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  • Lisa
    University: Northwest University
    Nationality: China
    August 7, 2020 at 12:14 pm

    The author argues that the government should increase the budget for the lands along Mason River. Because the poor quality of the water in the river will improve hopefully as a result of a cleanup plan by a local agency, water sports will increase consequently. However, there are several missing points in his deduction, which could make his suggestion unreasonable.

     

    To start with, the author assumes the residents in the region are reluctant to engage in water sports in Mason River due to the its poor water quality. Nonetheless, there is no substantial evidence illustrating this is the case. To be sure, the quality of the water may not be ideal, but still workable for water sports. Also, the author doesn’t provide compelling evidence before he attributes to the poor quality the decrease in water sports. There could be other factors which caused such phenomenon, from tighter family budgets resulted from economic collapse, cultural motive of an assiduous working attitude, to many residents moving away from the region. The author neither proves the existence of “it”, nor does he provides a more comprehensive consideration of “why”.

     

    Supposedly, the phenomenon does exist, and the main cause is correct, the author may be too confident about the effectiveness of the cleanup plan. All we can obtain from his reasoning is some anonymous agency claiming to be responsible for the cleanup plan. We cannot say for sure how much authority it demonstrates, i.e if they could actually invest money and put efforts into the plan, or whether the final result will be up to our expectation. It’s likely that it’s a stalling tactic to avoid further complaints from residents, or it’s a routine “announcement” to deal with every complaint. Moreover, if the agency is kind enough to devise a workable plan, facilitated with sufficient budget and reliable and experienced cleaning staff, we still don’t know how long it will take before we can expect a final result. After all, there’ s something called fate, and that is the most unpredictable factor in this event.

     

    Let’s say the author is a reliable prophet: the cleanup plan turns out to be a big success, water quality improves, and residents are willing to go back to have some fun in the River, there’s no reason to assume a similar situation of the lands along the river will as well. If the Mason River is faraway from the main street area, it could be that people drive all the way to the river for a relaxing weekend and head back to town after, without exploring the area nearby. Airports in almost every city, and every country is a living example. Although seldom taken as a place for recreational activities, airports are always good spots with a large number of “visitors”. However, the neighboring area of the airports are rarely developed due to its remote location from the major area of the city, and the purposive visit of their passengers. So we cannot just expect an increasing utilization of the lands along the river, even if the cleanup plan turns out good.

     

    In conclusion, we cannot obtain enough information of the effectiveness of the cleanup plan, the subsequent increase of water sports or more utilization of the lands along the river. Thus, still open to debate is whether the budget for improvements should be prepared.

    Lisa
    University: Northwest University
    Nationality: China
    August 5, 2020 at 2:12 pm

    You cant reply to your post, and put your essay there.

    Lisa
    University: Northwest University
    Nationality: China
    June 24, 2020 at 11:37 am

    The statement may hold true in most cases that we can find in human history, while in some it may not. Although the past achievement within a field is helpful to a contribution made later within that same field, we have to accept that sometimes it is not necessary at all.

    Throughout human history, there are a good deal of significant contributions built upon  achievements from the past. Thousands of years ago, where there were rarely any subjects, people made good use of their plain observation of mother nature. Although such empirical amalgamate could barely be termed as great discoveries, they surely were an unignorable influence for later great thoughts on the newborn science. Especially in fields of Physics and Astronomy, such empirical observation was definitely a direct source for generalization and inducement. After that, speculations and theories could be inspired in great minds. Although the imagination and creativity of the great minds are also indispensable parts to complete the puzzle of science, we cannot neglect the strong influence of the former achievements in that field. Therefore, the statement holds true for the ancient times.

    Now back to 21st century, a modern world with numerous highly developed academic fields, where there is little chance left for a potential subject to emerge. But that is not to say, we don’t have brilliant ideas made recently. All the records of Nobel Prize in recent years are living examples. And if we care enough to scan through the records of each field, we can easily find out that none of these contributions were freshly made yesterday: rather, they are firmly grounded in the contributions made by earlier people. Without these valuable achievements made by experts from the past, revolutionary contributions of new theories could hardly be inspired. So the statement is also true for present time.

    However, with all the evidence above, we cannot deny that there are certainly exceptions in some circumstances. As we all know, the skyscraper of science or any other fields started with nothing, and gradually grounded with bricks and embellished with all the ornaments. Obviously, the overture of any field couldn’t base on the achievement from the past: because there was no “past” yet, let alone the important contributions made early those days. Also, for some subjects, especially those interdisciplinary subjects, it is more important to comprehend knowledge from multiple fields to make contributions in its own. It follows that the achievement in its very own field is rather less important. Those were some of the minor conditions in which the statement seem to go to far.

    In a word, the statement holds true in most cases both in ancient times or modern world of 21st century. But we also have to admit that, for a newborn subject or an interdisciplinary subject, the statement is way too absolute.

    Lisa
    University: Northwest University
    Nationality: China
    June 24, 2020 at 10:20 am

    Note that most sentences of  a score 6 passage in OG exceed 20 words (some are about 50 words), could you please explain why you mention that a sentence must contain less than 20 words? Thank you.

    Lisa
    University: Northwest University
    Nationality: China
    June 24, 2020 at 10:08 am

    Why must sentences be less than 20 words?