ISSUE2 [越洋农场作业]Peter把Issue也给写错了哎．

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TOPIC: ISSUE2 - "Competition is ultimately more beneficial than detrimental to society."
WORDS: 580          TIME: 1:00:00          DATE: 2006-6-13

Nowadays, more and more people are complaining about the tensions they face seem unbearable, tensions brought by fierce competition both in their workplace and in the community. As far as I am concerned, the situation mentioned above is not that serious, and it is competitions that make the world go around.

As to respective persons, competition always works as a catalyst. Born of happiness, we become to face numerous problems and difficulties, which we have to conquer and overcome. Only through fierce battles with all the challenges in our lifetime can we become a better person, a person with great determination, affluent knowledge and endless perseverance. Competition comes as a fine factor to spur people. We compete with all the other sperms to earn a chance to have a life, we tried hard in our childhood to be first praised by our teacher, we make efforts to get a higher GPA and a better score in SAT or GRE to enter colleges and in workplace, people want sounder pay, higher position and better reputation. It is clear that competitions filled all our lifetime, and through competing with other people in different period of times in life, people learn to use his or her ability, cooperate with other people, and ask their parents, teachers and workmates for advice. Imagine that we have no competitions, then people will feel comfortable for some time, but soon they will find that they can not concentrate on one thing, they lack motivation in front of difficulties, and will eventually be eliminated by society.

When it comes to groups of people, competition makes them cooperate with each other. People will want to rely on each other when it is difficult for one to conquer bigger problems. Then we form some kind of groups in which teamwork is significant. As we all know, the best method to win a battle, obviously, is not to have far more troops than the opponent, but to have a group with better teamwork. In this case, competition makes people to cooperate, which is vital in the society, because effective communications are formed, and better interconnections are established. It is clear that a society in which people are isolated is surely not that good than a society in which people are connected to each other.  All in all, competition, on the social level, makes respective persons work together as a group.

But too much competition, especially on a social level, is harmful. When groups of people compete too fierce, some of them will think of any ways to help them to have a priority, some of which is absolutely harmful. For instance, when a restaurant wants to have more customers than the other one nearby, it will probably cut its prices, it seems at first glance good to us, but after careful consideration, it is not that good. The restaurants may buy poorer foodstuff, some of them may be not suitable to eat, and their service will surely goes down. In this case, we have to admit that this kind of competition will do harm to the customer as well as its opponent.

In sum, competition is important for a single person in his life time. It can help him learn to faces all the difficulties in his own life, and courage him to learn through his life time. Also, it can help people to corporate with each other, which is important to society. But of course too many competitions are detrimental both to the development of the society and people living in it.