终于,数学满分51,V41,总分760,Over 99%。
最感谢的人,是小马哥。
为我解数学题,帮我下载国家地理晚上陪着我看为我减压,一战失败歇斯底里他除了耐心还是耐心,直到我不甘心取消原订西藏行程他虽然生气但是最后还是妥协让我迟几天进藏。
从定下二战时间后到今天,我已经整整一个月没有见过他。
按下Next键看到分数,不知什么感觉。一战时我抱定一定上700的心,却考了个640,这一次我告诉自己,只要有660就行,已足够我申请香港的学校,却得到760的分数,这分数我想都不敢想。发短信告诉上海的朋友,他说你有这分数还不申请哈佛和斯坦福,我说,你开玩笑吗,我只是一个广外小本科,Background差到像大街上的蟑螂一样一抓一大把,我只想申请香港学校奖学金就可以,他大骂我没出息。一战时寄成绩,我寄了一个密歇根州立,结果不堪言,这一次我干脆一所海外的学校也没填,但也决定可以试试申请美国的Top 20,撞上了当我好运气,被拒了也一点不失落。
以下是我写在CD的话:
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二战报名后的第一周:我和BF PLAN好了6月28日去西藏,结果因为考砸了,我不甘心,想马上再考,于是取消了订的机票,损失了一大笔钱,又因为没有积蓄,我连报名后还信用卡数的钱都没有。与BF吵架、纠结、改行程。每天吵,每天叹气,每天哭。
然后就是陷入我丢了工作,没有钱,结果考试还考砸的“我是Loser”的歇斯底里中,好恐慌,非工作不可。
第二周:我飞去了杭州,面试工作,面试完了,开始陷入与BF的新一轮争吵,我的自尊心不让我伸手问别人要钱,所以我一定要工作。BF认为异地恋是感情杀手。现在我拿到工作的Offer了,但这个感情纠结还无解。开始做陈向东和费费逻辑,还开始做费费数学。
第三周:我的爷爷去世了。我和爸爸飞郑州,共四天,每天守灵,见识了我这辈子第一次见到的我觉得愚昧至极的丧葬风俗。我爸守夜,整晚在露天不能睡觉。我不,我跑回宾馆做陈向东逻辑。白天不能躲在宾馆,我就拿打印出来的费费逻辑(因为比较薄)在吊唁的棚子下面做(我还头戴孝布,脚上绑了小白绳)。然后时不时停下去烧纸磕头。截至第三周为止,我把陈向东的每一道逻辑题都做了。
第四周:费费逻辑做完了,开始做GWD31 CR分类,做了两遍。开始做数学JJ。二战我没有再做SC的题,只把一战时自己的语法笔记看了几遍。时间全用来做逻辑和数学了,作文是昨天晚上把一战时的模板打印出来看了,所以感觉这次作文写得比上次差很多。
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昨天生日,我足不出户,午晚两顿均吃绿豆粥与荷包蛋。中午午睡时梦见小马哥,梦哭了,醒了打电话给他,他正在拉萨骑单车,想像到阳光下卯足劲儿傻蹬的那样儿,心情就变好了。
今天考完了,赶去小马家拿他为我准备的东西。光顾着看书,对于去西藏的一切都撒手不管。拎着三大包东西回家,拆开,忍不住又哭了:办签证照片帮我冲好了一张张剪开了,假学生证办好了(不好意思办假证了),所有证件装在一个可爱的小证件袋里,冲锋衣为我买好了,抓绒衣为我买好了,运动外套为我买好了,快干袜、压缩袋、登山扣、指南针、欧式电源插、粉色水壶、洗漱袋、防高原反应的药、甚至怕我洗头不干的擦头巾也准备了。
