0910G[North America Flying]Issue208 by fake

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题目：ISSUE208 - "The way people look, dress, and act reveals their attitudes and interests. You can tell much about a society's ideas and values by observing the appearance and behavior of its people."
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用时：00:43:48
日期：2009-7-19 10:23:44

In the above assertion, the arguer talks about a society's ideas and values could be judged by its people's appearance and behavior, for it could reveal their attitudes and interests. However, I hold the opinion that attitudes and interests could affect people's appearance and behavior, but adversely, people's performance due to other confinements could not necessarily express the ideas of society. And it's fair to take other factors, besides its people, into consideration.

Sense of fashion, position of national party, craze about sports, etc. could affect people's appearance and behavior, like their look, dress, and act. Psychologically, it's explainable to reach this contention. Suppose, it's on a conference in a large scale, we can see people of different. If one is more conservative and cautious, he might be in suits and ponder for a lot time before making a speech. If one is a sports fan, he might be not that neatly dress, just dress casually, and more energetic and active in the discussion and speech. In this sense, the attitudes and interests of people could affect people's look, dress, and act.

Adversely, whether people's look, dress, act necessarily reflect their ideas and interests? It remains more consideration. As long as people belongs to the society, he is not himself actually for he is under quite a lot of conventions and restrictions all the time, like traditional values, social status and living conditions, etc. As a result, people are not quite free enough to be themselves. Thus, their appearance and behavior are not enough to express the society. For instance, in some special historical period, there existed religious, political persecutions. The cause might be that one said or conducted something people in power wouldn't want to see, while any objection or distracts couldn't be allowed. The repressed ideas and beliefs are also a part of the society's. In this sense, the society's ideas, especially those hold by minorities, could expressed freely which results in incomplete of society's ideas. To both people and society, it's a loss.

Personally, I would like to define the ideas and values as part of the social environment, which contains both inner and outer part. For the inner part, I mean people living inside, their attitudes and favors. Outer part, by saying this I mean, history of development, policies, legislations, security, etc. The legislations of the society which regulates people's behavior, the policies made by government raise the expected people's behavior, and also the security system also reflects society's ideas. For instance, the prohibition of alcoholics in British history, it kept people from spirits which might not be its people's real intentions. As far as I am concerned, to understand the society's ideas comprehensively, it's indispensable to take society's outer part into account which influences people's appearance and behavior.

In sum, people's appearance and behavior cannot comprehensively reflect and express the whole society, which need more information acquired through the detection of its policies, legislations, etc. That would be a wise and appropriate way to reach a contention.

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In the above assertion, the arguer talks about a society's ideas and values could be judged by its people's appearance and behavior, for it could reveal their attitudes and interests. However, I hold the opinion that attitudes and interests could affect people's appearance and behavior, but adversely, people's performance due to other confinements could not necessarily express the ideas of society. And it's fair to take other factors, besides its people, into consideration.

Sense of fashion, position of national party, craze about sports, etc. could affect people's appearance and behavior, like their look, dress, and act. Psychologically, it's explainable to reach this contention. Suppose, it's on a conference in a large scale, we can see people of different. If one is more conservative and cautious, he might be in suits and ponder for a lot time before making a speech. If one is a sports fan, he might be not that neatly dress, just dress casually, and more energetic and active in the discussion and speech. In this sense, the attitudes and interests of people could affect people's look, dress, and act.

Adversely, whether people's look, dress, act necessarily reflect their ideas and interests? It remains more consideration. As long as people belongs to the society, he is not himself actually for he is under quite a lot of conventions and restrictions all the time, like traditional values, social status and living conditions, etc. As a result, people are not quite free enough to be themselves. Thus, their appearance and behavior are not enough to express the society. For instance, in some special historical period, there existed religious, political persecutions. The cause might be that one said or conducted something people in power wouldn't want to see, while any objection or distracts couldn't be allowed. The repressed ideas and beliefs are also a part of the society's. In this sense, the society's ideas, especially those hold by minorities, could expressed freely which results in incomplete of society's ideas. To both people and society, it's a loss.

Personally, I would like to define the ideas and values as part of the social environment, which contains both inner and outer part. For the inner part, I mean people living inside, their attitudes and favors. Outer part, by saying this I mean, history of development, policies, legislations, security, etc. The legislations of the society which regulates people's behavior, the policies made by government raise the expected people's behavior, and also the security system also reflects society's ideas. For instance, the prohibition of alcoholics in British history, it kept people from spirits which might not be its people's real intentions. As far as I am concerned, to understand the society's ideas comprehensively, it's indispensable to take society's outer part into account which influences people's appearance and behavior.

In sum, people's appearance and behavior cannot comprehensively reflect and express the whole society, which need more information acquired through the detection of its policies, legislations, etc. That would be a wise and appropriate way to reach a contention.

1.       开头“态度和兴趣影响人的穿着和行为，但是人的行为由于某些约束并不能一定地反应人的态度和兴趣


2.       让步：时尚，position of national party(？)，对体育的痴迷能够影响一个人的穿着。显然是举例法论述，泛例。这段问题主要是中间那个position of national party很奇怪，从行文顺序中应该指的是官场中人的保守(？)，这个表述不清


3.       反对1：人们不可能自由表达自己，由于社会的存在和限制。举例是宗教和政府，泛例子。问题在于例子的选择和使用，一些具体的限制肯定是大家知道的，伊斯兰(Muslim)妇女不得露出容貌，基督教徒(Christian)需要做礼拜，具体而微的例子比空泛的讨论来得实在。


4.       反对2：实际上这段是脱节的，对限制的划分应该是放在上段写。如果是我，我更愿意把社会对人的“限制”分为显性的如法律和隐形的如道德标准，然后就说人不可能仅仅为自己而活，必须要为别人“演戏”，扮演好自己的角色，进而可以上升到人人带着面具生活，这是保护自己也是发展社会的需要。