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1、 Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation. 2. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below:Given the importa

2、nce of human creativity, one would think it should have a high priority among our concerns. But if we look at the reality, we see a different picture. Basic scientific research is minimized in favor of immediate practical applications. The arts are increasingly seen as dispensable luxuries. Yet as c

3、ompetition heats up around the globe, exactly the opposite strategy is needed. Is creativity needed more than ever in the world today? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, ex

4、perience, or observation.3. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below:Even scientists know that absolute objectivity has yet to be attained. Its the same for absolute truth. But, as many news reporters have observed, the idea of objectivity as a guiding

5、principle is too valuable to be abandoned. Without it, the pursuit of knowledge is hopelessly lost.Adapted from “Focusing Our Values,” Nieman Reports Are people better at making observations, discoveries, and decisions if they remain neutral and impartial?4. Think carefully about the issue presented

6、 in the following excerpt and assignment below:If you think that what you do is your own business, you are wrong. In this world your conduct affects not only you but the conduct of other people as well. If you behave in a way that is considered unacceptable and other people copy your behavior, you a

7、re responsible for the consequences.Adapted from Margaret Banning, “Letter to Susan” Is a person responsible, through the example he or she sets, for the behavior of other people?5. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below: （2005.5）Its easy to see whyas

8、ide from the income it provideshaving a job is so desirable in our culture. Work works for us. It structures our time and imposes a rhythm on our lives. It gets us organized into various kinds of communities and social groups. And perhaps most important, work tells us what to do every day. Adapted f

9、rom Joanne B. Ciulla, The Working Life Do people depend on workwhether it is a job, schoolwork, or volunteer workto determine what their daily activities and interactions with others should be?6. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below:There is no prog

10、ress unless someone comes up with a new way of looking at things, of trying things that have never been done or thought of before. We cannot move forward by looking backward to old customs and past experience. There can be no advancement or improvement unless there are people who look forward in pur

11、suit of the new and untried. Does progress depend on people with new ideas rather than on people whose ideas are based on the current way of doing things?7. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below:We are afraid that our cause is unjust, or that it is u

12、nclear, or that it is too insignificant to justify the horrors of a confrontation with Authority. We will endure almost any inconvenience before undertaking head-on, Im-here-to-tell-you complaint. Adapted from William F. Buckley, Jr., “Why Dont We Complain?” Are people afraid to speak out against au

13、thority, whether the authority is an individual, a group, or a government? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.8. Think carefully about the issue

14、 presented in the following excerpt and assignment below:Alone we can afford to be wholly whatever we are and to feel whatever we feel absolutely. With others we are busy wondering what does my companion see or think of this, and what do I think of it? The original impact of our feelings gets lost o

15、r reduced.Adapted from May Sarton, the Rewards of Living a Solitary Life Does worrying too much about other peoples opinions prevent us from seeing things clearly?9. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below: （2005.6）Many persons believe that to move up

16、the ladder of success and achievement, they must forget the past, repress it, and relinquish it. But others have just the opposite view. They see old memories as a chance to reckon with the past and integrate past and present.Adapted from Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Ive Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and

17、Liberation Do memories hinder or help people in their effort to learn from the past and succeed in the present?10. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below:I cannot comprehend those who emphasize or recognize only what is useful. I am concerned that lea

18、rning for learnings sake is no longer considered desirable, that everything we do and think must be directed toward the solution of a practical problem. More and more we seem to try to teach how to make a good living and not how to live a good life.Adapted from Philip D. Jordan, “The Usefulness of U

19、seless Knowledge” Do people put too much emphasis on learning practical skills?11. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below:Most of our schools are not facing up to their responsibilities. We must begin to ask ourselves whether educators should help stu

20、dents address the critical moral choices and social issues of our time. Schools have responsibilities beyond training people for jobs and getting students into college. Adapted from Svi Shapiro Should schools help students understand moral choices and social issues?12. Think carefully about the issu

21、e presented in the following excerpt and assignment below:The media not only transmit information and culture, they also decide what information is important. In that way, they help to shape culture and values.Adapted from Alison Bernstein, “Artists Thrive on Freedom and Freedom Thrives on the Arts”

22、 Do newspapers, magazines, television, radio, movies, the Internet, and other media determine what is important to most people?13. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below: （2005.10）1. Success in life is largely a matter of luck. It has little correlati

23、on with merit. And in all fields of life there have always been people of great merit who did not succeed.Karl Popper, Popper Selections2. As Colin Powell said, “there are no secrets to success. Dont waste time looking for them. Success is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”Adapted from Barry Farber, “Selling Points” Is success in life earned or do people succeed because they are lucky?14. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below:1. Celebrities have the power t