Theme:Success

　　Thesis:Success can be disastrous.

　　Subject:The Manhattan Project

　　Detail:

　　At the end of WWII,despite Japan’s heavy losses,the leaders in Japan was reluctant to surrender.When Truman became president,he was informed of the U.S gorvenment’s secret Manhattan Project which had designed an atomic bomb.On August 6,1945,the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima,resulting in nearly 130,000 casualties and the leveling of 90% of the city.Three days later,with no response from Japan,Truman authorized the second dropping on Nagaski,killing and wounding over 75,000 people.While this policy successfully ended the Pacific War which may cause even greater losses,it was a catastrophe to the local people who suffered from this atomic annihilation.It succeeded in bring peace to the world at the cost of millions of innocent lives.

　　Example also serves:Great success requires great loss.

 

 

　　Theme:creativity/curiosity

　　Subject:Henry Ford

　　Detail: Henry ford,one of the most influential inventors in the history, was always inattentive in school. Once ,he and a friend took a watch apart to probe the principle behind it. Angry and upset, the teacher punished him both to stay after school. their punishment was to stay until they had fixed the watch. but the teacher did not know young ford’s genius,in ten minutes,this mechanical wizard had repaired the watch and was on this way home.It is imagination that invigorated Ford to make a through inquiry about things he did not know.He once plugged up the spout of a teapot and placed it on the fire. then he waited to see what would happen. the water boiled and, of course, turned to steam. since the steam had no way to escape, the teapot exploded. the explosion cracked a mirror and broke a window.Ford’s year of curiosity and tinkering paid off,when he built his imagination of horseless carriage into reality, the history of transportation was changed forever.

 

 

　　Theme: Opinion

　　Thesis: Nothing is accepted by everyone.

　　Subject: Darwin's Origin of Species -1859

　　Detail:

　　Charles Darwin shocked the world with his theory of evolution as proposed in Origin of Species. He explained that, over time, species adapt to their environment in order to survive and then pass along these acquired traits to future generations in a process known as "natural selection." Although his ideas are widely accepted today, the notion that species could have evolved from an entirely different species caused outrage from those believing that all living creatures were created by God.

　　Thesis:It is better to determine one’s own views of right and wrong than follow the crowd.

　　Subject:Thomas Panie & Susan B. Anthony

　　Detail:

　　At the beginning of the American Revolution,the American colonies were,with hesitancy and troublesome doubts,moving toward independence.Few people favored complete independence,while orther,firmly believed in conservative thoughts,wished to send more petitions and appeals to the King.At that time,Thomas Paine appeal the colonies to separate themselves from Britain and to make America one place in world where freedom and love of humankind could flourish.His famous pamphlet,Common Sense,was outspoken,touche,pierce to the truth with a single pertinent remark.It impressed deeply upon everyone’s mind that his belief become one of the most inportant ideology of the American Revolution.Although I am not a feminist,I admire Susan B. Anthony for her daring to hold on to her view even being mocked cruely by her contemporaries.A tireless civil rights worker,Anthony devoted her life to the work which guranteed women’s basic right,including suffrage and equal protestions under law.She believed that”men and women are created equal”and persevered unremittingly in opening doors and expanding acceptable modes of behavior for women.In the patriarchy socity of her time,people considered her unladylike and ridiculous.However,19th Amendment to the Constitution gives women’s rights to vote which established Susan B. Anthony as a bold revolutionary feminist in history.

　　Examples also serves: People should take more responsibility for solving problems that affect their communities or the nation in general.

 

 

　　Theme:honest

　　Thesis:Honest is the best policy.

　　Subject:Watergate scandal

　　Detail:

　　Watergate scandal initiated a prolonged crisis of confidence and renewed public cynicism toward a government that had systematically lied to the people and violated their civil liberties. A 1974 poll asked people how much faith they had in the executive branch of government. Only 14 percent answered “a great deal”; 43 percent said “hardly any.” Restoring credibility and respect became the primary challenge facing Nixon’s successors. Unfortunately, a new array of economic and foreign crisis would make that task doubly difficult.

　　Sometimes it is necessary, and even desirable, for public leaders to withhold information from the public in order to further the public’s ultimate interests, in the sense that fully disclosing to the public certain types of information would threaten public safety and perhaps even national security. For example, if the President were to disclose the government’s strategies for thwarting specific plans of an international terrorist or a drug, those strategies would surely fail, and the public’s health and safety would be compromised as a result. Withholding information might also be necessary to avoid public panic. During the first few hours of the new millennium the U.S. Pentagon’s missile defense system experienced a Y2K-related malfunction. This fact was withheld form the public until later in the day, once the problem had been solved, since immediate disclosure would have served no useful purpose and might even have resulted in mass hysteria.

