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1. Television Program and Their Effect on children 64U|]gd$
Television programsregularly entertain, educate, effect and even frighten the majority of ourchildren. Most children are allowed to watch whatever program is on, withlittle thought on the effect that particular show will have on a child. Mostprograms can be classed as beneficial or harmful, according to what effect theprogram might have on a child. `!N}u
The beneficialtelevision programs are mainly thouse that educate the young. There are oftenspecials on animal life. A few regular children’s programs develop the child’sinterest in school-type learning by stressing numbers and the alphablt, andthat encourages him or her to be creative. The beneficial commercials, such asthose on anti-smoking, anti-litter, and health, should be included in thiscategory. AC
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On the opposite side are the shows, which aregenerally harmful to children. Many commercials, especially those sponsoringthe children’s programs, are deliberately written to create a desire for anunnecessary product such as sugar coated cereals and candy. All adult programsthat include violence or sex scenes can at best fill a child’s mind withconfusing or misleading ideas, and could possib ly harden the child toviolence. (Ox&B+\v+v
Thoughtful parents will definitely not allowtheir children to view the bad programs. A child’s viewing time should belimited to watching educationlly benefical programs. r3' DXP
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With the development of modernindustryu, more and more people are flowing into big cities. Accordingly, thehousing problem in big cities is becoming more and more serious. Dx /w&v
People have offered manysolutions to this problem. I think building satellite cities in the suburbs ismore practical. The fresh air and beautiful secnery in the suburbs will beappealing to the city citizens, who suffer from air pollution, noises, etc. inthe overcrowded city. With more people leaving the city, more space will beavailable for those remaining. The housinmg problem in big cities will thus besolved. ~cp=B>*(
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3. “The younger generaton knows best” S[9b
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Old people are always sayingthat the young are not what they were. The same comments is made fromgeneration to generation and it is always true. It has never been truer than tiis today. The young are better educated. They have a lot more money to spendand enjoy more freedom. They grow up more quickly and are not so dependent ontheir parents. They think more for themselves and do not blindly accept theideas of their elders. Events, which the older generation remembers vividly,are nothing more than past history. This is as it should be. Every newgeneration is different from the one preceded it. Today the difference is verymarked indeed. @BnK C&{
The old always assume thatythey know best for the simple reason that they have been around a bit longer.They don’t like to feel that their values are being questioned or threatened.And this precisely what the young are doing. They are questioning theassumptions of their elders and disturbing their complacency. They take leaveto doubt that the older generation has created the best of all possible worlds.What they reject more than anything is conformity. Office hours, for instance,are nothing more than enforced slavery. Wouldn’t people work best if they weregiven complete freedom and responsibility? And what about clothing? Who saidthat all the men in the world should wear drab grey suits and convict haircuts?If we turn our minds to more serious matters, who said that human differencescan best be solved through conventional politics or by violent means? Who saidthat human differences can best be solved through conventional politics or byviolent means? Who said that human differences can best be solved throughconventional politics or by violent means? Why have the older generation sooften used violence to solven their problems? Why are they so unhappy andguilt-ridden in their personal lives, so obsessed with mean ambitions and thedesire to amass more and more material possessions? Can anything be right withthe rat —race? Haven’t the old lost touch with all that is important in life? ec#
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There are not questions theolder generation can shrug off lightly. Their record over the past forty yearsor so hasn’t been exactly spotless. Traditionally, the young have turned totheir elders for guilance. Today, the situation might reversed. The old—if theyare prepared to admit it — could learn a thing or two from their children. Oneof the biggest lessons they could learn is that enjoyment is not “sinful”.Enjoyment is a principle one could apply to all aspects of life. It is surelynot wrong to enjoy your work and enjoy your leisure to shed restrictinginhibitions. It is surely not wrong to live in the present rather than in thepast or future. This emphasis on the present is only to be expressed becausethe young have grown up under the shadow of the bomb: the constant threat ofcomplete annihilation. This is their glorious heritage. Can we be surprisedthat they should so often question the sanity of the generation that bequeathedit ? bQI :N
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4. Public Transportation S6bYd`
As part of domesticmodernization, public transportation needs to be developed urgently in China. Ican illustrate some examples. zFFYl7]
There does not only existserious traffic jams but also crowded buses, underground and railways.Commuters find it hard to get to work on time due to overcrowded buses or tubes.Travelers could hardly get on buses in big cities during weedends owing tofewer buses and more people. When Spring Festival is drawing near, there ismuch greater –ressure on public transportation since it has to deal with alarge number of travelers rushing home. And travelers need special arrangementsto go home. In a word, public transportation has become bottleneck to theadvanc of Chinese economy. X$ul=iBs
To solve the above-mentioned problems, thedepartments concerned should carry out the following steps: to build moreroads, highways or railways and to add buses or trains to the original lines.But ther funds have to be raised both from the government and the public.
