A heat debate hits upon what influences our personality and development. Some

people believe it is the characteristics we are born with while others consider

it must be the experiences we have. We have to admit that both two factors have

impacts and my point of view is the two factors play the same important

roles.

Nature forms the basis. An old saying goes, “A washed sow returns to the

muck.” The sow can never forget what it should do unless we program its brain.

This is what we called “Nature”. For instance, when a person achieves higher

ranking, he becomes greedier. We may say, “Such is human nature.” So we can

conclude that there in fact exist some features we all have in common. They form

the basis of our personality and somewhat direct our development.

Nurture does the revising. What if a child is born with introversion just

like myself? We all know that introversion is a piece of negative comment if we

put it into inactiveness. So I choose the hard way. I overcome the embarrassment

when I face the audience. I beat the fear of making verbal mistakes. I defeat

the unwillingness to open my mouth. Finally if I compare me at present and the

other me in the past, I dare say that they definitely two persons. When nature

gives you the basis, nurture tells you what to do next to adapt yourself to the

changing world no matter what you are born with.

To sum up, nature and nurture are both necessary to the forming of our

personality as well as the way we develop. There is never a superior one. Only

by balancing them and making the most of them can we see a better ego.

Nicola考官的批改：

The overall grade of this essay is in the region of a 5