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July,21 2010
距TOEFL还有31，距AW还有57。  从今天起，开始认真思考每一个AW，不骄不躁。仔细罗列出每一个提纲和写作思路。如果有什么意见，欢迎。O(∩_∩)O~
130.How children are socialized today determins the destiny of society. Unfortunately, we have not yet learned how to raise children who can help bring about a better sociey.
现在孩子的社会化程度决定了社会的命运。可惜，我们还没有教会一个孩子如何建设一个更好的社会。
两个部分：
社会化程度决定了社会的命运
是否掌握有效教育手段
Wikepedia:
teaching: Studies from the US suggest that the quality of teachers is the single most important factor affecting student performance, and that countries which score highly on international tests have multiple policies in place to ensure that the teachers they employ are as effective as possible.
education is understood to be a means of overcoming handicaps, achieving greater equality and acquiring wealth and status for all.
在网上找到了一个关于这篇写的不错的：http://www.essayforum.com/essay-writing-feedback-3/test-issue-children-socialized-today-determines-destiny-17555/
可以参考一下。
这个是一个关于学习环境与教育的，作者呼吁政府要减少学校之间的差距。Some public school with little sources.
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/356.ellison/what_determines_how_we_educate_our_children
在Time的一篇文章，讲孩子需要什么：主要是说有些父母没有时间照顾孩子之类的。
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,999773,00.html
Educate your children at home:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/parents/home_education/


我的观点是：孩子如何被教育，也要取决于他自己，比如说不要强迫孩子，更多的关注其内心世界。下面是我写的：
WORDS: 496
TIME: 00:34:25
DATE: 7/21/2010 2:53:45 PM



The writer said about the education of the children should be focused on the soliazation and the main aim of educating is to make them influence the society. In my opinion, the original idea of the writer is correct, but the assertion is lack of other essential factors of education.

First, when talking about the education, it's also very important to think the skills for the children to live on the society by themselves. The independence of living seems to be one person's task in his lives, and if without considering the independence in the education, people may be even can't make a decision on his own and don't know what he or she should do. Thus, how should the people without the ability of independence make benefit of the society? When I was young, my mother taught me not only how to communicate with other people, but also how to live by myself and to do what I can do. So in my college life, although I was away from home, I can study and live well without the help of my family. I make the goals of my life which is to be a good teacher without thinking that I might do great to impulse the improvement of the education in my country. I just want to do what I can do, and what's more, I can make the decision all by myself.

Second, education should take the humanity into consideration. People should not force the children to do what they don't like, and should choose a way to induce them and make them form the thought that they want to do what. Not just put your idea into the children. In this way, we educate children to learn how to be a human being. We give them love and care to support them and lead them when they lost their way. It's more important to be a healthy person not only in body but also in mental. Only he or she can grow into a healthy man, could he or she do the best to the society. There are many examples that he or she has the talent in the studying or other areas, but can use it in the right way and even using the gifts to do harm on the society.

Third, teaching should also inspire the creation of the children. For many great scientists who impede the development of the society, they are all inspired and encouraged. The limit of the thought makes the children like a machine not a human being. Thus, we should make the situation full with freedom of thought and talking.

To sum up, for many teachers and educators, they put the children themselves on the first place and don’t think that the children I taught might bring to the society great treasure. And a society in the future also needs everybody's help to make the situations better for a child to grow up healthy.
  
  
写到后面有些手软了，不知道怎么写了，都没有什么例子。后来看了网上的一些才发现自己的写作思路被局限在first, second, third。其实，很多问题不是按点来说的，每个问题之间都是交互作用的。O(∩_∩)O~而且构思太过仓促了，论点之间没有个平衡。总之就是头重脚轻。晚些时候再改一遍。
果然语言还是很差的说。希望可以有所改进。
今天本来想改掉一些简单的语法错误和拼写错误，发现这个文章写得好差劲，感觉像小学生写得。郁闷了一下。发一下今天写得吧！

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July, 22,2010
TOPIC: ISSUE50 - "In order to improve the quality of instruction at the college and university level, all faculty should be required to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach."
WORDS: 493          TIME: 00:35:59          DATE: 7/22/2010 4:44:44 PM

