高级英语1何兆熊 U5-Conservatives and Liberals

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What does your score on the chart mean? Left (liberals) Left (liberals) generally embrace freedom of choice in personal matters, but support central decision-making in economics. They want the government to help the disadvantaged in the name of fairness. Leftists tolerate social diversity, but work for what they might describe as ―economic equality‖.
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Find your score on the chart.
Mark your PERSONAL score on the lower-left scale; your ECONOMIC score on the lower-right. Then follow the grid lines until they meet at your political position. The chart shows the political group that agrees with you most.
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About the Author Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on May 25, 1803 in Boston, Massachusetts. He is widely regarded as one of America’s most influential authors, philosophers and thinkers. In 1836, Emerson expressed the main principle of his philosophy, known as Transcendentalism, in the essay ―Nature‖, in which Emerson held that knowledge can be obtained by studying thought rather than by practical experience.
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What does your score on the chart mean? Libertarians
Libertarians support a great deal of liberty and freedom of choice in both personal and economic matters. They believe governments’ only purpose is to protect people from coercion and violence. They value individual responsibility, and tolerate economic and social diversity.
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Political Quiz: Where do you stand politically?
What political category do you think you fit into, the conservative type or the liberal type? Where do you stand on important national issues? The political map on the Quiz gives an accurate representation of the true, diverse political world. The Quiz measures tendencies, not absolutes.
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What does your score on the chart mean? Statists
Statists want government to have a great deal of control over individuals and society. They support centralized planning, and often doubt whether liberty and freedom of choice are practical options.
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How do you stand on PERSONAL ISSUES?
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Government should not censor speech, press, media or Internet. Military service should be voluntary. There should be no draft. There should be no laws regarding sex between consenting adults. Repeal laws prohibiting adult possession and use of drugs. There should be no National ID card.
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Scoring: For each statement, circle A if you Agree, M for Maybe (or don’t know), or D if you Disagree. 20 for every A, 10 for every M, and 0 for every D.
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Scoring: For each statement, circle A if you Agree, M for Maybe (or don’t know), or D if you Disagree. 20 for every A, 10 for every M, and 0 for every D.
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How do you stand on ECONOMIC ISSUES?
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End ―corporate welfare.‖ No government handouts to business. End government barriers to international free trade. Let people control their own retirement: privatize Social Security. Replace government welfare with private charity. Cut taxes and government spending by 50% or more.
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Emerson urged independent thinking and stressed that not all life’s answers are found in books. In his The American Scholar addressed to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1837, Emerson stated that: ―Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst.‖ He believed that a scholar learns best by engaging life. Emerson’s essays on ―The Conduct of Life‖ outline what one might do to engage life ―skillfully‖. This essay is an excerpt from a lecture Waldo Emerson gave at the Masonic Temple, Boston, on December 9, 1841, and was published as part of Nature: Addresses and Lectures in 1849 together with ―The Transcendentalist‖, an epoch-making essay in the history of American cultural thoughts.
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What does your score on the chart mean? Right (conservatives) Right (conservatives) favor freedom of choice on economic issues but want official standards in personal matters. They tend to support the free market, but frequently want the government to defend the community from what they see as threats to morality or to the traditional family structure.
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What does your score on the chart mean? Centrists Centrists favor selective government intervention and emphasize what they commonly describe as ―practical solutions‖ to current problems. They tend to keep an open mind on political issues. Many centrists feel that government serves as a check on excessive liberty.
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Unit 5 Conservatives and Liberals
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Warm Up
Global Reading
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