【正文】 The speaker claims that the character of the men and women that the society chooses as its heros or heroines can best represent the character of a society, which means it is the best way to understand a sociery. In my point of view, I do 1c0cbc0bfd9cb9a592702f5d5506e10e Editted By Addison Wang 9 agree that the heros and heroins can represent the characters of a society at some extend. However, they cannot accurately represent the characters of a socitey. 1. In the first place, the unique brand of hero does reflect, and indeed must reflect, some characters of the hero’s society for the reason that the fact that they can be chosed to be the society’s heros or heroines must due to their qulity, which must reflect some characters of the sociery at some extend. So, learning something about those famous few can more or less help to recognize some respects of the society. 2. However, there is also this kind of situation: the reason why we choose a person as the society’s hero is just because he or she just have some characters which may be just unique and maybe even going to extinct in our society. Moreover, some heros or heroines are always reflecting the ultimate ideals and value of the entire society. In the war time, for instance, most people who cherish the hope to the peace may certainly to focus their attention on the heroes and heroines who have enough courage and capability to defeat the enemy. This circumstance does not mean that the heroines of the war can represent the features of the war but to means that people place certain amount of the reliance on these personalities to eventually achieve the success or the peaceful climates in the overall nation. 3. Moreover, there are also some people who are regarded as heros or heroines just for the reason that they have some unique capability in just one specific realm. Take sports heros as the first example. In my opinion, sports heros are just chosen for their athletic powers and this cannot represent a society’s features. 成功學 3 月北京第 25 In any realm of life whether academic, social, business, or political the only way to succeed is to take a practical, rather than an idealistic, point of view. Pragmatic behavior guarantees survival, whereas idealistic views tend to be superceded by simpler, more immediate options. 在生活各個領(lǐng)域 ,不管是學術(shù)、社會還是政治要想成功，只能靠實際的觀點而非空想 .程序化的行為保證了基本的生存，而空想只會被更簡單、更急迫的選擇取代。s most persistent social problems.所有的國家都應該幫助建立起一個全球性的大學用來培養(yǎng)學生們解決世界上最1c0cbc0bfd9cb9a592702f5d5506e10e Editted By Addison Wang 8 頑固的社會問題 . The speaker remends that all nations should help support the development of a global university designed to engage students in the process of solving the world’s most persistent social problems. Indeed, with the development of technology human beings have made amazing progress in many fields these years, but bring out numerous social problems as well. With close scrutiny, I basically agree with the speaker that building such a global university designed to help solve the persistent social problems is wise as long as be careful when put into practice. 1. First of all, a global university can provide a platform to solve mutual problems that different countries faced both in theoretical and application layer, and help to find a mon base or reach a consensus in the whole world. Many persistent social problems are so similar in different countries. Poverty, crime, violence, drugs, class discrimination and they like never stop since the appearance of human beings. Poverty, a result of longstanding conflict between haves and havenots, is perpetuated through class discrimination and unequal opportunities for upward mobility. Racial prejudice and discrimination are the main sources of serious social problems. 2. Secondly, series of international conflicts are due to the different viewpoint and misunderstanding among countries, which are also one kind of the world’s most persistent social problems, so a global university can provide an equality and open a platform for municating the standpoint and difference of one another as well as alleviating the conflicts. Moreover, this university will promote the cooporation between different countries. And the cooporation between different countries can resolve some international problems, such as the international drug transaction, the terrorism or the depletion of the atmospheric ozone and so on. 3. However, like a twoedged weapon, a global university can be used equally for good or evil. It has some risks that may aggravate some pressing international problems. First, neglecting some religionary problem, life style。沒有典禮和儀式，人們就無法很好地了解自己。 This statement actually consists of two claims. First, the way people look, dress, and act reveals their attitudes and interest. Second, observing the appearance and behavior of its people, one can tell much about a society’s ideas and values. As far as I am concerned, I agree insofar as the appearance and behavior of people can sometimes reveal their attitudes and interests as well as a society’s ideas and values. However, it is not always the case. 1. Admittedly, as psychologists indicate, the way people look, dress, and act is influenced to a large extent by one’s characters, moods, ideas, except when one pretends to behavior under certain occasions. So in this way, a society’s ideas and value can be partialy expressed by the appearance and behavior of its people. Actually, that is one of the very means by which sociologists do their researches. People of different countries and different eras dress differently. Changing in people’s dressing styles is usually consistent with value changes of a society. Dynasty tang, dynasty qing. 2. The habits, rituals and lifestyles of