- 最后登录
- 2008-6-14
- 在线时间
- 0 小时
- 寄托币
- 572
- 声望
- 0
- 注册时间
- 2006-10-31
- 阅读权限
- 20
- 帖子
- 1
- 精华
- 0
- 积分
- 489
- UID
- 2268462
 
- 声望
- 0
- 寄托币
- 572
- 注册时间
- 2006-10-31
- 精华
- 0
- 帖子
- 1
|
发表于 2007-2-14 17:54:23
|显示全部楼层
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."
我的提纲:
1 丑闻可以使人们跟多的关注一些被人们忽视的现象
2 丑闻使人们更加谨慎,不再盲目相信一些人,如权威人士
3 丑闻是的一些本来很有前途的人被抛弃
words:458
Thanks to the technological modernization of communication, more and more scandals seem to be overflowing the media-either newspapers or televisions and radios, straining the trust of the public. Fundamentally but not totally do I agree with the assertion of the speaker that scandals can be useful, focusing the attention of the public.
On the one hand, obviously, scandals-whichever fields they are in-draw people’s attention to particular issues effectively and helpfully. A scandal is usually a disclosure of a disgraceful thing causing public outrage or censure of an organization or a person, mostly one possessing authority and consuming much of the public’s attention. It is always the scandalous cases that focus people’s attention on a certain thing which used to be overlooked or neglected unintentionally in the past. The case of Woo Suk Hwang, a famous South Korean cloning researcher, validates this point of view. If it is not for the very case of Hwang, the phenomenon of scientific fraud is not likely to gain such public fixation albeit it does not hide itself from either the scientists or the public in spite of the appeal of some scientific workers. In cases like this, scandals do function in a more effective and useful way in focusing the attention of the public that no speaker or reformer could match.
What is more, scandals are also likely to alert people of the excessive trust they are consigning to certain kinds of persons, urging them to be more cautious. It is common that sometimes people excessively trust some authorities in a indiscreet way. The Enron scandal, serves as a perfect example, compromising the long-established reputation of the Wall Street stock analysts and leading successfully the investors to wander whether they should trust corporations, auditors, or stock analysts.
On the other hand, scandals can be of destructive effects, while being useful on some other occasions. Certain scandals of some figures might ruin them by leading people to focus mainly on the wrong deeds they perpetrate, overlooking their great contributions to the society they make or the prominent performance they have rendered. Ben Johnson, the Canadian track athlete, makes the responding case. The athlete, who might be the potential world-record breaker, was ruined by his use of steroids, a performance-enhancing drug, which caused the withdrawal of financial support for him and ended his career as a runner.
In sum, scandals-whether in politics, academia, or other areas-can be useful in that they could focus people’s attention on things deserve it but not given yet in a more effective way and with more efficiency than the speakers or reformers could do. However, scandals, like coins, could also cause ineluctable losses as they solve the problems focusing attention of the public, exerting themselves in a harmful way.
写得时间比较长,好像字数也不太多,希望大家能找找错,看看有什么地方不够恰当的。
谢谢。
[ 本帖最后由 nathand 于 2007-2-14 21:25 编辑 ] |
|