Topic 131

131. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Only people who earn a lot of money are successful. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

MONEY SHOULD NOT BE THE ONLY ONE FACTOR

Under no circumstance should money be reckoned as the only criterion of how successful a person is. Moreover, sometimes people who manage to get million, or billion dollars can be said to be of great success. Generally speaking, matters of essence of human beings ought to be taken into account when judge a person to be famous or not.

As a threshold matter, in some cases, it is ridiculous to consider some one who earns a lot of money as renowned, because that person even doesn't endeavor his treasure. Consider, for example, a young man who naturally inherits considerable amount of fortune from his father. Can we say this guy is successful? The answer is obvious: No, of course. He hasn't strive for attainment, and thus doesn't deserve money. Therefore, it isn't wise to consider such people as successful if they do not fight for their goals.

Moreover, even people who don't earn much treasure are broadly recognized as successful. Money is not the only factor which influences a person's accomplishment. For instance, Martin Luther King receives great acknowledgement all over the world; however, Martin was surely not a wealthy man during his life time. Money cannot explain Martin's success. In effect, it is Martin's deep-held belief, in his inner mind, that to protect black people's rights that deserves folks' esteem.

Furthermore, there are still other criteria that contribute to attainment to a great extent -- such as determination, unpaid efforts to ameliorate environment, and so forth. Morality is one of the basic benchmarks when we talk about how prominent a person is. Quality of literal works written by poets is the essence of success. Whether a task is completed in time decides a soldier's achievement. How many patients recover from diseases determine how successful a surgeon is. All these paramount factors are listed in front of money in pecking order.

In summary, money is last thing to demonstrate a person's success. A lot of other elements are ascribed to achievements. Then, in the final analysis, I disagree with the opinion that only folks who get a lot of money are successful.