[天下无G]第二次作业提纲

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好多题目没有思路，就没能按时写出来……


116
"With the growth of global networks in such areas as economics and communication, there is no doubt that every aspect of society—including education, politics, the arts, and the sciences—will benefit greatly from international influences."
Agree
1.        In virtue of the international communication networks such as the airlines connecting metropolitan cities, it is convenience for teachers, artists, scientists, and leaders to travel from one country to another. The intercourse between countries will be in higher frequency.
e.g. The chairman of China and Bush met more than 6 times a year.
2.        The network of computers offers convenience and overall information accesses, so it is easy to search all the information one need. Without, it is difficult
e.g. the Merdel – law of heredity be found several years later, which inaugurate a new era of genetics.
  Know more about other countries’ art and educition
3.  The economy has been global that the labor can be divided by different countries. So the resource would be made best use and many aspects of the society would be promoted.
e.g. Different parts may be made in different countries and be connected to form a watch.
4.  However, the immature global networks bring up some disadvantages such as contraband, abscond to other countries, pollution. 失去自己特色，

170
"The surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but the general welfare of all its people."  
Agree
1.           The conception of great nation usually based on high GDP, stable economy system, rapid development of science, which all depend on a stable domestic condition.
e.g. The economy of Sudan declined after the civil wars, and boomed again when the condition came back stable. (?)
2.           The stable condition of the country is influenced by its welfare of people.
3.   What a successful ruler, artist, or scientist do is always to improve welfare of people.
     e.g. Pasteur

197
"The material progress and well-being of one country are necessarily connected to the material progress and well-being of all other countries."
Agree
1.           The interaction between countries is so frequently that the condition of one country is surly to influences others.
2.           The economy is global that different countries contact with others.
e.g. the value of labor in China is lower than the Europian countries, as a result, the commodities made in china is so cheap that the industry in other countries is effected much.
产业转移，发达国家劳动密集型产业转向发展中国家，使得发展中国家经济发展
3.           The development of science in one country will effect to the condition of the other.
e.g.  bird flu, nuke, AIDS
4．   The whole world share a single biophere, which will be destroy by the action of one of the  countries as the result of material flow.

11
"All nations should help support the development of a global university designed to engage students in the process of solving the world's most persistent social problems."
Agree
1.        With advant of economy globility, many world social problems process rapidly, such as contraband, pollution, terrorism, atom diffusion.
2.        The global social problems effects every country, such as pollution, the greenhouse effection.
3.        It is better to solve these problems in the view of the world instead of one of the countries, and compare the conditions in different countries will offer better solutions.
4.        However, some countries isn’t able to take actions to support the school now by reason of running short of money or busying with other important problems. It is not necessary to force them take actions at once.


174
"Laws should not be rigid or fixed. Instead, they should be flexible enough to take account of various circumstances, times, and places."
Agree
1.  It is advisable to vary some laws in order to keep up with the rapid development of the society. 国际犯罪，网络犯罪 –例子
2.  It is better to make special lists for minorities, and different lists for different religion.
3.  The laws should not be changed before cautious consideration, and should keep consistency.

178
"It is possible to pass laws that control or place limits on people's behavior, but legislation cannot reform human nature. Laws cannot change what is in people's hearts and minds."
Agree
1.  

180
"Many problems of modern society cannot be solved by laws and the legal system because moral behavior cannot be legislated."
Agree
1.  There are many social problems which can not be solved by laws, such as
2.  Laws can not cover every aspect of the society for it is difficult to build a rigid criterion for morality.
3.  If the morality is involved in the laws, the situation will be difficult to concrol. For example 见义勇为 知情不报等

17
"There are two types of laws: just and unjust. Every individual in a society has a responsibility to obey just laws and, even more importantly, to disobey and resist unjust laws."
Disagree
1.        The law is based on just as Aristotle said, but nowadays, some laws could not give every individual the sence of just.  e.g. To protect the security of the whole country, a person who betray the country for money should be punished although he will feel unjust since his aim is only to survive.
2.        The reason is that the interest of different objects may be far from each other. Laws is to be protect the interest of most people. It is difficult to define just in this lay.
3.        With the advent of the rapid development of the society, some laws may be lagged behind. e.g. harm others through Internet
It is necessary to improve law system to catch up with the society, but the means should be smooth and cautious.
4.        If everyone disobey the lists which he thought unjust, the whole can be chaos.

