blue guy: October 2007

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Education, bullying, and terrorism

Terrorism

Terrorism is one of the violations that people are against the law. People who do not have information about terrorism confuse other violations, especially an assassination, with terrorism. Both terrorism and assassination often have same purposes and utilize same methods. Therefore, persons do not know their exact definition.
Some people say that the purpose of terror is that person or people, who have been trained to kill someone, send their massages or faith and rarely ask money to government and citizen in order to accomplish their own goals. Sometimes, it is practiced to disturb political intention. However, those factors cannot distinguish Terrorism from other violations.
There is a different point. Terrorism is that people, who have been trained to kill someone, kill anybody. For example, we can compare 11/9 incident with John Fitzgerald Kennedy incident. People say that John Fitzgerald Kennedy incident is assassination and 11/9 incident is terror. Two incidents have similar to purpose related to politics and people or person who have trained committed. Also someone supported them or him.
What is different?
Different point is “randomly” and “indiscriminately”
Only fixed person died in John Fitzgerald Kennedy incident.
However, many discretionary people that although a few people might have political effects, most people might do not have one died in 11/9 incident.

Education

Education
It is difficult to define education, because its definition is a wide scope. That’s because people think education can be accomplish with textbooks at school and students only can learn knowledge from teacher at school. Actually, people in Korea have believed it. However, Nowadays its awareness have been changed. People think that education can accomplish outside without textbooks.
For example, when I was child, teacher gave me homework related to lesson and I ought to study with textbooks, sitting on the chair and watching regular education programs during each vacation. But these day, students visit museum, concerts, and famous places during vacation. Even, students can obtain leave of absence and then go any places during a school term.
I think that education is that students learn about knowledge from textbook and feel various feelings through attending evens such as concerts, museums and ceremony.
Ultimately, educations is that people raise personality through the all those,

bullying
Nowadays, this word is no longer unfamiliar in society. The figures of committing bullying increasingly have increased and bullying has been serious problems in society. After all, this becomes one of the violations. Bullying does not simply mean that people are inflicted by physical power.
In any group, there is friction between people. Although there is physical power, such conflict is not bullying. After conflict between people, they could easily are familiar and get along with each other.
In my case, one of my friends hated me and we fought. After fighting, we seriously talked about opinion we have different and we became close to friend.
However, bullying is not. They inflict and hit person or people many times. Of course, they utilize physical power and insult a people by calling them a various abuse. Sometimes there is sexual abuse. People inflicted received mental and physical pains at the same time.

Friday, October 26, 2007

A Capacity for Toy

Play is very important to animals. (Playing might improve evolutionary functions and develop social, neurological, or physical capacities.)

Nowadays, many experts have tried to study about paying related to animals and new information is found by experts.

- New information 1 : some animals might show much interest in humans’ play (an elephant try to imitate children's swinging many time but it cannot do it)

- New information 2 : some animals might show deep interest in themselves’ play(Alaskan buffalo plays by themselves on ice)

- New information 3 : some animal might play alone, using objects(Komodo in a British zoo, alligator in Georgia, gorillas and chimpanzees use objects such as a shovel, artificial water falling and dolls during playing)

- New information 4 : using playing with objects develop to social play(When dolphin at an oceanarium play with a feather, the others joined in and then play with it each other. Also lions and beluga whales play each other, using objects.)

- New information 5 : some animals recognize rules through training.( Elephants and dolphins can understand game rules)

- New information 6 : some animals find playmates and enjoy games across the barrier of species( Dogs can play with other animals. Also they get along with humans)

Columbine High School Massacre

The fourth-deadliest school killing is occurred by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold at Columbine High School massacre. This incident seems to be elaborately prepared by two people, who have various weapons such as two 9mm firearms and two 12-gauge shotguns, pipe bomb and semi-automatic carbine, record and wrote their plans and their massage. They attempted to begins shooting in cafeteria (afterward, they moved into library to kill people) Also while they shoot gun, they killed cruel methods. For example, when a person struggled down the steps towards the bottom of the staircase, Klebold walked up to him and shot him in the back at close range. They then threw bomb in the Library Hallway, whose way is used by two guys when entering into cafeteria, 52 students, 2 teachers, and 2 librarians were hiding under to computer desk. After two guys saw police evacuating students, they began to shoot to policeman, who returned fire. They continued to kill students under the computer desk. At this point, there is one argument about "Do you believe in God?" Each student have different opinions and it caused many debates as to whether the official investigation thoroughly assessed all possibilities. This brutal massacre ended at 11:42 a.m. After at 11: 42, two men wandered around, indiscriminately, aimlessly shooting. The shooters re-entered the library and they shot themselves. Finally, two guys not only killed 12 students and a teacher, but also wounded 23 others in this accident.

