The second essay of Mark

Nature and nurture
Scientists always argues about nature and nurture, and try to find which one has more effects for the new born baby in order to make sure the infants can grow up well. Obviously, nurture and nature both play important role for the human’s life, and making defferent influences. Nature decides the gene and heredity of the human being. Nurture determins the people's personality and behavior. Today we will focus on talking about what effects nature and nurture make during the development of the people.

Infants were born with no expriences.Children are similar as white paper, nature means the paper, and every child is the same [really? This is bald assertion]. Nurture is the printer. The value of the picture mostly depends on what you will print, not the paper. [this is argument by bad analogy] That means the growth of the children is the process of learning. Children learn everything from what they see, hear and feel. In another word, children learn from the environment. Children also need to be taught, and develop themselves quickly.
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in, and train him to be any type of specialist I might select – doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and yes beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors’ (John B. Watson, 1930, p. 104). [Don't start a paragraph with a long quote without explaining why] He believes that infants are the same at the beginning. They will choose they way which you give them or which the environment influence them. They even do not know what is right or wrong unless you tell them which is right. They have different faces, voices, and especially genes, these are given by nature, however, heredity can not become to the key for children’s life. Children only change because of the environment, from what they learn from the environment.
Learning is another key that makes lots of effects for children. New born baby has no experiences, whatever you teach them they will learn without “no”. Nature makes nothing on it. Children accumulate experiences by seeing, hearing and feeling. They will get your experiences if you teach them, and easily change their mind by your experiences, then develop themselves. For example, children reared in middle-class American homes begin to speak at about one year of age. Children reared in San Marcos, a remote village in Guatemala, have little verbal interaction with adults and do not utter their first words until they are over two years old (Kagan, 1979). [quote?]
Children’s life is changeable. Both nature and nurture are play roles in their lives. Nature gives them appearances. Nurture gives them personality. In one word, the key for effecting children’s life and directing them is nurture.
Reference: Reading & Writing Text 2-1. Page 12, 13.