Issue185【0806G desperado小组】第二次作业by坐照

wangyu0920UID: 199396

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: 502         DATE: 2007-12-14 1:16:09
提纲：
1.         首先提出判断丑闻是否有益的价值标准——是否能够促进政治制度、经济制度或其他社会制度的改善。认同许多丑闻能够揭示隐藏的问题，使现有情况得到改善，但人们有时过于注重丑闻的细节，而忽视了更重要的内容
2.         在经济领域，安然公司的造假丑闻，导致了人们对金融腐败、诚信问题的反思。进而SOX法案的颁布，促进了这一问题的改善。
3.         在政治领域，水门事件唤醒了人们对新闻自由、社会民主和法制社会的重新思考，促使了对美国宪法和政治价值的重新评估，防止滥用权力成为了美国社会的核心价值之一。
4.         人们有时也会过于关注丑闻的细节，比如克林顿的丑闻，人们关注桃色新闻，却容易忽略对总统信用、责任和权力的思考。
5.         总之，判断丑闻有益与否取决于我们对待它们的方式。如果能深入思考，发现丑闻的内在问题并着力解决，丑闻就是有益的，否则就没有意义。
One way to judge whether scandals can be helpful is to see whether the political system, economical system, or other social systems can be advanced through the whole process. As far as I concerned, scandals can surely reveal some problems that cause unjustness and were hidden from the public, which means the existing problems can be exposed and the situation can be possibly improved. Yet sometimes people pay too much attention to the tiny details of scandals that neglect some aspects which are more important.

The primary reason why I agree with the author is that scandals help people to realize the deception of companies and make the market competition more purely and fairly in the realm of economics. Enron, one of the world's leading electricity, natural gas, and communications companies, was revealed that its financial condition report was planned accounting fraud continuously and systematically. The maximum amount bankrupt application in 2001 warned the Americans of financial corruption. And then, it is obvious that Enron could not create any superficial profit without the help of Merrill Lynch, JPM and Citibank, who supported Enron in hiding huge debt and evading tax revenues. Even more serious problems were disclosed in the scandal, which accelerated the reforming of market supervision. The SOX Act, which is also known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act, was signed into law seven months after Enron's bankruptcy.

Moreover, scandals can be helpful in facilitating political system reforming. The Watergate, one of the most influential scandals in the United States, has become a milestone in the history of human civilization. Thanks to the work of two reporters from the Washington Post, the investigations into Watergate not only led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon, but also roused the public to struggle with political corruption. From this point of view, Watergate is a symbol which places the understanding and expectation to the freedom of press, democratic system and legal society. Due to this scandal, the American Constitution and political values were reevaluated, and preventing the abuse of political power had become one of the core values of Americans.

Admittedly, scandals lend us a hand to settle the hiding problems, yet the improvement is based on comprehensive understanding and integral analysis to a scandal rather than focus on a specific section. For example, when Bill Clinton was clouded by the sexual scandal with Monica Lewinsky, some people gave more notice to the argument about whether there was a "sexual relationship" than the credit, responsibility, and obligation of a president.

To sum up, whether scandals can be helpful or not depends on the ways in which we deal with them. If we could find the inner problems rather than the appearances of scandals, and went on to chase better solutions that make up the defects of certain social systems, the scandals would be really helpful. Otherwise, it would be meaningless if we focus our attention on scandals just for fun instead of trying to reveal and resolve the problems.

绿松石UID: 2427549

One way to judge whether scandals can be helpful is to see whether the political system, economical system, or other social systems can be advanced through the whole process. As far as I concerned, scandals can surely reveal some problems that cause unjustness and were hidden from the public, which（你这个which指代的是什么？模糊啊）means （加个that） the existing problems can be exposed and the situation can be possibly improved. Yet sometimes people pay too much attention to the tiny details of scandals that neglect some aspects which are more important.

The primary reason why I agree with the author is that scandals help people to realize the deception of companies and make the market competition more purely and fairly in the realm of economics. Enron, one of the world's leading electricity, natural gas, and communications companies, was revealed that its financial condition report was planned accounting fraud continuously and systematically. The maximum amount bankrupt application in 2001 warned the Americans of financial corruption. And then, it is obvious that Enron could not create any superficial profit without the help of Merrill Lynch, JPM and Citibank, who supported Enron in hiding huge debt and evading tax revenues. Even more serious problems were disclosed in the scandal, which accelerated the reforming of market supervision. The SOX Act, which is also known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act, was signed into law seven months after Enron's bankruptcy. （enron的例子有点说得太详细了，重点应该在于分析，而不是例子的称述）

Moreover, scandals can be helpful in facilitating political system reforming. The Watergate, one of the most influential scandals in the United States, has become a milestone in the history of human civilization. Thanks to the work of two reporters from the Washington Post, the investigations into Watergate not only led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon, but also roused the public to struggle with political corruption. From this point of view, Watergate is a symbol which places the understanding and expectation to the freedom of press, democratic system and legal society. Due to this scandal, the American Constitution and political values were reevaluated, and preventing the abuse of political power had become one of the core values of Americans.（这段分析的就很好，很充实）

Admittedly, scandals lend us a hand to settle the hiding problems, yet the improvement is based on comprehensive understanding and integral analysis to a scandal rather than focus on a specific section. For example, when Bill Clinton was clouded by the sexual scandal with Monica Lewinsky, some people gave more notice to the argument about whether there was a "sexual relationship" than the credit, responsibility, and obligation of a president.

To sum up, whether scandals can be helpful or not depends on the ways in which we deal with them. If we could find the inner problems rather than the appearances of scandals, and went on to chase better solutions that make up the defects of certain social systems, the scandals would be really helpful. Otherwise, it would be meaningless if we focus our attention on scandals just for fun instead of trying to reveal and resolve the problems.（这篇文章读下来，总体感觉例子比分析多，太多例子感觉有点在堆砌，我觉得第一点和第三点还能分析的更深入的）

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