托福写作例子总结：名人类

　　Clara Barton

　　the "Angel" of mercy: at first, the Red Cross only assisted soldiers; the new clause in the Red Cross Constitution that provided for civilian relief

　　工作的意义应该只为了金钱么

　　Carly Florina

　　failure to communicate with her staff, departure from HP

　　与他人合作的能力是否越来越重要

　　Charles Lindbergh

　　American aviator; the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean

　　冒险的意义

　　Donald Trump

　　real estate, The Apprentice, reality show, "Your're fired."

　　电视节目对年轻人的影响

　　Edgar Allan Poe

　　tales of mystery, financial difficulty

　　是否只看写实的书/人该为了什么工作

　　Elizabeth Blackwell

　　was rejected by 17 medical schools before she got admitted to New York's Geneva Medical College and graduated at the head of her class and became the first woman to receive a medical degree in America

　　成功需要的因素

　　Evan Williams

　　Twitter, Blogger,"What we have to do is deliver to people the best and freshest most relevant information possible. We think of Twitter as it's not a social network, but it's an information network. It tells people what they care about as it is happening in the world."

　　科技让生活更复杂还是更简单

　　George Lucas

　　Star Wars/ financial success/ being imaginative/ special effects

　　严肃电影 vs. 娱乐电影

　　Herbert Hoover

　　who was blamed (somewhat unfairly) for the Great Depression

　　了解历史才能更好地处理现在的问题

　　Harper Lee

　　To Kill a Mockingbird, Presidential Medal of Freedom

　　"I never expected any sort of success with Mockingbird. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers."

　　Harper Lee这样评价自己的作品。用途：不凸显个性是否更容易成功

　　Johnny Appleseed

　　a media-made legend

　　信息来源是否真实

　　Johnny Cash

　　"Man in Black"

　　着装对成功的影响

　　John Cheever

　　short stories, "the Chekhov of the Suburbs"

　　现在还是过去更容易成功

　　John Dewey

　　educator/ progressivism

　　学生应该只学少数课程还是广泛学习

　　J. D. Salinger

　　The Catcher in the Rye, his struggle with unwanted public attention

　　对幸福的理解

　　Jesse Jackson

　　passed up a pro baseball contract, became a preacher instead, "the president of Black America"

　　决定对人生的影响

　　Jack Kerouac

　　On the Road, the false legend that the book was written in three weeks

　　信息来源的真实性

　　John McCain(当每个人都开始研究Barrack Obama的时候，你就该开始研究失败者和他的战友Sarah Palin了)

　　a Naval veteran/ one of the oldest candidates/ prefer chatting with small groups to public speeches

　　媒体的重要性

　　Jeannette Rankin

　　"Few members of Congress have ever stood more alone while being true to a higher honor and loyalty." --- JFK

　　听从他人建议还是坚持自己的判断

　　John Scopes

　　the Scopes Monkey Trial, the teaching of the theory of evolution, the fight against fundamentalism

　　教师是否应该把自己的政治或者社会观点带入课堂

　　Jack Welch

　　"Change before you have to." CEO of GE, Winning

　　计划重要还是随机应变(be spontaneous)重要

　　Les Brown

　　motivational speaker

　　成功的因素包括哪些

　　Michael Dell

　　dispute with Apple, "un-innovative"

　　创意的重要性

　　Mark Twain

　　这位名人貌似已经被国内考生用得超多了，不过我们完全看看他说的这句话，"Lies, damn lies, and statistics."

　　信息来源太多，无法判断是否真实

　　Muhammad Yunus

　　banker/ microcredit/ "create economic and social development

　　from below"

　　坚持做好一件事 vs. 快速做好大量事情