputation hundreds of years after their death, how can these mainly low position people got the hidden part of the society and then reveal it? I think the way to explain it is the ideas and impulses is captured in their works, and then preserved. Years after people who study in these works consider the spirit of these manuscripts is hidden just because they don’t know it.

People from different grades didn’t share the same feeling about the world, and the people came from the same grade may be familiar with the artists’ description, imagine that how can you understand the happiness of the farmer after a harvest if you were born in a rich city family, so that theme pictures may be the hidden part of the society to you, but they are not the hidden impulse of the society to the farmers.

To sum up, arts reveal us a colorful world of different people’s ideas at different society. So we can‘t say the part it reveal is hidden just because we don’t know it.

今天的作文没法改了，有事没法上网，明天的bs也要缺席了，后天回归~~~~

yuanlinqinggreUID: 2755904

先占个楼，这篇文章让我很不爽，写了两次，都不满意，决定这几天好好弄弄再传上来

xingfuhbjUID: 2769976

补作文啊~先把昨天写的贴了~
第十八次作业  ARGUMENT 14
再次超时~~写了一个小时还多一点~郁闷啊~~不过没有查单词~所以也写的很烂~
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Grounding on a national survey which indicates consumers’ dissatisfaction with supermarkets’ fresh vegetable, synthesizing a fact that one gardening magazine is welcomed by the local residents, the arguer arrived at a conclusion that the consumers are prefer grow vegetables now and Green Thumb Gardening Center should expand the variety of vegetable seeds thus increase their profits. However, each evidence the arguer is used is full of flaws, thus the unsound logic is fail to support the arguer’s deduction.

First and foremost, the national survey is just an overview of national wide consumers’ attitude, and may not suit this small suburban town. The survey may conduct in the country’s most big cities that are away from the village. Thus the fresh vegetables in supermarkets are conveyed from nearby village and rely much on the transportation and climate. So if the temperature become too high and the traffic condition become poor, the fresh vegetables will definitely in a poor quality. But the Green Thumb Gardening Center is serving a suburban town, which is near the village thus have less rely on the transportation and relatively rich in fresh vegetable. In other words, the residents in this suburban town may have no dissatisfaction with the supermarkets’ fresh vegetable, thus will not tend to grow their own vegetable.

In addition, the dissatisfaction with the quality of fresh vegetables in supermarkets doesn’t always lead to the result that consumers will incline to grown their own vegetables.
As we know, we now live at a high pace, thus most people have no time for leisure, nor to say sparing much time for growing their own vegetables. They may be angry with the supermarkets’ fresh vegetables but they just showed their dissatisfaction with the expectation that those supermarkets can solve this problem. And even if they are interested in growing their own vegetables, they are not surly to actually grow some. We all know that there is a big gap between think and do.

What’s more, the locally welcome of the gardening magazine Great Gardens has no casual relationship of consumers’ willingness to grown vegetables. First, a glance at the title of the magazine may remind us more of growing flowers than growing vegetable. Maybe this magazine is mainly focus on the basic techniques and special tips of how to grow different kinds of flowers and build your own garden. As we all know, most American families have their own backyard, and they often enjoy themselves in turning their backyard into a unique and wonderful garden. Besides, the magazine was sold out so quickly may due to the reason that this magazine lowered its price recently. Discount is a traditional marketing method, which is always useful. Thus the growing sales volume of this gardening magazine may base on the cost of less unit margin, instead of the residents growing interests in gardening.

Last but not the least, expanding the variety of vegetable seeds this coming spring may not lead to the expected largely increased profits for the Green Thumb Gardening Center.
An increase of the vegetable seeds’ varieties means a decreased demand of each certain kind of vegetable seeds, which will result in a growing purchasing cost. And if the Center do no survey before the expansion thus choose the wrong kind of seeds, which is disliked by local people, the center may suffer a loss instead of increasing the profits by greatly.

