Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Air pollution in Phoenix

Who pay for the air pollution in Phoenix? The people who live in Phoenix are the first ones who are going to pay for their health, because of the air pollution, which is caused by many things. This is a big problem, because how can the people live without clean air? Air pollution is made by people who live in Phoenix. The air pollution means the pollution coming from the vehicles, factories and people’s activities. The problem is that pollution causes damage to human health, damage to property and damage to wildlife. According to The Arizona Republic (2006b para.1), “those elevated levels can cause significant health problems for children, senior citizens and anyone with respiratory issues. Air pollution is created by our activities or by the effect of nature”. Also, this pollution is going to move from one place to another place. Humans still today are hurting nature by their actions. An example of damage which is caused by air pollution is diseases such as lung diseases. There is a federal standard for the air pollution in the cities in the USA. Moreover, air pollution is one of the biggest issues of different kinds of pollution. The federal government is trying to solve this problem, but they ask Phoenix to make a good plan for that. In addition, Phoenix exceeded the limit of air pollution for many years. On the other hand, there are groups of people who said Phoenix air is bad. However, they are wrong.

The air pollution is anything added to the air from our activities and that hurts nature. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (2007 para.2), "Air pollution is a mixture of solid particles and gases in the air. Car emissions, chemicals from factories, dust, pollen and mold spores may be suspended as particles. Ozone, a gas, is a major part of air pollution in cities. When ozone forms air pollution, it's also called smog". The air pollution was discovered in the 1900s. According to High School and Middle School Air Quality Education Program, (n.d pra 3), " 1940s Los Angeles, California becomes one of the first cities in the U.S. to experience severe air pollution problems then called “gas attacks.” L.A.’s location in a basin like area ringed by mountains makes it susceptible to accumulation of auto exhaust and emissions from local petroleum refineries"

We should control a lot of causes of pollution, such as allowing the people to do what they want without control, which leads to more air pollution, allowing the population to grow without control, which affects air pollution, and hard control of the farmers which will decrease the air pollution. The government of Phoenix should control the limit of air pollution in many ways.
The government's allowing the people to do what they want without control leads to more air pollution. If the government doesn't make any penalty for the people or the companies who make air pollution, they won't stop. The people harm the air by their activities. The people who live in Phoenix are victims of air pollution. To decrease the air pollution we have to dispense a lot of our needs; for example, using new technology which leads to air pollution, using a motorbike and using air conditioning. In fact, too hard to solve this problem, because all the things which cause air pollution are things we depend on for life. On the other hand, we should change our attitude and face this problem seriously. In fact, the lives of people who are living in Phoenix depend on a lot of things which cause air pollution; for example, using cars that cause air pollution. It leads to pollution in many ways; for example, the smoke that comes out from the car. Also, when they use the air conditioning in their cars, that means burning more gas, which means raising the air pollution. In addition, there is air pollution that comes from using the tires. In fact, it is hard to solve the air pollution problem but they can in many ways. The first thing they should decrease their use of cars; for example, they can go about their needs by bicycle, which will reduce the air pollution. They can stop our cars and go to their university by walking, which mean less use of cars. Also, they can use the bus, which means stopping more than thirty cars. Moreover, if they have to use their cars they can use it without air conditioning, which will decrease the car problem. Finally, the people in Phoenix can decrease the air pollution but they have to be strong to dispense of a lot of things. Also, the people in Phoenix should control a lot of causes of pollution, such as using CFCs. Using CFCs affects negatively the air. The people use a lot of things which are using CFCs, which affect to the air; for example, air conditioning and refrigeration. Everybody knows that we can not dispense with the air conditioner or refrigerator. Also, we can not solve this problem if we want to live in this prosperity. Our lives depend on that; because of that we should look for alternatives. We have more than choices to deal with this problem, and then we can live in clean air. We can decrease the use of air conditioning in our cars by opening the windows. Also, we should lead the industrial company to find another alternative for CFCs without harming nature. That requires one hand from everybody who lives in this city to stop using anything that uses CFCs; this boycott will make the companies look for alternatives to replace CFCs with.

