1. Television and radio are almost the most powerful media compared with other means of mass communications like newspaper and magazine.
2. And media, is I understand, couldn’t be implementing the principles of fairness, objectiveness, all-roundedness and above all, the responsibility without any supervision.
3. If a country is democratic, media censorship would be simpler because the government only needs to care for the program’s social effect, such as the possible consequence of a movie about drug on teenagers.
4. Where was the censorship which may prevent such a disastrous test?
5. It can and will warn the government of some problems, like corruption, so that people can trust their governors more if they see the problems solved.
6. And this attitude ― letting the audience decide what’s good for them with their own eyes, ears and minds, will guarantee a social stability in the long run.
7. Like the tangible environment, that is the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food on our dinner table, the world’s energy resources are the common wealth of all human beings on the globe.
8. The disequilibrium between nations makes it unavoidable and indeed very necessary to have worldwide cooperation.
9. The cooperation enables different nations, no matter energy rich or poor ones, to sensibly explore and make use of their energy resources by adjusting the supply and demand, and thus to avoid the so-called over-exploration and blind-consumption of the resources.
10. Once individual nations have realized that it is realistic for them to make sacrifices to conserve energy, and to take immediate actions, the ultimate beneficiary would undoubtedly be themselves.
11. Besides, the difference may, to some extent, stimulate the more experienced and skilled to work better, and the less experienced and skilled to work harder to catch up.
12. People come to realize that the many ranks and salary grades which are intended to serve as stimuli or yardsticks of experience and expertise may end up being barriers and doing more harms to both the employees themselves and the corporations they work for.
13. It is more of a desire for approval, a sense of duty, a wish to conform to custom, a feeling of emulation and a pleasure in craftsmanship.
14. But for good or ill, the conditions that made it possible are vanishing.
15. Last but not least, the many ranks and salary grades tend to form boundaries and divisions among employees, which restrict the flow of information.
16. And more times than not the overuse and abuse of power and the ambition which drives people to get power have brought more disasters than benefits.
17. That would be too ideal, some may argue, and maybe utopian, but in our life, we do have such people whom we call people with integrity.
18. We all have power as average people ― the power of giving advice to friends, the power of maintaining a happy life and the power of getting power.
19. As we know, the highest level of our human needs, if met, renders us a full sense of success.
20. He didn’t take the trouble of reading them one by one as everyone else might do, instead, he did it in his own way ― erasing them all.
21. As far as I am concerned, “to spend your life in your own way” should not only be the only definition of success, but also a motto in my life.
22. That is to say, to try to find what your advisees want and understand them, then to give a hand to them both helping them realize what they want and pinpointing their shortcomings in order to enable them to overcome.
23. However, we cannot take it for granted that technology changes everything in our life.
24. Some people even dreamed of a so-called paperless office.
25. Although theoretically the replacement may bring convenience to people and can avoid certain problems, in practice, the recent developments in technology can only change some aspects of the existing monetary system, not the entire one.
26. Therefore, knowing that the workplace is not as private as they might think it to be, and that the workplace is not as relaxing and recreational as their private territory, employees should go all their way to keep their private lives and personal activities as separate as possible from the workplace.
27. What is less obvious is that the final product is not turned out all of a sudden.
28. They view it as an integral part of the company strategy ― the strategy for managing each stage of production so as to minimize or eliminate errors.
29. Quality control is consciously considered at each stage of the operations process, with the goal of identifying and correcting mistakes as soon as possible, rather than waiting until the end of the operations process to discard or rework those flawed final products.
30. So, based on the above discussion, I agree with the opinion that the process of making or doing something in any enterprise is ultimately more important than the final product.
31. As a Chinese proverb goes, “One point of beauty can hide a hundred points of ugliness”. People usually think that a person’s greatness in a certain field can make his or her failings as a human being neglectable.
32. And also people tend to be generously tolerant of the failings of those achievers in different fields, just as another Chinese proverb goes, “Those who are good at this must be weak at that”.
33. As we know, “pride” can lead to backwardness; “covetousness” instigates people to grasp all but end up losing all.
34. Secondly, the greatness achieved by those people with failings as a human being may not last very long, especially the greatness achieved through inappropriate means, such as corruption in politics, unjustifiable competition in business and even unlawful behaviors in the society etc.
35. If not given enough emphasis, such failings can put an end to all their greatness and even and end to themselves.
36. In Alvin Toffler’s terms, the whole world is being swept by the Third Wave ― information revolution, which is directly or indirectly based on knowledge.
37. But the theory may only be practical in an ideal society in which people won’t suffer any problem such as poverty, violence and war.
38. This experience tells me two sides of the coin. On the one side, the government may give a thousand reasons for cutting down the trees. It is urban construction. On the other side, people should be educated. They should know that cutting down trees is a crime of violation their living environment. And the education task should be done by the government.
