本帖最后由 tanse 于 2011-7-25 10:24 编辑
The luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life prevent people from developing into truly strong and independent individuals.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
It seems reasonable that the luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life prevent people from developing into truly strong and independent individuals because people probably build up tough will in the process of struggling for basic living condition. Furthermore, those truly strong and independent individuals are always with iron will. On the contrary, such is indeed ridiculous view of point.
In my opinion, truly strong and independent characteristics have nothing to do with the living condition, that’s to say, those maverick guys would be cultivated either in contemporary world companied with high technology or in ancient world only with cold weapons, for example ,those worriers in Sparta. President Obama, the first African-American who holds the office, is surely a strong and independent individual not ravaged by the internet, airplane and ipad of Apple Company. Plato, absolutely a great thinker who lived in 5-4centuary of Athens, destined his master life not for he had no chances plugging himself into luxuries and conveniences in the 21th century.
Those truly strong and independent individuals are coming from their talents, wills, and actions of struggling for life even influence of their family which rarely connected with luxury or poor, convenient or hard life.
For instance Jane Austen was a widely read writer who lived in the horse-and-buggy age. She never married while insisted on writing in her whole life from her artistic apprenticeship as a teenager. She would not choose this life style without strong and independent characteristics. Of course it is her writing gift, will of releasing her inspiration, continuing exercise of writing and support from his parents and brothers that push her into the destiny not because she has no opportunity to go shopping in London by airplane or she couldn’t make know as Susan Boyle through the TV show named Britain's Got Talent.
So in contemporary life there still emerge many other strong and independent individuals not precluded in the circumstance surrounded by all kinds of new technological inventions. J.K. Rowling, the creator of Harry Potter, a divorced woman with a daughter living on benefit from government became a millionaire even billionaire within five years. In the contemporary J.K. Rowling can seek to inspirations of magical school in the cafeteria with wireless internet after washing clothes by wash-machine while Jane Austen only had to spare time for writing from her hand-housekeeping work. However, it is not the crucial point to whether or not use modern science technology for J.K. Rowling and Jane Austen coming into the same strong and independent individuals.
J.K. Rowling can enjoy cooking fast by micro-stove to get more time conceiving her Harry Potter or she can get famous after one evening for the high speed of modern publishing though she still had to get through the depression as she just became a single mother with a baby and then she should throw herself into the fantastic world she imagined by her own which cannot be easier with existence of internet or movies in contemporary life.
To sum up, life is a long term test through all the life for everyone whenever he or she lives and those who passed through the test with high scores are strong and independent individuals whether or not they having luxury and convenient life with modern technology. | 
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