Second, is that allowing the population to grow up without control affects air pollution. We know that if the population grows that means raising the air pollution. The increasing of population without any control means humans need more energy, which will cause air pollution. Also, if the population grows, that means the people will need more cars, and that absolutely affects the air. The rapid growth of population will lead to many bad things for the air; for example, if the population grows that will lead to the economy to growing, that will require development; all that will effect badly the air in Phoenix. For example, when the government lets the population grows, that makes the people think about more development, which requires more factories, and with the factories the air pollution will increase. Also, the factories cause a lot of air pollution; because of that we have to stop it in many ways. The government should face this problem and solve it. Also, the government should force the factories to move outside the city; that will keep the health of people better. The government should stop any factory that harms nature. We know that if the government doesn't have any penalty for the owners of factories that harm the air, the owners of factories will care about their income.

The third issue of the air pollution is the burning farms. We should decrease the burning of crop residues which makes the air pollution increase. The government should make a penalty to the farmers who burn the plant residue. The environmental people should create programs which would help the farmer to reuse the crop residues; for example, they could help the farmers to process the remnants of agriculture to use it as a fertilizer. The farmers can use the crop residues as a food for the animal. Crop burning means lost money and hurts the environment; because of that the government and the university should teach the farmer how they can use it the right way. In addition, planting trees and greenbelts around cities and cultivated areas is also an important part of solving the problem. When the government starts to make Phoenix a green land, that is going to change the city from an unhealthy to a healthy place. Also, the trees will filter the air, with the main goal of making cleaner air for people. In addition, the greenbelt will protect the area from any storm that will affect the air of the city.

On the other hand, there is a group of people who said Phoenix is a healthy city; and it is without any air pollution. According to Judy Hedding (n.d para.1), "The Greater Phoenix area, as well as Tucson, both fared rather well compared to other major metropolitan areas. Arizona cities did not make the list of the 50 worst cities out of the 100 cities that were analyzed. Here are some of the statistics provided by the report". However, the people of Phoenix and the government should take action to change the air from unhealthy air to clean air; that will help them live in healthy cities and help their parents to survive in this city.

Reference:

Environmental Protection Agency. (2007, June 07). Retrieved June 18, 2007 from nlm.nih.gov.

Hedding, J. (n.d). Phoenix air is not so bad. Retrieved June 10, 2007 from http://phoenix.about.com

High School and Middle School Air Quality Education Program. (n.d). Retrieved June 17, 2007 from http://dnrec.state.de.us.

Friday, June 15, 2007

Air pollution in Phoenix

In “Bill on Clean Air Hits Roadblock at Arizona Legislature” by P. Davenport, the author states that the people who live in Phoenix are victims of air pollution. The Democratic government says there is some information in the bill that was written by a Federal agency which shows the case of air pollution in Phoenix. It has been deleted by a person. Carolyn Allen, a Scottsdale Republican, said the clean air is required to save the people’s health from harm. The author mentions that the bill affects farmers, builders and landowners. Patrick Cunningham, a Deputy Director of the state department of environmental quality, said the unclear air affects the ozone; also he said the federal government should punish the companies. The author said we should control the vehicles and agriculture to keep the air healthy. Allen said we have to stay together to face this problem. The author quotes Janet Napolitano as saying we cause the pollution; for example, by allowing the population to increase. Matthew Fuller, a manager for Tempe-based Valley Commercial Landscape, said someone is going to pay the cost of the pollution. Cunningham, the DEQ deputy director said there are some cities in the USA that face the same problem as Phoenix, and the government should control that.

We should control a lot of causes of pollution, such as burning of farms, trucks and industrial factories. If the Government of Phoenix wants to keep the federal government spending money for them, they have to control the limit of air pollution in many ways.

We should decrease the burning of crop residues which makes the air pollution increase. The government should make a penalty to the farmers who burn the plant residue. The environmental people should create programs which would help the farmer to reuse the crop residues; for example, they could help the farmers to process the remnants of agriculture to use it as a fertilizer. The farmers can use the crop residues as a food for the animal. Crop burning means lost money and hurts the environment; because of that the government and the University should teach the farmer how they can use it the right way.

We can see from our lives that trucks hurt nature more than small cars. The government should have strict control of the companies which have trucks or the drivers of trucks. The trucks hurt the air in many ways, such as the smoke that comes out from the truck. The government should impose hard fines on the drivers of trucks and the owners who have trucks with hard smoke which come out from their vehicles. Also, the government can make rules that keep the trucks outside the city.

