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今天作业...大家别手软
自己觉得还行;d: ,不过例子的议论还是做得不够好,不知道大家有没有什么建议关于例子后面的议论?谢谢$ b5 ^. _. F& i% F" ~
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Assignment: Is the world changing for better?/ f$ ]3 O& k; l; c0 W2 B3 }! y$ X
Though there are hundreds of thousands of people complaining about the environment worsening, salary falling, moral collapsing, and democracy losing, which are situations I take leave to doubt, I firmly believe that the world is going onto something good.
2 x5 _) r8 c/ ~4 ^% b$ M+ fLet us just take a look at the World War II, which was, as we all know, the most tragic page of the human history. On December 7, 1941, in an attempt to destroy American navy force in the Pacific, Japanese planes bombed the United States navy base in Pearl Harbor, sweeping nearly two hundred aircrafts, eight battleships, three cruisers, and three destroyers. Over 2,400 Americans died in this infernal morning. Likewise, on June 6, 1944, known as D-Day, Ally force landed on Normandy. Within a single hour, over one thousand soldiers lost their lives on the bloody beach, which was covered by the fires of machine guns and other weapons. Although many cynics would underscore that, nowadays, there are also kills and wars all over the world, none of them, however, either by casualty or by duration, can be compared to those two unimaginable wars occurred in 1917 and 1941. Hence, today’s world is becoming more peaceful and compatible and, consequently, becoming a better one.
# w( ^* [! y, h/ K# r' u7 yThe Great Depression, which took place between 1929 and 1933, was a nightmare of most Americans. On Thursday, October 24, 1929, dubbed Black Thursday, the Wall Street stock market crashed. When trading ended, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had fallen 9 percent. Despite the crash, reports remained optimistic. New York banks united to buy up $30 million worth of stocks in order to stabilize the market. And President Herbert Hoover announced that recovery was expected. However, the situation only became bleaker during the next week. On Tuesday, October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday, The Dow dropped over 17 percent, confirming the permanency of the crash. By mid-November, the stock market loss topped $30 billion. As a result of the crash, the national economy fell into the worst of its history. Banks closed their doors in record numbers, and more than 30,000 businesses failed in 1932 alone. Unemployment reached an unheard of high of 25 percent in 1933, and hovered between 15 and 20 percent during most of the 1930s. People were camping outside in parks or beside the streets. The bright promise of mass production had ended in a nightmare. Today, the world economy was on the right way and the boom seemed to be guaranteed, with little regressions nonetheless. Economy is thriving and has never encountered such a disaster as the Great Depression since then." `5 G- M$ T4 I# c7 f% |
The world is improving both on economy and on peace as a whole; therefore, I believe that with tiny setbacks, the world is changing for a more prospective and harmonious future. |
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