2024年,劍橋大學菲茨威廉學院的作文競賽已經放題啦!每年,菲茨威廉學院都會舉辦各種學科的論文比賽,讓有才華的學生探索學校課程之外的興趣。
劍橋大學尋找對自己的學科充滿熱情并在課堂外進行研究的學生。論文競賽為學生提供了一個以這種方式表達自己興趣的機會,讓他們能夠展示對自己學科的熱情。
今年,將舉辦古代世界和古典文學、考古學、經濟學、歷史、土地經濟、中世紀世界和斯拉夫研究等領域的論文比賽。
競賽規則
提交截止日期:2024年3月1日
✅該作文比賽是專門為11年級的學生所開設的。所有國家的學生都可以參加,但提交的作品必須用英語撰寫。
✅提交作品應嚴格遵守主題簡介中規定的字數限制,考古學、古代世界和古典文學、歷史、土地經濟、斯拉夫研究、和中世紀世界為2500字,并且在最后包含參考文獻;字數統計應不包括參考文獻,但包括所有腳注。
✅每頁都應有數字編號并包含申請人的全名。
✅參考文獻可以使用任何類型的引用格式。
✅學生只能參加一個類別的比賽,并且只能向該比賽提交一份參賽作品。每場比賽每所學校的提交作品數量嚴格限制為五份。如果同一學校有超過五名學生參加同一比賽則將聯系該學校的老師并要求選擇出五名參賽作品;否則將導致該校所有參賽作品被取消資格。請注意,此限制不適用于年級學生人數超過1000人的高中。
✅提交論文時,學生需要提供可聯系的老師的姓名和電子郵件地址,以便驗證提交的作品。
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提交指南
填寫線上申請表格。
文章可以以PDF的格式上傳至申請表格中。如果文件太大而無法上傳到表格中則需要將提交內容通過電子郵件發送至:essaycompetitions@fitz.cam.ac.uk。
如果想要郵寄參賽作品,請將郵寄材料郵寄至:Fitzwilliam College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DG。
提交表格后,申請人會收到一封確認郵件。如果在 24 小時內未收到確認郵件請通過以下電子郵件地址與學校聯系:essaycompetition@fitz.cam.ac.uk。
2024年論文題目
古代史與古典學
1. What qualities made heroes heroic in ancient literature? Discuss withreference to any text or texts of your choice. 古代文學中的英雄是什么品質造就的?參考您選擇的任何文本進行討論。
2. How can the study of dead languages help us to understand ancientsocieties? Answer with reference to any period and region of your choice. 對死亡語言的研究如何幫助我們理解古代社會?請參考您選擇的任何時期和地區進行回答。
3. “Imagery is the most important source for studying women in the ancientworld.” Do you agree? Discuss with reference to any period and region ofyour choice.
“意象是研究古代女性最重要的來源。”你同意嗎?參考您選擇的任何時期和地區進行討論。
4. “The study of art and/or archaeology reveals people the texts ignore.”Discuss with reference to any people, period and region of your choice. “對藝術和/或考古的研究揭示了文本忽略的人。”參考你選擇的任何人、時期和地區進行討論。
5. What led to either a) the development of Athenian democracy or b) the fallof the Roman Late Republic? 是什么導致了a)雅典民主的發展,還是b)羅馬晚期共和國的衰落?
6. “Ancient philosophy is not relevant to modern political or ethical debates” Doyou agree? Discuss with reference to any text or texts and any politicaland/or ethical debates of your choice. “古代哲學與現代政治或倫理辯論無關”你同意嗎?參考您選擇的任何文本以及任何政治和/或道德辯論進行討論。
在適當的情況下,可以參考您選擇的任何文本和/或其他證據,以及廣義的古代世界的任何時期或地區(不僅包括古典世界,還可能包括古代近東和埃及)來回答這些問題。
考古學
1. To what extent can the archaeology of the environment prepare us for the era of 'globalboiling'? 環境考古在多大程度上能讓我們為“全球沸騰”的時代做好準備?
2. ‘Archaeology only deals with interpretations, never facts'. Discuss. “考古學只涉及解釋,從不涉及事實”。討論
3. To what degree is modern fiction and poetry more effective than archaeology in telling storiesabout the past? 在講述過去的故事方面,現代小說和詩歌在多大程度上比考古學更有效?
