issue36 [spring 小组］第十次作业

luckimonkeyUID: 2408088

36"The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries."
WORDS: 552    Time: 2 hours  Date: 2008-1-15
　Does greatness of individuals can only be decided by history and those who live after them? The assertion believes so, however, in my point of view, the assertion is unfairly generalized and unnecessarily embraces every realm in human society.
　　Admittedly, the great individuals often go ahead of their time, whose thoughts and ideology are always beyond their contemporaries’ cognition. Vincent Van Gogh, the master of impressionist, could not sell a single painting during his life time. But now, all of his paintings are considered as the cream of crop and win the highest bids in every art auction. W. Harvey, who established the modern physiology based the discovery of the blood circulation, lost the majority of his patients because of the announcement of that great discovery and himself was considered as a quack by his contemporaries. Ironically, nowadays any informed person knows that the blood in our body circulates day and night and that’s why we can maintain a vigorate life. What the two great persons received from their contemporaries was not commensurate with their contributions. The limit of the majority’s cognition and the restriction of the conservative opinions deny their outcomes’ value, sometimes it will take tens or even hundreds of years to break the limit and restriction. From this aspect, I concede with the assertion that the greatness of individuals can only be decided by people living after them.
  　　However, in some specific realm like politics, there are still much greatness of individuals should be decided by their contemporaries. In politic realm, the major goal of a politician is to ensure his or her people’s safety and ample lives, therefore the judgment of the politician can only be made by his contemporaries. Take the ex-Chinese Chairman Deng for example. Thanks to his proposition and implement of “the open and reform policy”, the overall Chinese people’s living standard has dramatically improved. When Chairman Deng passed away, thousands of Chinese people walked onto the street to mourn the lost of the nation. Although now the policy of open and reform is impeached by many socialists and ecologists for it creates environment pollution and the gap between the rich and the poor, it still can not diminish the greatness of Chairman Deng. Because the policy of open and reform do immediately impel the nation’s economy prosperity and improve people’s living standard.
  　　In addition, in some circumstance the information provided by history is not comprehensive for people to make a correct evaluation for those living ahead of them. On one hand, lack of information and history background may mislead us to come out with totally unfair judgment just like those who impeach Chairman Deng and deny his greatness. On the other hand, history serves as a filter to select the greatest individuals but eliminates all others. Hence, it is very often that many individuals who make great contribution to the society at his or her time could never leave a name in the history. If the greatness can only be decided by those living after them, it is so unfair for the anonymous great contributors.
  　　In sum, as a result of the limited cognition, in many cases the greatness of individuals can only be discovered by those living after them, but to totally leave them the right of judging is neither wise nor feasible.  

xihaiweiwei3UID: 2390076

36"The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those , not by their contemporaries."
WORDS: 552    Time: 2 hours  Date: 2008-1-15

Does greatness of individuals can only be decided by history and those who live after them? The assertion believes so, however, in my point of view, the assertion is unfairly generalized and unnecessarily embraces every realm in human society.

Admittedly, the great individuals often go ahead of their time, whose thoughts and ideology are always beyond their contemporaries’ cognition. Vincent Van Gogh, the master of impressionist, could not sell a single painting during his life time. But now, all of his paintings are considered as the cream of crop and win the highest bids in every art auction. W. Harvey, who established the modern physiology based the discovery of the blood circulation, lost the majority of his patients because of the announcement of that great discovery and himself was considered as a quack by his contemporaries. Ironically, nowadays any informed person knows that the blood in our body circulates day and night and that’s why we can maintain a vigorate life. What the two great persons received from their contemporaries was not commensurate with their contributions. The limit of the majority’s cognition and the restriction of the conservative opinions deny their outcomes’ value, sometimes it will take tens or even hundreds of years to break the limit and restriction. From this aspect, I concede with the assertion that the greatness of individuals can only be decided by people living after them.[感觉这一段举了很多例子，但是没有展开写，直说就是缺少自己对问题的分析]

However, in some specific realm like politics, there are still much greatness of individuals should be decided by their contemporaries. In politic realm, the major goal of a politician is to ensure his or her people’s safety and ample lives, therefore the judgment of the politician can only be made by his contemporaries. Take the ex-Chinese Chairman Deng for example. Thanks to his proposition and implement of “the open and reform policy”, the overall Chinese people’s living standard has dramatically improved. When Chairman Deng passed away, thousands of Chinese people walked onto the street to mourn the lost of the nation. Although now the policy of open and reform is impeached by many socialists and ecologists for it creates environment pollution and the gap between the rich and the poor, it still can not diminish the greatness of Chairman Deng. Because the policy of open and reform do immediately impel the nation’s economy prosperity and improve people’s living standard. 【这段邓的例子应该是想说，邓确实给人民带来了好日子，那你联系题目想想，你是要表达哪一方decided the greatest?]