我心里早就认定了,只是越认定越不允许自己走“从四大跳出来当一个财务主管,其实就是个不会做实务的只会看账手指划脚的人”这条路。
我太想和小马哥一起进行从今往后人生的每一次旅行,想偶尔艰苦跋涉偶尔也去海边的星级酒店什么也不做只是看海,所以不能忍受“嗯你可不可以付掉所有五星级酒店的住宿因为我想和你浪漫地呆在一起但我付不起哪怕一晚的房费。”
因为我感觉到他的好与爱,所以我会为我自己糟糕与不够出色感到羞愧,那种感觉就像从对我寄予期望的爸妈眼里看到对我的失望一样,很羞耻,所以太想要成为爸妈和他的骄傲。
我不可以忍受有一天别人问起小马哥的老婆是怎样的、做什么的,别人回答,啊,她好像在家里无所事事,失业很久也不找工作没收入,只靠着他养,还每天净搞些奇思异想。我要爸妈的女儿、小马哥的女人很优秀。
可能已经近乎偏执,但那是我的真实想法。
离开纯粹是为了钱,申请的过程也需要钱,总不连申请的钱也问人要。
因为还要考虑不能随便找一份工作的缘故,为了resume不被contaminate,使Career path看起来能自圆其说同时不会引起申请的麻烦,比如当踏出在广州某地产公司当一个主管会计以维持与以前相差不多的薪水这一步时,无论是申请学校,还是以后的择业,都可能付出更大代价遇到更多阻力。
所以呢,请大家不要担心,我们已经为分隔异地设了一个最长期限,最长不超过得知入学结果的时间。
明天一大早,就要飞拉萨了。
期待西藏的阳光。
飞回广州还有些艰难,被告知晚点,拖去机场安排的宾馆休息,晚上九点多被送回机场,十点钟登记,却近十二点才起飞,凌晨近三点钟终于到家。
凌晨的广州真舒服啊。这个城市肯定不是我的家乡,虽然我3岁起就在这里长大,但始终没学会广东话。但家乡已经早就没家了,所以对这个城市,就像对养父母有割舍不下的留恋但骨子里始终有疏离之感,却惶惶惑惑如果此处非家,也无他处可以落脚。
26岁这一年仿佛才是我开始看见现实的轮廓的一年,我对妈妈说,好像这一年我才有从象牙塔里毕业了的感觉。妈妈说,是好事,现在还不算太晚。
已经决定去杭州。能不丢掉尊严地自己养活自己不让家人担心是最重要的事。
27岁的生日,我再不想把嫁人当作生日愿望了,这个愿许了整10年,从16岁开始模模糊糊地想,到20几开始算我一定要在2-岁结婚,一年推一年,也没有实现。上一个生日许下的28岁前生孩子的愿望到现在为止已经确定不可能实现了。可见生日愿望实在是没有意义的东西。27岁起不再有生日愿望,过好生活就是。
常常想,我要做怎样的女人?愈近30了,希望30岁的自己,是一个自己能接受的女人。所以,说说女人吧。
1)知性&优雅
看陈鲁豫的日记与語录,有点被吓到,不过确实为枯躁的复习生活带来不小的乐趣,我边看边笑出声来。
那时看她主持的凤凰早班车(有没有十年了?),非常喜欢她,她的主持风格也许是开了说新闻的先河,很自然,不是每天七点的“领导很忙,中国人民很幸福,世界其他人民仍水深火热”的固定三段式。
渐渐她也奔四十了。不知是她自己还是她的节目的策划,把她推向了“知性优雅”的深渊,其实“知性优雅”与她的气质并不相衬。当她脱离了编写好的新闻稿,被赋予更多发声的时间与空间时,她的声音却不再广阔了,局限在了“你小时候数学好吗?”“真可爱。”“真好。”与网友们形象总结出的“日日日日”的笑声。
越来越多地看到她宣扬自虐式的瘦身法,毫不避言对美的定义就是一瘦再瘦。
采访飞车党时,问撞了的人的飞车族,被撞飞的人是在空中转了一圈吗?
