SAT作文题目 Is the world changing for the better
There is, of course, no legitimate branch of science that enables us to predict the future accurately. Yet the degree of change in the world is so overwhelming and so promising that the future, I believe, is far brighter than anyone has contemplated since the end of the Second World War.
Adapted from Allan E. Goodman, A Brief History of the Future: The United States in a Changing World Order
Assignment: Is the world changing for the better? 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.
World is changing, but not necessarily better, particularly from the perspective of the critical views and the non-symmetrical psychological effects of the many lingering negatice effects brought about by the changes.
Reactions to World Wars one and two in expressed by the artistic and literary community historically do not support the idea that the world is changing for the better, as evidenced by numerous modernism and postmodernism works throughout the world. One example of the negative effects of World War two psychologically may be taken from Leslie Marmon Silkos novel Ceremony. The novels protagonist, Tayo, a young native american veteran living on a reservation, returns from his war experience severely men-tally damaged, referring to himself at one point as white smoke. The novel expresses several times that Tayo is only one case of many damaged young native americans who return from this war. Elders of the Laguna native american tribe express distress at the fact that they will not be able to heal their returning World War two warriors with traditional war healing ceremonies, and Tayo believes this is because warfare has changed dramatically.
The tribe, losing many members to the war physically and psychologically, suffers weakening blows. It is clear that the difference between old warfare in which warriors could face their enemies and new warfare in which soldiers shoot blindly across distances is great. The destruction of modern warfare witnessed by the new veterans was devastating in a ruinous way as it never had been. The resulting threat of the disintegration of the tribe as old healing techniques fail weakens the tribe in ways it had never been weakened before.
A similar mental disintegration, tied in with a lack of optimism was seen a great deal following World War one. Before the war, old Enlightenment ideas of rational thought, progress, and the goodness of mankind abounded. The incredible and unprecedented destruction seen in World War one, however, combined with the psychological effect of the use of the newest mass-destruction and chemical weapons proved to quash the pre-war sentiment of optimism and post-Enlightenment zeal. New weapons such as mustard gas and machine guns could kill thousands in unspeakably brutal ways, and the casualties of the war, greater than any in history, showed the weapons to be very effective. The loss of human life in hundreds of thousands, combined with the destruction of European land at the end of World War one proved to crush the morale of the European populace and to discourage optimism with regard to scientific progress; scientific progress had only served to cause destruction and horror in war.
The negative psychological repercussions of World War one and two served to give people, particularly Europeans, a less optimistic view of the world and of mankind. The change in weaponry and style of warfare, visible in the example of Silkos Ceremony, contribute to the the idea that the world was not changing for the better; the new warriors of Ceremony could not be healed, and the optimistic, naive vision of pre-world war two Europe could not be restored. If man could cause such immense physical and psychological destruction with the products of scientific change, the world could not have changed for the better.
上一篇: 绝佳的SAT作文名人例子 奥普拉温弗里
下一篇: 怎样写出SAT满分作文(二)
国内英语资讯:Chinas Macao, Thailands Phuket ink MoU on trade, tourism cooperation
国内英语资讯:Spotlight: Chinese premier reaffirms commitment to free trade
国内英语资讯:Chinese FM, DPRK top leader discuss ties, issues on Korean Peninsula
10个超实用表达,脱口而出
国内英语资讯:China to enhance cooperation with ASEAN countries in new media: official
以碳水化合物为主饮食可能导致更年期提前
国内英语资讯:China Focus: For translators, Marxist works a lifetime labor of love
美朝领导人会晤将于6月12日在新加坡举行
国内英语资讯:Xis tour inspires faculty, students at Chinas top-notch university
国内英语资讯:Marxs theory still shines with truth: Xi
医生透露 葡萄酒其实对皮肤最有害
体坛英语资讯:Chinas Ding Junhui inducted into world snooker Hall of Fame
李克强在中国-印尼工商峰会上的主旨演讲
一周热词榜(4.28-5.4)
Fishermen fear oil drilling in African lake 渔民担心石油开采对非洲湖泊的影响
男子结婚35年后发现自己不育 9个子女都不是亲生!
脸书泄露门后续:始作俑者宣布破产!
内蒙古集宁一中(西校区)2017-2018学年高二下学期第二次月考英语试卷
国内英语资讯:Top legislature to inspect on implementation of infectious diseases prevention law
国内英语资讯:China joins ASEAN countries chorus for free trade
《后来的我们》:最美的10句台词,以及英译
国内英语资讯:China to promote bilateral ties with Indonesia to new level: premier
2018年6月英语四级作文范文:分数之我见
又退群!特朗普宣布退出伊核协议
美国宣布对中兴通讯实施禁令
这些洗衣标志你能看懂几个?据说超八成人认不全
国内英语资讯:Xi calls for joint efforts with Japan to bring relations back on track
国内英语资讯:China, South Korea agree to enhance mutual trust, cooperation
内蒙古集宁一中(西校区)2017-2018学年高一下学期第二次月考英语试卷
梅根人设要崩?她哥哥亲自出来爆黑料!