Women in China

Traditions affects a lot of women and this appears in China and according to this, one woman kills herself every four minutes. Chinas considered as the only country in the world which has more women suicides more than men and this is not an expectation it’s a fact according to the World Health Organization statistics. Suicide problem has a high rate is rural areas more than in the cities and the reason for this high rate in the rural regions is related to the availability of poisons in the agricultural areas. The head of the Suicide Prevention Project at the Beijing Cultural Development Center for Rural Women said that the particular reason for rural women’s suicide is the fighting between the husband and the wife and the bad relationship between them, which is ended by the wife drinking some poison. There is a famous saying among men; they consider the woman as an animal and they say" marrying a woman is like buying a horse; I can ride you and beat you whenever I like". Of course women will kill themselves and some times they attempt suicide as a way of asking for better treatment from their husbands; they want them to treat them as human beings. Business deals are an important point which it's related to the marriage. Marrying is the biggest issue where traditional attitudes still dominate. There are many marriages considered and operated as business deals by buying the bride and becoming a member of the groom's family. Xu Rong's organization attempts to prevent suicide by providing women with village based supporting groups to discuss their feelings and emotions. Also, this organization has been succesful and there are other successes including a school where young rural women are taught the skills to build lives for themselves. There are many courses such as, cooking, computing and hairdressing as well as classes on marriage laws. According to the city living, the atmosphere of the city life allows the girls to work and to control their lives and have a career, but this does not happen in the villages because they see that it’s a risk and because there are many women who have been sexually abused by their bosses.



The main point:

We see how the Chinese women are suffering in the rural areas because of their husbands and because of the bad treatment from their husbands, so many women attempt to commit suicide.



The opinion:

In my opinion, the government should punish any man who treats any woman in a bad way because the woman is a human being created by God to be beside the man.

Carbon Footprint

In the class today our teacher gave us a site to enter and it asked us many questions about our life and what we are using every day . I found that I was a large consumer of the earth I am living in; as if we had 4.56 planets to support us but we only have one. I think that the way used by the site to figure my carbon footprint is that they ask me a question and then it calculates my percentage with what exists on the earth. Many of my friends have different carbon footprint rates like for example my rate was 3.74 and one of my friends which is Ali measured 3.14 and someone is even less and reached 2.27. Everyone has a different rate depending on his life style; some of them consume a lot of the earth’s contents and some of them almost use nothing. The worst thing in some people is that they use things more than they need; like there is a person who buys a lot of food but eats almost the half; others waste the water on washing cars by spraying the car with water instead of washing by hand for example; others also keep their air conditionsers open for a long time without any usage. Even me; sometimes I use a thing that is not necessary which affects our earth’s resources. All that may reduce the resources of the earth. Each one should think twice before doing anything that concerns the earth because it is not just for you, there are a lot of consumers that want to use it also; and remember don’t live to eat, but eat to live.

Global warming

An Inconvenient Truth ( Point of a view )

As Byron Fibbs says http://brandonfibbs.com/2006/05/24/an-inconvenient-truth/ , the movie was very will presented and Al Gore’s acting was perfect; I can’t say that he was acting because he talked from his heart in order to convince us with this issue that many people are not aware of it. He was himself, in other words; I found the movie was entertaining and exiting and made me curious to know more about it and about our future. During his presentation he added some jokes to change the audience mood. There were quite enough graphs, charts and true pictures that are related to the earth’s conditions at the moment and in the past. With it Al Gore shows that the global warming is no longer a hypothetical theory. There is evidence for it almost everywhere in the world. “We must decide before it is too late” he said because the earth is going into a very bad situation in the near future. In fact I loved this movie because it turned our faces to a different issue more important than the terrorists and the economy. In the movie he showed us when he travelled from place to place and I agree with that because I think he wants to let us know that he is interested in the global warming and he really will go anywhere to see the situation with his eyes. Al of these points are mentioned by Byron’s review.

