Topic 46 Important qualities of a good son or daughter

In Chinese culture, a person who is filial (дочерний, сыновний) and obedient (покорный, послушный) to his parents is regarded as a good son. Confucianism, an ideology that had great effect on the Chinese society, stresses the importance of harmonious interpersonal relations between family members, particularly that between parents and children. Judgment on a man is often based on his attitude toward his parents.

Confucian classics contain many principles regarding (касающиеся) the "right" conducts (вести себя) people should have to handle the relation with their parents. For instance, people in the past were required to pay respects to their parents everyday in the morning. Children should follow whatever orders or instructions their parents issued (выпущенный, изданный). A person who was most respectful to his parents was highly praised (ценим, хвалить) and often set up (устанавливаются) as a model in the society.

The ancient Chinese thought that there was a connection between the relations within the family and political institutions of the country. They extended the formula of administering a family to social and political affairs (политическим вопросам). In other words, the Chinese people ran the country on the principles based on family life. The emperor was respected by his subjects as a father was by his children. An official faithful (верный, преданный; стойкий) to his lord was often compared to a son filial to his father.

However, China has undergone great changes over the past century (претерпел большие изменения за последние сто лет). Influenced by western thoughts, the Chinese people have revised and transformed many traditional ideologies and ways of thinking. Parents have no longer had absolute authority over their children. Now young people may stand on an equal relation with their parents and they stress more personal freedom and independence. But the traditional ideology remains to be very influential, a good son who is respectful to and takes cares of his parents is considered by others as one of high moral character.

Topic 47 a large company vs. A small company

Some people show special interest in working for a big company, while other are more willing to work for small ones. Of course, every individual has his own opinion about the strengths and weakness when it comes to serving in a big firm or a small one; for me, my choice is definitely to work for a big company.

Now let's use the analysis of "SWOT", which was always employed (использовалась) in the field of economics to get the problem solved. Here, S stands for "strengths", W for "weakness", O for "opportunities" and T for "target".

endow - обеспечивать постоянным доходом; передавать, даровать; облекать

Working for a big company will have many advantages for your development in your career, because a big company usually provides more competitions and it demands its employees to be self-educated at the very beginning of becoming one member of the group, or he or she will be dismissed (уволен) without hesitation. For as a big company, there is always a pool of talents waiting for a position to be filled.

Besides, in a big company, you will deal with different kinds of people, who are from different provinces or even different countries, having various education, thus you will be inevitably influenced by "multi-culture", which is of great importance to a person with the hope of tailoring (приспособление, подгонка) himself to be an international talent.

Finally, in a big company you will be given more opportunities to be charged up either at home or abroad and be endowed with more chances to contact with more elites in the specific field. When speaking of the weaknesses, every thing is a double-edged sword. Working for a big company, there might be little chances for many people to stick out due to the bulk of talents, but compared with the strengths and the opportunities mentioned above, it can be ignored.

When it comes to the target, you, as a member of a big company, will be more likely to motorize (моторизовать) your target because of the plentiful resources including material resources, as well as human resources.

A woman who is soon to have a child often craves for strange foods. — Женщина, которая должна скоро родить, часто хочет поесть чего-нибудь необычного.

All that I have said above boils down to the conclusion that (сводится к выводу, что) if you are a person who craves (страстно желать) for competitions and desires to be an international or interprovincial talent, you should choose the big firms for your future development.