2010年7月28日星期三

The cove

May be you have seen this video, but I wanna more people know the turth.
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTgzOTQ2NDI4.html

2010年6月15日星期二

Summary-homework

In the article" Understanding Cultural Differences-Brief Article", it talks about how to make a good communication with people who from other countryies, and it also shows the importance of understanding a culture.
The article comes from:http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1249/is_4_73/ai_64519577/?tag=content;col1

2010年5月13日星期四

RRJ

Reference:

Byrnes, B. (2010, May 4). Argentine ‘Carrotmob’ stick up for green business. CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/05/03/carrotmob.consumer.movement/index.html?iref=allsearch

Summary:

In Byrnes Brian’s article, he described that the production of farm, such as organic vegetables, cheese and wine, need to be a good price. Because of this reason, there comes a plan named “Carrotmob”. Carrotmob is a global movement that has been used in many countries. The farmers use the Carrotmob to improve the income, but they also need to spend more cost on the farm production. However, the seller who use mob will get more profit. There are about 55 different cities have Carrotmob now, and all of them are becoming more friendly to environment. In the article, the author also says that Carrotmob may not popular for people who are not rich. Many Latin American cities are still poor, the people who living in there have not a good thinking about green thinking, especially the young people. So the Carrotmob cannot be popular in the whole world now. At the end of the article, a shopkeeper who sells who sells marinated organic olives says that he earn 50% more money than before, and the author says Carrotmob becomes a big business.

Reaction:

The article looks like to recommend the Carrotmob to the world. Like other new high technology invention, Carrotmob cannot be accepted quickly. The good news is that some places do this business well. I think people could like it, because there are more and more people have enough money to live, and they become to spend their money to keep them to be health, so that they will buy the Carrotmob things. I believe that Carrotmob is good for environment too, because it needs a good environment to make the production well and nature. In another word, they can’t use agricultural chemicals or chemical fertilizer. Therefore, agricultural pollution problem can be a good solution. So, I think we young people should study the knowledge about green thinking, and we also should keep using Carrotmob productions.

2010年5月5日星期三

RRJ4

Reference:

Chang, E. (2010, April 28). China’s famed Pearl River under denim threat. CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/04/26/china.denim.water.pollution/index.html?iref=allsearch

Summary:

In the article, it says the pollution of the Pearl River is very hard. People who live on the bank of the river worry about their life. They say that they could swimming and catch big fishes in the river before, but now, the water has turned dark and black. The author says the Pearl River is no longer used as a normal river, because it has too much trash or dead animal bodies in the river, and it continued for many years. That is because the bank of the Pearl River is a very famous economic status in the southern of China, and there are many companies in there. Among the companies, the blue jean capital company is the most polluting one, and it includes many famous brands in the world. The author says that people buy the jeans for wearing, but they don’t know the jeans may be made by poison. The author also says the satellite images show the evidence of the jean’s companies making a lot of trash. The reason of the pollution is the process of making jeans requires coloration, and it makes a few heavy metal elements in the sewage, so the waste water falls into the river with the tubes. However, the pollution causes many kinds of illness and health problems.

Reaction:

I agree with the author about the pollution of making clothes being very bad for rivers. In my hometown, there was a large river too, and it was very beautiful. After the development of economic, the status of the river becomes bad, many fishes died, the color of the water is more dark and mixed than before.

2010年4月28日星期三

RRJ

Jun Zhu
EAP1 Core
Environment

Reference:

By Knights, April 5, 2010
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/04/05/sustainable.green.cities/index.html?iref=allsearch

Summary:

In Knights’ article, he says that we should change something about the environment in the cities. In the cities, people are using unrecyclable things, and it causes the environment of the city becomes bad. But now, people know that waste is bad, so they want to use the renewable energy and help all the urban have a good living environment. This is a cornerstone of helping the climate to be well, and McRae, the person in the article, says they will not be sustainable if not many people so this. At the end of the article, the author shows that is very good for get the environment of earth if the dwellers in the cities can use renewable things everyday, because the number of the dwells in cities are very huge.

