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The surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but the general well-being of all its people.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Which one is better to be the indicator of a great nation, the achievement of its rulers, artists, or scientists, or the general well-being of all its people. In my point of view, I think it is the general well-being of all its people that can better indicate the greatness of a country, for the reason that the greatness of a nation means the people can enjoy the freedom, the well-being and the equality in the realm of the laws. Even though the achievement of its rulers, artists or scientist could help to build a great country, it could not amount the greatness of a nation.
Primarily, the primary mission of a country is to escape its people from the hungry, homeless and insecurity, so the well-being of all its people could reflect a great country better. Many countries, such as USA, UK, German and the forth that we could consider great, can be found that most people are in the high welfare condition. In this countries, people are never worry about their hungry for they are richer than before and the hungry isn’t a problem for them anymore. When this people are sick, they could go to the hospital to get cure and wouldn’t worry that they would wait for die as they have no finance for the medicine. So before a country to be called great, it should enhance the well-being of its people.
Furthermore, a group of well-being people could have more energy to help to build the country in every ways, while a group of people without welfare could produce the chaos or even prevent the development of a nation, which reflects that it is not a great nation. Many instances involved USA and the oil-rich country in Middle East can be cites. In USA, a nation we can consider great, the people can put all their mind into their working, such as the police could absorb in protect the security of the society, the scientists could absorb in their research, the teacher could absorb in cultivating the next general. While, in some countries that are rich with oil, we could know the countries have plenty money, but we don’t think they are great for their people are still in situation that lack of security, education, equality, medicine and most importantly, the happiness.
Even though the achievement of its rulers, artists or scientist could help to build a great country, it could not amount the greatness of a nation. Admittedly, the achievement of the artists, scientists and rulers could advance the development of a country, and in turn that make the country to be great. Many great people can be cited, such as the Einstein, and the Martin Luther King, they all make a great achievement in their own field, make a great contribution to the development of USA. We could call they help to make USA great, however, we could not admit that their achievement amount the greatness of USA, as USA is great not only for the advance of such fields, but also for the freedom, the legal system, the advanced technology and open of the idea. So the achievement of the rulers, artists or scientist could not reflect the greatness of the country.
In sum, I really agree with what the speaker asserts about the preference between the achievement of the rulers, artists, and scientists, and the well-being of the people in the indication of a great nation. It is the well-being of people in that country can prove that the country is great, even the achievement of some people could promote the development of the country, it can’t mean that it amount the greatness of a nation.
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