The chemical factories cause a lot of air pollution; because of that we have to stop it in many ways. The government should face this problem and solve it. Also, the government should force the factories to move outside the city; that will keep the health of people better. The government should stop any factory that harms nature. We know that if the government doesn't have any penalty for the owners of factories that harm the air, the owners of factories will care about their income.

In conclusion, the air faces a lot of causes of pollution; for example, the farmers who burn the crop residues, the smoke which come from the trucks and the pollution coming from the factories. All this world faces hard problems which are air pollution. Finally, the government should do its best to protect Phoenix as a city of the USA; that will protect the health of the people who live in it.

Reference:
Davenport, P. (2007, February 08). Bill on clean air hits roadblock at Arizona Legislature. Associated Press State & Local Wire. Retrieved June 8, 2007 from Lexis-Nexis.

Thursday, June 07, 2007

The EPA Says Phoenix’s Air Too Dirty, State Must Act Or Feds Will

In ‘The EPA Says Phoenix’s Air Too Dirty, State Must Act Or Feds Will” by P. Davenport, the author states that Phoenix area’s air is too polluted. These areas have passed the standard of healthy stage of dust. The government is giving the Phoenix area time to make a plan to solve this problem. The Environmental Protection has caught these areas more than one time over the Federal Standard. The author mentions that unclear air causes a health problem; for example, hurts lung, causes kid diseases, and causes death. Also, he said the big problem is the blowing wind, which damages the road, buildings, general property, and the farm fields. The organization works hard, to bring clean air in Phoenix areas by following the federal standard. Some people say we should have high control of the road, trucks and small cars. Owens said they face a serious problem and they should take action to change the level of unclear air.

These areas face a high level of problems. The national government gives the city of Phoenix a chance for one year to make a plan that will solve this problem. Also, some organizations give some advice to Phoenix city that will help them to decrease the level of waste air. Phoenix is an American city; because of that, the American people should decrease the number of cars that will help to fix this problem, plant trees and do cloud seeding.

Decreasing the number of cars will help to solve the problem. The government can make the price of gasoline high; that will make the people find another way of transportation. The important role, which is the government’s role is the development of transportation; for example, supplying the airport and creating a new airport, supplying bus service, and increase the number of bicycle lanes. Because this will decrease the use of cars, it will help to make the air healthier than now.

Planting trees, and greenbelts around cities and cultivated areas; is also an important part of solving the problem. When the government starts to make Phoenix a green land that is going to change the city from an unhealthy to a healthy place. Also, the trees will filter the air, with the main goal of making cleaner air for people. In addition, the greenbelt will protect the area from any storm that will affect the air of city.

The artificial rain is the new technology that will affect us by changing the dusty air to fresh air. Also, that will make the area a humid area, which helps to make the area without dust. The artificial rain will make the city green, which will affect the weather.

In conclusion, the Phoenix area has a big problem, which is unclear air. We have more than one way to solve this problem, such as reducing the number and amount of use cars, planting this area and making artificial rain. This entire thing will change the unhealthy city to a healthy city. Finally, this problem will be fixed with action from the people and the government of the USA.

Reference:
Davenport, P. (2007, March 16). EPA says Phoenix’s air too dirty, state must act or feds Will. Associated Press State & Local Wire. Retrieved June 2,2007 from Lexis-Nexis.

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Environment

I have three issues in my subject that I want to explain . First, the nonrenewable source is the resource we can’t use over and over; that mean we use it for one time; for example, oil, gas, and some energy. Second, the potentially renewable resource is the resource we can renew by the natural process such as biodiversity. Third, renewable resource is the resource we can use it over and over, for example, solar energy.
The people can help to stop the destroy of the nature by more than way; for example, decrease the cutting of plant and replanting more than what they cut. The people should protect the wildlife; that means protecting the forest.
In addition, the best way to control the environment which is high control of the more developed countries and the less developed countries. If the industrial countries stop damaging the nature by their negative technology and their new negative invention. About the countries of the third world their duty is protect what they have of the forest and the wildlife. They don’t have a lot of technology but they destroy the nature by their needs. Finally, if we want to protect the nature life we should abandon everything and make our life easy and comfortable but it hurts the environment.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

ARIZONA

Arizona has a lot of national parks, museums and artist stores. It receive a large number of visitors every year. There is old Arizona, which has few people with the basic needs of their life. There is new Arizona, which has a large number of people with new technology, a large number of cars, many air conditioners and the direct environment damage they made. However, do you think when we keep the number of people increasing in Arizona we can control the environment? I don’t think so. Because of that, I feel that we have to decrease the number of people in Arizona by raising the prices, warning the people about the environmental problem and the life problem in it, and what the government can do to complete this plan.

