..the issue could be personal, school related, local, political, or international in scope-and write an essay in which you explain the significance of that issue to yourself, your family, your country, and your generation.
Democracy is based on availability to express different ideas and democracy itself guarantees the right to express.
In modern China who has experienced rapid development for 30 years, with the appearance of social differentiation and emancipation of individual character, contradiction of different opinions becomes inevitable, while the whole society is stepping into an era of multiplication. A Greek philosopher once said, "In argument, truth is born." The argument forces each side to look inwards with a better understanding of what they share and where they dispute, while win or lose will be judged by the mass. Freedom of expressing helps make fair public policies for maximized social benefits. Beyond doubt, democracy is not only one of the essential principles of solving problems but a driving influence of sustainable development as well.
As for my own reason to appreciate democracy, my deep interest in understanding the universe includes an objective knowledge of the society, whose diversification keeps splendid in my heart. I have friends who left campus in last June and got a job in Google with a salary of 200,000 Yuan, and I also have friends as computer salesmen who never got a high school diploma---all of them are hard working; I have encountered a 18-year-old girl who services in the airport while my classmate still behave like a little girl-both are happy and optimistic; I read blogs of public figures and completely strangers-all their lives are challenging but colorful. When I get on a subway train and encounter people who speak with different accents, wear different clothes, belong to different communities, and are busy with different cases, I feel the fantasy of the colorful society and believe that democracy is the best way to support the fusion of communities and the forgery of a new harmonious society.
Democracy is concretized in the form of election. During the presidential election in last November, the democratic spirit deep rooted in American Dream inspired hundreds of millions of people in the United States and around the globe in the severe winter of titanic financial crisis. With great effort in the guidance of the democratic spirit by the world as a whole, we can take more care of minority groups and developing countries by listening to them in this rare opportunity in the restoring of credit system and prosperity of economy. Yes, we can!
From my point of view, the key problem of Chinese democracy is her failure to organize fair and effective elections. I will never forget the first vote that I casted in senior year of high school, when all of us in the grade were asked to poll in the election of representatives of the district. Although I knew I had not registered yet and I did not belong to the constituency of the district at all, I tried to take the right seriously. I found our principal was among the three candidates with two strangers I had never known, and, naturally, the principal received most votes at the polling site. With a sense of unfairness I voted for one of the other two while many fellow voters nominated themselves! What a joke of Chinese democracy and what a shame of the democratic spirit! I interrogated myself "Who cares?"
Disappointed but not desperate, I found from government officials to the general population, many uphold democratic beliefs. Our government has attempted to introduce democracy into the political system as a part of political reform, of which the basic-level election in countryside is a notably good start. I believe a democratic China can win more respect and a better service to the world. Yes, we can!
Will it be abit long? thks!
any advices will be welcomed!
Democracy is based on availability to express different ideas and democracy itself guarantees the right to express.
In modern China who has experienced rapid development for 30 years, with the appearance of social differentiation and emancipation of individual character, contradiction of different opinions becomes inevitable, while the whole society is stepping into an era of multiplication. A Greek philosopher once said, "In argument, truth is born." The argument forces each side to look inwards with a better understanding of what they share and where they dispute, while win or lose will be judged by the mass. Freedom of expressing helps make fair public policies for maximized social benefits. Beyond doubt, democracy is not only one of the essential principles of solving problems but a driving influence of sustainable development as well.
As for my own reason to appreciate democracy, my deep interest in understanding the universe includes an objective knowledge of the society, whose diversification keeps splendid in my heart. I have friends who left campus in last June and got a job in Google with a salary of 200,000 Yuan, and I also have friends as computer salesmen who never got a high school diploma---all of them are hard working; I have encountered a 18-year-old girl who services in the airport while my classmate still behave like a little girl-both are happy and optimistic; I read blogs of public figures and completely strangers-all their lives are challenging but colorful. When I get on a subway train and encounter people who speak with different accents, wear different clothes, belong to different communities, and are busy with different cases, I feel the fantasy of the colorful society and believe that democracy is the best way to support the fusion of communities and the forgery of a new harmonious society.
Democracy is concretized in the form of election. During the presidential election in last November, the democratic spirit deep rooted in American Dream inspired hundreds of millions of people in the United States and around the globe in the severe winter of titanic financial crisis. With great effort in the guidance of the democratic spirit by the world as a whole, we can take more care of minority groups and developing countries by listening to them in this rare opportunity in the restoring of credit system and prosperity of economy. Yes, we can!
From my point of view, the key problem of Chinese democracy is her failure to organize fair and effective elections. I will never forget the first vote that I casted in senior year of high school, when all of us in the grade were asked to poll in the election of representatives of the district. Although I knew I had not registered yet and I did not belong to the constituency of the district at all, I tried to take the right seriously. I found our principal was among the three candidates with two strangers I had never known, and, naturally, the principal received most votes at the polling site. With a sense of unfairness I voted for one of the other two while many fellow voters nominated themselves! What a joke of Chinese democracy and what a shame of the democratic spirit! I interrogated myself "Who cares?"
Disappointed but not desperate, I found from government officials to the general population, many uphold democratic beliefs. Our government has attempted to introduce democracy into the political system as a part of political reform, of which the basic-level election in countryside is a notably good start. I believe a democratic China can win more respect and a better service to the world. Yes, we can!
Will it be abit long? thks!
any advices will be welcomed!