以下这样的日记,我写过,也许很多女人写过。
但是写在512,实在让人害怕。
阴影确实永远不会在我们的头顶,但那绝对不是因为在咖啡馆看着外面的阳光沾了一嘴巴的牛奶泡沫。
我提醒自己,我不能做这样的女人。
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In May
在我小的时候,一年之中我最喜欢五月。学生时代,五月是歌咏比赛,是我兴奋地涨红着脸在舞台上指挥全班同学唱《卡门序曲》,唱《邮递马车》也唱《让我们当起双浆》。那时的五月单纯明亮,就象是我盼了一个冬季的红色塑料凉鞋,透明的,软软的水果糖的颜色;五月还是带蝴蝶结的连衣裙,嫩嫩的无邪的粉色。
我在成长,我的五月和我一起成长。 我的欢笑与哀愁,都在五月。
去年的五月是眼泪疼痛,是灰色阴郁,是分离是想念;而现在,五月是开始是盼望,是固执地坚持,是一段绵延一生的故事。
此刻,我很想去咖啡馆,带着电脑,坐在安静的角落,要一杯拿铁,我也许会写些什么,也许只是坐着,看看周围的人,想想自己的心事。两年前,我常常去北京798的拿铁,他家有一种好吃的洋葱奶酪风干肠三明治,洋葱是熟的,加了盐和胡椒,配菜是粗粗长长的炸薯条,拿在手里是温软的感觉,并不油腻。白色的奶酪,暗红色的风干肠,金黄的薯条,和满满一盘加了橄榄油的洋葱,只是看着,我就觉得幸福了。
在咖啡馆,也许还会碰到好久不见的朋友。喝一口咖啡,让白色的牛奶泡沫留在唇边,所谓的完美人生,就是那样吧。阴影不会永远在我们的头顶。外面阳光灿烂,就像我现在的心情。
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这两天开始从自己最害的数学与逻辑入手,一战的失败与害怕很有关系,越是害怕数学与逻辑,越是不想去碰它们,而是疯狂攻击我的强项,語法阅读和作文,结果当然很烂。
嗯,不过用make efforts作标题不是说这个。
那天小马哥开玩笑一样地对我说,你可不可以用对考试十分之一的effort对我,别让别人make effort了。
感情的弱点,就这样被暴露了。
最近的两个月,是很脆弱的两个月(其实根本也没发生什么),所有的弱点都暴露点在小马哥前,他说出我的急功近利,我的善摇摆不定,我的虚荣心,我的脆弱心态,我的没有计划,我其实不是平和与世无争而是因为在乎别人的眼光。因为是在他面前所以虽然有点气急败坏但也很安全。
可是一句玩笑话,好像扒光了我的衣服。
我知道我的感情学分,从来没有修合格,偏偏最想在感情上拿高分,最想要却最患失,所以最怕给别人看出一点点使了劲的痕迹。
说起来很好玩儿,曾经发现前男友与别的女生一起了,我发狂地抢手机看短信,在互传爱意后女生很幽怨地责备他心软不定,我哭,拼命弄到那个女生的号码,发短信给她:没有关系,他早就不喜欢我了的,你们不用觉得有我就是阻碍,你那么喜欢他,我一定会让给你。
然后再把自己投身于我根本不是很care有没有成绩的关系中,找回小小平衡。这就是为什么我写了那么多无聊又无病呻吟的故事,全是我看到的truth,无外乎你的他背着你和她上床,给你的理由是她的他背着她和别的人上了床。要是这个是“才情”,也太好笑了啦。
很庆幸我游离着游离着总算从这一团混乱中游离了出来,我遇到了对我认真而我也认定这个是值得我认真的人,但是“害怕给人看到我用了劲”的心理不知为什么总在作祟,正的话偏偏全部反着说,心里明明恨不得永远就在一起,偏偏要弄出些有的没的把自己推到与他相反方向的举动,还是害怕万一输了,我要赶快游离漩涡中心,不要给人看到我的尸骨。
今天用一些时间准备了一点去西藏的东西,后来却又犹豫了,因为我不能同时与小马哥启程,去西藏一定得找个伴才安全,我开始担心人家两个人从陌生到好不容易磨合好的旅伴,我过了一段时间傻乎乎的当第三个人加入进去,会不会让人家很尴尬(还好还好,22岁的重庆妹妹临时改了行程,不然我不仅要担心小马哥一个人的安全,还要担心其它的,估计试都考不好了,哈哈*(^*&(&*(@!)
对啊,为什么会不敢努力地游向我已经确定最想要的,偏要游向相反的方向胡乱抓些稻草然后特别难过地等着水流真的把我推得越来越远了呢。
所以第一次大胆地不再说反话了,就很老实承认,那个人就是我认定的最想要的,这样的暴露,不会被看不起啦。
我要是努力起来一点一点make effort,唉呀那一个一个effort累积的小宇宙,是多少个重庆妹妹也无法匹敌的啊。
看我鼓起勇气连做两天数学与逻辑,现在终于搞得清圆形排列和条形排列就知道了!