Raising prices is the best way to save the environment in Arizona. And if the government raises the price of gasoline, they will make people move to other cities. The high price of gasoline will decrease the number of cars; that also will make the people move. In addition, the government has good control to move the people; for example, it is raising the price of water that also makes the people change their mind about staying in Arizona. Furthermore, some people should do their part to help the environment in Arizona by raising the price of land. Also, if we raise the tax of cars and transportation, that will help to decrease the number of people in Arizona.

When we warn the people about the truth of the water problem in Arizona, it will make them think again about their life in it; for example, if we let the people know there are no resources of water, the government can’t transfer the water from another city to Arizona and give him the exact number of how many years they can survive with their resource of water. We should do some propagandizing because this way will affect in some people. Also, that will make the people talk a lot about this problem together which will let him feel and think seriously about it. In addition, making good advertisements by the people who can affect in the society of Arizona will help to move people to another city.

On the other hand, the government can give the people who want to move some facilities; for example, the government can support moving the people in Arizona to another city by giving the people jobs in the other city sooner than the people from any other city. The government can make some facilities; for example, help any family want to move by transfering their stuff with little money and supporting them to get a house with good price.

Some people said when we move the people out of Arizona we are going to destroy the life in it. I think when we move the people outside Arizona, we will improve the environment in Arizona because the people in general waste the natural resources by their needs.

The good way to keep Arizona a natural state is move people outside it in many ways. Raising the price of gas and water will help to move people to another city. If government does some services to people that will let them move fast. Finally, there is a good side that can affect people, which is to advise people about what kind of problem they will have in Arizona if we don’t move.

Friday, December 08, 2006

Effects of waste water in our life

If waste water healthy to use in Australian farms and parks why can’t they drink it? water is the key elements of which are the human body, animals and plants. people should use clean water in their life because waste water is carry disease. Furthermore, people touch water every single day, since they live, when they play close water, when they work, and when they clean our clothes or house because of that it should be clean and healthy. Moreover, people can't pay no attention to waste water because it goes inside their body and their life. Also, government should develop quality of water in Australia to save the environment that will save health of Australian people who live there. According to Pipeline (1996) “Sometimes it is useful to reexamine basic ideas like why wastewater treatment is important, especially today when so many communities need to save money and reprioritize their needs and funding for public projects”. On the other hand, there is group of people who said we can recycle and treatment waste water to use it in many fields; for example, use it to make green field, park, crops, cover green, stadium, and ornamental plants. In addition, there are many research to treatment waste water to make it healthy and useful to irrigate the plants. In addition, it is matter because it caring a lot of problems for their environment and for their own health. Unlike, that serious problem and the society and environmentalists and government should stop the use of waste water in any field which touch their live and environment. Moreover, used of wasted water started since 1800, and a lot of groups work hard to develop and extract new idea to take out the serious problem of waste water. However, we can't use it in this field for many reasons such as it carry many diseases, it is pollute the soil, it is pollute ground water, and it is pollute the air.

First, their health !! every body have idea the health is the important think should care about it. There is a lot of disease carry when Australian people and government use waste water; for example, bacteria, viruses, parasitic worms, protozoa, cancer, blood disease, lung disease, and cancer. In "Health Impacts of Water Pollution" the author states "Water-borne diseases are infectious diseases spread primarily through contaminated water. Though these diseases are spread either directly or through flies or filth, water is the chief medium for spread of these diseases and hence they are termed as water-borne diseases." (2006). A lot of this disease common in the countries that with poor control of health, and also that start to happen in Australia. Furthermore, all this different kind of diseases causes by pollute water, Australian people should take care about what kind of water they are used. In addition, the environmentalist should be grateful with that. Although, this may seem obvious, wastewater is still the root cause of much environmental damage and human illness, sadness, and death in the world.