On the other hand many people like Scott, http://www.avclub.com/articles/an-inconvenient-truth,3943/ , find that when he talked about his sister when he lost her from lung cancer that it is has nothing to do with the movie but I disagree with them. I find it very important because he is talking about an experience he had lived with. Many people think that this issue is related to the business men and the big companies that aimed to get profit only without thinking in the future, Hello!!! Are you kidding? This a responsibility for all of us and we all involved in it. At the end, I don’t have any bad comment about this movie and I think it is 100% perfect. So I disagree with Scott review.

summary

Riches await as Earth’s icy north melts ( DOUG MELLGREN, Mar 24 , 6:34 PM ) Rapidly increasing global warming of Earth's frozen north has pushed governments and businesses into a scramble for domination over suddenly priceless Arctic lands and seas. The United States, Canada, Russia, Denmark and Norway have been rushing to stake their claims to the Arctic's estimated 25 percent of the world's undiscovered oil and gas resources, as well as fish, diamonds and possible new shipping routes. The U.S. and Canada argue over rights in the Northwest Passage, Russia and U.S. over the Beaufort Sea, Norway and Russia have issues over the Barents Sea, Canada's Yukon province and Alaska over their offshore boundary. Despite climate change, oil and gas exploration in the Arctic is moving full speed ahead. It is catastrophic scenario for the Arctic ecosystem, for wildlife and indigenous people like the Inuits and the Sami populations whose ancient cultures depend on frozen waters.


Main Idea :-
Rapidly increasing global warming on Earth's frozen north has pushed governments and businesses into a scramble for domination over suddenly priceless Arctic lands and seas.

Personal Opinion :-
What I think is that, environmental concerns are extremely important. Exploration, exploitation and transportation of natural resources in Arctic land could lead to negative impacts upon the wildlife and native inhabitants.

An Inconvenient Truth

One day at the college we saw a movie that talks about the global warming. This documentary was hosted by Al Gore, former vice president. Al Gore shares his concerns on the pressing issue of global warming in this documentary. He dedicated his life to let the people around the world be aware of the problem which threatens life on the earth. In the next lines I’m going to outline a brief summary about what i I understand from his movie “An inconvenient truth”.

A long-time environmental activist, Gore first became aware of evidence on global warming in the 1970s; he has become a passionate advocate for large- and small-scale changes in our laws and lifestyles that could help alleviate this crisis. A lot of temperature changing can be seen around the world such as heat waves, The ice is melting, The level of the sea, constructions and the weather itself all can be affected if the ice or permafrost starts to melt down because of the increasing heat. He have focused on the last 14 years changed the temperature of the earth's surface. It's just irritating him not to acknowledge that 2005 is statistically indistinguishable from 1998. as he says that the sea levels will rise 20 feet by 2100. On balance Gore get it more right than wrong on the science.

Task 2 (Global Warming )

The global warming is a huge issue, an issue which most of us do not know much about, yet it will be in the near future a matter concerned with the survival of the human race, if not all the living organisms on our planet. The definition of the global warming is quite complicated since it requires significant knowledge about the atmosphere of the earth and how carbon dioxide, which is the gas, produced from the burning of natural fuels, interacts with the gases that create the earth’s atmosphere. This interaction resulted in a hole in the atmosphere from which ultraviolet rays from the sun can enter the earth. Those rays are thought of as being harmful and carry heat along their traveling paths. Therefore, icebergs from the north and South Pole are melting down at a tremendous speed, causing an imbalance in the temperatures of our planet. In my perspective, global warming is more devastating than World War I and World War II. The damage that can be caused by this phenomenon is enormous, reaching to unimaginable levels and consequences we cannot bare or withstand. To put it in simple words, global warming can wipe out the humans and any other living beings dwelling on the surface of our beloved, injured planet. However, it’s not the damage that we are suffering from now that can be fatal to our race; it’s the escalating damage because of the combined ignorance and irresponsibility of the humans. In their nature, human beings do not care about things that don’t affect them instantly. They keep their worries on leashes until they suffer the consequences and only then do they let their worries loose and put the effort, long due, to fix the problem. Unfortunately, in the case of global warming, this will be the case and we would not stop abusing our plant until we feel the heat of the fire burning our skin, even though we knew it existed long time ago and still didn’t try to put it down. Fixing the problem is possible. The development of electric cars and the efficient harvesting of the sun’s energy can alone solve half of the problem. More individual and tangible solutions that can be offered e.g. stopping smoking, or purchasing environment-friendly vehicles. These are small and affordable solutions that can be implemented for a healthier, safer planet.