Ted+Zhou's+Page

=Hello, everyone! This is Ted Zhou's page.=

Here are some pictures:


==As we can see, these are some beautiful landscapes. I have saved these pictures for a long time, because I feel they are so nature and immaculate. There many places like these in China and also around the world. I used to travel those areas with my parents when I was very young. I had great times and unforgetable sights too. But as I grow up, my parents become more and more busy and I am really in my studying. Time for travelling and hiking are disappearing in my life. I hope that one day I could enjoy journeys in those attarctive places again. In addition, one of my dream is learning the world by having tastes of different beauteous places all over the world personally and I would certainly achieve it soon in the future.==

** My Persuasive Essay ** = ** Humans **** are born **** in sin ** =

There are two sides of the world: virtues and vices. While an optimist sinking in a colorful fantasy and enjoying a recreational lifestyle lying on a beach under the shinning sunlight, there are a great number of wars, battles, murders, rapes, kidnaps and other crimes going on continuously at other corners of the world. Some sages may question why there is wickedness in our lives. A wise man would response: then, why shell humans surrounded by virtues. Despite the fact that many people believe innocence, naivety  and kindness are the perfect characteristics of babies, a considerable proportion of researches and phenomenon has revealed that humans are born in sin.

A well-known ancient Chinese Confucian philosopher, Hsun-Tzu, had fist stated the theory of original evil of human nature. “No one is not evil” is one of his famous quotes in ancient Chinese. He believed humans are born with full of wickedness and inherently intend to fulfill the desires. The conflicts are resulted if the wishes could not be satisfied. The theory can be proved by wide phenomenon. When babies are born, the first thing they do is cry. They cry for food; they cry for drink and they cry for changing a warmer blanket. The only thing they do is cry, because it is the way to seek satisfactions of their inherent desires. In addition, why do babies cry rather than laugh? A scientist may give a cogent reason based on physiology. But anthropologists have defined the cry as it represents terrible feelings. If humans have an original goodness of nature, why do they always have terrible feelings when they are infants? Then, sages shell define laugh as evil and cry as virtue. Some people may argue that if we come to the world with nothing good, than why we do practice mercies in various ways. We donate money, help old people, volunteer for organizations and hold the Hope Project. Why do we possess and show our kindnesses in those ways. Hsun-Tzu had already given a reason for that. Postnatal and acquired environment could produce a considerable amount of effects on humans. The benign educations and favorable social activities help people fulfill the other part of the world. Without these influences, human world would only left with darkness and wickedness. This can be proved as that people with low educations are generally found with pernicious habits such as spit everywhere, throw litter about and deface public properties, because that is what human originally is.

In addition, a famous British novelist, the Nobel Prize for Literature laureate in 1983, William Golding, has expounded the human nature of evil using symbolism in one of his most successful river novel, //__Lord of the Flies __//, and has gained tremendous fame as one of the rewards. He has shared the similar perspectives with Hsun-Tzu, and revealed that the root cause of the wars is human nature of wickedness. For example, Jack, in the story, is consistently portrayed as the hunter of the group, highlighting his primitivity and tendency toward violence with the fact that no one had told him to do so or taught him how to do it. It is of a great importance that he is depicted to symbolize all humans by Golding. The standpoint also could be verified in the reality of modern societies. For instance, no one has taught a thief how to steal treasures; no classes are available for a robber to attend to learn how to rob, and a rapist would not need instructions to follow while he is committing a crime. People are trained to learn virtues by listening to ancient sagas, going to schools and taking part in social activities since they are born. As the result, a well-educated man could contribute to the society positively in various ways. But has anyone considered why are there so many crimes going on around the world without even a single program setting up to teach those criminals of those vices? The reason is quite simple: humans are born in sin.

In conclusion, only if humans recognize their nature of wickedness, the realities and histories would be faced squarely and those evils since The Crusades to the Nazis’ Auschwitz Concentration Camp, and then the Japanese’s bacterial atrocities to Chinese, finally the holocaust of Jewries by Germans would be controlled and avoided in the future; only if people admit their inherent vices, the importance of educations, moralizations, humanizations and civilizations would be noticed; and only if mankind concede that they are born in sin, the sublime virtues in societies shell be developed and “the dark eyes would seek and catch the brightness” eventually.

Date: June, 14, 2010

__ Bibliographies and Acknowledgements __ :

1. Chinese International Debate Website: [] (In Chinese.)

2. Liverpool Literature Website: []

3. Baidu Known: For Hsun-Tzu and his quote. [] (In Chinese.)

4. The novel: //__Lord of Flies__// by William Golding. First Publish Date: in 1945. The quotation from the book:chapter3 part 5. (3.5) []