Second, when people used waste water to irrigate plants, people pollute the soil. When people add the waste water into soil the pollution will stay on the soil for long time, and that will move from soil to their food. In addition, the pollutants accumulated in soil that will move to the food and cause unhelpful effects on human health. Furthermore, when soil pollutes by waste water; the people can't take the pollute out of soil because of that, waste water is serious problem and Australian people should take care about soil. Moreover, pollutants accumulation and the related ecotoxicological effects may happen, particularly for persistent pollutants and enduringly bound chemical residues. Also, waste water change the structure of soil that make foodstuffs on the soil unavailable for use by plant. In addition, there is problem which is the pollution will move from place to another place in the soil. Moreover, people should protect any resource such as soil because it will save their health and environment of a lot of serious problem.

In addition, there is other problem that cause by waste water which is polluted groundwater. Many areas of groundwater are now dirty with heavy metals and nutrients that have an unhelpful affect on health. Also, Australian people should understanding possible reason of pollute groundwater because it’s the first step to safeguard drinking water for them and their family. Moreover, when groundwater became polluted, it is hard to clean. In " Water Quality Permit Application and Miscellaneous Forms" the author says " industrial process wastewater must not be routed to a septic system, because this may lead to groundwater contamination that can be expensive and difficult to clean up"(2006). Also, when people use waste water in irrigation, which is get from waste groundwater. It could carry disease because they are going to eat the crops which product by waste water that mean they move pollute from the fruits to their bodies . In "Farms Waste Much of World's Water" the author claim "With 525 million small farms in the world -- and 2.5 billion people living off the land -- farmers suffer the most from the problems discussed at the forum: poverty, disease, and the lack of sanitation and clean water" (n.d). Also, it isn't a good thing that farmers are using waste water to product crops. Furthermore, It's important to know that groundwater pollution is very difficult to take care of it, and it doesn't just flush out, also we should know groundwater that residue there for an average of thousand years. In contrast, from anyway people going to use groundwater because of that people should pay attention about it, and Australian people don’t throw anything into groundwater that could pollute it. According to Chen, Principal Engineer Brown and Caldwell (2004) " some systems are installed with shallow curtain drains placed about 26 inches beneath the soil surface about 8 feet from the leach field. These curtain drains carry pollutants away from the home, but discharge pollutants directly into streams or into ditches or agricultural drainage systems that drain into streams".

Finally, the most serious problem from waste water which is air pollution. When we waste water or spray it that lead to extensive pollute from the water to the air. Also, the pollution of air which caused by waste water carry a lot of problems; for example, bad smell, mosquito, virus, bacteria, and bugs on the air. In addition, if Australian people don’t have clear air that lead a lot of air poisoning . Moreover, all those things cause disease; for example, E coli, and malaria. Furthermore, the serious problem of air pollutant is the diseases stay on the air for long time, and it transport quickly from area to other area. Also it is hard to clean up the air from these poisons. There is a lot of poisons still on the air for example, sulphur dioxide. In " Health impacts of water pollution " the author claim "Acidification of surface water, mainly lakes and reservoirs, is one of the major environmental impacts of transport over long distance of air pollutants such as sulphur dioxide from power plants" (n.d). However, we should take care of air because we cant clean it up when it becomes polluted.

In conclusion, the used of waste water carry a lot of problem. Also, all this problem hard to control when it happened because it change and combine to complex matter. Moreover, the waste water lead a lot of diseases because of that why people use it. Furthermore, it pollute the soil and make it useless and that mean Australian people lose their land by their activity. In addition, when Australian people pollute the groundwater what they are going to say to the new generation when they have a lot of problem which carry by groundwater. Also, air pollution which the hard part of this problem because Australian people can’t do any thing to solve any problem on the air, and people can’t clean it up. However, Australian people should take care about the resource of water, and reduce the percentage of the waste water because that will decrease the problem. Nevertheless, to make sure people use clean groundwater people should do a lot of things; for example, recognize possible problem sources, speak with local experts, have water tested from time to time.


