[YB2]7月5日作业 by闻风而动

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Issue 16   "Although many people think that the luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life are entirely harmless, in fact, they actually prevent people from developing into truly strong and independent individuals."
尽管许多人认为现代生活的奢华和便利是丝毫没有坏处的，但是这实际上让人们无法成为真正强大和独立的个体。
   
平衡观点
1.拥有奢华和便利的产品，例如：ipod，豪华型轿车，一定程度上呼应了人们对社会地位，身份，成就的自我满足感，这就反应了，在享受现代生活的奢华和便利的同时，人们无法脱离社会周围的肯定来满足自身的个人价值观，进而无法使之成为真正独立的个体。
2.同时，现代生活的奢华和便利，使得人们的独立生活能力更弱，处理事务的思维退步，人们对提供奢华便利的设备依赖性更强，因此，从某种程度上说，让人们无法成为真正强大和独立的个体。
3.然而，现代生活的奢华和便利，对人们远离人群，个性变得独立又体现出了自己的作用，例如：手机，轿车，使得人们不必过于依赖公共大众便利设施。
  Do the luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life prevent people from developing into truly strong and independent individuals?The speaker believes so.However ,on balance,I fundamentally agree with his/her notion.The spearker unneccessarily extends this broad assertion to embrace every new invention of contemporary time,while ignoring their influence to make people independent.
  In my view,there are two main argument for holding out the speaker's that the luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life prevent people from developing into truly strong and independent individuals.In the first place,possessing the luxuries and conveniences have become a means not only to our easier life but also to the attainment of our society goals,in other words,increasing luxuries have become a symbol.According to the magazine called Times,78% of visiters regard the mumber of their luxuies as important value,that affords them a felling and apparence of power.In my obervation,if not all,people prefer to setting up their security for the sake of being seen  driving the latest BMW in the most fashion trademarks.In short,in most time,we have become slaves to these luxuries and conveniences.From this points,no one cannot deny that we need the society to confirm our own value,so we can't
be far away others to be truly strong and independent individuals.
  Secondly,the more advanced of technologies,the more weakened in our daily life,admittedly.Practically,it seems that people over rely on these technologies, rather than technologies themselves.Consider the phenomenon that people come  back to a simply life withouting cells,PCs,automobiles and all the luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life.If so,don't you think the life is too terrible?To some degree,life's convinence with them robs our foundamental surviving ability of us.We rely on cars to work as crutches with our exercise and sports ability degenerating.We depend on comperters to type our ours with our handwrighting ability decreasing.We rely on air-conditions to make the circumstances around satisfy our scence of comfort with our adapting ability dying away.Considering these,it seems true that,as human species evolves and the world's hi-tech developes,our essential abilities are away from us accordingly.So,in some way,the luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life prevent people from developing into truly strong and independent individuals.
   On the other hand,yet,with the development of personal luxuries and conveniences, people are more easily to shake off public facilities.Cars and cells make it possible for us to talk to anyone else regardless of the place where he or she is.While the new 3G times' coming,everybody can freely search on the Internet everywhen and everywhere,rather than just asking for help from others around.More and more luxuries and conveniences seems to be aimed at a more independent.People are no futher limited by time,places and so on.A most general example that we experience everyday  can easily support it.Personal cars can take us to any isolated areas at our service without public transportation to bring a freer and more independent lifestyle to us and let us think oneself more often.So,the luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life,sometimes,make peolpe more strong and independent. We should not overlook the self-discipline and independence while we enjoy the conveniences of modern life.
  In sum,in one hand,the luxuries and conveniences make our society and people in the society connect with each other more closely,while in another ,wo should see the fact that they maybe make their contribution in providing us with a more independent one.Yet it is for these very reseason,the speaker cannot entirely confirm that the luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life prevent people from developing into truly strong and independent individuals is right.We should take it in account overall.(578)

ARGUMENT169 - The following appeared in a letter from a department chairperson to the president of Pierce University.
"Some studies conducted by Bronston College, which is also located in a small town, reveal that both mal e and female professors are happier living in small towns when their spouses are also employed in the same geographic area. Therefore, in the interest of attracting the most gifted teachers and researchers to our faculty and improving the morale of our entire staff, we at Pierce University should offer employment to the spouse of each new faculty member we hire. Although we cannot expect all offers to be accepted or to be viewed as an ideal job offer, the money invested in this effort will clearly be well spent because, if their spouses have a chance of employment, new professors will be more likely to accept our offers."
   In the letter of the department chairperson to the president of Pierce University,he recomends to offer employment to the spouse of each new faculty member they hire to attract the most gifted teachers and researchers to our faculty and improve the morale of our entire staff.To support his recommendation,the department chairperson cites the some studies conducted by Bronston College which reveal that both male and female professors are happier living in small towns when their spouses are also employed in the same geographic area. However,the chairperson's argument relies on certain unsusbstantaied assumptions.
   Firstly,the argument relies on the assumption that the study itself is reliable.It's the threshold problem.The facts that whether the studies' enquirers are representative in general and resposible to answer the survey ,and whether the revealation is potiential and avalible to be applied from Bronston College to Pierce University are both  apparently right but actually wrong.After all,the similarity between them is uncertain such as their teaching quality,benefits,paying moneny and so on.In any case,the small scale's sample can't draw any conclution about this argument.
   Sencondly,even if the study is reliable and avalible to be applied in Pierce University,the argument relis on the assumption that professors are happier when their spouses are also employed for the same emplorer rather than only in the same geographic area ,just as the study recordes.However,the letter provides no evident to susbtantiate this assumption.It's entirely possible that working for different emplorers but in the same geographic area may be the happiest choise for gifted teachers and researchers and their spouses.Perhaps,some space distance can make spouses more harmonious.If so,the recommendation of the letter that Pierce University should offer employment to the spouse of each new faculty member they hire needs more discusses.
   Thirdly,even if professors are happier when their spouses are also employed for the same emplorer rather than only in the same geographic area,then the argument relis on the assumption that what Pierce University offer to the spouses of each new faculty member they hire makes them regard accepting it as an ideal choise.However,the letter provides no evident to susbtantiate this assumption.It's entirely possible that increasing people think more of job satisfying scence,the quality of working consideration,benefits than just owning a piece of job and even its paying.If it is the case,then Pierce University still cannot achieve its goal of attracting the most gifted teachers and researchers to our faculty and improving the morale of our entire staff.
   In conclusion, the argument relies on certain doubful assumption that render it unconvincing as it stands.To strengthen the argument,the department chairperson should provide more evidence .(428)

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