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在一天半的情绪波动后,报名了7月3日的考试,二战。
退掉机票,损失一千多元。不过,没有关系。
我用一天半完成了自我攻击,还是因为男友的支持,家人的鼓励。
感谢他拥抱的力度,话語的温柔。
也许见证西藏的神圣有了时间差,但是意义没有被全部抹杀。
今天看到一个师妹的留言,很感动。
我不知怎么回答师妹的质疑,贴一个人的一段话吧,这个人是国内最早一批专门做MBA workshop的创始人,我不是很相信推崇中介啦,也不会傻傻地被新东方一句“从绝望中寻找希望”就忽悠得热血沸腾,不过这一段话,我觉得是挺实在的陈述性事实:
“我从01年开始做MBA的申请培训。MBA作为我的产品,我理应支持。其实我从最开始的时候对MBA的学习还抱有一些怀疑。主要的原因是我自己申请过,并且失败了。在做培训的六年以后,我发现申请人主要分成三种:一种是处在平台期,非常想找到方法来突破。你可以选择换一份工作,比如从惠普换到康柏,但是本质上也没有太大的区别;但是如果换一个国家,换一个学校,虽然有很多不确定的因素,但也是更有突破性的。另一种人是非常想读MBA的,甚至大学二年级就有这种想法。对很多人,MBA是一种梦想。我发现这种人是最坚决的,他是一定要得到这种东西的。这两年这种情况越来越多了。还有一种情况,很多人过去的工作不是很顺,需要通过读书来转变。我个人认为,B-School是一个很好的资源。一个人对商业真的是特别有兴趣的话,读商学院也许是最好的机会。很多人读MBA并不是因为爱做这件事,而是因为这是一个很好的选择。但是如果有热情在里面,可能会更好。”
关于对现实的理解,身边的人都在不断的提醒,比如,你以为读了一个书就可以改变你现在的状况吗?就会比现在更好吗?落差不会更大吗?这些提醒很多很多。我工作不止三年了,已经五年了。像我这种敏感度很高,把在别人看来只是5%的不顺心放大成遭受50倍重大挫折的人,且不说对现实的落差的理解正不正确,我对落差的感受值域绝对是够宽了。
HBS的有工作经验的MBA回国,只能找到6K的工作,不算生活费,他可能仅仅为学费就花了60万以上。
在国内,港科大,中文的MBA,毕业到一个非常TOP非常TOP的咨询公司,不过呢,是做customer service,接受处理complaint。
现在的信息,很透明。
可是还总是看到有些人,像是被眼睛蒙住了的牛,一个劲儿傻撞:有人发贴子说因为这样分手了,有人说被父母痛骂,有人因为经济或者是年龄压力,哭了不止一场又一场,这当中还有男人。刚开始看到这些时我觉得很鸡鸡歪歪很扯淡:老大,至于吗?可是我算是亲身体会到,对于我可不是哭了一场又一场,妈的简直是哭趴在地上,手脚发软,拿铅笔戳自己,和男友在一起神经兮兮,拿拳头砸灯箱。
因为这个stupid的考试,除了stupid之外,还在于,如果整个progress是要跨越一个银河系,妈的这个考试简直就是从这个小particle跳到另一个particle。这些撞南墙的人,和情侣分手了,辞工了,没经济来源了,把生孩子时间推后了,结果还没完成在两粒小微尘间的跳跃,这才是恐惧得哭的原因吧。不过这些人撞了哭,哭了又撞,可能是因为他们--“非常想非常想”。
700+的人中,可能有人爱情超失败,有人拿了分数最后也没读成书,有人傻傻现实理想分不清楚,有人变成了老姑婆,不过哩,坚持到最后的人,都700+了。
我做好三战四战五战六战七战八战九战十战的心理准备了。
虽然中间可能疯狂自我诋毁发狂个二三四五六七八九十遍。
今天考完回来了,640分,成绩单显示的percentage是在76%的人以上,但我知道在中国学生里,这个分数已经可以算是完败了。不说考试时的状态,考的时候还是自我感觉不錯的,我知道我在考前真的很害怕,一直想着700如何如何,如果没有700,我的冒然丢掉工作将沦为笑谈,我欺骗爸爸妈妈将是多么罪大恶极,如果没有700,我付出的代价太高太高。在电脑出成绩的前四五秒钟,我一直以为自己上定700了,因为我最怕的数学有很多题是机经里的,结果成绩让我以为我眼花了,我的verbal只有28分。可是当我刚开始复习GMAT的第一个星期里,我都还没深入开始复习,只是为了知道考试界面是怎样,考试强度是如何,用官方软件模考了一次,数学自然奇烂无比,Verbal也有36分,总分640。怪不得人家说模考总是很诡异地出奇准,我只在最初玩儿票地模考了一次,640,结果就是640。
想起不断被人强调的情商情商,与GMAT“诡异”处,说必要抛弃得失心,而我从前天晚上就开始失眠,昨天被痛批心态奇差,不知是不是败在心态上,虽然我在考试的时候并不自觉。
