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Read the following quote and write an article of about 400 words long for a newspaper to argue for or against the author’s opini
Read the following quote and write an article of about 400 words long for a newspaper to argue for or against the author’s opini
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Read the following quote and write an article of about 400 words long for a newspaper to argue for or against the author’s opinion.
We shall live to see the day, I trust, when no man shall build his house for posterity. He might just as reasonably order a durable suit of clothes.., so that his great-grandchildren should cut precisely the same figure in the world... I doubt whether even one public edifice ... should be built of such permanent materials... Better that they should crumble to ruin, once in twenty years or thereabouts, as a hint to the people to reform the institutions which they symbolize.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Should buildings be built to crumble to ruin every twenty years?
Write an essay in response to this question.
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Let the Buildings be An American writer once pointed out that "Better that they(public edifice)should crumble to ruin, once in twenty years or thereabouts, as a hint to the people to reform the institutions which they symbolize." That is to say, we should destroy the buildings to ruin every twenty years or thereabouts, in this way, we are reminded to reform the old institutions they represent. As regards this opinion, I cannot agree at all. The reasons are stated in the following parts. First, it is an enormous waste of natural resources and human labor. As we all know that it is no easy job to finish building a house, let alone public edifice. It costs a lot including natural resources, human labor, and technologies. For example, the Great Wall in China, the pyramids in Egypt. Since the resources on earth are limited, we can not destroy them at random. Second, it is a kind of precious cultural heritage to the posterity. Just as we have done at present, through the old buildings, including the wonders our ancestors have left to us, we can know to some extent what life was like in their times. So the building in previous times is an important channel for us to know our past, since knowing the past is crucial to our future development, just as one great man said before, if a man never knows the history before he was born, he will always be a child. Next, it is not necessary for us to destroy the buildings to ruin every twenty years or thereabouts, so that we can be reminded to reform the old institutions they represent. As time goes on, there are surely some old institutions or conventions hindering the development of the productive forces. However, the buildings which are built in a certain time are stable, and we can say, to some extent, they have a quite light influence on the development of economy. All we should do is bearing the conception of development in our mind, and always being ready to discard the old or bad traditions and styles of lives or work. However, as regards those dilapidated buildings, which are dangerous to the people who are living there, we should discard them with no hesitation. Or else, the tragic event would happen when there is a natural disaster, such as an earthquake, or a flood. Therefore, in most cases, we should keep the building well in order to make full use of the limited natural resources. And also it provides us with a good channel to keep connections from generation to generation. Only when we keep the law of developing in our mind can we have a healthy, sustained and rapid deuelopment without destroying the building as a hint to reform.
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