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发表于 2006-7-30 20:03:39
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TOPIC: ISSUE185 - "Scandals-whether in politics, academia, or other areas-can be useful. They focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could."
WORDS: 565 TIME: 12:45:00 AM DATE: 7/29/2006
I agree that scandals do attract our attention in ways speaker and reformer never could. However, it does not follow that scandals can be useful.
With their sensational content and their specific ways, some scandals aim at attracting as many people as possible but not reporting the facts. Some people may wonder why these scandals could attract our attention while the reformer and speaker could not. It is no doubted that the inborn curiosity of people provides the needs of the creation of scandals since scandals are always contradict with our common recognition. So people will pour into everlasting energy to trace the initials and the following development of scandals. The media, driven by maximum profits and acted as the retailers, never stop providing or delving the scandals, even make some scandals to enhance profits. Hence they will disseminate these scandals as rapid as they could. Some celebrities such as entertainment stars, acted as providers, sometimes deliberately fabricate some scandals in order to increase their exposure possibilities. Or to win in the competition, some individuals will act as distracters to beat others and they will produce some scandals, as well. Thereby, scandals with their rapid-spreading, vast-reaching, and long-lasting lead them eyes-catching. In this sense, no speaker or reformer could get such effect.
Knowing the origination of scandals, we may be alarm to answer whether scandals are useful or not. It goes without saying that scandals have some negative effects to the society and the individuals. Firstly, facing so many scandals, people will confuse about the situation of the society. Once watching outstanding creative in scientific, people will doubt whether it is true, just another Korean scientist? Or is the outcome just plagiarized? Viewing one politic figure that is great important in certain engineering program, some will ask whether that guy has received venal(venality). The people may lose fundamental trust about the media, the public figure and even the society. After all, scandals reveal the back facets of society whether they are genuine or not. Secondly, these scandals occupy so many energy and time with which people could do many other meaningful things. There are so many that deserved to pay attention or to do aside from caring about scandals. Thirdly, for these fabricated scandals, the figure once slandered, the reputation is hard to be renewed. Therefore, scandals may mislead the people and distract the people’s attention.
Admittedly, scandals could be useful due to common attraction. Although scandals are negative, it is beneficial to solve relative problem and might be alert for the afterwards. The paradigmatic modern example is the Watergate scandal(watergate event, 如果我没记错的话). The president Nickerson had to recede to the president elation and the later elaters will be more cautious. While if a society mainly depends on scandals to expose the shortcomings and to solve problems in politic, academic or other areas’ system, its legal or formal form of supervision may be malfunction. After all, scandals are negative to the curiosity person, to those who are involving in the events, and to the society. Therefore, the acclamation that scandals can expose social problems actually overstates the role of scandals. (这段了论证不是太充分,丑闻对一般人是无害的,对于当事人,有些是罪有应得,有些是功绩被掩盖了,所以我认为丑闻还是对暴露社会问题还是有用的,当然,作者已经把自己的观点及论证表达清楚了)
In sum, scandals do have some profound significance in some aspects, while it is unsuitable to pay too much attention to scandals. After all, from the origination of some scandals, it is to appeal attraction; and too many scandals will cause people to have negative impression to the society. (结尾总结深化,只是觉得结尾说的丑闻的作用正文中论证的不是太好)
总体来说,这是篇不错的文章,考试时写成这样的程度我觉得就可以了,毕竟咱们拿不到六分,呵呵)
这篇文章最大的优点就是结构清晰,论证全面,有点就是不太深入,我觉得issue要写深入满难得,咱们都加油吧:victory: |
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