打给一个上海的G友,他比我早一天考,上了700,答应他一考完就向他报消息,结果他也没想到我能考出这个分数,连安慰的话都想不出来,超级大冷场。月底是考试佳期,不断有人爆750,760,770,得720的都被冷落了。
回到家,不想吃饭。打开网站约下一次考试时间,两次考试最短间隔是31天,意味着最快也要等到7月3日才能二战。之前已经订了6月底去西藏的机票,因为想着就算考不到700,就拿着660+的分数去申请香港好了,虽然香港其实也并不容易。现在惟一的选择是取消去西藏的计划,因为GMAT这种考试,撇开个一周,感觉就全没了,又要重新花上一个多月的时间来温习,如果7月中下旬回来重新用一个多月温习,我就只能8月底9月初考,我还没有考托福,PS和其它资料至少要写上3个月,2010年秋季的1st round deadline是12月,甚至有些好学校,10月份就开始接受申请,像我这样本科连211都不是的烂背景,赶早不赶晚,如果9月初考过了还算万幸,如果不过再接着往下拖,基本上我就把2010年的申请给废掉了。丢掉工作结果是白白浪费一年,这样的成本与代价对于我来说,太高太高了。
把之前的计划全推翻,换作我也应该会暴怒,争吵争吵,我说我来承担机票废掉的损失就好,whatever,我知道是我不对,但是要我现在放弃然后冒浪费一年的险,我想十倍的机票损失也无法弥补。
我不知道是不是自己给了自己太大的压力,但是年纪愈长,我越来越不敢说服自己,我不是一个Loser。相反地,我either陷入Loser的自怨自怜,either惶恐得承受不下去情绪崩溃:每次看着室友们庆祝孩子两岁生日,或通报要回家生产,或是挺个大肚子聚在一起喝茶,我都格外羡慕,早早地享受与承担当妈咪与照顾整个家庭的责任,也是很有成就感的事情不是么。室友们问起我,会很由衷地说依依是很特别的啦,是和我们不同的,我都难过得想大哭一场,我不是的。
毕业了就做一份家长和长辈们都说“不錯”的工作,在家听到“还是我们家依依不让人操心啊,隔壁几栋那个硕士毕业生找了一份两千多的工作”,在外面听到长辈说“最近还好吧,你的工作很难得啊,要好好珍惜啊。”先不说个人喜好,我知道我的能力根本就胜任不了这份工,这份工作的好处是,你将来是怎样,都是有参照物可循的,而我很清楚地知道,我无论是hard skill还是soft skill,无论是生理还是心理承受能力,即便是拿个鞭子抽我,我也无法变成那些可参照的女性上司们。其实偶尔我也会羡慕她们,至少有能力事业独立。而我fail掉是因为真的力所不能及,却还要找那么多的强硬借口,欺骗家里人。
为了缓和欺骗家人的压力,至少要让他们有一天知道真相时不会大失所望,我觉得至少要找到一份不会让爸妈觉得丢脸的工作,或者是考上名校让他们觉得骄傲。
义无反顾不受束缚得追逐自己的心与信仰的,我也默默地羡慕,但我变不成那样的人。
甚至有时迷茫得不知所措,看到那些眼睛里空洞无一物但是坐在开很炫的车的男人旁边的女人,我会想,如果我是被安排了注定的两头不靠岸的loser,为什么要让我连一个空洞的肉体都没有,至少给我一个好样貌,好身材,我不在乎有没有大脑,至少会有男人为这个肉体买单吧。可是真实的我,连这样的勇气也没有,因为无心的玩笑,我敏感的自尊心就受伤,要把“零花钱”算清转账给男友,撇清我不会靠男人养,不要被人看不起。
我开始不敢和别的人站在一起,接到婚宴请贴我撒谎说我不在广州,朋友约我一古脑儿找借口推掉,被人在MSN上问起现状我假装不在电脑前,怕一靠近就反照出我的失败。今天断断续续地哭了一下午,打这些的时候还在不停地哭,给我任何一个理由,prove我不是一个loser,但是都给不出来。
用MSN与短信回复问我的朋友。朋友们真的好好,不会“安慰”我。
我现在最不需要的,就是安慰。
自己撕开假面,我给自己的压力真的好大好大,大的你们想像不过来。像是任性的小孩子,从小拿很多奖状,为爸爸妈妈所骄傲,被老师当作模范生,却在长大了再拿不到奖状后就不知所措。我的奖状就是爸妈在人前的炫耀点,就是别人对我说你在我认识的女生里已经是很优秀了,师姐你真的很特别。可是撇掉这些空洞的东西,我根本说服不了自己,我不是一个Loser。
啊,长篇累牍的累人的埋怨,anyway,tomorrow is another day. 是不是特别的第一次的西藏又怎样,失不失去旅行的意义又怎么样。对啊,我又输了,我就会把我寄予旅行的什么烂意义全割掉,对西藏的期望全扔掉。就好像什么当妈咪满满的母性光辉,什么美好的样貌与身材,什么令人骄傲的职业,我没有,又怎样。也没有什么大不了的。
现在开始,集中精神看数学吧!
