ISSUE 84 当代社会里英雄不再有那题 tyro球拍！

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It is no longer possible for a society to regard any living man or woman as a hero.

当世无英雄
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developingand supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.



我的提纲
1. 定义当世英雄—功绩卓越、智慧勇敢，提出论点
2. 世上无当世英雄：社会构成日趋多元化，个体价值评判标准差异
3. 世上无当世英雄：迟滞效应
4. 世上无当世英雄：媒体的吹毛求疵
5.  sum up

Traditionally, people with cherished characteristics like intelligence, bravery, honesty and selfishness are entitled as heroes though the specific definition of heroism may vary distinctively according to the times and the cultural environments. For the modern society, heroes are usually thought to be those who make great contributions to the development of the science, improvement of either human or natural society. However, It is quite difficult for a modern society to regard any contemporary man or woman as a hero even though we do have this kind of persons around us.

To begin, population migration, convenient transportation and more communications of different races enable us to live in a multicultural society. The social organization consists of a single interconnected fabric which are formed by the multidimensional interaction of social activities, organizations, institutions and values, thus there is no such a matter that can win the admiration of everyone and it will never be so just because of cultural diversity and personal values preference. Take president Barack Obama's recent pronouncement that he support gay marriage legally for instance, the statement, largely can be viewed as heroism, is readily welcomed by the majority of society especially gay and lesbian groups who have been suffered from social discriminations and struggled for gay rights and its place in American culture over years, though great opposition arise from certain ethnic group like Muslims. To America, the Obama's declaration is definitely a turning point in history since no American president has ever supported a major expansion of civil rights that has not ultimately been adopted by the American people, though agreements are not universal admittedly.

Secondly, heroism, i.e., distinctive contributions can not always immediately recognized by contemporary people for the sake of heroes' inpenetrable intelligence or contradiction with the current authority. Gregor Mendel, the first person to trace the characteristics of successive generations of a living thing, was not a world-renowned scientist of his day. Rather, he was an Augustinian monk who taught natural science to high school students. The theories of heredity attributed to Mendel, based on his work with pea plants, are now well known to students of biology, and his short monograph, Experiments with Plant Hybrids, in which Mendel described how traits were inherited, has become one of the most enduring and influential publications in the history of science. But his work was so brilliant and unprecedented at the time it appeared that it took thirty-four years for the rest of the scientific community to catch up to it.

Moreover, in this era of rapid social and technological change leading to increasing life complexity and broadly information communication, candidate heroes are unintentionally or deliberately placed in a full-dimensional position for the masses to judge by means of more advanced and more aggressive info medias, let alone some press and TV programs keep showing the faults of the public figures. Since no one is perfect, the depression and anger are natural reaction to the exaggerate even distorted reports about them. Under this condition, we gradually lose faith and start looking defects in any person who seems worthy of respect, i.e., we try to discover the weakness or ugly motives that are surely behind his or her noble actions.

In conclusion, I fundamentally agree that it is no longer possible for a society to regard any living man or woman as a hero for the three main reasons: value diversity in society-level and individual-level blocking the common appreciation for the whole society, the lagging effect of the great works failing the contemporary people to recognize, as well as the full-dimensional observation to candidate heroes reflecting the weakness of human being without exception.

竹林中人

我感觉这篇写的很好很给力啊，首先语言很历练，思路和分析论述很到位。学习了，继续加油！