經濟學(僅適用于英國公立學校的學生)
1. "The main claim of microeconomic theory is that markets are beneficialinstitutions." Discuss. “微觀經濟理論的主要主張是市場是有益的制度。”討論。
2. High and stable economic growth, as measured by an annual percentagechange in real Gross Domestic Product (GDP), has long been targeted as aprimary objective of governments' economic policies across the globe. Is GDPgrowth an adequate measure of a country's prosperity, a nation's well-beingand an appropriate policy objective? Discuss 長期以來,以實際國內生產總值的年度百分比變化衡量的高穩定經濟增長一直是全球各國政府經濟政策的主要目標。國內生產總值增長是否足以衡量一個國家的繁榮、國家的福祉和適當的政策目標?討論
歷史
Fitzwilliam College is pleased to announce its third annual Essay Competition inHistory. We invite applicants to send in essays of no more than 2,500 words on thefollowing theme:
1869
Fitzwilliam College traces its origins to 1869, when the University of Cambridgelaunched an initiative to facilitate access to Higher Education for the many studentswho could not afford the costs of college membership. The initiative was part of thebroader transformation of education in Britain, as the changes wrought byindustrialisation and urbanisation created a need to cater for a growing, increasinglydiverse and literate population. Earlier decades had already witnessed theestablishment of King’s College London, Durham University, and the University ofLondon, for instance, and colleges for women were beginning to open in Cambridgeand Oxford. These radical social and economic changes were themselves connectedto the intensification of globalisation in the second half of the nineteenth century,which placed Britain at the heart of an ever-tighter web of economic relationsbetween the world’s continents.
But the same year also witnessed the birth of Mohandas – later Mahatma – Gandhi,who would come to challenge Britain’s colonial rule and lead India on the path toindependence; the death of Alphonse de Lamartine, the poet and politician who hadproudly proclaimed France’s Second Republic in 1848, but whose final years werelived under the more authoritarian Second Empire; the marriage of Emperor Meiji,which consolidated Japan’s monarchy as the country began a new process ofindustrialisation; and the establishment by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth CadyStanton of the National Woman Suffrage Association in a United States still recoveringfrom the Civil War.
In 1869, as throughout history, old and new worlds collided. We invite applicants toexamine, in their essays, a topic of their choice, connected to the changes taking placein or around the year 1869. Essays may focus on a particular event, a person, a politicalmovement, or even a process of social, economic or cultural change, but they shouldconsider the interaction of ‘old’ and ‘new’ forces which the chosen topic illuminates.
費茲威廉學院很高興地宣布其第三屆年度歷史論文比賽。我們邀請申請人發送不超過2500字的關于以下主題的文章:1869。
菲茨威廉學院的起源可以追溯到1869年,當時劍橋大學發起了一項倡議,為許多負擔不起大學會員費用的學生提供接受高等教育的便利。這一舉措是英國教育更廣泛轉型的一部分,因為工業化和城市化帶來的變化需要滿足日益增長、日益多樣化和識字的人口。例如,幾十年前,倫敦國王學院、達勒姆大學和倫敦大學已經成立,劍橋和牛津也開始開設女子學院。這些激進的社會和經濟變化本身與19世紀下半葉全球化的加劇有關,全球化使英國處于世界各大洲之間日益緊密的經濟關系網的中心。
但同年也見證了莫罕達斯——后來的圣雄甘地的誕生,他將挑戰英國的殖民統治,帶領印度走上獨立之路;詩人和政治家阿爾方斯·德·拉馬丁的去世,他在1848年自豪地宣布了法國的第二共和國,但他的最后幾年生活在更專制的第二帝國統治下;明治天皇的婚姻鞏固了日本的君主制,開始了新的工業化進程;蘇珊·B·安東尼和伊麗莎白·卡迪·斯坦頓在仍在從內戰中恢復的美國成立了全國婦女選舉權協會。
1869年,正如整個歷史一樣,新舊世界發生了碰撞。我們邀請申請人在他們的論文中研究他們選擇的與1869年或前后發生的變化有關的主題。論文可能關注特定事件、個人、政治運動,甚至社會、經濟或文化變革的過程,但它們應該考慮所選主題所闡明的“舊”和“新”力量的相互作用。
土地經濟
1. When it comes to decarbonizing the economy, “it’s not terribly difficult toknow what needs to be done, though it is of course immensely difficult to getthe relevant actors (government and others) to do it” (Barry, 1999). Discussthis statement, preferably drawing on evidence from the UK. 當談到經濟脫碳時,“知道需要做什么并不十分困難,盡管讓相關行為者(政府和其他人)去做當然非常困難”(Barry,1999)。討論這一說法,最好借鑒英國的證據
2. The current Conservative government led by Rishi Sunak has unexpectedlydecided to scrap part of the HS2 project. Irrespective of your overall politicalviews towards the current government, do you think this was a sound decisionfrom an economic point of view? 由里希·蘇納克領導的現任保守黨政府出人意料地決定取消高鐵2號項目的一部分。不管你對現任政府的總體政治觀點如何,從經濟角度來看,你認為這是一個合理的決定嗎?
