Modern civilization has produced beautiful flowers. Legion examples can fully testify this point. For instance, the invention of plane set free the ancient dream of human flight and the appearance of mobile telephone realize the communications between persons no matter where they are and no matter when it is.

Academic disciplines have become so specialized in recent years that scholars' ideas reach only a narrow audience. Until scholars can reach a wider audience, their ideas will have little use.

 

Will scholars’ ideas have little use unless they reach a wider audience? Some argue that academic disciplines have become so specialized in modern days that researchers’ ideas reach only a narrow audience, which result in little value of their ideas. However, in my opinion, although it is true that research fields is becoming more and more specialized with each passing day in the present world with rapid development and changes, scholars’ ideas can often contribute a lot to the progress of our society even though their theories can only understand by few audience.

 

Admittedly, our research fields are growing narrower and narrower in this information age. Modern technology and advanced facilities such as computers and networks greatly aid and speed up scientists’ research, which results in the explosion of knowledge. Therefore new branches of knowledge come into appearance and our academic disciplines become remarkably specialized.

 

Nevertheless there exist many theories that can only reach few people but have been widely used and impose a far-reaching influence on our lives. Einstein’s theory of relativity is an apt illustration of this statement. Only nice scientists understood his theory when Einstein published the theory of relativity. Yet just the profound theory brought new and heart-stirring changes to our society. Based on his theory we began to use atomic energy and explore the world and space in a totally fresh way. In a word, without the abstract theory of relativity, the history of technology and invention would be rewritten. Actually, in spite of the few audience Einstein’s ideas reached, the application of his ideas was invaluable.

 

What is also worth noticing is that we should not devalue others ideas in that their findings, notwithstanding seems to be abstract or valueless, can lay a foundation for the future research or give heuristic methods or knowledge to inventors or scientists that follow them. Newton, a great English scientist, once alleged that the reason why he came up with famous results is because he was standing on the shoulders of giants. In fact what we have achieved now owe a lot to our predecessors. Without the past accumulation of knowledge, we cannot achieve today’s splendid civilization.

 

From what has been discussed above, we can arrive at the conclusion that although academic disciplines have becoming more and more restricted together with more abstract of scholars’ ideas, it is possible that application of their findings can bring us fruitful results. At the same time, we should highly value their ideas by reason that they can enlighten and help us in the future study and research.

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It is more important to allocate money for immediate, existing social problems than to spend it on long-term research that might help future generations.

 

Which is more important to allocate money, for urgent social problems or for long-term research that might benefit in the future? In my mind, we should not hesitate a moment to invest money to the research of immediate, existing social problems. However, it is also important for us to pay full attention to spend money and brains on the long-term research that might help future generations.

 

Urgent social problems such as high crime rate in some places, unemployment problems or energy crisis because of raise of petrol price really compel our attention. Imagine, for instance, if we ignore the increasing member of workers that are out of jobs, it will arouse social disorder or even havoc. When these workers fail to be reemployed and cannot earn their own bread, they will hold hatred to our society, which will bring dangerous or even disastrous results to us. In order to maintain the stability, we should keep close watch on the pressing problems and allocate money to solve them. Only when the importunate matters are resolved can we have a stable environment and make progress.

 

It is true that investment to solve the immediate problems is necessary and worthwhile. It is also true that efforts made in the long-term research are also valuable and important. Environment protection is an apt illustration of this point. Deforestation, over-exploration and acid rain gave a heavy blow to our environment in many countries. If they brush aside these and pursue current profits in recent years, the environment will continue to deteriorate. Finally, they leave a heavy burden to their offspring. What’s more, the environment is so badly damaged that their descendants cannot live there. On the contrary, if we fully consider these problems and allocate money to research them, we can leave a satisfactory legacy to our children.

