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TOPIC: ISSUE99 - "In any realm of life-whether academic, social, business, or political-the only way to succeed is to take a practical, rather than an idealistic, point of view. Pragmatic behavior guarantees survival, whereas idealistic views tend to be superceded by simpler, more immediate options."
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The issue on whether to be idealistic and
or pragmatic, so complicated as it sounds, has been regarded as a subject of great moment. In the current aggressive society, it is fashionable to emphasize productivity and results. Most people worship that adopting a pragmatic point of view is the only way to succeed and believe that simpler, more immediate options can replace idealistic views. While I agree that pragmatic behavior is a good choice for survival and a path to realize idealistic vision and dreams, idealism is also a must in reaching achievement in academic, social, business or political fields.
To begin with, the steadiness, the nature of being practical, manifesting in the dealing with matters is helpful to solve problems. In business, for example, people aimed
aiming at profits and margins are pressed to do things fast and well, so that they always take a practical and pragmatic policy to finish their work. In this roaring developed modern society with fierce competitions, all of us must face some urgent problems. At this time, the pragmatism will help a lot in guaranteeing our success in short term.
Nevertheless, the chief weakness of pragmatic approach lies in its overemphasis on the immediate effects. What is practical is defined by what works. (What works这里是什么意思?是结果的意思吗。如果是的话可以替换一下用其他的词)What works is defined by the results we see right now. Apparently, however, what works does not necessarily mean that it is right. Consider, for instance, a student who gains a high score by cheating. Obviously, cheating is wrong although it works. Another example is that hiring child labor is illegal, although it might reduce the labor cost and increase the profit.
Moreover, pragmatism accomplishes little without a sense of mission, a vision, or a dream. Idealism, as human spiritual pillar, has a great impact mainly in three fields-attaining a new realm in noble spirit, appealing to people's sense of duty and stimulating human precious spirit of hard struggling and fighting.
There is a saying that a nation full of fantasy is stupid, while a nation full of fantasy is stupid.(两句重复?) In academic field, people who hold the love for life and ideality for society create the most beautiful, touching, moving artwork for us.
The author's assumption might be revised that the best way to succeed is to achieve a balance between pragmatism and idealism. An ideal is a principle or value that one actively pursues as a goal. Ideals are particularly important in ethics, as the order in which one places them tends to determine the degree to which one reveals them as real and sincere. In politic field, every president must hold and advocate an ideal society he want to build for his civilians. While when he is in office, he can't do whatever he thinks good for his ideal. He might compromise to the reality and choose not to do it. However, whatever he does, the goal of his behavior is to bring benefit to his country. He is just finding a way to keep the balance between pragmatism and idealism.(这一段例子有点牵强,稍微改改应该说是总统带有理想的做某些事情,但是真正上台之后从实际出发,修改了达到他的目标的行动方式,而不是放弃了什么,然后达到了这个目标。How did he find a way to keep the balance? How compromise?)
To sum up, it is too hasty to conclude that pragmatism is superior to idealism. (最好在后面加上一些对于前面那句话的解释,和中间段向呼应,显得结尾更加完整)The best approach to succeed, in my point of view is to find a balance between both of them.
总的来说,Issue写得已经不错了,各个论点找得也不错,上下文也比较流畅。
我只是觉得你找的例子可以更有说服力一点。然后结尾不要太仓促。
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