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(一)Theme: Change
Thesis: The world isn’t always changing for better.
Subject 1: Environment pollution & Economic inequality
Since the Industrial Revolution, our environment has been in imminent danger. For example, a dramatic summer drought helped public focus their attentions on the greenhouse effect, a general warming of temperature on Earth, which is caused by an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels like coals, gasoline products and rapid deforestation. Along with the rapid technology advance is the emergence of acid rain, ecological wasteland and natural disasters such as flood and hurricane. Not only to environment, but also to some people changes in today’s seemly progressive world are not always good. The booming America saw a growing economic inequality. In 2004, the number of millionaire household in America increased by 14% as the number of people living below the poverty line rose to about 37 million, including 15 million children. The annual budget passed by Congress in 2005 severely cut programs essential to straggling families, Including child assistance and Medicaid funding for the poor. Left in such desperate condition, the poor could hardly appreciate these changes
Subject 2: Technology changes
Detail: In a culture which emails, cell phones and internet chat room have become everyday modes of communication, we are on the verge of breaking down all barriers to the complete and constant transfer of information. But if we seem to be moving toward unfetter union, we could also be seen more isolated as individuals than we have ever been before. Changes in technology definitely make our lives easier, as shopping at home becomes easier than driving to the store, as meeting people online eliminates the need to spend a lot of time traveling, and as faxing someone a blueprint gets rid of necessity of meeting to discuss a plan. However, the very technology that purports to make connections and bring people closer together is helping them drift apart. One can absolutely recall some scenes which you were sitting alone in your bedroom busily talking to someone on msn while rejecting the proposal to shop with your families or you was having lunch with friends while talking to someone else on your cell phones. All these convenient technologies including online services that prevent us from going out and meeting a real person, and cell phones that reduce the real human interaction do not necessarily make us better.
(二)Theme: Both sides of an issue
Thesis: Everything has its benefit and its drawback
Subject: The Crusades
Detail: The Crusades, profoundly altering European history, were a series of attacks organized by Western Christians in order to take control of the holy city of Jerusalem from Muslim powers. Although they generally failed in their chief purpose, the Crusades exercised an immense influence on Western civilization by bringing the West into closer contact with new ways of living and thinking--stimulating commerce, giving fresh impetus to literature and invention, and increasing geographical knowledge.
Example also serves: It is really impossible to fail.