Reaction:

The author initiates that using renewable things in our life, so he use the Vancouver to be an example to prove his idea. I read about some articles that Canada doesn’t use sunlight for energy, but it is popular in China. I think we can use sunlight to remove the electric energy in some places. It is also can be a kind of renewable energy, and the sunlight just a kind of the boundless energy in the world, so that we can find many ways to protect our earth. I also agree with author that he said the cities are the important places where need to be more clean and nature. Today, many people living in nature country or the suburbs near the cities, because they want to have a nice environment. And I believe it is useful to be health when I read a search in a book. In that book, it says that there are more old people living in the southern of the U.S more than the people who living in the northern of America. This is because of the industrial distribution of the U.S, the north near the five big lakes are many industrial companies, and the cities like Chicago are developed of it in the past few years, but this spend the environment and the cost of non-renewable energy. The different thing is that the cities in the southern of U.S are developed with tourism, and I can understand why Americans have that choose. However, the environment is important about our health, if we don’t care about it, we will lost all the places where we living now.

2010年4月21日星期三

Jun Zhu
EAP1 Core
Environment


Reference:


By Knights, April 5, 2010
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/04/05/sustainable.green.cities/index.html?iref=allsearch


Summary:


In Knights’ article, he says that we should change something about the environment in the cities. In the cities, people are using unrecyclable things, and it causes the environment of the city becomes bad. But now, people know that waste is bad, so they want to use the renewable energy and help all the urban have a good living environment. This is a cornerstone of helping the climate to be well, and McRae, the person in the article, says they will not be sustainable if not many people so this. At the end of the article, the author shows that is very good for get the environment of earth if the dwellers in the cities can use renewable things everyday, because the number of the dwells in cities are very huge.


Reaction:


The author initiates that using renewable things in our life, so he use the Vancouver to be an example to prove his idea. I read about some articles that Canada doesn’t use sunlight for energy, but it is popular in China. I think we can use sunlight to remove the electric energy in some places. It is also can be a kind of renewable energy, and the sunlight just a kind of the boundless energy in the world, so that we can find many ways to protect our earth. I also agree with author that he said the cities are the important places where need to be more clean and nature. Today, many people living in nature country or the suburbs near the cities, because they want to have a nice environment. And I believe it is useful to be health when I read a search in a book. In that book, it says that there are more old people living in the southern of the U.S more than the people who living in the northern of America. This is because of the industrial distribution of the U.S, the north near the five big lakes are many industrial companies, and the cities like Chicago are developed of it in the past few years, but this spend the environment and the cost of non-renewable energy. The different thing is that the cities in the southern of U.S are developed with tourism, and I can understand why Americans have that choose. However, the environment is important about our health, if we don’t care about it, we will lost all the places where we living now.

2010年4月7日星期三

RRJ(1)

Reference:
By Stone Marth 30,2010
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/29/plastiki.conservation.international/index.html?iref=allsearch

Summary:
According to the article, when the author had opportunity to dive in the Japanese ocean he was surprised to find that there were many trashes on the bottom of the ocean. He think the ecosystem have already been hurt by pollution, increased acidification, and the warming of the water. The rubbishes accumulate for a long time and the animal lived around the ocean begin to eat them. Albatrosses and turtles were dead because they choking by rubbish. They can not distinguish the plastics or food. There are many consequences that the ocean has damaged: climate change, sea level rise, ocean acidification, overfishing, loss of biodiversity, and increasing of invasive species. And the marine system does not have any problems, the problems are extrinsic. It is impacts by humans’ activities. They have three solutions to rebuilt ocean healthy. First, use Seascape model with management of broad marine areas. Second, they are increasing that modal for larger-scale regional management. Third, they will have a steady fishery management. People will work hard to improve the ocean environment. And it is also can be a solution for our climate environment.

Reaction:
In this article, the author tells a very serious problem, the pollutions of the ocean. Ocean covers the 90 percent of our earth. The problems of ocean will affect our life directly. And it is also affect the climate. Because of people the animals all over the word become decreasing. All the animals are the part of the food chains. If we lose some parts of the food chains we will have many consequences that we cannot shoulder. So we must protect the animals. In addition, we must protect the largest area of this world- ocean. All the problems depend on humans’ activities and behaviors. And the solutions this article told are improved the awareness of people to protect the ocean environment. I think it is the only solution for ocean. People must realize they are living on the only earth, if they do not protect it well, this world will damage. And the first step is from the ocean. Therefore, we must notice the consequences that the ocean has already brought us. The ocean environment destroyed by us, and we must rebuilt it by ourselves too.
This is a picture about Banjo. Banjo is a music thing that is similar with guitar. Banjo has five music wires and a wood made body. It is very old, so not many people can play this things well now.

