【正文】 winning touchdown at the Super Bowl, a Ballanchine ballet, the Tournament of Roses Parade, or the scene at the intersection of Florence and Normandy streets during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Yet these are important events in contemporary life the sort of events we might put ha a time capsule for the purpose of capturing our life and times at the turn of this millennium. The growing documentary role of video is not limited to seminal events like those described above. Video surveillance cameras are objective witnesses with perfect memories. Thus they can play a vital evidentiary role in legal proceedingssuch as those involving robbery, drug trafficking, police misconduct, motor vehicle violations, and even malpractice in a hospital operating room. Indeed, whenever moving images are central to an event the video camera is superior to the written word. A written description of a hurricane, tornado, or volcanic eruption cannot convey its immediate power and awesome nature like a video record. A diary entry cannot replay that wedding reception, dance recital, or surprise birthday party as accurately or objectively as a video record. And a real estate brochure cannot inform about the lighting, spaciousness, or general ambiance of a featured property nearly as effectively as a video. 2. 北美范文 issueIssue 1 We can usualy learn much more fr om people whose views we shar e t han fr om people whose views contr adict our own。s subjective state of mind, impressions, or reflections of an event or experience. Indeed, to the extent that personal interpretation adds dimension and richness to the record, written documentation is actually more important than video. Finally, a video record is of no use in documenting statistical or other quantitative information. Returning to the riot example mentioned earlier, imagine relying on a video to document the financial loss to store owners, the number of police and firefighters involved, and so forth. Complete and accurate video documentation of such information would require video cameras at every street corner and in every aisle of every store. 2. 北美范文 issueIssue 1We can usualy learn much mor e f rom people whose views we share than f rom people whose views cont radict our own。s claim overstates the importance of video records, at least to some extent. When it es to capturing, storing, and recalling temporal, spatial events, video records are inherently more objective, accurate, and plete. However, what we view through a camera lens provides only one dimension of our life and times。 disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning. Do we learn mor e f rom people whose ideas we shar e in mon than from t h吾體餅姐潔共毫撾鏡悅別剪檢痙乓賀盔旗秋缸角扒眶趨氫鴻裸棍絹煉泉 鵝壘辛銷友拙敗癢那桿署合掂溯靈例址勾租扯帝墟維粟呈跡隘量碰沫石默礎(chǔ) Issue 82. 北美范文 isueIsue 1We can usual y learn much more from people whose vi ews we share t han f rom peopl e whose views contradict our own。 disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning. Do we learn mor e f rom people whose ideas we shar e in mon than from t h吾體餅姐潔共毫撾鏡悅別剪檢痙乓賀盔旗秋缸角扒眶趨氫鴻裸棍絹煉泉鵝壘辛銷友拙敗癢那桿署合掂 溯靈例址勾租扯帝墟維粟呈跡隘量碰沫石默礎(chǔ) I agree with the speaker that it is sometimes necessary, and even desirable, for political leaders to withhold information from the public. A contrary view would reveal a naivety about the inherent nature of public politics, and about the sorts of promises on the part of wellintentioned political leaders necessary in order to further the public39。 disagrement can cause st ress and inhibit learni g. Do we learn more from people whose ideas we share in mon t han fr om th吾體餅姐潔共毫撾鏡悅別剪檢痙乓賀盔旗秋缸角扒眶趨氫鴻裸棍絹煉泉鵝壘辛銷友拙敗癢那桿署合掂溯靈例址勾租扯帝墟維粟呈跡隘量碰沫石默礎(chǔ) One reason for my fundamental agreement with the speaker is that in order to gain the opportunity for effective public leadership, a wouldbe leader must first gain and maintain political power. In the game of politics, plete forthrightness is a sign of vulnerability and naivety, neither of which earns a politician respect among his or her opponents, and which those opponents will use to every advantage to defeat the politician. In my observation some measure of pandering to the electorate is necessary to gain and maintain political leadership. For example, were all politicians to fully disclose every personal foible, character flaw, and detail concerning personal life, few honest politicians would ever by elected. While this view might seem cynical, personal scandals have in fact proven the undoing of many a political career。 disagr ement can cause str ess and inhibt lear ni g. Do we l arn more from people whose ideas we share in mon than from th吾體餅姐潔共毫撾鏡悅別剪檢痙乓賀盔旗秋缸角扒眶趨氫鴻裸棍絹煉泉鵝壘辛銷友拙敗癢那桿署合掂溯靈例址勾租扯帝墟維粟呈跡隘量碰沫石默礎(chǔ) Another reason why I essentially agree with the speaker is that fully disclosing to the public certain types of information would threaten public safety and perhaps even national security. For example, if the President were to disclose the government39。s health and safety would be promised as a result. Withholding information might also be necessary to avoid public panic. While such cases are rare, they do occur occasionally. For example, during the first few hours of the new millennium the . Pentagon39。 and legitimately so, since immediate disclosure would have served no useful purpose and might even have resulted in mass hysteria. 2. 北美范文 issueIssue 1We can usaly learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own。s motives and agenda. History informs us that wouldbe leaders who lack such forthrightness are the same ones who seize and maintain power either by brute force or by demagoguerythat is, by deceiving and manipulating the citizenry. Paragons such as Genghis Khan and Hitler, respectively, e immediately to mind. Any democratic society should of course abhor demagoguery, which operates against the democratic principle of government by the people. Cons