39. Now, the old command-and-control environment that existed when the world wasn’t moving so fast really has to be changed.
40. However, in practice, the system is widely abused. Worse still, a number of children are exploring the Internet’s adult materials, and the number is on the rise.
41. It is like the way everyone of us is subject to the influence of the environment, children of different nations are all possible to be affected by the adult materials on the Internet, because the Internet is as widespread as the environment and because the problems of childern’s access to the adult materials on the Internet are just as serious as the global environmental problems.
42. In this case, it is better for all nations to work together and take concrete measures, such as restricting the total amount of adult materials on the whole flowing into the Internet, keeping close track of the adult materials and setting up firewalls, drawing regulations to prevent as well as to control such problems, conducting continuous further research and experiments on the subject, and at the same time, educate children and adults as well with the consequences that adult materials have on children.
43. Another aspect of the saying that “public buildings reveal much about the society that builds them” is about what kind of new buildings are constructed most nowadays.
44. As a mirror, it reflects the government’s and people’s value about education.
45. In fact, making plans, like setting goals, can make me aware of where I’m heading, avoid indulging in time-wasting activities, help me make the right decisions and more importantly, be ready for success.
46. People must live together and cooperate to survive the sometimes fierce nature ― they might be threatened by coldness, hunger and even worse, the attack of ferocious animals.
47. It’s not wrong to say that the primary duty and concern of a corporation is to make money, but it’ll be wrong to infer then conflict is inevitable when the corporation must also acknowledge a duty to serve society, because making money is a means, not an end.
48. To quote Fortune Magazine, “Business education has become largely irrelevant to business practice… MBA lack creativity, people skills, aptitude for teamwork and the ability to speak with clarity and conciseness ― all hallmarks of a good manager.”
49. An old Chinese saying goes, “History mirrors the present and the future”. Such people do not gain the trust of others through their verbal and nonverbal behaviors either, because, without literature, they can’t get their messages cross properly.
50. Whether we are at work, at home, or anywhere else, our lives are tied to machines.
51. This kind of being tied to machines gives some people an impression of being chained.
52. The digital revolution sweeping through every corner of the business community is have its share of impacts ― both large and small ― in our lives.
53. And believe it or not, at the end of that article “On Not Answering the Telephone”, the same author says, “I have just been handed a slip of paper to say that somebody is waiting to speak to me on the telephone.”
54. I agree with the opinion that job security and salary should be based on employee performance, not on years of service.
55. By and large, rewarding employees primarily for years of service does a lot harm than good to both eh employees and organization.
56. Government does have the responsibility to support art sand fulfil its role as the principal sponsor of art and cultural development of the nation.
57. As we all know, ideas originate at the grassroots, and spring up in the streets, pass from galleries to museums and from clubs to concert halls, then return to the streets via radio, TV, and movies.
58. The boundary between private and public is one threshold where acts of communication, including those carried out through artworks, can become not only offensive but illegal, and as David Price argues “conduct becomes prohibited when the threshold is crossed and private choices encroaches upon public domain”.
59. But it is often difficult to judge what is offensive and what is not, and what is private and what is public.
60. Today more and more governments are taking as their responsibility to keep the delicate balance of safeguarding freedom of expression while minimizing the very real risks posed by expressions which harm or threaten to harm.
61. They think it is too much to expect young people to bridge the gap between intellectual knowledge and the kinds of citizenship skills, attitudes and values they will need in the “real world”.
62. Their utmost goals are in the pursuit of excellence in both academic and other domains of education, and are delivering educational outcomes that meet the needs and expectations of the society.
63. If schools are to serve the entire society, then it is by no means appropriate.
64. While a powerful business leader may play an important part in the course of a community or a nation, however, a government official has a far more decisive role and thus has more opportunity to influence the community and the nation.
65. So, the energies of the former group are directed toward leading people of a region or a nation to a commonly-recognized blueprint.
66. Thirdly, government officials influence the direction a community or a nation takes through changing the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary.
67. While there are many strategies for managing a business or an enterprise, for example, downsizing, teamworking, reducing layers of management etc., the best strategy remains to be the searching for the most capable people and the offering of the biggest possible authority to them.
68. With time going on, it and other businesses are coexisting and become interdependent.
69. Then the area is like a net which is woven larger and firmer, and which catches bigger and more fish.
70. Job satisfaction has usually been defined as the extent to which an employee has a positive affective orientation or attitude towards their job, either in general or towards particular facets of it.
71. Companies have a responsibility to help employees unlock whatever potential they have for adding value, not only by providing training opportunities but also by making jobs as challenging as possible and devolving responsibility onto employees.
72. But the problem is that sometimes people could be tricked on ― the advertising they trust is nothing more than a cheating game.