Issue185 [5f第二次作业] 让砖头来得更猛烈些吧！

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Issue185 第1篇 让砖头来得更猛烈些吧！
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Scandals—whether in politics, academia, orother areas—can be useful. They focus our attention on problems in ways that nospeaker or reformer ever could.
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Scandals, spread through gossips or mass media, have aroused both abuses and praise among various individuals. In this issue, the author claims that scandal could contain positive contribution to society via their effect on focusing the public attention to some social problems, the efficiency of which speakers or reformers are unable to compare with. From my standpoint, this viewpoint is warranted in most cases while certain side effects resulted from attaching excessive importance to scandals will distract our attention.

To begin with, the serious consequence of some scandals captures the public attention to certain long-ignored social problems. Although numerous potential problems have been predicted by some legislators and scholars, the public could hardly realize the merits or jeopardousness through the warning of speakers or reformers until scandals break out, leading to much mischief and major losses. For instance, it has long been a compulsory course in our university to educate students on honesty in academic research via lectures and speeches given by most namely researchers in our university while, unfortunately, no lasting impression has been left to the audience. However, no until the 2006 South  Korea's stem cell scandals shook science toits core, could honesty and faith in scientific researches arouse the extensive attention of both general public and academia. Partly due to the tremendously negative impact on a wide range of social lives, the editors and reviewers of academic journals reappraise the submitted data from labs, no matter how famous the scientists may be. Therefore, the major threats of scandals could sometimes effectively bring some long-neglected problems back to the table for the society would actually suffer from the losses instead of solely listening to the warning of potential damage by speakers and reformers.

Furthermore, the celebrity charm of scandals catalyzes the propaganda of certain problems. Generally, it is the leading characters involved in the scandals, such as namable politicians,distinguished scientists or renowned stars of the stage or screen, that command people's attention more profoundly than speakers and reformers, plus the mass media's glamorizing every fine details and publicizing the stories widely to chase the demand of the audience. On the contrary, the majority of speakers and reformers could reach no more than a limited range of audience. Take one of the most influential political scandals, Watergate, for instance. Actually, it has been a long established fact pointed out by countless legislators and speakers that the political activities have been covered by grey regions and politicians who commit mean deeds are punished through legal system each year. However, it is the President Nixon together with the Washington Post that created quite a stir. The aftermath of Watergate ushered in changes in campaign finance reform, leaving profound consequence in the United States. In a word, the sensation of scandals partly lies in the involvement of celebrities and the publication efforts of the mass media, surpassing the effects of speakers andreformers.

Nevertheless, overemphasis on scandals increases the likelihood to distract people from the theme of the social problems, wasting time in trivial details and doubtful anecdotes. Newspapers,TV shows and web sites are flooded with sexual scandals or private lives of celebrities to cater the curiosity of the public, sifting the focus from the core of the problems to the very people in the scandals. To be concrete, the sexual lives and marriage of the president sounds more attractive than that of our neighbors while the moral rules -- the theme of the matter -- has been overlooked. Sadly but true is that scandals are two fold weapons which could either positively exert influence on solving problems by commanding the general attention or messing up the situation by dividing time and energy to trivial matters.

In sum, scandals of various domains could more effectively place certain problems over the table than the efforts of speakers and reformers. However, the possible side effects of distracting seem obvious meanwhile. Therefore, to maximize the positive impact of scandals, the delicate balance between the two sides must be carefully stroked.

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Scandals, spread through gossips or mass media, have aroused both abuses and praise among various individuals. In this issue, the author claims that scandal could contain positive contribution to society via their effect on focusing the public attention to some social problems, the efficiency of which speakers or reformers are unable to compare with. From my standpoint, this viewpoint is warranted in most cases while certain side effects resulted from attaching excessive importance to scandals will distract our attention.有点问题,是不是应该改为side effects is/will be distraction of our attention.

To begin with, the serious consequence of some scandals captures the public attention to certain long-ignored social problems. Although numerous potential problems have been predicted by some legislators and scholars, the public could hardly realize the merits or jeopardousness through the warning of speakers or reformers until scandals break out, leading to much mischief and major losses. For instance, it has long been a compulsory course in our university to educate students on honesty in academic research via lectures and speeches given by most namely researchers in our university while, unfortunately, no lasting impression has been left to the audience. However, no until the 2006 South  Korea's stem cell scandals shook science toits core, could honesty and faith in scientific researches arouse the extensive attention of both general public and academia. Partly due to the tremendously negative impact on a wide range of social lives, the editors and reviewers of academic journals reappraise the submitted data from labs, no matter how famous the scientists may be. Therefore, the major threats of scandals could sometimes effectively bring some long-neglected problems back to the table for the society would actually suffer from the losses instead of solely listening to the warning of potential damage by speakers and reformers. 结构有点问题

Furthermore, the celebrity charm of scandals catalyzes the propaganda of certain problems. Generally, it is the leading characters involved in the scandals, such as namable politicians,distinguished scientists or renowned stars of the stage or screen, that command people's attention more profoundly than speakers and reformers, plus the mass media's glamorizing every fine details and publicizing the stories widely to chase the demand of the audience. On the contrary, the majority of speakers and reformers could reach no more than a limited range of audience. Take one of the most influential political scandals, Watergate, for instance. Actually, it has been a long established fact pointed out by countless legislators and speakers that the political activities have been covered by grey regions and politicians who commit mean deeds are punished through legal system each year. However, it is the President Nixon together with the Washington Post that created quite a stir. The aftermath of Watergate ushered in changes in campaign finance reform, leaving profound consequence in the United States. In a word, the sensation of scandals partly lies in the involvement of celebrities and the publication efforts of the mass media, surpassing the effects of speakers andreformers.

Nevertheless, overemphasis on scandals increases the likelihood to distract people from the theme of the social problems, wasting time in trivial details and doubtful anecdotes. Newspapers,TV shows and web sites are flooded with sexual scandals or private lives of celebrities to cater the curiosity of the public, sifting the focus from the core of the problems to the very people in the scandals. To be concrete, the sexual lives and marriage of the president sounds more attractive than that of our neighbors while the moral rules -- the theme of the matter -- has been overlooked. Sadly but true is that scandals are two fold weapons which could either positively exert influence on solving problems by commanding the general attention or messing up the situation by dividing time and energy to trivial matters.

In sum, scandals of various domains could more effectively place certain problems over the table than the efforts of speakers and reformers. However, the possible side effects of distracting seem obvious meanwhile. Therefore, to maximize the positive impact of scandals, the delicate balance between the two sides must be carefully stroked.

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