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发表于 2011-3-23 16:38:02
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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: 555
TIME: 00:45:00
DATE: 2011/3/23 16:21:44
It is said that observe how people look, dress and act is a convenient method to understand their inward world. I thought, this is not so reasonable all the time. Because people often need to adjust their action and even attitudes according to their special situation, so sometimes, the image they project themselves in our brain is too artificial to express their true thoughts. However, we can still have a sound view of the whole society via these unauthentic images. No matter how a single man restrain the expressing of his true self, the society as a whole cannot hide itself with these illusions.
To begin with, the way people look cannot reveal their attitudes and interests as well as a sociologist wants them to do, this primarily because that everyone has his own social context. No matter what he does, he must consider whether his parents and friends can accept it or not. For example, in the childhood of most Chinese students, they actually were fascinated with the Japanese cartoons and fictions wrote by a famous HongKong novelist, but they pretend to be indifferent about these things in front of their parents and teachers, because they were taught to be a student who can only occupy himself with mountains of homeworks. In this case, if we look from the parents and teachers' perspectives, we may get a conclusion that their offspring are busying with their business all the time. However, if we observe from one of their peers, we may find they indulge themselves with kinds of games and novels. So, we cannot get one's real aspirations only by how they look, dress and act and other such superficial aspects.
But things are different if we consider about the whole society's ideas and values. How a particular person act and choose often can reveal the situation of his time. This can be demonstrated by numerous historical books. Historians often choose a figure as a case to explain how the society was worked by analyzing his life since he cannot depict the numerous affairs happened in the past in one book. If we retrospect to the history, we may found that the whole history was stored in our brains piece by piece. Let's take China history as an example. We often thought Chinese literatus lived before Qing dynasty wore blue clothes, with a hat like cloth in their head. People lived in Qing dynasty were those whose hair were half removed, while the remained hair was tied together in the back. In this case, the images of two ordinary people reveals different phrase of history in China, the history created by Han government and the history created by Man government.
Living in a keeping developing time, we always feel we have lesser time to keep in touch with other people. The only way we had to increase our frequency with others is to convert our social contact into an efficient way. So, it's better for us to express our true self in our every life to give others a real impression on ourselves. If all of us can do this, we can assert that we can understand people by the way the dress themselves and they act. And, maybe the society will be a more efficient one than it is in the future.
TOPIC: ARGUMENT37 - Woven baskets characterized by a particular distinctive pattern have previously been found only in the immediate vicinity of the prehistoric village of Palea and therefore were believed to have been unique to the Palean people. Recently, however, archaeologists discovered such a "Palean" basket in Lithos, an ancient village across the Brim River from Palea. The Brim River is very deep and broad, and so the ancient Paleans could only have crossed it by boat, but there is no evidence that the Paleans had boats. And boats capable of carrying groups of people and cargo were not developed until thousands of years after the Palean people disappeared. Moreover, Paleans would have had no need to cross the river-the woods around Palea are full of nuts, berries, and small game. It follows that the so-called Palean baskets were not unique to Palea.
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TIME: 00:30:00
DATE: 2011/3/23 16:21:44
The author argued that the long accepted conception that the woven baskets were unique to Palea should be adjusted. He got this conclusion based on a newly published archaeologists' discovery, which seems demonstrated there are another group of people also have the ability to make the same woven baskets. However, if we ponder this argument sincerely, we may found the author had not analyzed this situation considerably.
To begin with, we should study the unearthed "Palean" basket to make sure it is the same as the one that was long belived belong to Palean people. Maybe this is just a happen situation. One people lived in Lithos fortunately made a basket which is the same as those made by Palean people, but his other peers still made basket in their traditonal way. Even we admit that people lived in Lithos can make basket the same as people in Palean, we should concider how they master this manufacture. Maybe they learned this from Palean people long long ago.
Then, the author thought there is no evidence support the touch between Lithos people and Palean people. Firstly, he thought people lived in that time cannot crossed the Brim River successfully. We should study the history to make sure is this river was as deep and broad as it is in the past, and then we should thought is it the only way to cross a river by boats? Apparently, the Brim River maybe was very small in the past or people lived in that time once build a bridge on the river. The author also thought there is no needs for Palean people to go to the other bank of the river, because the life in their own bank is convient. But we should keep in mind that the nature had changed a lot in the past, we cannot know the situation of this village in the past based on its nature scene in these days.
Just as i had mentioned above, we should admit that Palean baskets belong to Palean people dispite the discovery had extend other possibilities. |
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