Issue185【0710G-小猪快跑小组】第2次作业 by XP

ldongxpUID: 2311083

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: 573          TIME: 00:45:00 + 26    DATE: 2007-7-22

The speaker asserts that scandals can be useful by focusing our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could. I agree that many scandals can reveal significant problems that the society should address. In addition, some scandals are able to distract us from more important issues.

To begin with, the scandals disclose problems in political realm by attracting attention of the public. Although there are many speakers and reformers who concentrate on reveal the problems in politics, in many cases scandals rather than speakers and reformers contribute to focus the attention of the public on the issues. For example, the Watergate issue involves the former American president, Nixon. This scandal shocked all the Americans at that time and it called the public to pay more attention to the election and promoted the government to make stricter rules supervising the president candidates. For another example, Xiamen Yuanhua smuggling scandal, the most severe smuggling case since the day the People's Republic of China was founded. This case involves 70 billion yuan, tens of customs officials, many military officers and several political officials. Through this scandal, the Chinese people and government start to know how the public officials are corruptedand they should take effective actions to stop such case. In short, the scandals in political realm help the public to focus on some significant issues.

Besides in political realm, scandals also arouse people to notice the problems in academic area. There are a great many academic scandals in past years and they put the problems of academic attitude on the desk. Take the Korea University as an example, Li Bicheng, the president of Korea University was admitted that he had plagiarized the student thesis.  All people in Korea and even many people in other countries now discuss about Li's scandal and think about how to prevent such cases. Take the chip scandal in China as another example, Chen Jin, a former professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University, bought a computer chip from USA and erased the original serial number and trade mark. Then he claimed that he had developed the computer chip himself and took the erased chip as his product. Knowing the truth, Chinese people begin to know about the problems in the science researches and Chinese government is about to make laws to prevent this case occurring again. Therefore, scandals help the public know the issues in academic area and accelerate the solving of those issues.

Although scandals in the political and academic realms are useful since they attract people's attention to the problems in those realms and therefore promote the addressing of those problems, some scandals can merely distract people form more significant social issues. For instance, the famous sex scandal of Bill Clinton, the former American president had drawn the attention of people around the world. However, this scandal is the privacy of the former president and has little value to the society. If the money spent on probing the intimate details between Bill Clinton and Lewinsky were spent on food of the starving children, which is more significant and people should pay attention to, it would has more significant meaning. So, some scandals have little value except misleading people.

In sum, in many cases, the scandals can reveal problems and promote addressing them by attracting people's attention; thus the scandals are useful, though some scandals can only distract people from more significant issues.

[ 本帖最后由 ldongxp 于 2007-7-23 00:36 编辑 ]

jojogaotianUID: 2189450

The speaker asserts that scandals can be useful by focusing our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could. I agree that many scandals can reveal significant problems that the society should address. In addition（转折，however，yet）, some scandals are able to distract us from more important issues.

To begin with, the scandals disclose problems in political realm by attracting attention of the public. Although there are many speakers and reformers who concentrate on revealing the problems in politics, in many cases scandals rather than speakers and reformers contribute to focus the attention of the public on the issues. For example, the Watergate issue involves the former American president-Nixon. This scandal shocked all the Americans at that time and it called the public to pay more attention to the election and promoted the government to make stricter rules to supervise（感觉regulate好些）the presidental candidates. For another example, （可以用这个表达：another compelling example involves…）Xiamen Yuanhua smuggling scandal, the most severe smuggling case since the day the People's Republic of China was founded. This case involves 70 billion yuan, tens of customs officials, many military officers and several political officials. Through this scandal, the Chinese people and government start to know how the public officials are corrupted and they should take effective actions to stop such cases. In short, the scandals in political realm help the public to focus on some significant issues.

Besides in political realm, scandals also arouse people to notice the problems in academic area. There are a great many academic scandals in past years and they put the problems of academic attitude on the desk. Take the Korea University as an example, Li Bicheng, the president of Korea University who was admitted that he had plagiarized the student thesis.  All people in Korea and even many people in other countries now are discussing about Li's scandal and thinking about how to prevent such cases. Take the chip scandal in China as another example, Chen Jin, a former professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University, bought a computer chip from USA and erased the original serial number and trade mark. Then he claimed that he had developed the computer chip himself and took the erased chip as his product. Knowing the truth, Chinese people begin to know about the problems in the science researches and Chinese government is about to make（is proposing to make） laws to prevent this case occurring again. Therefore, scandals help the public know the issues in academic area and accelerate the solving of those issues.

Although scandals in the political and academic realms are useful since they attract people's attention to the problems in those realms and therefore promote the addressing of those problems, some scandals can merely distract people from more significant social issues. For instance, the famous sex scandal of Bill Clinton---the former American president ----(否则句子结构有问题) had drawn the attention of people around the world. However, this scandal is the privacy of the former president and has little value to the society. If the money spent on probing the intimate details between Bill Clinton and Lewinsky were spent on food of the starving children, which is more significant（一句话中两个significant。。换个词吧，pivotal，vital，important；meaningful会不会好些） and people should pay attention to, it would has more significant meaning. So, some scandals have little value except misleading people.

In sum, in many cases, the scandals can reveal problems and promote addressing them by attracting people's attention; thus the scandals are useful, though some scandals can only distract people from more significant issues.

总体而言，文章写的恩不错，偶挑不出什么明显的毛病啊~不错不错，继续努力

[ 本帖最后由 jojogaotian 于 2007-7-25 08:42 编辑 ]