本帖最后由 kennyqun 于 2011-2-3 18:50 编辑
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这是我严格意义上第一篇一休,写的时候很不流畅,改的时候也绞尽脑汁,困难主要在于对题目的critical thinking的把握上。
比如何谓great nation's achievements 又比如general welfare的表现形式等等
我把文章的重点放在了为什么不是rulers,artists, scientists的分析上,没有更好地将笔墨花在general welfare本身,就好像是把高楼造在湿地上,总觉得心惊胆战。
但是还是想把文章贴出来请楼主审阅,写得不好的地方,望指正。
非常感谢!!!
TOPIC: ISSUE170 - "The surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but the general welfare of all its people."
We use GNP to scale how people live in one nation, according to CPI we know the situation of one country's people. Both of these are what we believe that can present the indicator of a great nation. In fact, they are the surest indicator. Because they just give us a vivid illustration of a nation's reality. I totally agree with that. Whatkind of welfare people can achieve is the surest indicator of a great nation.
What is the definition of a great nation? Does that mean a country with a crucial economics status in Wall street? A powerful military background? Or a prove effective on the international stage? Some people may argue that rulers, artists, or scientist are the most important compenents in one nation
and what they achieved are the most powerful symbols of one country. Rulers, who run the country as a machine, can ensure all the things in one nation is under control, including homicide or robbery. One ancient Chinese jurist said two thousand years ago that law is made for government to command people, not to protect people. Nowadays the function of law transformed a lot. The fathers of the United States signed their names on the Declaration of Independence two hundred years ago with a wonderful ambition of pursuing happiness and sharing equality. Doctor King's desire was been realized by President Obama for being the first African American president in the history of the United States. Law and other regulations now are made for protect the most of peopel in the country.
Also the same example is artists, who express themselves in their works, provide us a unique world of their own in a unspeakable way. Rodin's famous adapt "what we lack is not beauty, but the eyes to find beauty" is a appropriate demonstration of himself. In his art life, he created so many creditable sculptures with simple materials and left us huge amount of art fortune. Even today, we still can touch his heart by gazing the eyes of his work--The David. So culture can be seen, heard, or touched by common people now. Another similar case is scientists, who found the secrets of the nature, provide us a faster way to reach a higher point of life. Techenology offer human being a much more convenient way to obtain a better life standord. The day Edison invented bulb might never thought that one day all the people in this blue planet would use his invention to enlighten their rooms even their lives. So did Jobs set up his Apple kingdom several years ago. Today, ipod, iphone, ipad, imac invade into our daily life by a wherever and whenever way. They are not simply designed for commercial or amusement, but brought out to upen our spiritual level, to paint our world from black and white to chromatic and dazzling.
Basically, these three kinds of job, or fields, are the best pictures of one nation's image. Notwithstanding, people's general welfare are the ultimate aim of all the fields. The purest indicator of one nation is not decided by all those above, but by the general welfare of all its people. Rulers, artists, scientists—politics, culture, techenology—are fighting for a better future for people's better life. What they did or what they are doing or what they are going to do is all about the how to get a more brilliant status for most of people in one nation. By these kinds of means, we are easy to draw the conclusion that whatever the nation changes, its best name card always is what the people are treated.
In sum, as long as we understand that rule, we could find the authentic meaning of the achievements of one nation. It is not given by those who devoted themselves to this country, it is indicated by the general welfare of all its people.
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