Collectibles have been a part of almost every culture since ancient times. Whereas some objects have been collected for their usefulness, others have been selected for their aesthetic beauty alone. In the United States, the kinds of collect...
Although Henry Fords name is closely associated with the concept of mass production, he should receive equal credit for introducing labor practices as early as 1913 that would be considered advanced even by todays standards. Safety measures...
The ancestry of the piano can be traced to the early keyboard instruments of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries --- the spinet, the dulcimer, and the virginal. In the seventeenth century the organ, the clavichord, and the harpsichord bec...
Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 assilent, the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent. From the very beginning, music was regarded as an indispensable accompaniment; when the Lumiere fil...
The increase in international business and in foreign investment has created a need for executives with knowledge of foreign languages and skills in cross-cultural communication. Americans, however, have not been well trained in either area...
In science, a theory is a reasonable explanation of observed events that are related. A theory often involves an imaginary model that helps scientists picture the way an observed event could be produced. A good example of this is found in t...
One of the most important social developments that helped to make possible a shift in thinking about the role of public education was the effect of the baby boom of the 1950s and 1960s on the schools. In the 1920s, but especially in the Dep...
Telecommuting-- substituting the computer for the trip to the job ---- has been hailed as a solution to all kinds of problems related to office work....
1. 政治本身 97. It is unfortunate but true that political decisions and activities affect all aspects of people's lives. 195. The goal of politics should not be the pursuit of an ideal, but rather the search for common ground and reason...
105.The true strength of a country is best demonstrated by the willingness of its government to tolerate challenges from its own citizens. 142.The well-being of a society is enhanced when many of its people question authority. 【Position】...
3. 法律： 17.There are two types of laws: just and unjust. Every individual in a society has a responsibility to obey just laws and, even more importantly, to disobey and resist unjust laws. a) 在民主社会中，法律的作用是。但...
180.Many problems of modern society cannot be solved by laws and the legal system because moral behavior cannot be legislated. 4. 政治与道德 169.Those who treat politics and morality as though they were separate realms fail to understa...
6. 政治与媒体： 108.In many countries it is now possible to turn on the television and view government at work. Watching these proceedings can help people understand the issues that affect their lives. The more kinds of government pro...
8. 政府的作为 82.Government should never censor the artistic works or historical displays that a museum wishes to exhibit. 224.Censorship is rarely, if ever, justified. 【Position】:Censorship does more good than harm to the wellbein...
*10. 政府必须确保给予主要城市发展所需的财政支持，因为一个国家的文化传统主要发源于并保留在城市中。 To preserve and generate a nation's culture traditions is one of the major tasks for the governm...
In the late eighteenth century, battles raged in almost every corner of Europe, as well as in the Middle East, South Africa, the West Indies, and Latin America. In reality, however, there was only one major war during this time, the war bet...
Sleep is very ancient. In the electroencephalographic sense we share it with all the primates and almost all the other mammals and birds: it may extend back as far as the reptiles. There is some evidence that the two types of sleep, dreamin...
Before the 1850s, the United States had a number of small colleges, most of them dating from colonial days. They were small, church connected institutions whose primary concern was to shape the moral character of their students. Throughout...
People appear to born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early and so inexorably that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of mathematical maturity guiding their growth. Not long after learning to walk and talk, they...
The ways of history are so intricate and the motivations of human actions so complex that it is always hazardous to attempt to represent events covering a number of years, a multiplicity of persons, and distant localities as the expression...
