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TOPIC: ISSUE83 - "Government shouldpreserve publicly owned wilderness areas in their natural state, even thoughthese areas are often extremely remote and thus accessible to only a fewpeople."
WORDS: 544          TIME: 0:45:00          DATE: 2007-3-10

Should government preserve publicly ownedareas, which are extremely far away from most of people, in their naturalstate, as the speaker claims? I concede that the wilderness areas are playingan important role in the whole natural condition and the environment whichhuman are living. However, along with the economic and technologicaldevelopment when we have the ability to develop the wilderness areas, it is, insome case, the burning measures that we are going to take.

The wilderness areas are vital, which areout of the realm of most people is a significant part of the whole environmentand the complete natural circle. In many counties, the environment isdegenerating in recent years due to the problems which are resulted from thelack of forests that can supply human a great deal of oxygen. In that theforests, which are usually far from the city and residents, are also able toprovide timber which is in need for the modern market and trade, some countriestake measures to deforest greatly regardless of the worse and worse results interms of the environment. Though the situation of the countries' economicdevelopment is conducive to raising the standard of the nation's living, theexpense is too huge for the descendant that they cannot afford. Therefore,government should take into account all the possible alternatives before themeasures of developing the wilderness areas.

On the other hand, the extant resource is insufficient for the society to develop rapidlyand efficiently, and government should work out practical measures to deal withthe burning issues.

It is a good way for government to makeproper policy which leads the nation to move to wilderness areas and explorethere to be a city or town, along with the economic development of the moderntime and the increasing number of population. Though the natural condition willbe ruined under some circumstances, the immediateneeds from the contemporary people areindeed the most important needs upon which should be placed much emphasis.Given that the people nowadays is constricted by the condition due to nature,it is absurd for the government because of the fact that the opportunities fora nation development cannot be waited or delayed while other countries are developing rapidly. Or the future will betarnished by the present measures which are blind to believe that the environment is the most important.

Moreover, in human history there are manycases which can show that human development is at the expense of theenvironment in certain sense. In the ancient time, human beings living in theopen air are feed on the fruit and the plants of the nature. With time passing,human society is developing greatly and the civilization is founding by one andanother generation in cities and towns where once the wilderness areas were.But all of the achievement is bases on the destroy of the environment. Thus,government should consider this problem in a more pragmatic way.

To sum up, the wilderness areas are indeedvital for the existence of human beings and the descendants in the subsequenttime, we must, nevertheless, meet the immediate needs from the contemporarypeople in the process of development of society even at the expense of theenvironment.



TOPIC: ARGUMENT56 - Collectors prize theancient life-size clay statues of human figures made on Kali Islandbut have long wondered how the Kalinese artists were able to depict bodies withsuch realistic precision. Since archeologists have recently discovered molds ofhuman heads and hands on Kali, we can now conclude that the ancient Kalineseartists used molds of actual bodies, not sculpting tools and techniques, tocreate these statues. This discovery explains why Kalinese miniature statueswere abstract and entirely different in style: molds could only be used forlife-size sculptures. It also explains why few ancient Kalinese sculpting toolshave been found. In light of this development, collectors should expect thelife-size sculptures to decrease in value and the miniatures to increase invalue.
WORDS: 452          TIME: 0:30:00          DATE: 2007-3-10

The arguer claims that the life-sizesculptures are like to decrease in value while the miniatures are likely toincrease. To justify the conclusion the arguer presents a recent discovery ofthe molds of human heads and hands on Kali Island(KL). However, the assumptionsabout the the life-size sculpture and miniatures are dubious on some grounds,rendering the argument unpersuasive as it stands.

First of all, the arguer unfairly assumesthat the molds discovered recently are the tools with which the KL artists usedto create the life-size clay statues ofhuman figures. Unfortunately, given that the arguer does not provide anyevidence about the discovered tools that can prove this assumption to becorrect, there are a great number of possible alternatives about the tool uses.I t is entirely possible that the tool was used to createsome things that can help people in the process of work, such as fishing andhunting. It is also possible that the tools were used for the fledging sculpterto understand and research the structure of human body or exercise. Therefore,unless the arguer supply more convincing evidence that the tools were used forcreating the life-size clay statues, we cannot accept the reliability of theassumption about the tool.

Next point, the arguer fails to take intoaccount the possibility that the style of the miniatures in KL is of uniquemeanings. In that the style of the miniatures in KL is significantly differentfrom the life-size sculptures, it is entirely likely that the miniatures weresculpted in a special way and express a unique meaning which cannot be understoodby us, such as a mysterious worship for a totem. Thus, if the arguer is notable to supply enough explanation about the miniatures, the assumption aboutminiatures cannot be substantial for us.

Last but not least, the assumption that fewtools which have not been discovered are the important evidence to draw the conclusionthat the artists in KL did not create anystatues by sculpting seems logical but still cannot be interpreted. Perhaps,the tools indeed exist but they have not been discovered by people. Or perhaps,the tools have been ruined in some former time. And, the value of life-sizesculptures will not be bound to decrease for the reason that there is noevidence that life-size sculptures are not in need.

To sum up, the argument is indeed logicalunsound with the existing evidence and the flawed assumptions. To better assessit, I need to know that: (1) whether the tools of KL were used for creating thelife-size clay statues; (2) whether the need for life-size sculptures isdecreasing. (3)  what the meanings ofminiatures are expressing.