A great deal of debate occurred about the killers' motivation and whether anything could have prevented the crime. Also this incident caused people to discuss about gun control laws, the availability of firearms in the United States, and gun violence involving youths. In response to concerns over the causes of Columbine and other school massacres, many schools instituted new anti-bully policies as well as so-called "zero tolerance" approaches to weapons and threatening behavior.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

cause of school violence

vers and expression

"Effect on Biodiversity"

There is a bacterium that is naturally toxic to certain beetles and insects. Scientists have taken the gene that produces the toxin in the bacterium and engineered it into potato and corn plants. Now the potato and corn plants produce the same toxin, so any of the beetles or insects that eat them are poisoned by the toxin in the potato and corn plants. As the plants produce their own insecticide, farmers do not need to spray them with conventional insecticide, with the result that there is less pesticide residue on these plants. In this sense, these GE plants are better for us. But they now contain a gene that produces toxins. Is this good for us?

As well as the target pests, many beneficial beetles and insects are killed. Monarch butterfly larvae died when they came into contact with pollen from GE corn. What will be the effect on beetles, mice, birds, etc. that eat the beetles and insects that have been poisoned by the toxin in the potatoes and corn? In other words, what will be the effect on the environment? Some fear that proliferation of GE crops may result in huge losses of biodiversity and all the dangers that entails.

The GE potatoes and GE corn just mentioned are meant to reduce the need for pesticide. Other plants are genetically engineered to withstand pesticide. A gene that is naturally resistant to Monsanto's Roundup herbicide has been inserted into canola. So a farmer can spray a field of GE canola with almost as much Roundup as he/she likes, and while the weeds will be killed, the canola will be unaffected. So herbicide-resistant GE crops may encourage farmers to use more pesticide. There would be more pesticide residue on these crops.

In some places, the bacteria needed for breaking down vegetable matter so that the soil is fertilized are being wiped out by excessive use of Roundup. The soil is becoming inert, and so much so that dead weeds do not rot.

When a farmer harvests a crop like soy, some falls on to the ground and may remain there till the following growing season, when it may grow spontaneously. If the farmer is growing a different crop, the soy is now unwanted, a weed, and the farmer may want to kill it with herbicide. Herbicide-resistant GE soy cannot be killed with ordinary herbicide and farmers in Argentina, for example, use a potent cocktail of different chemicals, including 2-4,D and, it is thought, Paraquat. This cocktail is causing environmental havoc. Some of the chemicals are blown by the wind on to neighboring fields, into streams and lakes, and on to people. It is causing skin blemishes on children, farm animals to be born deformed, bananas to sprout from the middle of the branch instead of the top, lakes filled with dead fish.

"Substantial Equivalence"

The biotechnology industry claims that genetic engineering is just like traditional breeding, i.e., GE plants are substantially equivalent to non-GE plants and, therefore, that they do not need any extra regulation. This is obviously misleading.
In traditional breeding, members of the same or very similar species are crossed to create offspring with some novel trait. This greatly limits the genes that can be combined. Furthermore, when different but similar species are crossed, their offspring are generally infertile, preventing inter-species gene combinations from propagating in the wild. For example, a donkey and a mare can make a mule, but the mule will be infertile, the end of the line for the combined genes.

Genetic engineering smashes these natural barriers. Using gene insertion, any gene from any plant, animal, bacterium, fungus or virus can be inserted into the DNA in reproductive cells of any other organism. If the resulting organism survives, it generally can pass on its altered DNA, along with and new traits, through normal reproduction. For example, genetic engineering enables scientists to create pigs which have human genes, genes which will be passed on to future generations.

So GE plants and animals are not substantially equivalent to non-GE varieties. But are they safe for us to eat? Do they need extra regulation?
There are indications that they may not be safe. An English scientist reported that rats fed GE potatoes developed cancerous tumors. The rats' brain size also decreased. The same scientist also fed GE tomatoes to rats. 7 out of 20 rats developed stomach lesions and died.

There are also problems within the Food and Drug Agency, the US agency with responsibility for regulating food. Because of inadequate legislation in the US, Monsanto's New Leaf Superior GE potato is not regulated. The potato has been genetically engineered to poison and kill the Colorado potato beetle. Because it produces its own toxin, the potato is registered as a pesticide. The FDA does not regulate the potato because it does not have authority to regulate pesticides. That is the Environment Protection Agency's job, but the EPA says the potato is a food.

The first GE crop to be commercialized, the Flavr Savr tomato, did not pass the required toxicological tests. Secret memoranda from the FDA reveal that the agency ignored warnings from its own senior scientists who pointed out that GE is risky. What is behind this situation? For one thing, there is a very close link between the biotechnology industry and the US government. The biotech industry has been well represented in President Bush's cabinet. Secretaries of Defence, Health, and Agriculture, the Attorney General and the chairperson of the House Agriculture Committee have had connections with Monsanto or the wider industry.
But would the manufacturer be irresponsible? Monsanto president has been quoted as saying, "Safety is the Government's responsibility."