In sum, according to the given evidence, the arguer may get a wrong assertion. Considering that every authentic argument should based on the scientific researches and figures, the arguer’s assertion may be more favorable if he collect more relate information and take more elements into account. Otherwise, the Green Thumb Gardening Center may a financial defeat if they hastily put this measure into effect.

xingfuhbjUID: 2769976

第十九次作业  ARGUMENT 209
继续超时...大概用了五十五分钟写完下一篇我要好好思索下了~

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Grounding on a three quarters fallen profits of the Fancy Toy Company, synthesizing the dramatically increased profits of the Starlight Jewelry, the Human Resources Manager of the Fancy Toy Company deducted that his company should change their president, Pat Salvo with Rosa Winnings, the current president of Starlight Jewelry, to increase their profits. However, the H Human Resources Manager is too hastily to look into the further reasons of their decreasing profit, and neglect many other respects that will make this measure unfavorable and lead to a continued even more serious fallen margin.

First and foremost, the HR manager subjective attributes the fallen profits of their company to their current president--Pat Salvo, without any compelling evidence. It is a possibility that such a constantly decreasing profit should be owe to the national wide or even worldwide economic crisis, and other companies in the toy industry may suffered more. For example, the financial crisis in 2008 dramatically hit the toy companies along the southeast part of china, and many of them were struggling for life and even went to bankrupt. Moreover, the poor management may leave a mess to Pat, thus she can’t resist the decreasing profits in short-term but she can bring a better condition in long-term.

In addition, the dramatically increasing profits of the Starlight Jewelry may not thanks to their president Rosa Winnings. Similar with the loss that brought by the economic crisis, a soaring increased profit will be brought by the flourishing economic. The success of the Starlight Jewelry Company may largely owe to the boom of the jewelry industry, and every jewelry shops benefit a lot, thus comparing to its peers, the Starlight Jewelry Company’s dramatically increased profit is not a miracle but a shame. What’s more, the jewelry company may have more high quality employers that make up the pushing power of the soaring profits, thus the treasure of the jewelry company is its precious employers instead of its current president.

Last but not the least, the success of the jewelry shop may not be copied to the toy company. It is apparently that there is a big difference between toy industry and jewelry industry, thus suddenly ask a president of a jewelry company become the president of a toy company may result in many conflicts thus a negative profit. Even if Pat is truly incompetent and Rosa Winnings is capable, Rosa may be just able to handle the issues within the jewelry industry, and will be unfamiliar with the toy industry thus her management methods may not suit the new company. Besides, the employers may be satisfied with Pat, thus the suddenly change of president will make them unwilling to accept the new president thus lower the morale and lose the coherence of the company. All of the negative respect will lead to a decreasing profit instead of the expected considerably increased profit.

In sum, if the Human resource manager is insisted on such a measure, the company may lose some coherence and suffer a tougher time. So the HR manager need to collect more authentic information, and reappraise the competence of Pat and Rose, to get a more favorable and useful assertion.

yuanlinqinggreUID: 2755904

TOPIC: ISSUE69 - "Government should place few, if any, restrictions on scientific research and development"
WORDS: 670
TIME: 00:59:34
DATE: 2010-5-25 20:29:42

Should restrictions be place on scientific research and development? I think the answer is positive. Even though few restrictions on researches and developments have merits, both financial and legal restrictions should be placed by government as the development will cause side effects and ethical problems and lots of social resources has plowed into these scientific researches and developments. And therefore the government should play a circumscribed role when it comes to scientific research and development, because it is the government's responsibility to ensure that the social resources are used effectively and efficiently.

When we only take the pace of the research and development into consideration, little restrictions on them, especially in the field like medical or biology, sometimes have merit for the researchers will doing their research without the restrain of the social ethics, which usually hinder the pace of scientific research and development. For instance, as there are laws which protect the right of wild animals and stop man from inordinately using them in medical experiments, medical research which entails lots of wild animals to continue the experiments if little legal restraint are place on it. Thus, if we only take into accounts the pace of the research or development, the suggestion that placing little restrains on scientific research and development does have merit.

However, it is sectarian of us to merely taking the pace into consideration while side effect caused by the little restrain on research and development are also indispensable when it comes to the scientific research and development, in which case little restrains on them are not enough. Since some scientific research and development will lead to ethical problems or side effect on the environment, appropriate amount of restriction on them are necessary. For instance, when the technology of clone, which render it possible for human to clone themselves, showed up, the development of this technology is greatly circumscribed because it will arise ethical problems of the dignity of life. If no restriction was placed upon this scientific development, the cloning of human will surely lead to disorder in society both mentally and physically, as no decisive conclusion has been made upon the right of human cloned. Similarly, the little restriction of scientific research and development will possibly lead to side effect on the environment, as the first industrial revolution, which is one of the most influential scientific developments in human history, led to severe contamination of the environment. Thus, when we speculate on the side effects and the ethical problems which the scientific research and development will cause, there is no denying of the effectiveness of adequate amount of restriction on them.

