GRE素材精华：POOH百宝箱社会类之三.doc

POOH百宝箱社会类之三 注：因为社会类中的小类型很多，而且问题相互交织，所以没再具体分类。 American Values 2 PROGRESS AND ITS SUSTAINABILITY 5 Frequently asked questions about sustainability of progress 6 (Individual Choice of Occupation and Lifestyle 6 (THE ENVIRONMENT 7 BIODIVERSITY AND EXTINCTION RATES 8 What is Progress? 17 Social Responsibility 23 James H. Wiborg 23 Rights, Law, and Morality 25 Douglas B. Rasmussen 25 Morality and Law 25 Confusing Law and Morality 28 Destruction of Morality and Law 28 Teachings of Soviet Experience 30 Mark Hendrickson 30 Economic Lessons 31 In a Capitalist Order 32 Copying Market Gains 33 Sociological Lessons 34 Special Privileges Granted the Ruling Elite 35 Political Lessons 36 People Are Expendable 37 Moral and Spiritual Lessons 39 The Marxian Religion 40 Moderation in All Things 41 Donald J. Boudreaux 41 Political Corruption 45 Allan C. Brownfeld 45 Earlier Scandals 45 The Bewildered Society 46 To Restore Integrity, Limit Governments Power 47 How Did It Happen? 48 Departure from Tradition 48 Morality in America 49 Norman S. Ream 49 Religious Beliefs of the Founders 51 The Dissolution of Moral and Ethical Standards 53 American Values Many of us profess to be novices in the arts, but virtually all of us are experts in Amercian values. That is, most of us consider the arts to be one of the those special inquiries that we have not yet had time to develop, but we think of American values as part and parcel （意为“重要部分”）of our everyday life. When we read the newspaper, we evaluate the latest news with an automatic reference to American values-- often it is to say that America is going downhill. We evaluate films as promoting particular values, we drill candidates for public office on their stands on certain values, and we engage in gossip about the behavior of people we know from the point of view of the values, or lack them, that they exemplified in the latest scandal. Surely values are a simple enough matter to discuss. Let me turn this confidence on its head, however, by pr