2010年2月25日星期四

RRJ 3

Reference:

Ford, M for CNN, January 17, 2010 10:55 p.m. EST
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/15/green.electronics.report/index.html?iref=allsearch

Summary:

According to Matt Ford’s article, the high-tech products what showed in Las Vegas all took the promising that they would change our lives. Based on "cut through the greenwash", manufacturers tried to change their product to reduce the pollution of the environment. The toxic materials in electronics could be recycling for the economic motivation. But the process of recycling was also pollutes the environment. The Nokia, Apple, Sony Ericsson were becoming the leader to eliminate some of the most harmful substances in their products. Samsung tried to remove these substances. There are 18 ranked companies have promised to eliminate at minimum the detrimental things. The Greenpeace keep putting brand on the spotlight, and they think customers have the most powerful influence.

Reaction:

After reading this article, I know that many electronics all have some dangerous and harmful parts. For example, when you brought a new computer, you have made new a pollutant. Actually, we can’t make an environmentally friendly production because of the limit technology. But, all of the producers are thinking about the environment problem. In the article, the author talks a lot that, some famous companies try to reduce the pollution of their production, because they have the responsibility to do it, so that, they developed the eco-product. I think this is a good current, and it could make the consumers thinking about some new kinds of problems, such as the problems about energy efficient and contain toxic substances.

2010年2月11日星期四

RRJ 2

Jun
EAP1 CORE

Reference:
By Hammock Anne, CNN, 2010 January 4, the future of brain-controlled devices,
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/30/brain.controlled.computers/index.html?iref=allsearch

Summary:
In Anne Hammock’s article, it talks about people are using brain-computer interfaces to help disable men in their lives and get rid of the disease. This brain-computer works easy; it only need people’s thinking in their head; the signal from their head can operate some machine or control computers. But the author also pointed out that this technology has a lot of controversy. When people are using the machine, it may show ethical issues to others, and some bad people could use it in a wrong way. On the other hand, some companies are researching into the development of this technology to the gaming and cure for Alzheimer’s disease. With regard to the issue of cost, this is not very satisfactory now.

Reaction:
When I was reading this article, I was very interested in the technology. We all know that we have to show gestures or language to tell other people our feeling and thinking. But now, we can just watch others and use our heads to think about what we want to say. Is this so crazy? I think is so unbelievable, but the author has been telling the truth to us. This technology of brain-control has both advantages and deficiencies. If we use this technology in school, teachers can not always possible hoarse throat, because they don’t need to speak loudly everyday. Actually, I heard similar news before, but I didn’t know how this machine works. Now I have learnt something about it, even though it’s hard to understand. I agree that the technology is a very good invention, if it can cure many of the elderly patients with dementia, because it can change their lives totally. It is not yet widely implemented because of the high cost. However, any kind of science and technology should be used in the right place, but not in crime. I am looking forward to this technology being able to be used in future life. In addition to the worship of science, I also know a truth from the article: Nothing is impossible.

2010年2月2日星期二

RRJ 1 (EAP1 CORE)

Reference: Man to plead guilty in Scientology cyber attacks, Los Angeles, California (CNN), 2010, January 26
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/26/scientology.hacker/index.html?iref=storysearch

Summary:
In this article, a person is charged of planning to make a cyber attack to harm the website of the Church. This is about a group named “ Anonymous” who write many anonymous to the website. The author says the man who downloads the software is culpable, the program can arrest people log in the website, and the website will be very lagged with the electric rubbish. The reason of this injury is an online video has a lot of debates, so that the negative person uses the “Anonymous” to harass the website that sends the video. This cyber attack is harmful, because the group lets people download the “denial of service” and to place prank phone calls. It’s not only the problem for the Church, but also influencial people who view the websites. However, the criminals will get the proper punishment.

Reaction:
After I read this article, I think the crime of the Internet has become more and more popular. The author only shows one kind of criminal behavior, and I hate all of this bad behavior. In my country, there are also some people also use malware or spyware to violate the Internet order. If you download them or click them on their website, you could get problems. In this case, we need care about the realm name of the website, and we must be careful when we want to download something. This is an effective way to avoid the cyber attack. On the other hand, the government should make the offence reporting system of the Internet crime, because it can help policemen or the website workers deal with the problem. However, everybody should strike the crime of the Internet and avoid being attacked. I think the Internet is a useful tool to share good information and resource, but not the trick of Internet crime.