Moreover, since the scientific research and development are funded by the whole society which provides social resources, such as money or welfare, it is the public's right to authorized the government to cast restrictions on these researches and developments in order to ensure the efficient and effective use of the social resources. Social resources are limited, which makes it necessary to plow the resource where it can be most helpful toward benefiting the public. For that matter, scientific research is not the only thing the government should invest social resources into; other parts of the society, such as education system, legal system, also lack social resources. Therefore, the government has to ensure the efficient and effective use of social resources plowed into scientific development. Otherwise, these resources can be effectively used in other areas. If this is the case, the government should play a circumscribed role when it comes to scientific research and development and little restrictions are not enough.

In sum, even though the suggestion that place few, if any, restrictions on scientific research and development has merit when merely reflecting on the pace of the research, adequate amount of legal and financial restrains on them are necessary since the government not only has to ponder over the side effect and ethical problems scientific researches brings but also has to affirm the efficient as well as the effective use of social resources in scientific research and development.

cynthia313UID: 2765794

issue 88by cynthia
In this new era, where technologies are developing dramatically, people’s life styles have changed largely comparing with before. We drive to work instead of walking; we communicate with each other on internet instead of writing letters; we play PC games as entertainment rather than dancing and singing; household appliances do house work for us automatically, thus we have a lot of spare time to do other things we like… All these changes are due to the development of technologies. We can see that technologies do influence our daily lives in a large extent, as well as social customs and ethics. Nevertheless, exaggerating this influential effect to a determinate one is hard to be accepted.

In the first place, the development of technologies brings about dramatically changes in our daily lives, as well as influence social customs and ethics in some extent. For example, we used to send greeting cards to our friends at festivals before, however with the development of mobile phone technology we send our wishes to our friends by short-messages and phone calls. Technologies change our customs by simplify the way of communication, living and working; besides they also have some effect on our moralities and ethics. The internet provide individuals a opening world where you can easily get almost all the information you need, however the cyber crimes and many other problems are appeared as the develop of this technology, new ethic forms gradually that it is not moral to use internet to access others’ privacy or commercial information of competitors. In this way, technologies change our traditional definition of ethics in some new aspects.

However, it is hasty to conclude that technologies play the determinate role in social customs and ethics. Human beings form a sea of customs and ethics in the long progress of civilization, each of the customs and ethics are influenced by many factors, such as history, religion, and government policies. As to every formation of a custom or ethic, it might be hard to say which factor is the determinate one, cause the synthesized effect of each factors determine the formation. Thus, technology also can not determine social customs and ethics by itself.

What’s more, customs and ethics are comparably steady after formation. Once a social custom or ethic is formed, it is difficult to change it. Although technologies change a lot of things in our daily life, the existing customs and ethics are still cherished by us. For example, although we change our way of sending festival greetings to our friends, the custom of family-get-together in Christmas does not change. Despite the long distance, everyone is eager to go home that day; although we have a new definition of cyber crimes, the intrusion of individuals’ privacy is always against public morality, no matter using what kind of methods.

On the contrary, social customs and ethics can in turn restrict the influence of technologies which disobey them. High technologies enable many unimaginable things including high-tech crimes and other behaviors against laws and moralities, such as cloning human beings and cyber crimes as I mentioned above. However, since these things are against our customs and ethics, they are restricted. Thus, social customs and ethics can limit the abuse of technologies in some extent.

In sum, technologies influence social customs and ethics inevitably, but to claim that "not only influence but also determine" is more or less exaggerated, for the formation of a particular social custom or ethic is so intricate that we can not ascribe it merely to technologies. And technologies have little to do with the existing social customs and ethics people already cherished.

xingfuhbjUID: 2769976

第二十次作业 ARGUMENT  20
依旧超时  我真的不知道怎么不超时

Grounding on the fact that the island of Torseau's limits on moped rentals managed to reduce 50% percent moped accidents last year, the arguer suggested that the town of Balmer, the neighbour of Torseau, should enforce the same measure to reduce their moped accidents. However, with so many logic flaws, such a assertion do need a twice think before it is deduced.

