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TOPIC: ISSUE99 - In any realm of life-whether academic, social, business, or political-the only way to succeed is to take a practical, rather than an idealistic, point of view. Pragmatic behavior guarantees survival, whereas idealistic views tend to be superceded by simpler, more immediate options. WORDS: 583 TIME: 00:45:00 DATE: 2011-2-10 10:59:01 Ever since the industrial revolution, technology has been speeding human beings along the path of turning into machines we designed: practical, efficient, dehumanized.[modernization的思路，非常棒的用这个角度切入] As the booming of global population, practicality has become our best strategy for success in different realms and fields of life, since the advent of fierce competition brings about the requirement for human to resolve as many problems as possible in a short time. Undue practicality, however, does serve as disservice to development on academic, business and political levels, when people cease to bear an idealistic vision about the future. 点评：intro的三个要求都具备的：背景、立场、分析思路 Think about the major mostly chosen by students nowadays. In China, ever since the 1978 Reform and Opening-up Policy, development of economy has continued to stay 1st on the priority list for more than 30 years. Indeed, the whole globe has witnessed inexorable march of agricultural produce, technology advancement and the number of factories employing low-payment workers in China. As the value system centering creation of wealth pervaded every aspect of society, majority of college students today are beginning to regard Gregory Mankiw and John Maynard Keynes【persuasive examples】 as their god, while giving little respect to Aristotle, who taught us skepticism and critical thinking; Francis Bacon, who developed a keen interest in a variety of disciplines; Rembrandt[persuasive examples, 而且用了两大组例子形成了对比，效果很好], whose passion for arts never surrendered to scorn from his contemporaries. Sadly, for these college students, the amount of wealth they make is the first-rate