issue 28 认识到一些问题之后的练习。求看是否改改正了原先的错误！非常非常感谢！

dsnadja

28) The surest indicator of a great nation is represented not by the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but by the general welfare of its people.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

多亏大家帮助，认识到自己以前的一些错误，比如观点不够明确，还有论述不够细致等等。这次专门注意了一下，还麻烦大家再看看，有没有改正以前的错误，并且有木有新的问题！
多谢大家！


In my point, the general welfare of one country's people is the most effective indicator of a great nation. However, that does not mean that the achievements of its rulers, artists or scientists are not important indicators. There is a link between these two aspects and each of them influences another, so a nation is great only by achieving both of them. There are some strong reasons to demonstrate this view.

 First of all, the general welfare of its people is a very important standard for a great nation. A convincing reason is that people is the biggest part of a country, and they count for a much bigger percentage than rulers, artists or scientists, which means they have bigger influence on the judgement of a country. For example, when we judge a country, we often use GDP or some other indicators which represent the people's welfare or situations. And the national annul reports always tell us about the whole country and people's income and outcome. From another point of view, its citizens are the biggest part of people who pay the taxes to the country, and it is always the people who vote to decide some big events. For example, American president must be decided from the vote of its people.

 Another view is that, it is taken for granted that a country's biggest responsibility is to take good care of its people. Sometimes we always say Canada is a good country because of the standards such as Canada has better healthy and education conditions, and people there have good insurances like so many kinds of accidental insurances, bankrupt insurance, and so on. However, thinking about some third countries people, they do not have healthy insurances so that they can not afford the payments if they get ill, and so many children are out of education. Even a big part of people are suffering starvation.

 However, the big achievements of its rulers, artists or scientists are also important indications to represent the image of a great, advanced country. For example, Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize shows that American is a great nation because it can not only make good peace conditions of its own, but it can also help other countries to achieve the peaceful conditions. And now we all know that no matter whether you agree or disagree that Obama have done some good things for the world peace, you now know at least America has great influences on it. The accomplishments of artists not only mean the quick development of a country but also represent the good spiritual conditions of the people, which is also a general welfare. Last but not least, the development of science can surprisingly improve our standard of live and make it much comfortable and convenience. What’s more, we can have better healthy conditions since the science makes huge development of medical treatments.

 What's more, a country's art and science's achievements have so many advantages and also it can show the nation's good accomplishments. We all know that a rich and advanced country can have better supports for its art and science, for example, it can give colleges, universities, private groups or social institutions many auspices so that they can have better conditions to achieve big improvements or have advanced researches and studies. What’s more, a great nation paying big attention to the development of science and art encourages its people to achieve success in those fields. For example, in order to encourage colleges and universities to do science studies, many countries have national science awards to reward the people who reach the high standards of the award.

 From my point of view, it is important for a great nation to both have good general welfare of its people and many achievements of its rulers, artists and scientists. Because people are the base of a nation, and satisfying its people will be the biggest goal of any nations. What’s more, the achievements of its rulers, artists and scientists also mean the good development of a nation and it also have so many advantages of the world.

竹林中人

LZ这篇写的很充实，比较到位，不知道你写了多久啊

dsnadja

有点久啊，应该有四十多分钟吧，反正到三十分钟的时候没有写完倒数第二段。。。版主请问我还有什么大问题吗？

LZ这篇写的很充实，比较到位，不知道你写了多久啊

-- by 会员 竹林中人 (2012/10/16 0:03:50)

dsnadja

怎么回复不到别人呢？