3. Some claim that modern communication platforms, such as Zoom, and thework-from-home revolution will lead to a decline of inner cities. Do you agree? 一些人聲稱,Zoom等現代通信平臺和在家工作革命將導致市中心的衰落。你同意嗎?
中世紀史
1. “A World lit only by fire” – is this a fair characterisation of the thousand yearsof history between AD 500 and AD 1500??“一個只有火照亮的世界”——這是對公元500年至公元1500年之間千年歷史的公正描述嗎?
2. Is European Medieval history a study of white men???歐洲中世紀史是對白人的研究嗎?
3. Are peasants more interesting than kings (answer with reference to thehistory of any part of the world in the middle ages)???農民是否比國王更有趣(參考中世紀世界任何地方的歷史回答)?
4. Was High Medieval Europe (c.1100-1300) essentially going through the sameexperience as Kamakura period Japan (1185-1333)???中世紀晚期的歐洲(約1100-1300年)基本上經歷了與鐮倉時期的日本(1185-1333年)相同的經歷嗎?
5. Did the Hundred Years’ War create England and France as nation-states? 百年戰爭使英國和法國成為民族國家嗎?
6. To what extent was English imperialism the main cause of political change inmedieval Britain and Ireland? 英國帝國主義在多大程度上是中世紀英國和愛爾蘭政治變革的主要原因?
斯拉夫語研究
1. Select any single work of Polish, Russian or Ukrainian literature or visual art (a film, apainting, an architectural drawing, or a poster) and discuss the ways in which it reflects someof the principal political and social issues of its age. 選擇波蘭、俄羅斯或烏克蘭文學或視覺藝術的任何一件作品(電影、繪畫、建筑圖或海報),并討論其反映其時代一些主要政治和社會問題的方式。
2. ‘Images of the past are central to concepts of contemporary national identity.’ Discuss withrespect to either Polish, Ukrainian or Russian culture. You may focus on one work ofcontemporary literature or art from one of the three countries, or you may examine therhetoric of contemporary politicians from one or more of the three counties. “過去的形象是當代民族認同概念的核心。”討論波蘭、烏克蘭或俄羅斯文化。你可以關注這三個國家中的一個國家的當代文學或藝術作品,也可以研究這三個縣中一個或多個縣的當代政治家的言論。
3. ‘The history of every nation is constantly being rewritten to suit the needs of the present.’Discuss with respect to either Poland, Ukraine or Russia. “每個國家的歷史都在不斷改寫,以適應當前的需要。”就波蘭、烏克蘭或俄羅斯進行討論。
4. Select a Polish, Russian or Ukrainian writer, artist or filmmaker and discuss the relevance oftheir work for the present. Be sure to support your discussion by offering a detailed analysisof one work. 選擇一位波蘭、俄羅斯或烏克蘭作家、藝術家或電影制作人,并討論他們的作品目前的相關性。一定要通過對一件作品進行詳細分析來支持你的討論。
5. ‘The current Russian waged war on Ukraine is a war of identity.’ Discuss. “當前俄羅斯對烏克蘭發動的戰爭是一場身份戰爭。”討論

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