GRE Issue高频提纲——国际类(二)_GRE写作

GRE Issue高频提纲——国际类(二)

　　 The best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the men and women that the society chooses as its heroes or its heroines.

　　j) hero代表的是一个国家所推崇的道德与精神。爱国主义patriotism如：圣女贞德。Joan of Arc 1412-1431) 参考事迹：英法大战中投入保卫祖国的队伍，统帅法军，终于打败了英国侵略者，成为法国人民爱国斗争的旗帜。对民主自由的追求。比如杰佛逊Thomas Jefferson主张人权平等、Free speech、宗教Toleration和人身自由

　　k) 有时英雄可以反映社会的倾向。如：甘地Gandhi nonviolence noncooperation 对印度摆脱殖民统治，和统一的热望，Martin Luther King对取消种族歧视的追求，其实反应了黑人美国社会对种族歧视的反抗。妇女运动的领袖被视为女性的英雄，表达了对女性解放的要求

　　l) When we make moral evaluations of the heroes, we often focus on a single dimension of their character. For our evaluation of the famous are often not meant to be thorough moral profiles but teaching tools. We tend to single out the traits we want to simulate. 所以只从英雄看社会是片面的，不能全面反应这个社会的特征。如：比如Cleveland总统confess to having an illegitimate child