APPLICATIONS
1. Suppose you asked a friend, "How did you acquire your particular identity - your sentiments and preferences and attitudes?" Then suppose the friend respond, "I'm an individual. No one else influence me. I do my own thing, select the sentiments and preferences and attitudes that suit me." How would you explain to your friend what you learned in this chapter?
(Well, in fact, the sentiments and preferences and attitudes you chose were influent by others, which include variations in place and circumstance, the details of your family, mass culture, self-image, your early years experience, and so on.)
2. Ask yourself the question " Who am I?" Write down ten answers to this on ten separate slips of paper. Use the first three paragraphs of this chapter to help you choose your answer. Arrange the pieces of paper in priority order in terms of their importance to you. Which self-descriptions are most important to you? Why?
( ) I am a desiring learning person. I am happy and enjoy my improvement and progress from learning.
( ) Sometimes, I am very sensitive.
( ) I sincerely hope to contribute myself to Chinese education,especially home education.
( ) Sometimes, I am easy to be angry with my relatives because of some chores. But I almost got felling of guilt and regret after a while.
( ) In most cases, I care about opinions of others for me.
( ) I usually interested in some new things.
( ) I sometimes go for perfect.
( ) I always be affected on somebody who have a close relationship with me, especially affected by their emotions.
( ) One of the most important thing for my life is family, a harmonious family.
( ) I changed my view to my parents after some deep communications with them, and I am satisfied with the relationship between them and me.
( ) I hope that my family include my parents, my sister and my husband all company me forever.
( ) I am afraid of height and death.
3. Identify the various positive and negative influences that have shaped you. Be sure to include the particular as well as the general influences and the subtle as well as the obvious. Which of those influences have had the greatest affect on you? Explain the effects as precisely(精确地) as you can.
（Positive ones: My best friend's optimistic attitude to the life: she always laugh loudly, and very positive whatever she suffered. She made me happy in my high school, and we did a lot of funny things together ; Hard-working and Strong which from my mom gave me a power when facing some difficulties: My mom workhard and tried her best to improved our life quality from a very poor situation. Negative ones: Some experiences of being intimidated during my childhood: when I was a child, the neighbour who is one year older than me always bully me, and I couldn't do anything for that, just cry. It was very hard time for me to spend that kind of childhood; The punishment education way from my mom: My mom did say any good words to me, as long as I did something wrong, she chew me out and even beat me by bamboo cane. Which result that I always fell that I am lacking of love.）
4. Not your immediate reaction to each of the following questions. Then apply the four guidlines given in this chapter for achieving individuality.
a. Should freshman composition be a required course for all students?
b. Should athletes be tested for anabolic steroid use?
c. Should creationism be taught in high school biology classes?
d. Should polygamy be legalized?
e. Should the voting age be lowered to sixteen?
5. Group discussion exercise: Discuss each of the following questions with two or three classmates, applying the four guidelines for developing individuality that are given in this chapter. Be prepared to share your group's ideas with the class.
a. Should extremist groups like the Ku Klux Klan be allowed to hold rallies on public property?
b. Should the prison system give greater emphasis to the punishment or to the rehabilitation of inmates?
should doctors and clinics be required to notify parents of monors when they prescribe birth control devices for the minors?
生词短语：
subtle 微妙的；精细的
precisely 精确地；恰恰
composition 作曲；作文；作品；成分；合成物
anabolic steroid 合成代谢类固醇
anabolic 合成代谢的；同化的； steroid 类固醇；
creationism 神创论
polygamy 一夫多妻制
extrimist group 极端主义组织
rally 集合；集会
on public property 在公共场合
rehabilitation 复原；
inmate 同狱犯人；
monors 未成年人
prescribe 开处方
to the rehabilitation of inmates 改造犯人
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