Issue150【Victors小组】Norman 第12次作业---iq斑斑现在可正确了？

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TOPIC: ISSUE150 - "Because of television and worldwide computer connections, people can now become familiar with a great many places that they have never visited. As a result, tourism will soon become obsolete."



Will the roaring popularity of television and Internet lead tourism to decline, or even to be out-of-date? I only concede that these modern media do provide an alternative for human to know or recognize more exotic and strange location where they have never heard and visited. However, I totally disagree with the speaker’s conclusion that television and computer connection will result in the depression of tourism, for that human inner pleasure and satisfaction resulted from tourism cannot be compensated by those so-called high-tech vehicles.

Above all, human beings, as gregarious creatures, are inclined to communicate and share feelings with family, friends and colleague in spare time. On the course of jaunt or odyssey, people go in for a healthy and harmony tone---a full relaxation of bodies, as well as a cheerful satisfaction of souls. Even if modern media may show us compelling landscape or seascape on the same screen, but they can hardly endow us with sunlight, blue-sky and sea breeze, let alone refresh us from boring routines; even if video-meeting or e-mail may effectively accelerate the process of communication, but they cannot provide us a effectual method of getting rid of solitude, let alone enjoying the warmth of family and friend. When it comes to the loneliness, as one of the most ferocious enemy of mortal, it is self-evident for people being eager to travel with family and friends for casting off solitude, as well as tasting emotional eudaemonia. In the timely natural scene far away from urban hullabaloos, filling with family relationship and affinity, those confused and fatigued citizen are apt to sense the beauty of life, to find out the objective of life, ant then to cherish the peaceful life. Without periodic trips of both bodies and hearts, all of these sentimental captures are hardly harvested only through impassive screens.

What is more, human beings, as intellective colonies, are born with the ability to actively explore and sense those alluring and strange objects according to their own pleasures, rather than to passively accept or ingest in terms of professional viewpoints. No matter how particular and vivid information have been on the screen, they are nothing but those points or angles of view belonging to specialist or professional, rather than tourists’ experiences in person. Without on the rampart of the Great Wall, it is hard for traveler to imagine how splendid about Chinese civilization; without on the way of hajj, it is inscrutable for peregrinator to plumb how religious and tough about pilgrim; without on the seat of coffee bar in the street of Paris, it is formidable to perceive how ardent and romantic about French. Even with inflammatory or demagogical commentary, all of above sensation can hardly be captured by those stolidly roll-camera. While accumulating experiences and broadening ken, traveling can remold human characters, which is too far away for modern vehicles to be able to help. Just considering, in the next day about five years ago when 2 tourists had been covered by avalanche on the foot of Rock Mountains, a group of middle-students guided by their tutor set out for their climbing adventure. Of course, this courage originates from human nature of curiosity and self-challenge, in turn, traveling will leaven participants to mold their characters with insistency, decision, the love of life, and so on, to which television and Internet cannot reach.

Admittedly, those high-tech vehicles, such as television and the World Wide Web, do make people’s daily life and routines more and more convenient and effective than ever before. It translates our globe into a village, in the meantime broaden the gap of humans mind and hasten the tendency of solitude. And now we can know what happened at the corner of the world without stepping out cement compartment, we can exchange our ideas without face-to-face talks, and even we fell in love with unidentified species and gender. What is more tragic should be that a large amount of human merits, such as love, friendship, curiosity and initiative, are graduating away with the boom of modern civilization. But all these virtues can be instilling and cultivating through tour or hiking, and the tourism must be thriving by the aid of modern media.

In sum, no matter how popular the modern vehicles would be, tourism will nerve give way to those advanced media--let alone become outmoded, just because of human nature, at least human attitude rather than mass media, determining human behavior. Consequently, it is clear that the prosperity of travel must be coming up with the aid of modern mass media.

[ 本帖最后由 norman518 于 2007-6-30 01:00 编辑 ]