  The main point of the writer's assertion is that all faculties should know the area they taught in the reality or in the society. It's a good way to lead the teachers better understand their research area. However, when this idea is relevant to practice, some other things should also be taken into account.
  To be a good teacher who can make the context of the books easier understand and spread the vision of other field, the relevance to the real worlds is very essential. For instance, when learnt psychology, some experiments can help the students better and deeper realized the conceptions like memory and how the memory works. If the professor worked for the research on the memory, he could teach more than the books written like the recent research on the implicit memory. What's more, it might be more basic for the students who learnt economy, as economy is the discipline which is nearest to our daily life. If the professor has no experiments to work in the company, he or she cannot teach clearly about what the company really cooperate. Only with the textbooks cannot help the understanding the courses. In this case, to do some works outside the academic research would benefit a lot.
  As it is said above, it can be divided into two parts----inside the academic and outside the academic world. In my opinion, both of them are equally important and different courses may have different attitudes towards it. Some areas are tending to be more practical like the economy. And other areas seem have little relevance with the daily life like mathematics. However, having little relevance with the life doesn't mean have no relevance. Thus, if a professor can combine both the researches and the particular events in the life together, it will make the students inspired and even figured something out.
  But the reality is that the sources are limited, even we know the results are helpful, it's only an ideal and need to balance the both sides.  If the professor does all his time to research or work, he will have no time to teach the students. In this way, the college and university should think carefully about the time and funds attribute. Like some university who combined and balanced well, they cooperate with some companies. In one aspect, the companies can give the funds to support the research of the professors. In return, the professors' research can be made into the productions. Other colleges are permitted the professors to work outside the campus such as medical or psychological areas which are needed more practice to improve the skills to deal with the physical and mental problems.
  To sum up, there are some suggestions about the working outside. Teaching, working and researching should take balance in the way that the university gives the professors more freedom and some limits. The limits are that aspects should not influence each other, but help each other.   


感觉思路要比上一篇写得完整一点儿，不会虎头蛇尾了。但是果然还是败在语言和素材上了。写作就像是盖房子一样，语言和素材都是最基本的东西。一会儿去网上找一找资料。看能不能改善一下。

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July 25 2010
TOPIC: ISSUE48 - "The study of history places too much emphasis on individuals. The most significant events and trends in history were made possible not by the famous few, but by groups of people whose identities have long been forgotten."
WORDS: 448          TIME: 00:45:00          DATE: 7/25/2010 11:35:01 PM

  The assertion that the impetus of history was made by groups of people who were not famous and even have been forgotten is convincing, as the every step of the past in the human being's history needs the efforts and the desire of all society. However, as a study of history, it's impossible and even ideal to do research on these groups because of the lack of the resources about them.
  The main point is that the researcher should differ the history itself from its studies. Although the studies should be an exhibition of real history, there are many problems in the reality left the historians limited by the recordings and bias of person life. In this way, without the enough data and recordings, historians couldn't research or emphasize the groups' effects on history. Therefore, when inferred to the study of history, people mainly talk about some individuals.
   For one reason is that the individuals at special times could really influence and even change the history we know today. For instance, if the Darwin didn't have a trip around the world, of course someone else may be find out these thought like how the animal evolve. But it's obviously later than his finding. In this sense, improvement or impediment might happen with the forces of an individual. An individual can be more essential for a politic problem or a nation. When a person has huge power to lead the nation, he put his thought which can be good or evil into the whole country for his own purpose or for the whole people of the nation. All the decisions what he has made will change the history a lot.
  Another reason is that an individual in the history can be easier to explore and for a group of people, historians can make some conclusions but hardly have more details about them. And most recordings are about the individuals. What's more, researching large number of people, even nowadays, will only give some examples or data. It's not an economic way and impossible to figure out so large number of people by giving every detail.
  However, neglecting the groups of people for history's study is also mistaken. Most people of the society are the basic and foundations of every history events. Though some individuals make great effect on the history, they cannot change the ideal and desire of most people.
  To sum up, it's safe to say that some individuals were the main point in some history cases; however the groups of people did the real change of history. But, for history's research with the limit of resources, the historian could only study more about the effects of the individuals.
今天写的AW是关于历史，历史究竟是个人还是团体的。我觉得历史虽然是团体的也有个人的影响，但是对于历史的研究主要还是从个人开始的。一提到像文艺复兴，像工业革命，脑子里肯定会冒出几个人影响推动了工业革命。但是，历史的主要承载者是那一段时期的所有人。
  推荐MICROSOFT那个学习软件，上面有关于HISTORY很多的介绍，作为写作的素材也够了。WIKIPEDIA上也有关于HISTORY的研究方法http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History感觉不错。

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July 28 2010
TOPIC: ISSUE208 - "The way people look, dress, and act reveals their attitudes and interests. You can tell much about a society's ideas and values by observing the appearance and behavior of its people."
WORDS: 429        TIME: 00:45:00          DATE: 7/28/2010 9:57:57 PM

