My View on the Same Amount of Holiday
A seven day long holiday has flown away. Mourning my happy hours during the vacation, I've been looking forward to winter holidays. People around me seemed to have enjoyed the vacation, too. Then, is it fair that people have the same amount of holidays regardless of their occupations?
Nevertheless, divergent views emerge on the matter in question. Some people are of the opinion that laborers should have the same length of holiday. They hold the view that people are born equal and should be treated equally. The same amount of leisure time may eliminate the unfairness among people who might be upset psychologically if otherwise. At first sight, it may seem to be an attractive idea, but it doesn't bear much analysis.
To begin with, people do different kinds of jobs featuring different labor intensity and so the time needed to refresh their physical condition varies. For example, blue collar workers may work longer hours before they get tired physically, while white collar workers such as doctors and teachers are more mentally stressed. Unable to work continuously as long as those physical labor workers, white collars need more time to pull through the mental weariness than physical tiredness. All in all, people in different jobs assume different responsibilities and have different degrees of pressure.
Secondly, different tasks and duties are required for different professions, resulting in the variety of holiday periods for people in different walks of life. Some employees cannot have their legal holidays and even have to work overtime, such as policemen, construction workers and people in the service line.Those professions just can't be interrupted for a mornent;other wise the society will be in a mess. Even for some people in the same occupation, they cannot have the same holidays entitled to them due to many factors out of human control, such as special assignments, and health conditions etc, then not to say people in different fields.
Suppose we, as teachers do, all have three months' holiday in a year. Then factories have to employ considerably more workers because some of them are enjoying happy holiday.That's obviously against the principles of doing business at lower cost and efficiency.
If we have only three days off in a year, then all the people in our country will be working day after day. No one can squeeze time to visit those tourist resorts leisurely. It goes without saying that the tourist trade and catering industry thus cannot develop rapidly and healthily.
Last, the development of science and technology allows the ways of work to be changed. Computer experts make their programs, doctors give patients diagnosis and tutors give students instructions at home through optical fabric cable connections.That's how the new term SOHO bore. In other words, the way people work is not fixed so that they need different holiday phases.
Some people need more time to recover from the fatigue of labor. And some people cannot make ends meet though they work for 365 days in a year, for whom holiday is a waste of time.
It is neither possible nor necessary for people with different jobs to have the same amount of holiday off. Holiday is a kind of bonus, just as the Chinese idiom goes, distribution according to
work.
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馮佳瑩同學的這篇作文思路清晰，分析絲絲入扣，是一篇非常優秀的議論文。
這篇作文的開頭清新自然，通過自己對國慶假期的感受，進而聯想到其他各行各業的人的想法，引出了本文的主題，顯得毫不做作。寫這篇作文時，作者顯然進行了深入的思考，因而分析有理有據，閃爍著作者的真知灼見和思想火花。作者的語言很出色，句式長短交錯，段落層次分明，句與句之間以及句群之間的銜接都非常清晰，作者傾向于使用then，that，those等連詞和代詞來銜接上下文，而沒有使用過多的定語從句，既使句式的長度得到了控製，又避免了中國學生常見的定語長句(尤其是非限定性定語從句)過多的弊病。盡管作者使用了一些短語，但整篇的文體並沒有因此而顯得過于隨意，顯示了作者高超的語言駕馭能力。