トピClaim: The best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the men and women that the society chooses as its heroes or its role models.
Reason: Heroes and role models reveal a society's highest ideals.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
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The topic claims that the best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the people that the society chooses as its heroes or its role models. Basically, I agree with this claim insofar as the term heroes or role models indicates the society's highest ideals. The term heroes or role models tends to be interpreted in many different ways such as political leaders or religious leaders; therefore, defining the term is of vital importance in order to avoid rambling discussion. Having defined the term, it is now clear that a political leader or a religious leader reveal a society's highest ideals. Indeed, if we look around with unprejudiced eye, we notice that the best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the society's highest ideals .
The chief reason for my agreement with this topic is as follows: family is the smallest unit of society. However, character of people depends on their upbringing and how they are brought up in their society. In other words, the way they react to situations or how they act what they believe in is reflection of how they were saw by the society.
It must be obvious to anyone's eyes that character of the society's highest ideals have big influence towards their society. And if we analyze how the society's highest ideals influence the character of a society, we realize that they influence people by their personalities and behavior. They can change the character of a society. This is the reason why I insist that the best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the society's highest ideals. Let us consider two examples to further verify this assertion.
The first example is George W.Bush. He started War in Afghanistan and Iraq War for the revenge of the September 11 attacks. He was aggressive and try to show America's strength towards any other countries around the world. But the Afghanistan and Iraq War has only cause the world to be more chaos. There is apparently no one gained profit during the war, only mass of death. President George W.Bush can fully express the character of America. They want to show off their power and make them the strongest country among any other countries.
I next turn to the example of Mother Teresa. She is the first nun who roamed the world and she is doing good especially to children and spreading her kindness and love all over the world. She is also a role model of Christian societies and uplift the belief of people to do good by showing us how it should be done. Not only Christian societies impressed by her kindness and love, but also people do not have religious belief take her as a role model.
In summary, I would like to stress that the best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the society's highest ideals. Political leaders, religious leaders, famous celebrities, etc., each kind of person could be the society's highest ideals. Without the society's highest ideals, people will lose their direction and the society would be chaos. Thus, the society's highest ideals not only represent the character of a society, but they also needed by ordinal citizens.(569 words)
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Claim: Any piece of information referred to as a fact should be mistrusted, since it may well be proven false in the future.
Reason: Much of the information that people assume is factual actually turns out to be inaccurate.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
トピInformation, especially what must be taught and how, is vital concern to society. Some visionaries, including this topic, speak of a world in which any piece of information referred to as a fact should be mistrusted, since it may well be proven false in the future. I agree with this topic that much of the information that people assume is factual actually turns out to be inaccurate. However, I am not deaf to the merits of the information brings to us, and I, therefore, insist that concepts of both information referred to as a fact should be mistrusted or trusted must be weighed appropriately.
To begin with, one reason for my fundamental agreement with this topic is as follows: in order for people to acquire proper information, the source of information and how people accept the information must be made clear. Simply put, information exists among people in an organization or society where the members share common interest or goals. Although examples can be presented in a plethora of ways, two that aptly illustrate this point involve the areas of politics.
Consider first a case of information referred to as a fact should be mistrusted. Political leaders tend to manipulate citizens for their politics decisions. In Japan, during World War II, Japanese emperor decided to participate in the war and agitate his people through mass media. After World War II his decision be proven false. Much the same kind of incidents can be happen in other country. Julian Paul Assange leaked many top secrets about United States' diploma, which referred to as a fact, but prove to be false after the leak. It is clear as shown by these two examples that information was distorted by mass media and government.
I believe, as stated above, that information referred to as a fact should be trusted is the very foundation upon which citizens can acquire information easily and directly. However, I insist that one must embrace the principle that citizens should not believe mass media directly and they should search many information about the situation by themselves. It is important that each individual learns the fact that both mistrusted or trusted constitute information offered by mass media or government, and bereft of one of the two, no full-fledged information can be fostered, let alone accomplished.
Why might this be so? The simple answer is this: no longer does it make sense to think of the notions of mistrusted or trusted information as separate entities, for they coexist in society, inextricably bound with each other. If one were to return to the mass media example discussed above, a rationale of my assertion becomes clearer.
Any mass media, whether it is a news paper or a news TV program, operate their business in an environment in which a certain degree of competition exists. To sell their own products, they must outmaneuver competitors. Exaggeration, embellish a story, make up a news report, they use these ways to attractive more viewers; there are various ways by which they can excel in the field of their business. But mass media needs to broadcast trusted information as well as mistrusted one. For example, scientific invention, Olympic games and so on.
In sum, instilling a concept of information into citizens for certain purpose may look bad. This is true and on this point, I agree with this topic. However, focusing solely on the mistrusted information is fallacious within the framework of a broader perspective, especially in a pluralistic society where monistic approaches fail to solve a given problem. I do not think any piece of information referred to as a fact should be mistrusted, nor do I think that information referred to as a fact should be trusted. It's depends on the mess media or government to how to represent the information and how citizens' personality.(640 words)
Although innovations such as video, computers, and the Internet seem to offer schools improved methods for instructing students, these technologies all too often distract from real learning.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
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Some people contend that innovations such as video, computers, and the Internet seem to offer schools improved methods for instructing students whereas others argue that these technologies all too often distract from real learning. Admittedly, both ideas are equally important and, in fact, history informs us that these two approaches are mutually exclusive. However, as far as study in today's Japan is concerned, I believe that innovations such as video, computers, and the Internet seem to offer schools improved methods for instructing students is more crucial.
The chief reason for my assertion lies in the evolutionary improvements of technology. If we analyze how technology affect our daily life, we would have a certain level of agreement that today's society system is much more efficient and convenience than ever before, and the reason for this is that technological advancement. In such society where video, computers, and the Internet became daily must items, persuing ideals of study is to use those methods.
However, using computers and the Internet for students' study often can distract them from real learning. As a matter of fact, some students use Internet to talk with their friends and playing computer games instead of real learning.
