issue185 0806G加速度作文小组第一次作业

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185. "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."
丑闻——无论是政治、学术还是其他领域——可能会是有用的。丑闻可以用演说家或者改革家无法使用的手段让我们注意到某些问题。

Are scandals useful in politics, academia or other areas as the statement suggests? I agree that in most cases scandals can give an impetus to social reforms while on the other hand it sometimes abstract people's attention from things which are relatively more important.

First of all, media coverage of scandals is the most effective way to draw the public attention to certain social problem. Nowadays, as the technology develops, newspaper, radio, TV and the Internet enable us to know what happens in the world almost the same time the affair takes place while in the past, in would take months for what happens in the North America to be known by people in Asia. Once the scandal is reported, it will soon spread all around the world and attract public attention to it and stimulate people's interest in the deeper social problem behind the scandal, it is no doubt more effective than any speaker's speech or reform.

In addition, numerous examples in our life indicate that expose a scandal often contributes to a social effort to solve the exposed problem. Perhaps the paradigmatic scandal example is the Watergate scandal. After the scandal, the level of scrutiny and the accountability to which the public officials are held in the US is increased. Several years ago, when I was still in high school, two students of my school was caught kissing in the subway and the photo was widely spread in the Internet, you may think it is very common nowadays, however, at that time in China, we were taught to obey the rules and it was a big challenge to the moral standards in people's heart. Finally, the school passed an act that another moral class is added every week in order to improve and strength our moral thoughts.

Moreover, fear of scandals can force a government or a political party or a company to improve its public performance.  A.M.Lindbergh has said that the most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. A man who is found dishonest makes people feel angry at him, a company which is found dishonest makes customers turn away from it, a government which is found dishonest makes the voters lose faith in it which is mush the same way scandal works, so before a party performs a scandal next time, with the fears of the results mentioned, it would think thrice before taking actions.

On the other hand, scandals may abstract people's attention from things which might be more important and which they should pay more attention to. For instance, each time before the US general election, the Democrats and the Republicans would try their best to find the scandals of the candidates in the other party in order to transfer the public attention from the policy mistakes or demerits of themselves to the bad aspects of the competitor.

In sum, I agree that scandals focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could, however, whether it is useful or harmful would have to depend on the specific cases.




[ 本帖最后由 雪梦无痕 于 2008-1-17 17:02 编辑 ]

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Are scandals useful in politics, academia or other areas as the statement suggests? I agree that in most cases scandals can give an impetus to social reforms while on the other hand [on the other hand 对应的是on the one hand] it sometimes abstract people's attention from things which are relatively [even] more important.

First of all, media coverage of scandals is the most effective way to draw the public attention to certain social problem. Nowadays, as the technology develops, newspaper, radio, TV and the Internet enable us to know what happens [is happening] in the world almost the same time the affair takes place （有点罗索）while in the past, in [it 笔误?] would take months for what happens in the North America to be known by [to reach] people in Asia. Once the scandal is reported, it will soon spread all around the world and attract public attention to it [to it可以省去] and stimulate people's interest in the deeper social problem behind the scandal, it is no doubt more effective than any speaker's speech or reform.

In addition, numerous examples in our life indicate that expose [exposing] a scandal often contributes to a social effort to solve the exposed [latent] problem. Perhaps the paradigmatic scandal example is the Watergate scandal. After the scandal, the level of scrutiny and the accountability to which the public officials are held in the US is increased. Several years ago, when I was still in high school, two students of my school was caught kissing in the subway and the photo was widely spread in the Internet, you may think it is very common nowadays [这句貌似和课程上的改革没有太大关系,有点不知所云的意思], however, at that time in China, we were taught to obey the rules and it was a big challenge to the moral standards in people's heart [mind]. Finally [finally感觉有点论证的意味], the school passed an act that another moral class is added every week in order to improve and strength our moral thoughts.

Moreover, fear of scandals can force a government or a political party or a company to improve its public performance.  A.M.Lindbergh has said that the most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. A man who is found dishonest makes people [others] feel angry at him， a company which is found dishonest makes customers turn away from it, a government which is found dishonest makes the voters lose faith in it which is mush the same way scandal works, so before a party performs a scandal next time, with the fears of the results mentioned, it would think thrice before taking actions.

On the other hand, scandals may abstract people's attention from things which might be more important and which they should pay more attention to (should be paid more attention to). For instance, each time before the US general election, the Democrats and the Republicans would try their best to find the scandals of the candidates in the other party in order to transfer the public attention from the policy mistakes or demerits of themselves to the bad aspects of the competitor. (这段论证挺好)

In sum, I agree that scandals focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could, however, whether it is useful or harmful would have to[感觉好像可以不用have to] depend on the specific cases.

整体感觉文章的结构很工整，一目了然，但总觉得有些句式绕来绕去，也许是我还不太熟悉这种表达法吧。今天头脑不清醒了，改天再改。

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洗完澡才发现没有做作业，红色的自己没拼对的单词，我的语言真的太简单了。。。。
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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: 567          TIME: 00:45:00          DATE: 2008-1-17 23:21:08

I partly agree with the author said in the issue that scandals may help us focus our attention on the problems in the ways that speaker or reformer to tell it out, however on the other hand scandals about certain topic may distract us from the more important works.

Admittedly, scandal is主谓一致 one of the biggest materials of the hot news flow on the communication channels, which take much attention of people who were interested by the scandals. As we all know scandals are usually about the famous or authority statues which makes the public pay attention on them. Why the newspapers' publishers or other media put it on is just because it has the energy to make some affection. As the issue said the scandals may be useful to make the people focus on the problems which are no speaker or departments to solve it when the problems it truly be the serious ones that worthy to discussed.

On the other hand, some scandals has no value to solve the social problems but only focus on the tiny detail mistakes or privacy made by the famous people. The public still pay much attention on these things which will makes them pay less energy on their own jobs. Taken the scandals of Clinton's sex scandals for example, of  course, it is not a honor to be a president with such accident but to be a great leader and makes right decision keeping the economy growing with a high speed is the president's main responsibility. The scandals irrelevant to the governmental issues were just a tool with which the opposite ones treat him. So that is a kind of waste the focus ones attention on these scandals.

In addition, dose it work if most people focus their attention on the problems? Uncertainty.这个地方不知道用什么 It was the authority power who can have the right and energy to change the situation that will help solving the problems. Without that, thought thousands of ordinary people focus on it, the problems will never be solved.
However, some things in our daily life makes support to the issues, take the campus life for example, if we find the cafeteria use bad vegetable to dish the dinner, the students will make it known by all of the university and some department manage the life serves will stand out level the anger students and punish the cafe. That is the way this scandals helpful. But when it comes to the huge ones that maybe relevant to the secrets of the nation then that will just be an accident perhaps the maker of the scandals will be punished by some other reason in the society under autocracy.

Finally, to everyone regardless the one is man or woman, high statues or have no penny, the scandals is a way to know one real aspect of the world tell us to keep alarm with something or someone. It is common to heart that a professor stolen the achievement made by his or her students without payment, for us students, this kind of scandals will make us keep attention on the professors and protect our patents.

To sum up, the scandals may help us focus our attention on the problems in the ways that speaker or reformer, at the same time we should tell the scandals which is worth to pay our attention, and which is valuable to discuss.