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There are three sources for fund raising. Oneis to raise the fares for all kinds of all transportation vehicles. Another isto increase the prices for various vehicles on sale. The third is to raise theprices of petrol and diesel oil in addtion to the governmental funds. If allthis money to raise the prices of petrol and diesel oiil in addtion to thegovernmental funds. If all this money collected is used to improvetransportation services, the situation will be bettered and favorable. K'8?%&IQ
The third step to take is to introduce newtechnology in order to raise the efficiency of vehicles. For instance, thespeed of trains can be increased as much as two times so that two times as manypeople can be held. In this way, the pressure on public transportation can bedramatically alleviated. So in a word, we need to introduce new technology to raisethe speed of vehicles while having built even wider roads and added moreefficient trains and huses. DC>?e[oOz
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5. Human Education [?<v|k
The other day, a professor fromPeking University gave a lecture “Chinese Intellectuals and Written CulturalText”. In his lecture, he held that Chinese intellectuals have lost the writtencultural text since the May 4th movement. His opinion set usthinking that the loss of traditional humane education resulted in a crisis ofcultural education. D6e?J.
With the rapid development ofeconomy, the living standard of the Chinese people has improved a lot in termsof material wealth. In a period when economics take priority, people pay moreaned more attention to profit. At present, moneymaking and pleasure seeking arebecoming a popular fashion. On the other hand, there appears a barren field ofspirit in today’s society. It has become unexpectedly hard to rebuild theparadise of traditional culture.Ideological confusion, moral decline and achaotic cultural market, all this shows that it is the high time to havesomething done in order to tackle the problem of cultural orientation. Ourtimes call for an ideal humane education. R3_;!/1
It is unwise to discardtraditional Chinese culture as a whole. Some of the elements of this culturecan be made use of in the reconstruction of our spiritual civilizaiton directlyor wit5h some adaptation. Our attitude towards tradition should be “discardingthe dross and selecting the essence”. The humane education of the past canserve as a supplement to our Marxist education. It should start from primaryschool. In this way, our children will get educated so as to be possessed of aperfect personality. The national morale will be deeply rooted in people’smind, and will help push forward the growth of economy. LQ Ux}
To sum up, we can find it badly necessary tobuild up an ideal humane education. We should find an efficient way to developour humane education and dig out5 more resources form traditional Chineseculture. g1F9IB42@<
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6. Criticism on Television K(MZ!>{
A lot of people believe thattelevision has a harmful effect on chldren. A few years ago, the samecriticisms were made of the cinema. But although child psychoilogists havespent a great deal of time studying his problem, there is not much evidencethat television brings about teenager’s crimes. :G9d,B7*
For people in the modern worlds share theviews of parents a hundred years ago. In those days, writers for childrencarefully avoided any reference to sex in their books, but had not inhibitionsabout including scenes of violence. m>[G-~0?kI
The evidence collected suggests, however, thatneither the subject, nor the action in itself frightens children. The contextin which cruely or violence occurs is much more important. i/8OC
A good guide to what is psychologicallyhealthy for a small child is therefore provided by a television series in whicha boy and a girl are supposed to be exploring distant planets with theirparents. In each story, they encounter strange monsters and find themselves indangerous situations but the parents are reassuring and sensible, as a child’spaprents should be in real life. There is an adult character who is a cowardand liar, but both the children are brave and , of course, every story endshappily. DD7D&@As
In my view, children should be exposed to theproblems of real life as soon as possible, but they cannont help seeing thesethrough news programs. When they are being entertained, the healthiestatmosphere is one which the hero and heroine are children like themselves whobehave naturally and confidently in any situation. ^Bw"+ 6d
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7. The ony thing people are interesed in today is earing more money fE|"g'
Once upon a time there lived abeautiful young woman and a handsome young man. They were very poor, but asthey were deeply in love, they wanted to get married. The young people’sparents shook their heads. “You can’t get married yet.” They said. Wait tillyou get a good job with good prospects. So the young people waited until theyfound good jobs with good prospects and they were able to get married. Theywere still poor, of course, they didn’t have a house to live in or anyfurniture, but that did’t matter. They young man had a good job with goodprospects, so large organizations lent him the money he needed to buy a house,some furniture, all the latest electrical appliances and a car. The couplelived happily ever after paying off debts for the rest of their lves. And soends another modern romantic fable. fWg3gRI