 

 

　　Theme:Cooperation

　　Subject: Paul Revere

　　Detail:

　　Our perceptive towards Paul Revere just illustrates this point. According to the romantic legend, he, galloping along of the dark from one farm house to another, alerted the people to the coming British. And of course the story emphasized the courage of one man, made him a hero in our history books. However, his heroism required a matrix of others who were already well-prepared to mobilize against the oppressor and he was just one part of a pre-arrange plan. Heroes like Revere have no usefulness apart from a society primed to act.

 

 

　　Theme:Competition

　　Thesis: Competition stimulates people to develop.

　　Subject: The Cold War

　　Detail:

　　After WWII,the Cold War between democracy and communism started which includes economic,culture and especially arms and space exploration. On October 4, 1957,the successful launch of Sputnik-1 indicated to the world that the Soviet Union had taken the lead in space exploration. It also caused fear that this technology would allow the Soviet Union to launch nuclear weapons into space. In response, the United States established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), embarking on a quest to the moon where Neil Armstrong took his revolutionary first steps in 1969.

 

 

　　Theme:challenge authority

　　Thesis: Question authority makes a society stronger.

　　Subject 1: Progressive Era & Civil Rights Movement

　　Detail: The Progressive era,for example,is a time during which from president to muckrakers,all aspects of American society parid numerous effort to improve the way people live.President Theodore Roosevelt,who believed in equal opportunity and adherence to the spirit of law,ordered his Attorney General to bring suits against the growing monopolies which exercised enormous control both in economy and in political sphere.Muckrakers,journalists who expose a vatrity of problems in the society to the public,such as Upton Sinclair,who wrote about the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry which eventually led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act,and Ida Tarbell,who exposed a variety of methods used by Standard Oil company to achieve a monopoly.Thus their works more or less make some sweeping changes in the society. Another example comes from the Civil Rights Movement which set the stage for the progress and turmoil of the 1960s.At that time,despite the American creed of “equality for all”,segregation was prevalent in the South.Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka questioned the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Fergusor that “the doctrine of separate but equal has no place”,and the successfully overrule of this decision encouraged civil rights workers to press for equality and freedom.

　　Subject 2: Copernicus's heliocentric theory & 1992 LA riots

　　Detail: Copernicus's heliocentric theory in the 16th century was a direct attack upon the accepted wisdom of the time, the geocentric view of the universe po!u*d PCwbbs.gter.netstulated by Aristotle.When Darwin first declared that the wide variety of animal species was due to a process of development over many millennia, he challenged the traditional Christian belief and outraged the religious fundamentalists. Mass resistance to authority can escalate to violent protest and rioting, during which innocent people are hurt and their property damaged and destroyed. The fallout from the 1992 Los Angeles riots aptly illustrated this point. The “ authority” that the rioters sought to challenge was that of the legal justice system, which acquitted police officers in the beating of Rodney King. The means of challenging that authority amounted to flagrant disregard for criminal law on a mass scale-by ways of looting, arson, and even deadly assault. This violent challenge to authority resulted in a turning back of the clock with respect to racial tensions across America.

 

 

　　Thesis:A seemingly success cause bad consequence.

　　Subject:The Roaring Twenties

　　Detail:

　　The Roaring Twenties wew a decade charaterized by a seemingly strong economy.”The nation was nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.”as President Hoover stated,However,overproduction and underconsumption contributed to the desperate condition of farmers and unsound stock practice meant that the price of securities had risen far beyond the value benhind them which together lauched America into the Great Depression,a time of high unemployment and prevalent pessimism dominated the country.The fragile economy that masked with a widespread optimism turened the country into a purgatory.

 

 

　　Theme:Conscience

　　Thesis:Conscience is a more powerful motivation than money,fame and power.

　　Subject: Raoul Wallenberg

　　Detail:

　　Raoul Wallenberg was a young Swedish aristocrat. In 1944 he left the safety of his country and entered Budapest. Over the next year he outwitted the Nazis and saved as many as 100,000 Jews (he was not himself Jewish) from the death camps. In 1945 he was arrested by the Russians, charged with spying, and imprisoned in a Russian labor camp.

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