Reference:

Lin, C., Mancl, K. (2004). Suitability of Ohio Soils for Treating Wastewater Retrieved November 30,2006 from http://ohioline.osu.edu/b896/b896_9.html

Wastewater Treatment Water Use (2005, August 30). Retrieved November 30,2006 from http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/wuww.html

Water Pollution Facts (2005). Retrieved November 30,2006 from http://www.grinningplanet.com/2005/07-26/water-pollution-facts-article.htm

Farms Waste Much of World's Water (2006, March 19). Retrieved November 30,2006 from http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,70445-0.html?tw=rss.technology

Water Quality Permit Application and Miscellaneous Forms (2006, October 16). Retrieved November 30,2006 from www.pca.state.mn.us/water/permits/index.html

Health impacts of water pollution (n.d). Retrieved November 30,2006 from http://edugreen.teri.res.in/explore/water/health.htm#ground
(2006, October 16). Retrieved November 30,2006 from

Drinking alcohol for young people

Do you think that the age for drinking alcohol in the USA should be lowered to 18 years? No, drinking alcohol shouldn’t be lowered than 18 years in the USA. The people in USA have different idea about drinking legal for people who are less than 21. Also, most of people in USA believe that the legal drinking age shouldn’t be lowered 18 because it will lead to many problems in the society. There are many people who think that drinking should be legal at least for people who above 25 years. In addition, a lot of people think that we shouldn’t give the young person more liability because they usually don’t care well about themselves. However, the drinking age for alcohol shouldn’t be lowered 18 because of many reasons such as health problem, study problem, and traffic problem.

Moreover, there are a lot of health problems. Also, young people are affected faster by drink more than adult. Also, drink in early age lead to many diseases, for example, brain disease, heart disease, sleep problems, and cancer. There are a lot of research that mentions drinking alcohol kills the brain cells. Furthermore, there is a research by Vecchia says that heavy drinking alcohol increase the risk of cancer. Furthermore, alcohol increases the limit of sleeping for people especially the young people because of that it is good the drinking alcohol not allow to people who under 21.

Furthermore, there are many educational problems. Most of young people are students. Also, they work hard to get high GPA. Never the less, when they are drinking alcohol that will effect in their education because many reasons. They may have bad sleeping system. Moreover, they are doing bad in their examination. Furthermore, they will spend their money on alcohol. In addition, the students who drink alcohol during the week that carry them to miss their class that will decrease their GPA. Also, when they come to their class and when they are hangover, and they don’t understand anything. Therefore, alcohol affect ability of student to study.

In addition, there are traffic problems such as an accident. The risk of crash increase when they are driving under alcohol's influence. The young people always have idea in their mind that they can drive car when they are drunk, and that related to a lot of accidents. Young people when they drive their cars under alcohol influence their idea they are think that they are the best and they are superman. Consequently, young people damage the other car and destroy their vehicles when they drive under alcohol.

In conclusion, drinking alcohol should be still legal for people who 21 years or older. It is good if the rule still without any change, if the rule of drinking alcohol change that causes too many problems. It will effect their health and bring many diseases, that effect their future when they do very bad in their education. Also, that carry too many society problems such as traffic problem which will carry them to death. When alcohol is illegal to young people, it will save their heath, their study, and their money. Moreover, that good for their life and their family even what the young people want.

Reference:

Hanson, D. (n.d). Alcohol as a Cause of Traffic Crashes. Alcohol website. Retrieved November 13, 2006, from http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj

Addressing Alcohol's Effects on Academic Performance (n.d). Virginia Tech. Retrieved November 13, 2006, from http://www.alcohol.vt.edu

Quality Water

I became interested on the Improving water quality and environmental flows in Australia after reading several articles about it. People in Australia tend to use and have clean water to use it on their life. Also, they feel bad about what they hear about the wasted water. An example of threat of the wasted water they know that will affect on their food and life. The problem is that waste water such as wasted ocean or river carry to a lot of disease. According to www.csiro.au website (n.d), the quality of water effect on many ways such as change the economic of country and change the habit of people. There is several problem causes by pollution water. There are many reasons I want to talk about it. First, how we can protect drinking water (www.epa.gov, (n.d). Second, what the problem and what kind of diseases we will have when we use wasted water (Collis D, Hill G, 2000). Finally, the problems come from the factories which are nearest the river and resource of water.