其实我知道~这次最该感激的人,就是男友。因为爸妈虽然一直在鼓励着,毕竟离得很远。男友就是在我左右支持我照顾我给我鼓励那个人,可越是这样,越是想让他觉得他deserve一个很优秀的女生,却适得其反,总在暴露自己的软弱和情绪化。我为自己的较劲儿,累趴了。















“The most effective way for managers to assign work is to divide complex tasks into their simpler component parts. This way, each worker completes a small portion of the task but contributes to the whole.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
The speaker asserts in this statement that in determing the best bay to work out a certain assignment, managers always find the most effective way to assign and allocate such complex tasks into simpler componet parts. By doing this, each worker works out a small portion and contributes to the whole, completing the task more efficiently and effctively than merely assigning the work to serveral leading persons.
I generally agree with the speaker that assignment and allocation provide one of the ideal solutions when encountering a complicated and difficult task. However, there is no such thing as absolute truth. In some cases, conversely, allocation may not be the most effective way.
In the first place, It is undeniable that in both business cases or daily lives, many successful and treasurable experiences already prove that team working and division of labor to a large extent contribute to the goal achievement and thus are accomplished by most of people. By assigning complex work to teammates, manager can focus on key issues without spending treacious time in dealing with specific and time-consuming errands. Moreover, the diversity of assigned teammates brings into diversified opinions, eyesights, creability and complishment, and this diversity undoubtedly facilitate and benefit the task.
A good example can give some lights to the above point. In the first-tier consulting firms, such as Boston Group, McKinsey and Accenture, almost every engagement is completed in the form of a team consisting of four to five team members, with a manager leading the whole group. Tasks are assigned to the team members, each of whom has a very clear and specific division, while the manager is mainly responsible for reviewing the team member’s work, coping with the client and working on aspects with higher risk. It is hard to imagine what the case could be if manager burdens the whole portion of the work, from interviewing the clinets, specifying solutions, reporting to high-level management, to filing the collected information and documents. The consequence of doing so may lead to the final result that the manager could never meet the deadline.
In the second place, however, it falls into arbitration to assert that division of labor is the only and the most effective way in any case without taking into account the other alternatives and the relative context. Given a situation that each portion of a tough task requires senior manager with years of experience and comprehensive understanding of the overall situation, automattically splitting apart the task into sporadic parts and allocating such parts to different workers with distinct expereiences and mindsets possibly distract the manager from the essence of the task, finally leading to the unexpected failure.
In conclusion, whehter to adopt the division of labor depends on a case-to-case analysis. Any absolute and arbitrary decision fails to provide the optimum solution. It is not wise for a manager to adopt either method without first considering the context of the situation and the essence of the task.
Art exhibition and public performance should not be cancelled because of a community's objection to its content.
~Disagree~Blabla
First of all, exploring the essence of the a piece of work of art, people attend to agree that art such as painting, photographs, and public performance under most circumstances represent a reflection of the author’s attitude torward the world, and such reflection, to a large extent, is quite personal because different people sense, feel and recognise the world in respective and diversified way. Similarly, the audience also interpret the arts from a quite personal angle, and the reaction to the arts varies. Whereas some people ensusiastically admire such arts, others may find them offensive and abominable. To cancel an art exhibition only because there exist personal dislike and objection to the content is rude not only to the artist but also to the work of art itself.
For example, Vincent Van Gogh, one of the most eminent artists in the 19th centuary, was famous for his unique style in painting women. However, some audiences found Van Gogh’s portraits of women offensive and intolerable because the women he depicted were usually prostitutes. If Van Gogh’s works had been banned given in to the audiences’ emotional objection, we would have not witnessed such masterpiece today.
Those opponenets to my point of view may argue that work of arts with controversial content may harm a certain group of people such as teenagers and childern, who are more prone to the negative implication conveyed by the works. Nevertheless, such argument and concern can be easily mitigated by establishing a censorship and informing the public in advance of the brief content of the exhibition. Such censorship and pre-announcement both allow opportunity for the public who have strong interest in non-mainstream works of arts and prevent people who are aloof to this kind of exhibition from getting annoyed and resentful.