So we do not know for sure if GE foods are safe. They may turn out to be harmful. There are many examples of new technologies hailed at first as great benefits to humankind, but later realized to be anything but a benefit. The effects of DDT were not known for decades. Likewise Thalidomide, which caused deformities in more than 100,000 babies. At the time of its approval in the EU and Canada, tests in laboratory animals showed no negative effects. Thalidomide's damage was revealed only over time, not in the drug's users, but in their children.

There is already at least one new disease linked to GE food. In 1989 eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS) hit the US. 37 people died and 1,500 were permanently disabled. EMS was linked to the consumption of a dietary supplement called L-Tryptophan. The batch of L-Tryptophan implicated in the outbreak was traced to Showa Denko, which had recently introduced a new genetically engineered bacterium into its production process.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Using Resumptive and summative Modifiers to Gracefully Extend Your Sentences

1. Many different school systems are making a return to traditional education in the basics.
ⓡ_____, education that requires students to attend their classes, not take classes on-line.
ⓢ_____, a change that has implemented by programs for the last ten years .
ⓕ_____, introducing new teaching skills that mixed new and old teaching skills.

2. While the period of the last few years or so, automobile manufacturers have been trying to meet new and more stringent quality control requirements.
ⓡ_____, requirements that are compelled by the government and environmental organizations.
ⓢ_____, a challenge which all companies do not appose the requirements.
ⓕ_____, making strict laws that regulate automobile manufactures.

3. The majority of young people in the world of today con not even begin to have an understanding of the insecurity that a large number of older people had experienced during the Great Depression.
ⓡ_____, insecurity that had depressed all economic fields.
ⓢ_____, a failure that is situation that economists could not anticipate at that time.
ⓕ_____, unnecessarily spending much money on items.

4. The reasons for the cause of aging are a puzzle that has perplexed humanity of millennia.
ⓡ_____, a puzzle that have been tried to solve by scientists.
ⓢ_____, a mystery that noone understand why people become old.
ⓕ_____, is not solving aging in future.

5. The successful accomplishment of test-tube fertilization of embryos has raised many issues of an ethical nature that continue to trouble both scientists and laypeople.
ⓡ_____, issues that are seriously controversial in all nations.
ⓢ_____, an event that having a baby through experience is advantages or disadvantages.
ⓕ_____, trying to experiment on test-tube fertilization by the thousands.

6. Many who lived during the period of the Victorian era were appalled when Darwin put forth the suggestion that their ancestry might have included creatures such as apes.
ⓡ_____, apes that are similarly to monkey.
ⓢ_____, a belief that almost people had believed people are created by god.
ⓕ_____, rejecting this suggestion in this period.

7. In the period known to scholars and historians as the Renaissance, increases in affluence and stability in the area of political affairs had the consequence of allowing streams of thought of different kinds to merge and flow together.
ⓡ_____, Renaissance that began 14th century and finished 17th century.
ⓢ_____, separations that all learning was separated and not linked with other learning the period of Renaissance.
ⓕ_____, making the transition form the medieval to the modern period.

8. The field of journalism has to an increasing degree placed its focus on the kind of news stories and events that at one time in our history were considered to be only gossip of a salacious and sexual nature.
ⓡ_____, journalism that is consist of superficial thought and research, a popular slant and hurried composition.
ⓢ_____, contents that many people have interested in news stories and events.
ⓕ_____, have reading journal in different age groups.

9. In his documentary Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore has put the spotlight on the American Penchant for violence.
ⓡ_____, violence that is becoming more and more seriously.
ⓢ_____, a suggestion that few have focused this problem.
ⓕ_____, showing raising problems and counterplans.

10. Al Gore has tirelessly urged world government to develop policies in response to global warming.
ⓡ_____, global warming that has emerged during 50 years and is serious problem in the world.
ⓢ_____, a possibility that raising many problems that is mantioned in many books.
ⓕ_____, making law to prevent global warming in many nations.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

p 163-3a

These days, almost all nations are enacting laws to allow people to help a patient die and regulating its action through various and strict laws. This trend has become controversial at issue. Some people who believe in god or have religion insist that allowing people to help a patient die is obviously homicide. However, others who have thought that future and present time in so important disagree with it. Two opinions have been opposed each other.

It is very difficult for a family to decide whether one of the family member, who has serious diseases or involved in miserable accident and he or she can not do any mental and physical activities should die or not, if the family love him or her.

We see and here about Marin’s case and their family’s decision. I think we never criticize other people’s decision made by them.

