2024剑桥大学菲茨威廉学院作文竞赛公布题目

菲茨威廉学院每年都会举办各种学科的论文比赛，让有才华的学生探索学校课程之外的兴趣。

剑桥大学寻找对自己的学科充满热情并在课堂外进行研究的学生。论文竞赛为学生提供了一个以这种方式表达自己兴趣的机会，让他们能够展示对自己学科的热情。

今年，将举办古代世界和古典文学、考古学、经济学、历史、土地经济、中世纪世界和斯拉夫研究等领域的论文比赛。

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2024年论文题目

古代史与古典学

1. What qualities made heroes heroic in ancient literature? Discuss withreference to any text or texts of your choice.古代文学中的英雄是什么品质造就的？参考您选择的任何文本进行讨论。

2. How can the study of dead languages help us to understand ancientsocieties? Answer with reference to any period and region of your choice.对死亡语言的研究如何帮助我们理解古代社会？请参考您选择的任何时期和地区进行回答。

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来源。”你同意吗？参考您选择的任何时期和地区进行讨论。

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.“对艺术和/或考古的研究揭示了文本忽略的人。”参考你选择的任何人、时期和地区进行讨论。

5. What led to either a) the development of Athenian democracy or b) the fallof the Roman Late Republic?是什么导致了a）雅典民主的发展，还是b）罗马晚期共和国的衰落？

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.“古代哲学与现代政治或伦理辩论无关”你同意吗？参考您选择的任何文本以及任何政治和/或道德辩论进行讨论。

在适当的情况下，可以参考您选择的任何文本和/或其他证据，以及广义的古代世界的任何时期或地区（不仅包括古典世界，还可能包括古代近东和埃及）来回答这些问题。

考古学

1. To what extent can the archaeology of the environment prepare us for the era of 'globalboiling'? 环境考古在多大程度上能让我们为“全球沸腾”的时代做好准备？

2. ‘Archaeology only deals with interpretations, never facts'. Discuss.“考古学只涉及解释，从不涉及事实”。讨论

3. To what degree is modern fiction and poetry more effective than archaeology in telling storiesabout the past? 在讲述过去的故事方面，现代小说和诗歌在多大程度上比考古学更有效？

经济学（仅适用于英国公立学校的学生)

1. "The main claim of microeconomic theory is that markets are beneficialinstitutions." Discuss.“微观经济理论的主要主张是市场是有益的制度。”讨论。

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长期以来，以实际国内生产总值的年度百分比变化衡量的高稳定经济增长一直是全球各国政府经济政策的主要目标。国内生产总值增长是否足以衡量一个国家的繁荣、国家的福祉和适当的政策目标？讨论

历史

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.

费兹威廉学院很高兴地宣布其第三届年度历史论文比赛。我们邀请申请人发送不超过2500字的关于以下主题的文章：1869。

菲茨威廉学院的起源可以追溯到1869年，当时剑桥大学发起了一项倡议，为许多负担不起大学会员费用的学生提供接受高等教育的便利。这一举措是英国教育更广泛转型的一部分，因为工业化和城市化带来的变化需要满足日益增长、日益多样化和识字的人口。例如，几十年前，伦敦国王学院、达勒姆大学和伦敦大学已经成立，剑桥和牛津也开始开设女子学院。这些激进的社会和经济变化本身与19世纪下半叶全球化的加剧有关，全球化使英国处于世界各大洲之间日益紧密的经济关系网的中心。

但同年也见证了莫罕达斯——后来的圣雄甘地的诞生，他将挑战英国的殖民统治，带领印度走上独立之路；诗人和政治家阿尔方斯·德·拉马丁的去世，他在1848年自豪地宣布了法国的第二共和国，但他的最后几年生活在更专制的第二帝国统治下；明治天皇的婚姻巩固了日本的君主制，开始了新的工业化进程；苏珊·B·安东尼和伊丽莎白·卡迪·斯坦顿在仍在从内战中恢复的美国成立了全国妇女选举权协会。