In conclusion, no matter what the potential repercussions an art exhibition or public performence may evoke from the public, the work of art itself deserves respect.
因为要复习,不愿意花时间去电影院,结果就前些天在家看了下载的《南京,南京》,真的很抱歉,如果这样的片子不去电影院看就是不爱国的话。
晚上10点多复习完才开始看的,一看就看到了快1点钟,不知是片子让人累,还是我本来就很累,看着看着头就很痛很痛。
我不太喜欢,不喜欢那个日本人角川的“悲天悯人”情愫,不喜欢那个小豆子最后吹着蒲公英眼波清澈如平镜笑容灿烂若千阳的大特写。是的,如果我和我的家人历尽磨难逃出杀戮,我大概也会这样地笑,忘我地笑,不知是庆幸还是又充满了希望地笑,我承认我会来不及回顾身后万人承受的痛,但我绝不想被聚焦,被赋与“希望”的寓意,被解读为希望存在于杀戮者悲悯情怀的释放。
还有强奸。领事区从最初的被试探性入侵与最后的命垂一线皆因强奸欲望所驱,日本军残留的一丝人性,也总在与性欲有关时有所流露,比如角川对小百合,比如角川看到长得几分像小百合的小江,与角川的上司枪杀了唐先生的小姨子(难得看到这个人产生了一丝纠结与怜悯)。
看电影上说了一件真事,说一个日本人接受采访时说,他曾问过他即将过世的爷爷,问爷爷这一生中最美好最难忘的时光是什么?他以为爷爷会说,是初恋之类的事。谁知爷爷说,最美好最难忘的时光,是在1937年的南京。
仅仅这一句话,比看两个小时黑白的《南京,南京》,看大量的强暴镜头,看被强奸致死的女人的白花花的肉体,看人肉横飞,都要让我不寒而栗。
今天想起写这些,是因为练作文时,抽中了这样一个题目:People have the duty to disobey laws that they think of as unjust.
写着写着,忽然很激动。连结构也忘了。
The speaker asserts that people have the duty to disobey laws that they think of as unjust. I strongly disagree such statement for obvious reasons illusated as below.
First of all, definition of just law and unjust law varies according to a variety of people holding distinctive opinions. The law one consider just may be serverly opposed and considered unjust by another. If it is true that people can disobey the law only because they sensuously and subjectively consider the law is unjust, such subjectivity could led to disastrous chaos.
Here is one brutal example, in which a group of people disobey the subjectively defined “unjust” law, thrust other people into abysmal nightmare. In 1937, The Japanese invading army committed the hideous slaughter in Nanking. The law to protect a country from invasion is considered “unjust” by Japanese because such law astricts the demand for expansion of Tenno; The law to protect women from sexual assualt is considered “unjust” because such law surely conflicts with men’s sexual instinction; The proclaimed international law to protect people and property in consulate area from war attack, again, is considered “unjust” because it confines the basic liberty of human being-freedom of action. All the disobedience has a perfect justification: such law, regulation, rule and confinement are considered so “unjust” that it is Japanese’ duty to challenge, to disobey, and to smash them. The aftermath of such disobedience is that tens of thousands of Chinese were buthered, that numerous women were raped, that countless refugee in consulate area were killed regardless of the proclaimed international law, and that Nanking became a deathlike city submerged with countless corpses.
Perhaps three hundered thousands of people’s death is still not convincing enough for some opponents who feel so victimized by the law they are under in current days. However, it is exactly the law such “victims” oppose that protects them from being victimized by potential mobs and rebels, who are detered from breaking the law because of fear of punishment for disobedience.
Furthermore, the law itself, nevertheless, is not established with the original intention to satisfy each person, nor is it to provide a pleasant sense of gratification from absolute equality.
In conclusion, it is absurd to declare that people have the duty to disobey laws that they think of as unjust. Undoubtedly, we consider a law the most “just” one when our self-interests are not unjustly restrained at all. However, when everybody in this world act pursuant to the self-interest, we suffer, rather than benefit.