  The arguer associated appearance of the people in a society with its ideas and values rightly. It suggests the relevance between the value of society and the behavior of the people, but did not prove that this kind of value could be defined by the appearance of the people.
  It is true that some ideas can be revealed by the behavior of people. For instance, the fashion referred to costume fashion out of some cultural ideas of a society. Tracing back for one hundred years, it's easily to find out the immerse differeces between today and the past. Like the trousers which were seen to be exclusively male clothing, however, are worn by both sexes. It might because the female social status is higher than before and the feminists presuring equal treat with the male. In addition, different cultures have different clothing. In western countries, skirts, dresses are treated as women’s clothing, while neckies are seen as men’s clothing and there are not so much laws or priciples for clothing. To the contrast, in a Muslim countries, women have to wear the attire which is called hijab and men may wear the skirts such as togas or kilts.
  Moreover, the behavior of the people and the decision the people made can reflected what they are thinking about. And the thought pattern can be influenced by his values which is in the environment of a society. Hence, the relative between the behavior and the value of the society is very nearly with the similarities with ideas of a person and the society he lived in.
  However, even the appearance of the people in the society derives from its ideas, the way of knowing a society can be circumvented by the limit of observation on the appearance and behavior. Then a society also has various spirits and culture which are represented in an intangible forms to represent like publish enterprise. Such books, novels, and myths as a society interpreted in a different way are not apparent for observing the persons’ external presentation.Moreover, these are usually in a minute and graduate way to make effect on its people. Otherwise, all of the factors I referred above will be influenced by each other. Thus, the society's ideas are so complex that connect everyone in the society.
  To sum up, the spirit of a society support the persons' behavior patterns and the development of the society. While as the spirit is intangible, the other should also be taken into account besides the external behavior and the internal materials of the person in the society.

  额，感觉越写越少了。。:mad:
  都几天没写了。果然，果然，还是要给自己一些压力。
  有毅力才能做好一件事情。
  今天的TOPIC是关于社会价值观与个人行为的。思路倒是有，感觉挺清晰地。可惜，例子还是少了。支持的观点才是最重要的。要写得更丰满一点儿会更好。
  其实，还想到了一些例子，可惜没时间加上去了。就是第二个观点社会价值观反应在个人行为上。可以加上一个比较个人的例子吧！？比如，像是班杜拉的观点社会学习理论。

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July 29 2010
TOPIC: ISSUE153 - "Students should bring a certain skepticism to whatever they study. They should question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively."
WORDS:532        TIME: 00:45:00          DATE: 7/29/2010 5:32:54 PM

  The way for a student to study must be combined with skepticism as the argument referred to. But should students question everything they learned? In my opinion, learning should be followed by critical thinking and the basic knowledge is equally important.
  As schooling on one hand cultivates and sustains the resources of human being in teaching and protecting the experiments, customs and even the abstract thought, while, on the other hand, do harm to the perceptions for the real world by one's own. In this sense, it's crucial for students to be warned about everything they learnt and from the questioning the books students would be inspired and produced new ideas and thoughts with a totally different way. For instance, the history of psychology is a progress to object formers’ thought and give a new hypothesis with tests like Watson’s behaviorism against introspection in the past. Though there are actually some faults of his behaviorism which are too emphasizing on behavior, his efforts made a new era of psychology, which was the beginning to do experiments in scientific way.
Moreover, when learnt something, with the critical thinking which makes students to think carefully and deeply on their own, it will be obviously easier and faster for a student to learn, remember and use the knowledge. My own experiences showed the effect of learning with critical thinking is the course of experimental psychology. As the studies I advanced, the more knowledge that is relevant to the course increasingly was met and in return I could finish the studies with high quantities in the certain time. In the progress, new ideas and thoughts like the water flowed into my brain, helped me gain novel ways to do the research and profound understanding of all these principles and laws. Hence, curiosity should be considered by both the students and the teachers and in the courses, the teachers are the guide for the students to learn efficiently and  to exploring boarder areas which they are interested in, in the meantime, the students accept the knowledge with testable hypothesis and critical thinking.
  Although the skepticism is necessary to learning, the fundamental or basic knowledge should also be taken into account. One reason is that critical thinking is built up by the stone of knowledge. Even the critics would learn all the writers' print carefully before they put their criticism into the public. If one doesn't know the details of the thoughts, only use his experiences to justify what's right or wrong, he cannot thoroughly understand them and then he cannot give an improvement. Thus, skepticism should be used in a scientific way and with the basic knowledge.
Another reason is that the critical thought also needs large amount of knowledge not only in the field they studied but also other fields. Expanding view in the same time will increase people's curiosity. The boarder scale of knowledge is not made up by the skepticism. By a person's hardworking and striving, a person’s thought can be enlarged and nourished.
  To sum up, questioning is indispensable and favored, however it will be limited by a person's experiments, values and customs, so skepticism needs the basic and immerse amount of knowledge.