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题目:As long as people in a society are hungry or out of work or lack the basic skills needed to survive, the use of public resources to support the arts is inappropriate- and, perhaps, even cruel- when one considers all the potential uses of such money.
我3月24号考,昨天刚写了第一篇,结果发的格式不对,所以今天再发一次,希望大家多批评。这是在pp2里限时写的,写完有566字,后来自己改了一下,现在是559字。谢谢各位了。
As art seems somewhat less urgent and important than its alternatives for which the public resources may be placed, the arguer considers inappropriate to allocate public money to arts. However, art is not as insignificant as the arguer thinks, and it need the support of our society. Only the amount devoting to it can be negotiated according to the state of the society.
Art is the basic need of human being, not the luxury of the wealthier. The first men painted stylized animal figures and abstract symbols on cave walls, at least 30,000 years ago. For thousands of years people have also adorned their bodies with ornamentation, such as jewelry, pigments, and stylized scars. Modern people pay even more attention to art. Visual effects in movies astound us, well-designed Web pages appeal to us, and gorgeous images in advertising persuade us. We may be poor and cannot afford expensive things, but this does not prevent us from choosing things of better design or color when they are at the same price. Art is so important for every individual that it should be paid great attention to, particularly by the society.
While art is needed by human beings, it is also fragile. It needs help from the society for its growth and culmination. Many artists are in such a poor situation before they are famous that they cannot even pay for their brushes and canvases. Museums and galleries are already short of funds nowadays for their basic activities. Still more, the propagation and publicizing of art need help from the society, since few persons and corporations are interested in such implicitly beneficial projects or able to support them. Art will die in modern societies if we do not give it a helping hand.
Some social problems, such as poverty, unemployment, live as long as the human society, which can not be extirpated at all, and should not be granted as the excuses for not supporting the arts. Poverty is a relative conception and it only exists concurrently with the existence of wealth. People that are wealthy in China may be called poor according to the circumstances of America. Unemployment cannot be eradicated because there will always be people who are changing jobs, who are lazy, or who lack certain ability but do not wish to take the jobs requiring less abilities but giving less pay. If we say as such problems still exist, money should be paid for them rather than the seemingly less important art, we are saying never pay for art at all.
Admittedly, even more social problems are of such an exigent and fundamental nature that failing to solve them will induce instability and much more problems of the society. Such social problems consist of the ones which will jeopardy the predominance of the government and the general good of the people. So when we consider locating money for arts, such factors should be taken into account.
After all, we need art as we need water and food, for our physiological and metal state's good; art need us for its existence and development. In so far as the resources is limited and human also have other needs and social problems, the amount of funds allocating to art should be changed according to different situations. But art is important; we should never fail to give support to it. |
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