First and foremost, for our effort is limited, we people, do anything for a certain reason, and there is no exception for government. So before decided to decrease the moped accidents, there should be a clearly evidence to support that there do is a need to reduce them. But the arguer fail to provide it. First, he didn't prove that the most accidents, especially the severe ones, are caused by the mopes and pedestrians. Though there may be less cars on this island than in a city, there still lies a possibility that the very killer is just those cars, and thus, the right thing for town council to do is to forbid cars rather than limit the moped and bicycle rentals. Second, there is little indication that those mopes and pedestrians lead to many severe accidents thus the government have to reduce them. As we know, mopes and pedestrians are not as aggressive as cars. Without any detail figure, we could boldly imagine that moped rentals could only bring some scratch to the residents and tourist. Then why should the government have to hurt the rental companies by doing such a unnecessary deed?

Besides, even there is a need to enforce such a limitation, purely copy others successful methods before conducting sufficient researches on themselves will lead to nowhere. First, the arguer failed to support that such a limitation on the number of mopeds rentals could possibly reached the expected effect. If under the former limitation, the number of mopeds rented by each of the island's six moped and bicycle rental companies per day is always below 30 and seldom pass 30, which means the new limitation won't have any practical effect on the moped rentals, then how could the town council to anticipate such a measure could achieve a success as what their neighbour did? Second, with the absence of any comparison and detail figure, just copy neighbours' achievement will reach no effect, even adverse effect. Maybe the island of Torseau has much more mopes than Balmer did, and moreover, their road conditions are much poor than that of Balmer, thus lead to many unexpected traffic accidents. Accordingly, the limits on the moped rentals can be very useful. But those differences justmake it impossible for Balmer to achieve the same success on their own island.

In sum, before editor of the Balmer Island Gazette publishe such a argument, both the editor and the arguer should consider the feasibility of such a imitation. Taking the limited effort and resources of the town council into account, any new policy should be proposed after thorough consideration and investment instead of being raised hastily .

xingfuhbjUID: 2769976

第二十二次作业ISSUE  88
还是查了几个词啊~而且这电脑用不习惯 写的好少来着~
Since we human stepped into the Information Age, technologies have played more and more significant role in our daily life. Such a importance thing do influenced us a lot, from our minds to behaviors, from small things to large ones. But it is too early and hastily to deduct that it has already became the hierarch of our social customs and ethics.  

Admittedly, technologies, as the fruit of science, do  gradually influence human social customs and ethics on a large degree. From medieval to the 21 century, we have experienced a crucial technology revolution-- the Industrial Revolution, and we are still in an another pivot technology revolution-- the Information Revolution. The former one give birth to the factory, which is a common substance in modern society, provide trillions of occupations and commodities for people. In addition, it also brought up a path-breaking invention-- electricity, which lighten the whole world's dark night. The later one made another masterwork--computer, the instrument what I am using now, which abridge the distance of different places. To talk in some details, for example, we are now used to open the light first when we get home. And as a child borne in 20 century, I could hardly imagine that with the absence of a warm and bright light in those dark and cold and gloomy night, how could people live in the ancient society?  

However, we can't deny the power of religions and traditional ethnic customs, which made technology can't determine our ethics and customs. One without a religion can't imagine how powerful the idea brought by the firm belief could reach. In this highly technologies-connected world, the believers, they will also use the electricity, computer and modern transportation as others do, but they won't forget the customs they have developed. For example, Christian will still go to church on weekend or some certain meaningful day. Besides, we also can't overlook the influence of the traditional customs, especially those that related to a certain country, a nationality, a people. For instance, Chinese regard their spring festival as the top thing. Such a deep-rooted custom lead to the annual most large scale collective migrations in the world. No matter how technology has changed the society, which made many Chinese far from their homeland, they will managed to come back home during that certain period.

In addition, there still have some original inhabitant who struggle to reserve their old and natural living habitats and traditions. Some of those aborigine refuse to be influenced and changed by the modern science and even cut off the connection of the outside world, ask their members to obey their customs. Those are places where technologies can't reached and affected.

As a whole, every indication shows that technologies now have greatly impression on our social customs and ethics, but there is no signs proved that it have determined those customs. And  harbouring the traditional and religions belief in mind, we will never let the technologies became the hierarch of our social customs and ethics.