29
"Public figures such as actors, politicians, and athletes should expect people to be interested in their private lives. When they seek a public role, they should expect that they will lose at least some of their privacy."
1.  To be an actor or an athlete or a politician which is a public role in the society, the more the one is known by people, the more successful he will be. 例子
2.  If people are interest in one person’s private lives, it means he or she will be known by more people, which is good to his or her career. 例子
3.  It is easy to find out a person’s real feature through the privacy instead the one in front of people.  例子
4.  A person who does not want to lose privacy get a public role, will hard to let people to accept him.

60
"The media—and society in general—mistakenly expect an individual to speak for a particular group, whether or not that individual truly represents the views of the entire group."
Agree
1.  As it is difficult to find out the view of each member of a group, the media has to let parts of the members to speak for the whole group.
2.  Not all the people in one group have similar opinion, so sometimes an individual could not represent the entire group.

103
"The study of history has value only to the extent that it is relevant to our daily lives."
Disagree
1.        History which is not relevant to our daily life may be useful because it can prepare the people to face a similar situation.  e.g. the histroy of smallpox which is a kind of  infectious disease well controled by human can offer a solution to a similar disease.
2.        The histroy with no use for our daily lives may be important to some scientific sphere, such as art, philosophy and anthropology.  e.g. The research of Ancient Egypt can tell us a part of the beginning of knowledeg and technique.
3.        The whole History is all and the one which should not be detached. The knowledeg of one part will benefit to the understanding of other parts.  e.g. The characters used in Ancient Babylon are of no use to our daily life while they are the base of the study of the culture of the ancient country which is benefical to modern architecture and law system.
  
74        
"The most effective way to communicate an idea or value to large groups of people is through the use of images, not language."
Disagree
1.  It is easy to understand a complex thing when using images to express.
2.  Images are intuitionistic when convey a view but may cause misunderstanding if the group of people have very different background.  e.g. Mona Lisa Smile;
3.  Language is more clear especially when the kind of language is exactitude. Such as French.
4.  The best way to express is using language combined with images.

109
"The purpose of many advertisements is to make consumers want to buy a product so that they will 'be like' the person in the ad. This practice is effective because it not only sells products but also helps people feel better about themselves."
Disagree   例子
1.        There are many means to sell products using in advertisements, including making the consumers feel like the person in the ad as well as enumerating the benefits of the production and arousing a similar emotion.
2.        The practice mentioned in the statement can be effective.
3.        It can not be effective for a long time on its own. The quality of the production is more important.

161
"In this age of intensive media coverage, it is no longer possible for a society to regard any woman or man as a hero. The reputation of anyone who is subjected to media scrutiny will eventually be diminished."
Disagree  例子
1.  The media covers nearly every inch of the society, as a result, it is difficult to hold back something forever.
2.  Many heroic persons failed because of ignominious privacy.
3.  However, people will forgive the faults if the person really deserves honor.
4.  Though media, the rumor may looks like reality and easy to spread, but refute the rumor is easy as well.

26
"Most people would agree that buildings represent a valuable record of any society's past, but controversy arises when old buildings stand on ground that modern planners feel could be better used for modern purposes. In such situations, modern development should be given precedence over the preservation of historic buildings so that contemporary needs can be served."
Disagree
1.  It is difficult to value a historic building at the view of nowadays.
2.  When the historic buildings surly can not provide as more value as modern buildings, to make good use, it is better to give precedence to the modern buildings.
3.  However, the modern buildings, although have more value, can not replace the historic buildings of the significance in memory our history. So we can not displace all the historic buildings.

173
"Originality does not mean thinking something that was never thought before; it means putting old ideas together in new ways."  例子
Disagree
1.       Some of originality takes other the ideas already exist. Such like
2.       However, there are many ideas are original. e.g. the principle of relativity, steam engine
3.  Originality based on knowledge one already have. Whether it is orginigal depends on the condition of the sphere and the way of thinking.  e.g. biology already have a mature system.