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10月9日交
09.03.07NA   Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Teachers should not show their social or political views in the classroom.
Freedom of speech
Know more aspects about politics

Politics is an eternal and sensitive topic in human daily life. Some, holding the belief that teachers should not show their social of political views in the classroom, claim that by some personal indecent critics on politics or society would have a negative effect on students and cause conflicts in the society. I partly concede this opinion. However, from my perspective, it is reasonable for teachers to express their political thoughts about the society, considering that the authority of teachers to voice their opinions on any aspects of life and the knowledge on politics students can obtain in class.
Initially, citizens enjoy the freedom of speech, which has been acclaimed by the legislation in United States for hundreds of years. In other words, everyone in any social status, including workers or white-collars, teachers or students, housewives or bankers, can express his or her opinions on any subject by any legal means. Thus, it is undoubted that teachers have the legal authority to voice their social and political views as individual in the classroom. Any regulation preventing the teachers from telling their own point of views in public would be a deprivation of the fundamental power of social humankind, which offends the justice of the law.
Adding more credibility to my view, beneficial is the illustration of teachers’ views in class, which is one of students’ accesses to social or political knowledge. Take my personally experience as an example. I once attended a course of western psychology in my freshman year. The professor had a great zeal for politics and he would like to convey his ideas and hold some discussions on western political system at intervals in class. From his words, I learnt a lot about knowledge in politics and society, to name a few, the creed of democracy, the diversity of social structures of Communism and Capitalism, the major conflicts among different parties like the Democracy and the Republican, and even the complexity of international relationships between developing countries and developed countries. Judging from his opinions, I attain multi-aspects of the perception of my living world.
In conclusion, it is by no means reasonable to accuse teachers of expressing their social or political views in the classroom, for the reason that they have the authority to voice their views, as well as that students can benefit from the knowledge provided.

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10月12日交
09.03.29 do you agree or disagree, students will not use printed books anymore.
Nowadays, with the rapid pace of technological development, an increasing number of new inventions have been crowding out the traditional means of life. One of the most eye-catching products is the electronic books, which are widely used among students as an alternative of printed books. However, this latest comer is now being questioned by more and more educators who complain that this electronic product has brought many problems like the financial decline of publishers and the vision loss of students.
I concede their opinions. From my perspective, nevertheless, the reduction or even the elimination of printed books would be a conformation of the inevitable process of social development, considering the effectiveness of work and the protection of environment the electronic books may bring about.
Initially, in the past decades, students have been dug as equivalent of brain workers as well as labor workers, for their both mental and physical challenges. It is realistically depicted in our daily life that a college student grabs his 2-kilogram textbook of Physics, with a thickness of 3 inches, from the shelf into his bag, which has already been crammed with a large number of paper books. Due to the overload, his bag may untimely give a strike and all the books dramatically fall down the ground on his way rushing to the classroom, contributing to nothing but annoy and embarrassment. How convenient it could be if we can be equipped with some extremely thin electronic product, which weighs no more than 1 kilogram and possibly serves as a fabulous replacement of mountains of printed books. Now, electronic books come out to fit our dream, as long as we download the electronic edition of them in advance.
Lending more credibility to my point of view, people who are stubborn about the printed books fail to take into account the fact that, regardless of the limited value, printed books should be criticized as a waste of wood resource, which obviously do harm to the environment. Obviously, by cutting down the use of printed books and advocating the electronic ones, we save up thousands of hundreds tons of wood. Thus, the popularization of electronic books can make an evident contribution to the reduction in over-consumption of resources. Besides, it is also an active response to the appeal of sustainable life-styles.
In conclusion, it is an undeniable fact -- even for those who have nostalgia about printed books -- that the role which printed books have played for centuries would be taken over by advanced technology as an enhance of the quality of human life. Anyway, the drawbacks of the modern products can be solved with further development.