We live in a materialisticsociety and are trained from our earlist years to be acquistive. Ourpossessions, yours and mine are clearly labeled from early childhood. When wegrow old enough to earn a living, it does not surpise us to discover thatsuccess is measured in terms of the money you earn. We spend the whole ofourlives keeping up with our neighbors, the Joneses. If we buy a new televisionset , Jones is bound to buy a bigger and better one. If we buy a new car, wecan be sure that Jones will go one better and get two new cars: one for hiswife and one for himself. The most amusing thing about this game is thatJoneses and all the neighbors who are struggling frantically to keep up withthem are spending borrowed money kindly provided, at a suitable rate ofinterest, of course, by friendly banks, insurance companies, etc. ZZxt90YR'5
It is not only affluent societies that peopleare obsessed with the idea of making more money. Consumer goods are desirableeverywhere and modern industry deliberately sets out to create new markets. Gone are the days when industrialgoods were made to last forever. The wheels of industry must be kept turning.Built-in obsolescence provides the means; goods are made to be discarded. Carsget tinnier and tinnier. You no sooner acquire this year’s model than you arethinking about its replacement. |l|$Q;
This materialistic outlook has seriouslyinfluenced education. Fewer and fewer young people these days acquire knowledgeonly for its own sake. Every course of studies must lead somewhere. i.e. to abigger wage packet. The demand for skilled personnel for exceeds the supply andbig companies compete with each other to recruit students before they havecompleted their studies. Tempting salaries and “fringe benefits” are offered tothem. Recruiting tactics of this kind have led to the brain drain, the processby which highly skilled people offer their services to the highest bidder. Thewealthier nations deprive their poorer neighbors of their most able citizens.While Mammon is worshipped as never before, the rich get richers and the poor,poorer. n*AN/LBp
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8. Communication and Language
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One of the first things wethink about when we hear the word communication language. There are thousandsof languages spoken around the world today. In fact, linguistis say that theremay be as many as 10000. 33"!K>wC
Speaking with others is animportant means of communication, but we can also communicate without usingwords, that is by nonverbal communication. Nonverbal communication includesvoice quality, eyes movement, facial expression and body movements such asgestures and change in body position. But many people do not realize thateveryone uses nonverbal communication. Sometimes, we “say” more with our faceand gestures that we do with our voices. ZS&+<kGD
Books, magazines, newspapers,radio, television, are other means of communication. Today we can alsocommunicate over long distance with the help of communications satellites. Somescientists say that soon machines will be developed for sending message throughthe earth. The technology necessary to build these machines is very complex.But the language we speak every day is much more complex than the most moderncommunication technology. loyhNT=
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9. Cooperation Goes with Competition a8y*Jz-E
In our times, cooperation andcompetition spread over the world. Both of them speed up the wheel of economyand enrich the intelligence of mankind. It is possible to accomplish acomplicated program by only one person now. As we know, the more cooperation acompany depends on, the more efficient it will become in business. .g_Kab3?L
Furthermore, we can’t avoidcompetition in our exchanges. From time to time, we compare ourselves withothers, expecting to catch up with others. This is the spirit of competition,by which we pursue the highest goal. It is only by competition in the marketthat a company can raise its reputation. Were it not for competition, say, allof us would not enjoy what we have achieved. S;!7/z
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10. The Rise of IntellectualProperty Protection DL '{
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Intellectural propertyscarcely existed in the vocabularies of academic researchers and administratorseven 15 years ago. Now it is an ever-present part of discussions on researchpolicies and directions. This new importance of intellectual property inacademia reflects a changing view on ther relationships of research atuniversities to the surrounding society. Until recently, research atuniversities has been relatively isolated from demands of economic utility,andeducation of graduate students has emphasized a career in academic research asthe final goal. Q\le3KB