1869年，正如整个历史一样，新旧世界发生了碰撞。我们邀请申请人在他们的论文中研究他们选择的与1869年或前后发生的变化有关的主题。论文可能关注特定事件、个人、政治运动，甚至社会、经济或文化变革的过程，但它们应该考虑所选主题所阐明的“旧”和“新”力量的相互作用。

土地经济

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.当谈到经济脱碳时，“知道需要做什么并不十分困难，尽管让相关行为者（政府和其他人）去做当然非常困难”（Barry，1999）。讨论这一说法，最好借鉴英国的证据

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·苏纳克领导的现任保守党政府出人意料地决定取消高铁2号项目的一部分。不管你对现任政府的总体政治观点如何，从经济角度来看，你认为这是一个合理的决定吗？

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? 一些人声称，Zoom等现代通信平台和在家工作革命将导致市中心的衰落。你同意吗？

中世纪史

1. “A World lit only by fire” – is this a fair characterisation of the thousand yearsof history between AD 500 and AD 1500?

“一个只有火照亮的世界”——这是对公元500年至公元1500年之间千年历史的公正描述吗？

2. Is European Medieval history a study of white men?欧洲中世纪史是对白人的研究吗？

3. Are peasants more interesting than kings (answer with reference to thehistory of any part of the world in the middle ages)?农民是否比国王更有趣（参考中世纪世界任何地方的历史回答）？

4. Was High Medieval Europe (c.1100-1300) essentially going through the sameexperience as Kamakura period Japan (1185-1333)?中世纪晚期的欧洲（约1100-1300年）基本上经历了与镰仓时期的日本（1185-1333年）相同的经历吗？

5. Did the Hundred Years’ War create England and France as nation-states?

百年战争使英国和法国成为民族国家吗？

6. To what extent was English imperialism the main cause of political change inmedieval Britain and Ireland? 英国帝国主义在多大程度上是中世纪英国和爱尔兰政治变革的主要原因？

斯拉夫语研究

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. 选择波兰、俄罗斯或乌克兰文学或视觉艺术的任何一件作品（电影、绘画、建筑图或海报），并讨论其反映其时代一些主要政治和社会问题的方式。

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. “过去的形象是当代民族认同概念的核心。”讨论波兰、乌克兰或俄罗斯文化。你可以关注这三个国家中的一个国家的当代文学或艺术作品，也可以研究这三个县中一个或多个县的当代政治家的言论。

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. “每个国家的历史都在不断改写，以适应当前的需要。”就波兰、乌克兰或俄罗斯进行讨论。

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. 选择一位波兰、俄罗斯或乌克兰作家、艺术家或电影制作人，并讨论他们的作品目前的相关性。一定要通过对一件作品进行详细分析来支持你的讨论。

5. ‘The current Russian waged war on Ukraine is a war of identity.’ Discuss. “当前俄罗斯对乌克兰发动的战争是一场身份战争。”讨论

 

竞赛规则

提交截止日期：2024年3月1日

✅该作文比赛是专门为11年级的学生所开设的。所有国家的学生都可以参加，但提交的作品必须用英语撰写。

✅提交作品应严格遵守主题简介中规定的字数限制，考古学、古代世界和古典文学、历史、土地经济、斯拉夫研究、和中世纪世界为2500字，并且在最后包含参考文献；字数统计应不包括参考文献，但包括所有脚注。

✅每页都应有数字编号并包含申请人的全名。

✅参考文献可以使用任何类型的引用格式。

✅学生只能参加一个类别的比赛，并且只能向该比赛提交一份参赛作品。每场比赛每所学校的提交作品数量严格限制为五份。如果同一学校有超过五名学生参加同一比赛则将联系该学校的老师并要求选择出五名参赛作品；否则将导致该校所有参赛作品被取消资格。请注意，此限制不适用于年级学生人数超过1000人的高中。

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