2013年5月25日雅思写作范文：资助艺术
Should Government Support Arts?
谢振礼Jeenn Lee Hsieh原创范文
2013年5月25日China雅思真题
(类似北美托福写作考题)
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Essay Topic:
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Public money should not be spent on supporting the arts but should rather be used to address other basic needs? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Example Writing:
Nowadays, all areas of public spending--including the arts--are under increased scrutiny. Questions are asked why the arts should receive funds when so many other needs are pressing. For that matter, the argument in favor of the arts may focus on both economic benefits and emotional livability, regardless of the environment of austerity.
To begin with, the arts drive economic growth by creating jobs and producing tax revenue, in addition to educational aspirations. As an illustration, a strong arts sector is an important factor that stimulates business activity, attracts entertainment income, retains a high-level work force and stabilizes intellectual values. From time to time, the arts have proved to be a successful and sustainable strategy for revitalizing a country's economy. So far as future generations are concerned, investing in the arts today is good business for tomorrow, considering that the arts are actually educational assets. It is because the arts foster young imaginations and facilitate children's achievement in school. Among other things, they provide critical thinking, communications and innovation skills essential to a productive 21st century.
Public funding for the arts is also key to improving quality of emotional as well as cultural life, and this is true even during recessions. The reasons may be that the arts are civic catalysts--inspiring people to hope for a more desirable future. For example, artists like painters transmit a welcoming sense of visions into the world to come. Thus, the government should give a helping hand to those artists who are paid not so much by their hard labors as by their valuable visions. Understandably, the arts enhance a strong democracy--engaging citizens in civic discourse, dramatizing vital issues and encouraging collective problem solving. Needless to say, the arts preserve unique heritage, passing a country's cultural character along to future generations.
All in all, by investing in the arts the government has an opportunity to not only boost economic development but also to improve emotional livability even in times of financial stress. So, it pays to support the arts, although of course public money should necessarily be spent on other important issues, such as health-care, job-creation and poverty-elimination. Indeed, one of the worst things for any government to do is turn a blind eye to the arts, under any circumstance. (Essay created by Jeenn Lee Hsieh)