Now almost all researchuniversities in the United States have technology licensing operations. Thenumber of U.S. patents granted to American universities in a year rose fromabout 300 in 1980 to almost 2000 in 1995. The direct economic impact oftechnology licensing on the universities themselves has been relatively small.In contrast, the impact of university technology transfer on the local andnational economies has been substantial, and leads to the concusion that theLicensing Act () is one of the most successful pieces of economic developmentin recent history. It has been estimated that more than 200000 jobs have beencreated in the United States in product development and manufacturing ofproducts from university licenses, with the number increasing fairly rapidly asthe licenses mature. ?[X^'zz}
Intellectual property terms have becomevitally important. The company wants to be assured that it can use the resultsof the research-and that these results will not be available to theircompetitors. But most universities insist that transfer of research results iskey to their identity and mission and will not agree to keep the project resultssecret. The key to resolving this dilemman is to grant patents: the universitywill publish the results, but will first agree to file patents that willprotect the company’s privilege in the commercial market place. =kW7|
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11. Generation Gap Xf|I=XK
Despite various improvements in all aspectsof social life, the generation gap between the grown-up and the young remainsunbridged. Instead, it grows wider apart. Yc>.P
Nowadays, the youths do notblindly follow what their elder say. Owing to widespread edcuation, the influenceof western civilization, to certain extent, gives them a new code ofphilosophy, which is completely different from that of their elders. Aninvisible cold wall thus appears between the two generations. 8/CK(G
Modern youths are trying to be more revolutionary.They have their own interpretation fro different matters; they also have theirown ideals. Their reluctance to learn old teaching and sayings becomes theconstant friction between the two generations. They always introduce newchanges. However, the old people, wedded to everything of the past, are hostileto changes and the generation gap becomes wider and wider. Dgz^
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After all, the young generation, like the oldone, is made of flesh and blood. The young also need respect and they also haveskills and good ideas. In order to narrow the gap, both groups should try tounderstand each other. Most probably, these suggestions may help to solve theproblem. ^#z*
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12. Should Men and Women Be Equal? -j}zr yG-
Should men and women be equal?This is a question much talked about by many people. Some hold the opinion thatmen are superiro to women in many ways. For one thing, many a job men do canhardly be done by women, who are physically not strong enough; and for another,most of the word-famous scientists or statemen are found to be males. Moreover,the whole human society seems to have all along been dominated by men only. Isn’tit evident enough to show that men are a lot stronger than women? Hence, theformer should enjoy more rights than the latter. lD1m<AC
Other people, however, thinkquite differently on this question. They firmly believe that men and women areborn equal. And women are certainly as talented as men if they are given equalopportunities of education. Isn’t it a fact known to us all that women havebeen working side by side with men in China and elsewhere in the wordl? Liketheir men folks, they have been distinguishing themselves not only in researchinstitutions, but in government bodies and other organizations as well. 6tBe,'*
Personally, I am firmlystanding on the side of those women’s rights defenders. Since men and women areplaying an equally important role in all human activities, why should not theybe on an equal footing? Furthermore, from time immemorial, there have been twosex groups, namely, men and women. Our Human society could definitely not haveexisted or advanced without either of them. Is it wonder that men and womenought to be equal and enjoy equal rights accordingly? #J*hZ(Pq
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13. Computer and Man 2Afg.-7EP
It is believed that thecomputer can do almost every thing. At the time the computer was invented,scientists, carried away by its calculating speed, felt that they had created amiracle. It w@hbY:Z9z
Was graduallyused not noly in mathematics,physics,chemisry and astronomy, but in places likethe library, hospital and military army to replace the work of man. For thework of man. For this reason, the computer was entiled “Electronic Brain” interms of appreciation. #HmZe98[%
Can man be controlled bycomputers? The answer is negative. Although a computer works much faster andaccurately than man , a fact is undeniable; it is designed, manufactured andprogrammed by man, and therefore by human beings. Of course, science fictionshave made up many fascinating stories about a computer, or rather robot,whoconquers man and the earth, even the whole universe; however, they are onlyunrealistic imaginatio. A horse helps man a lot runs much faster than we, butit is only a slave. C.?~D*Q
The future for the computer isvery promising. With the help of it, we can do things that could not be donebefore.Conquering the universe, discovering new things, explaining mysteruiysphenomena puzzling us at present are all made possible by computer. )s>R~7
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