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1、Assignment: Is the opinion of the majorityin government or in any other circumstancesa poor guide? 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. （March 12

2、, 2005, East Coast） *1R2. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below:Given the importance 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 scientif

3、ic research is minimized in favor of immediate practical applications. The arts are increasingly seen as dispensable luxuries. Yet as competition heats up around the globe, exactly the opposite strategy is needed.Adapted from Mihaly Csikszentmihaly, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery a

4、nd Invention 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, experience, or observations. （March 12, 2005, West Coast） *33R3. Thi

5、nk carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the 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 principle is too valuable t

6、o 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? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on thi

7、s issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. （March 13, 2005, East Coast） *34R4. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below:If you think that what you do is your own business

8、, 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 are responsible for the consequences.Adapted from Margaret Banning, “Letter to Susan” Is a person

9、responsible, through the example he or she sets, for the behavior of other people? 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. （March 13, 2005, West Coa

10、st） *35R5. Think carefully about the issue 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 o

11、riginal impact of our feelings gets lost or 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? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your p

12、osition with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. （May 2005） *2R6. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below:Its easy to see why aside from the income it provides having a job is so desirable in our cu

13、lture. 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 everyday.Adapted from Joanne B. Ciulla, The Working Life Do people depend on work whether

14、 it is a job, schoolwork, or volunteer work to determine what their daily activities and interactions with others should be? 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,

15、or observations. （May, 2005） *23R7. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below:There is no progress 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

16、 looking backward to old customs and past experience. There can be no advancement or improvement unless there are people who look forward in pursuit 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? P

17、lan 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. （May, 2005） *80R8. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment belo

18、w:We are afraid that our cause is unjust, or that it is unclear, 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

19、 We Complain?” Are people afraid to speak out against authority, 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, experi

20、ence, or observations. （May, 2005） *81R9. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below:Many persons believe that to move up the ladder of success and achievement, they must forget the past, repress it, and relinquish it. But others have just the opposite vi

21、ew. 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 Liberation Do memories hinder or help people in their effort to learn from the past and succeed in the present? Plan and write an es

22、say 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. （June 2005） *3R10. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below:I cannot comprehend t

23、hose who emphasize or recognize only what is useful. I am concerned that learning 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

24、 how to live a good life. Philip D. Jordan Do people put too much emphasis on learning practical skills? 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. （Ju

25、ne 2005） *36R11. 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 students address the critical moral choices and social issues of our

26、time. Schools have responsibilities beyond training people for jobs and getting students into college. Svi Shapiro Should schools help students understand moral choices and social issues? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reason

27、ing and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. （June 2005） *37R12. Think carefully about the issue 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

28、, they help to shape culture and values. Alison Bernstein Do newspapers, magazines, television, radio, movies, the Internet, and other media determine what is important to most people? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning

29、 and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. （June 2005） *38R13. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below:1. Success in life is largely a matter of luck. It has little correlation with merit. And in all fields of life

30、 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? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and e