In addition, in some circumstance the information provided by history is not comprehensive for people to make a correct evaluation for those living ahead of them. On one hand, lack of information and history background may mislead us to come out with totally unfair judgment just like those who impeach Chairman Deng and deny his greatness. On the other hand, history serves as a filter to select the greatest individuals but eliminates all others. Hence, it is very often that many individuals who make great contribution to the society at his or her time could never leave a name in the history. If the greatness can only be decided by those living after them, it is so unfair for the anonymous great contributors.

In sum, as a result of the limited cognition, in many cases the greatness of individuals can only be discovered by those living after them, but to totally leave them the right of judging is neither wise nor feasible.  
意见就提这些吧！ 因为把逻辑想透彻了才能写清楚。
很欣赏楼主这样坚持写作，有毅力，有恒心的人。
楼主一定会考得很好的！
以后多交流学习吧。
一点个人意见，如有不妥请见谅！

[ 本帖最后由 xihaiweiwei3 于 2008-1-18 15:20 编辑 ]

life2008UID: 2401740

Does greatness of individuals can only be decided by history and those who live after them? The assertion believes so, however, in my point of view, the assertion is unfairly generalized and unnecessarily embraces every realm in human society.
　　Admittedly, the great individuals often go ahead of their time, whose thoughts and ideology are always beyond their contemporaries’ cognition. Vincent Van Gogh, the master of impressionist, could not sell a single painting during his life time. But now, all of his paintings are considered as the cream of crop and win the highest bids in every art auction. W. Harvey, who established the modern physiology based the discovery of the blood circulation, lost the majority of his patients because of the announcement of that great discovery and himself was considered as a quack by his contemporaries. Ironically, nowadays any informed person knows that the blood in our body circulates day and night and that’s why we can maintain a vigorous life. What the two great persons received from their contemporaries was not commensurate with their contributions. The limit of the majority’s cognition and the restriction of the conservative opinions deny their outcomes’ value, sometimes it will take tens or even hundreds of years to break the limit and restriction. From this aspect, I concede with the assertion that the greatness of individuals can only be decided by people living after them.
  　　However, in some specific realm like politics, there are still much greatness of individuals should be decided by their contemporaries. In politic realm, the major goal of a politician is to ensure his or her people’s safety and ample lives, therefore the judgment of the politician can only be made by his contemporaries. Take the ex-Chinese Chairman Xiaoping Deng for example. Thanks to his proposition and implementationof “the open and reform policy”, the overall Chinese people’s living standard has dramatically improved. When Chairman Deng passed away, thousands of Chinese people walked onto the street to mourn the lost of the nation. Although now the policy of open and reform is impeached by many socialists and ecologists for it creates environment pollution and the gap between the rich and the poor, it still can not diminish the greatness of Chairman Deng. Because the policy of open and reform do immediately impel the nation’s economy prosperity and improve people’s living standard.
  　　In addition, in some circumstance the information provided by history is not comprehensive for people to make a correct evaluation for those living ahead of them. On one hand, lackingof information and history background may mislead us to come out with totally unfair judgment just like those who impeach Chairman Deng and deny his greatness. On the other hand, history serves as a filter to select the greatest individuals but eliminates all others. Hence, it is very often that many individuals who make great contribution to the society at his or her time could never leave a name in the history. If the greatness can only be decided by those living after them, it is so unfair for the anonymous great contributors.
  　　In sum, as a result of the limited cognition, in many cases the greatness of individuals can only be discovered by those living after them, but to totally leave them the right of judging is neither wise nor feasible.
文章写的很好,真的,但是读着读着感觉突然就终止了,意犹未尽啊!思路很清楚,文笔也很好,值得我学习!其实还可以展开的,不光是在一些领域,不用后人对前人的评价,因为在伟人所在的时代,他就能获得承认,如Nobel得主,都是当代的人,另外,如果把前人的成果都给后人评价,后人可能用现有的评价标准来评价故人,缺少特定的背景,很难做出公正的评价,此外,如果前人没有留有足够的资料的话,后人是无法对前人进行评价的.
有空帮我改改我以前的习作吧,谢谢!一起加油!