“The overall quality of life in most societies has never been better than at the present time because of recent advancements in business and technology。”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
In the statement the speaker asserts that the overall quality of life at the present time outweighs that of of previous periods, a phenomenon and a gift attributable to the recent davancements in business and technology. It is undeniable that business and technology to a large extent facilitate our lives, enlighten our inspiration, and expand our adventure to explore the universe we rely on. At the first glance, it seems that we cannot even imagine the situation under which the advance buiness and technology are absent because we are already so accustomed to the conveniance they brought us. However, to get a full appreciation of the impact of business and technology place on our lives, we should not neglect to take into account its potential demerits. On balance, as far as I am concerned, I strongly agreed that advancement of business and technology made great contributions to our today lives. Nevertheless, the advancement also affects us in an adverse way, which are definitely not supposed to be omitted.
On one hand, we cannot deny the appeal of the advanced business technology. For example, when we take a deep look into our daily lives, we would easily find that we are surrounded and affected by the developing business and technology: According to the most recent poll estalished by an Internet User Servey, over 86% of Asian are more or less involved in the usage of internet. Thanks to the internet technology, one in the northern hemisphere can easily get informed of the events occurred in the southern hemisphere without even stepping outside one’s bedroom. The sharing and spreading of the information due to the development of technology benefit most of the people, enabling business men to grasp the first-hand commerical information, making far accommodated family members to communicate easily, and the like.
Another good exmaple is that with more advanced nuclear technology, the number of nuclear factory soared in recent years, not only provided dominants with a more convenient form of energy, but also minimizing the pollutants emitted by traditional energy sources.
However, on the other hand, although convinced that we do get a lot of benefits from advanced business and technology, both commen sense and our experience tell us there are also adverse aspects accordingly. This concern is substantiated by data released by major hospitals in the cities: As a result of high-technology, people are inclined to lessen the communication with each other and intended to over-rely on the high-technology. This over reliance leads to the consequence that people are getting more and more aloof and meanwhile more prone to frustration, fragility, and depression. Contradictory to one’s expectation, people feel a reducement in quality of life when advanced technology predominates most parts of the life while leaves no room for traditional value standards which make people feel satisfied and inspired.
In conclusion, because of the advancements in business and technology, people experience a more diversified life that they never did before. Undoubtedly, the statement correctly reflects the merits of advanced business and technology. However, the speaker made the overstatement by declaring that the overall quality of life is better than any other time, without considerating the demerits and possible adverse aspects this advancement implies.
“A recent review of the West Cambria volunteer ambulance service revealed a longer average response time to accidents than was reported by a commercial ambulance squad located in East Cambria. In order to provide better patient care for accident victims and to raise revenue for our town by collecting service fees for ambulance use, we should disband our volunteer service and hire a commercial ambulance service.”
Based upon a recent review of respective average response time to accidents of volunteer ambulance and commercial ambulance, the author concludes that volunteer ambulance service is inferior to commercial ambulance service and thus should be disbanded, simply because volunteer ambulance has a longer response time. However, serveral questionable assumptions operative in this argument bear close examination. (This argument is unconvincing, however, since it suffers from serveral critical problems in the following aspects.)
First of all, the author falsely depends on gratuitous assumption that the length of response time to accidents dominates the quality of ambulance service, the satisfaction expressed by patients over the service, and the abundance of service fee contributed to the town. However, no evidence illustrated in this argument supports this assumption. In fact, this is not necessarily the case. (However, no guarantee that this is the case. Nor does the author cites any evidence to support his arbitrary assumption.) In most circumstances patients link the quality of service with thorough attendence received from health-care staff rather than mere quick response. Moreover, it is likely that volunteer service possesses longer time in order to commence a more scrupulous and comprehensive preparation for the coming emergency treatment. Therefore, it is inappropriate to arbitrate that volunteer service fails to provide excellent service only because it takes up a longer response time.
Secondly, the author commits the fallacy of faulty analogy. Even if it is true that commercial ambulance service excles volunteer service in East Cambria, the situation may not be exactly the same as in West Cambria due to the dissimilarities between the two towns. Better commercial ambulance service in East Cambria does not rule out the possibility that volunteers in West Cambria are so well trained and committed that they are even superior to those professional medical staff in commercial ambulance service.
Moreover, it is highly doubtful that disbanding volunteer service while expanding commercial service ensures a raise in service fee income. If it is the case that patients intentionally avoid higher charges for commercial ambulance service by abandonmen of usage of such service, then the plan the author proposed will bring unintended result.
In conclusion, the critical logical fallcies undermine the author’s argument. To strengthen the argument, the author must provide more concrete evidences that commercial ambulance service provides better patient care than volunteer service. In addition, the author would have to cite convincing fact that there is a linkage between substantial revenue with commercial ambulance service charges.
HAPPY....