 

In addition, some problems will have significant influence to the future. If we fail to take these problems take into account, it will cost us a lot in the future. Population problem of China and India is a case in point. China did not put the population in strict control in the past twenty years, which resulted in the sharp rise in the member of people that reach 130 billions at the end of last century. The large population now imposes a huge load to the Chinese government as they have to pay for education and offer jobs to the people that accounts for one fifth of world population.

 

From above mentioned, it seems safe to say that not only urgent social problems but also long-term research should be fully considered and researched. Money spend in solve future problems is also worthwhile.

Money spent on research is almost always a good investment, even when the results of that research are controversial.

 

Is it always a good investment no matter what research money is spent on? Some claim that any research will bring about new and probably profit-making product or technology. However, in my mind, although it is worth to invest in some or even most cases, there are some fields that research is forbidden and no money should be invested in.

 

Admittedly, there is no denying that many researches we invested money in have produce splendid fruits, including money spent in communications and transportation. For example, the invention of the plane set free the ancient dream of human flight. For another instance, the appearance of networks greatly facilitates the communication between people as we can communicate with anyone in a strange city of a foreign country by emails that will arrive at his or her letterbox in less than one minute.

 

However, some technology that we once developed now imposes a threat to the human beings. One apt illustration of this point is the nuclear weapon. It is said that the nuclear weapons that the human have can destroy the earth, our unique planet, for more than forty times. It is also well known that on one can escape the disaster when a nuclear missile explodes. In fact almost no one can deny that we may die if another world war is inescapable and it uses the nuclear bombs we invented in the past. Imagine that if we have no nuclear weapons, we can enjoy the nuclear power more peacefully.

 

Another reason what I hold some fields should not be explored is that investment into these fields exposes the rampant self-satisfaction of the mankind. The technique of clone can fully testify this. If this technique is explored fully and applied to the mankind, it will probably arouse social disorder or even havoc. That is, the cloning of a person is out of morals so that never can it be accepted. Actually, it shows us the evil human nature: over-satisfaction in themselves.

 

In addition, there exist some urgent problems that are in great need of money, such as lack of water resources, energy crisis, and pollution and environment protection. According to a recent report given by the United Nations, we will use up all petrol energy in 50 years and we are in much more greater need of energy than ten years ago as we are enjoying more rapid development and changes. So it is eager for us to find new source of energy to sustain our need in life and progress.

 

From above mentioned, it seems safe to say that we should invest more in those fields that should be resolved as soon as we can than those whose results are controversial. Even if we invest money to the fields with disputable results, we should put the research in rigid control. 

 

Happiness does not lie in what you have already processed, but in what you want to do, what you can do, and what you are doing now. Most importantly, it is a kind of psychological situation, active and optimistic, dreaming of a good future.

 

Competition is ultimately more beneficial than detrimental to society.

 

Is competition more beneficial than detrimental to society? Some argue that competition brings benefit to us because it can spur persons, companies and parties to develop their potential and therefore come up with invention or higher productivity while others regard competition as a harmful factor in that violent competition imposes too much pressure on us and thus cause both psychological displacement and physiological sickness. As far as I am concerned, although it sometimes really results in disharmony or even hatred between rivals, competition’s advantages to society carry more weight than its disadvantages.

 

In the first place, competition imposes on us certain pressure that is indispensable to our improvement. We cannot develop without pressure in most cases. If we have not any worry about food, work and others, we are easy to be idle and lazy. Without pressure, we may slow down our steps and let time slip away. Therefore, we may miss something that could have achieved with the time. On the country, if we are forced to complete some work, we have to act actively and improve out efficiency. A famous research conducted by psychologists once points it out that people under pressure can do more things in limited time than those without pressure can do in enough time. That is, people under pressure outperform those without.

 

Another reason why I claim competition is more beneficial than detrimental to society is that competition brings more energy, invention and energy to the modern world. Market economy is an apt illustration to this point. Manufacturers compete with each other in order to make profits and avoid from bankruptcy. They have to come up with new products or good things that can attract customers. Consequently they make rapid progress in productivity and bring about inventions, and hence come the overall development of our society. It is competition that demands us to develop ourselves.