Although all people should be protect by law (Bill of Law regulate and show that the right of all people are equal) if they are patient and the disabled or not, I think the right of other people is more important than the right of patient, who could be kept alive by the machines and is not unconscious. That’s because although we can not guess whether patient be alive or not, we see that other family members will have lived.

I think that Martin’s family members should help a patient die and Martin’s family should consider themselves. Although they love him, he might not want to be placed in painful situations in which family members are going to suffer form various factors such as money problem, nursing and so on because Martin he also love them.
Obviously, a few people will abuse a law as to way they kill people and ignore the right of patient. Although at that time other family member might sufferfrom serious critics, and have hard time to die one of the family member they might enjoy more comfortable and convenient after time passes.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

10/9/2007

Refusal creates considerable anger and aggression. Research on situation in which one-side person secretly loves somebody demonstrate that when one’s love in thwarted by someone, anger appears. Also there is experimental evidence that people who have been excluded from their group often express their anger to people who ignore them.

Some people in a group often reject or blame their friends or colleagues, expelling their friends or colleagues from a group. Most people, who were expelled from their group, do not get along with their friends or colleagues.

This anger extremely is expressed by using firearms. For example, two students who had been ignored, ostracized and criticized by other students had designed to kill their friends during one year and two students whose name is Eric Harris(18) and Dylan Klebold(17) killed and injured people including one teacher and 12 students died and 21 people were injured.

Because it is associated for people to between have privileges and duty to bring their arms, modern military and Americans society have been connected form the time of the ancient Greeks to 20th century. Many founders not only spent much money on militias but also were concern about standing armies to link between service and a full place in society.

This situation in which all people attend war is changeing. Corrently, only a few people war against the enemy, any more atteding war is not duty. Also ballt is limited in small area. That's why morden warfare has reduce considerable burden from citizen.

Commercial power is influencing on the news media’s contemporary treatment of crime and violence. It is very important factor for its result to rebuild pubic opinion and criminal justice policy because the news media’s results show various occurrences in modern society. Only wrong article related to economic and marketing considerations reflected much influence on media contents

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

a chain of causation

One of the famous inventions was paper.
Five thousand years ago, paper was invented in China. Before at that time, all people should write letters on woods to make books. It was very difficult for people to carry, store, and read that book because of volume. However, after making paper, all things were easier. Because people can carry books, many people can read them. Consequently, it spread information and many people can share knowledge with other people.
In Modern ages, newspapers and magazines were made to satisfy people’ an appetite for knowledge. Each is separately developed to meet each class.

P 133 - 3

When I someday discover that my son or daughter is prodigy, I will be worry about how should I raise son or daughter. And I might talk about him or her with my wife.
I think it is very important for parents to agree that this child is not a gift from god. God obligate to raise him for world.

Firstly, many prodigies have born in Korea. However, they are not prodigies now. I have thought that why have they become famous people. Of course, there are several problems.
One of the problems is in parents. Almost all parents in Korea have boasted their child to be a famous person, showing TV to testify their abilities. And most people gather around TV to see him or her. Although he or she could prove his or her abilities, he might receive much stress from periphery. These children might suffer from such a circumference and lost their interests. Maybe they want to become ordinary children.
Parents should talk with him or her to solve this problem. And they note to their children that where, what and how should his or her abilities use for other people. I think this might be an answer. Parents should bring him to volunteer organization. They might realize that why do they have abilities.

Secondly, prodigies might have unbalance between emotion and though or body and spirit. Because Korea education systems give all children uniform education system, parents should solve this problem by themselves, giving special education for prodigies.
If do not so, this might affect their child. They, in turn, could lose their abilities. Parents should provide predigest with much free time to enjoy and play with their friends and learn about other subjects except subject prodigies have interested in.

All considerations about prodigies, prodigies are born. But prodigies also are made. Parents should provide much free time to think, feel, enjoy, play with friends, family and alone, and learn something.

Monday, October 1, 2007

GRAPH SHOWIGN AVERAGE DAILY USE OF D.C METRO

How many people have used D.C metro during a day?
This graph describes average daily use of D.C metro.

This graph shows that the number of people reaches their highest level because man people might go to worksites or school during this time. On the contrary, the number of people falls to a low at 16:00. From 6:00 to 8:00, the number of people sharply increases. After 8:00 the number of commuter plummets until 10:00. After this time, the number of commuter surges on the increase till 14:00 because during this time people might go to somewhere to eat something for their lunch. After the number of people reaches a bottom at 16:00, the number of users again diametrically goes up at 18:00. This reaches the second peak. Maybe, people who went to worksites or school in the morning might return to their house. After the number of people noticeably decreases from 18:00 to 20:00, the number of commuter is little changed until 22:00.

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