[寫作班] 托福第14週 yihuan, 1
Should a city try to preserve its old, historic buildings or destroy them
and replace them with modern buildings? Use specific reasons and examples
to support your opinion.
In today's world inundated with tradition and modern, although, some people
thought the tradition is the obstruction of the modern, and the historic
buildings would cause the impeding for renovating a city; nevertheless, if
we get rid of our historic buildings and antiques, we would loss our
historic evidence and memory. The issue of Taiwan's temples and Boston's
Fenway Park illustrate why this is so.
To begin with, take my country, Taiwan, for example, you could see many
archaic temples in Taiwan, especially in Tainan. In fact, those temples
are not only the religion places where people could worship god but also
represent the religion and social story in Taiwan. In Taiwan's colonial
period, Japanese government disapproved people believe the Taoism, and
worship the gods of Taoism. Those Taoist hided their god in Buddhism temples
secretly, so we could see the mixture of two traditional religions in
one temples. Those old temples play important roles in Taiwan society,
people used to gather in the temples and exchange their messages each other.
Even we could observe that there are many night markets next to temples.
In reason is that temples are the community center in the agricultural
period, even though the time is different, but Taiwanese still have this
traditional concept. Those old temples in Taiwan are not just some archaic
buildings; those are also meaningful for Taiwanese, so Taiwan government
tries it best to preserve those historic buildings.
Additionally, Fenway Park is one of the most popular baseball fields in
America, and it is also the oldest field in the MLB fields. Although Fenway
Park is very small compared to other fields, couldn't be able to accommodate
many people, it's not doubt that Fenway Park are still loved by most people.
Why? I think the answer is Fenway Park itself. The fact is that Fenway Park
for lots of baseball fanatics is not just a field, it represent the baseball
history and the argument between New York Yankee and Boston Red Sox. Many
fans' memory is extant with Fenway Park, there is no other new or modern
field could replace it. It is why many baseball fans advocate preserving
the Fenway Park rather than destroy it in order to build a new one. Because
there is much invaluable and cherish memory in Fenway Park.
In conclusion, modern buildings are not able to replace the historic meaning.
If we get rid of our historic buildings in order to have a new one or better
one, we would loss something that could not be regenerated by anything. It
is history.
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