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TOP 11: The lecture does not agree with the readings on the concern of less literature being read. It refutes the reading by following three reasons. Firstly, a book does not need to be literature in order to be intellectual stimulation.
Other than the novels or poems, scientific , political, and historical books can also be high quality readings. They are as createive as a traditional literature book. Hence it is wrong to assume a person cannot be trained intellectually if they donot read literature books. Next, when people spend more time on movies and musics, it does not necessarily lower down the general culture standard. Basically, the culture has been changed so far. The excellant movies or musics can address the contemporary issues better than the old art forms such as literature. That means there is no worry for poor culture standard due to diversified public interests. Finally, it is not ture the less support of literature is due to the readers. In fact, it is because of the authors. They unfortunately make the literature very hard to read. Even the old generation cannot comprehend the current literature well. So the reduced public support for literature cann not be blamed on readers. In sum, the trend of spending less time on literature does not reflect a drop of public
culture standard. People can learn as much as literture from other forms of arts such as movies and musics . The writes should also review on their way of writtting such that they can attract the general interest on literature again. Do you think that young people should take several different kinds of job before they take acareer in a long term? Normally when we think of choosing a career, we will use criterions such as how well it is related to our study or how much money we can make from it. However, for young adults, they should be encouraged to try on diferent kinds of job. In this way, they can discover their true insterest and their abilities in the real working environment. Afterwards, they will find their ture path on the career life and hence achieve success. Generally speaking, when we start our career, we normally are not clear about the purpose of working. As a fresh graduate, we can be intrigued by high paid job or high profile work. We feel this kind of work sounds very proud when we talk to friends.
What we ignore is our real interes or ture talent. We may not be very suitable for certain types of work even we are recruited by any chance. Or perhaps we will find we do not like doing it after
working for some time. So what will happen if we just continue doing it for the sake of money? Sooner or later we will find we are trapped in a certain level comparing to others who have succeed in the long term. The result is not surperised because we cannot perform well due to lacking of enough quality or passionate on the work.
Then, how about those finding the work related to their majors? Well, it seems they are making wise choice since the work is in the area of their study.
But again,
it does not warrant
they can stay on the job for long time due to similar reasons mentioned above. We have heard some people study a certain subject for 4 years undergraduate then they realise they waste their time on studying it because their interes is on it or they chose it due to famlity pressure.
We can also feel regretted after we work for some time if we are not doing work for self fulfillment. Futhermore study is different from work. In the school you are evaluated by marks. However you are appraised by many different factors in the work.
Hence in order to excel in the job, we should consider the work based on our own special talents other than what we have learnt in the school. In short, we may have to take on different kinds of work to understand our ture interest and most valuable ability. After discussing about the disavantage of limiting the career choice due to finacial or major concern, the good advice to the young adults is to be brave to try out several possibilities before they make up their minds. They can learn about themselves better by looking at themsevles from different angles. Only by having experiences through different choices, they can find the most suitable career which is profound to one's life.
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