 

Admittedly, there exists unhealthy influence resulted from violent competition in some cases, including unfair play and excessive pressure from contests. Some of us have to bear overloaded burden in order to avoid his or her competitors from outperforming and replacing him or her. So they may work under huge pressure, which can act as a detrimental factor to their health that will result in either psychological disorder or physical illness. In addition, some use means such as bribe or violence that are out of pubic morals so as to win an election. It is true that when competition is out of control, it will bring about negative influence or even disastrous results.

 

From above mentioned, it seems safe to say that generally competition is more beneficial than harmful to our society although in some cases too intense competition results in bad influence to us. If we put the competition into good control, we can gain more benefit from it.

 

 

Dear Professor Stüber,
Thank you very much for your reply. I just returned from my hometown because China's spring festival, so sorry to answer you late.

It is really hard for me to be your graduate. I will try my best to be your graduate anyway.

Even I fail to do that, discussing with you about some academic problems really enjoys me.
I start to seek and read some of your papers and was eager to know what you are exploiting recently. If you don't mind, could you sent me some materials about your recent research?
Maybe I have some ideas that escape you.

Happy new day for you!

Yours sincerely,
Gong Pu Wang

>From: "Gordon Stuber" <stuber@ece.gatech.edu>
>To: "'? ??'" <gongpuwang@hotmail.com>
>Subject: RE: self-recommendation
>Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:55:46 -0500
>
>Dear Mr. Wang,
>
>I do not know when I will be taking on new graduate students.
>I normally have only one slot per year.
>
>Gordon Stüber
>Joseph M. Pettit Chair Professor
>School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
>Georgia Institute of Technology
>Atlanta, Georgia USA
>Ph.   +1 404 894 2923
>Fax. +1 404 894 7883
>Web.  http://www.ece.gatech.edu/users/stuber
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ? ?? [mailto:gongpuwang@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 2:39 AM
>To: stuber@ece.gatech.edu
>Subject: Re:self-recommendation
>
>Dear Professor Stüber,
>I have sent a email to you 8 days ago. But I did not receive your answer.
>Maybe you are too busy to answer me or you failed to see my email.
>If you have any idea about my self-recommendation, please let me know.
>
>
>The following is my last email to you:
>Dear Professor Stüber,
>I am writing to you to recommend myself because I aim to be a graduate of
>you this fall.
>
>I got my B.E. from Anhui University and my M.E. from Beijing University of
>Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT). After graduation from BUPT, at the age
>of 24, I began an instructor’s life in BUPT. I taught two subjects: Signal
>and System and Mobile Communications. Now it has been one and a half years
>since I stood in the podium of college for the first time.
>
>I am interested in algorithms theory and optimization of network flows and
>do some research on them from 2004 under the guide of Professor Quan Sun,
>who got Ph.D. in computer science from Technical University of Braunschweig
>in Germany in 1998. I wrote 3 papers based on my research and his guide,
>two of them EI-indexed.
>
>You probably wonder why I am interested in GIT and want to be a graduate of
>you. I have 3 reasons. Firstly, your Telecommunications Ph.D. program
>provides me a great opportunity that my individual strengths match with
>very much. Secondly, in your School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
>there are some professor and doctors who share alike experience with me.
>Professor Ye Li was also a teacher from China. Wenye Wang, 2002 Ph.D in
>Electrical and Computer Engineering, also came from BUPT. They are pioneers
>for me. Finally, my sister now is pursuing her doctor’s degree in
>University of Georgia which is only two hours’ way from GIT.
>
>Can you consider my recommendation? If you think I am not qualified as your
>graduate, please point it out to me.
>
>Thank you very much!
>
>Yours sincerely,
>Gong Pu Wang
>
>My information as an applicant to GIT:
>GTID#:    902259873
>Name: Gong Pu Wang
>Tel: 0086-133 11320914
>Email: gongpuwang@hotmail.com