I plan on writing that three things should be done about quality water in Australia. First, government should be protecting the resource of water in Australia. Second, people should be more educated about the effects of wasted water. Also, more research should be done, especially on the long-term effect of wasted water, so that will be faced this problem in the future.

I have found a variety of article that give background information on the dangerous of wasted water, and have found useful website that helps to reduce and describe the problem. I still need an article about the problems come from the factories which are nearest the river and resource of water, the diseases causes by waste water, what the problem and what kind of diseases we will have when we use wasted water, and the problem of use waste water in the agriculture.

Reference:

Improving water quality and environmental flows (n.d). Retrieved November 02, 2006 from http://www.csiro.au

Protect Your Drinking Water for Life (n.d). Retrieved November 02, 2006 from http://www.epa.gov

Collis D, Hill G. (2000) Water and Sanitation- Life and Death Matters. Retrieved November 02, 2006 from http://www.tear.org.au

Thursday, September 07, 2006

According to CNN website in "Who invented e-learning computing" he states a lot of students now teaching online and it is now easily and works very well. Also it is similar to classroom. Then he said now there are many competition between the companies which are made the programs for teaching online because they are want to make it clear and easy and they are doing very well to the future. Also there are critical in the society because the group of people said the classroom better than learning online. The author said the teaching online increasing and many university now teaching online in some fields. Some people said they should work in lab to make good control. They are some thing not clear in teaching online because there are argument who the first company do it and it is until now vague.

This article important for me because I am interesting for anything help the people with the computer . Also it is help the people to learning from anywhere in anyplace and it is give the people who don’t have money or time or something special chance to continue their learning.

Vocabulary:

Virtual: effective.

Resemble: look like.

Patent: copyright.

Sprawling: extensive.

Quash: canceled

Cooperation: help, support.

Vigorously: strongly.

Syllabus: program of study.

Emerged: apparent.

Infringement: violation.

Experimenting: trying.

Innovation: modernism.

Discussion question:

1- Do you thing the teaching online affect on our life?

2- What is the best ways to teaching online?

3- What is the benefits to teaching online?

4- Do you thing the teaching online improve the education?

5- Do you thing teaching online helping the people with special needs?

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

The September in my memories

1) This is the 1st of September, what do you want to accomplish by the 31st?

1-I will study hard for the TOFEL.


2) What does September make you think about or feel?

2- My brother birth day in this month and I feel happy


3) September is the ninth month; can you name nine memories so far from this year?

1- I went chili.

2- The sad day 9/11 because it is bad day in the history.

3- I got my first car.

4- I loosed 400$ in the gambling.

5- I knew my best friend in this month before 11 years ago.

6- My first job in my life.

7- I got bonus in 2004 from my work.

8- I got in to new relationship.

9- I went to Chicago.


4) What does September have in common with three other months and can you name them?

4- September is similar in a calendar days; like April, June, November.


5) The first weekend in September signals the end of summer for many even though it doesn’t really end for weeks. When does summer end for you?

5- The end of September.

Friday, August 04, 2006

I went to a website which talked about someone who was murdered in Carbondale. The man walked in the street and two black murderers came to this man and said to him about his money. After that he doesn't agree with there because he didn’t want give them any money. One of there had a knife and he stabbed him. After that the man called his friend and told him he is bleeding in the street, but he didn’t give him the correct address. And his friend called the police and told there what happened. The police went to the neighborhood and found him. The police got him and moved him to a hospital and he died in the night.

In my opinion, I think Carbondale is a very safe city and crimes like this happened in many cities in different countries. The man made a mistake because he didn’t call the police. The other mistake was that he didn’t give the two men money and save his life.

Saturday, July 29, 2006

DNA is developed in our life
I went to a website that shows some pictures and some information about what DNA is. DNA is the structure of the body; it exists in all cells of the body. It can be used in the composition a forensic profile. It shows some sample of blood that is used to know who did a crime. The website talked about the PCR that is used to analyze the sample. DNA is used to identify genes and in determining genetic paternity.

In my opinion, I like the presentation of the website that shows information and consolidates images. I think DNA helps us to know things that we were not able to know in the past, however complex. I wish to continue this technology in the detection of crimes and hope that humans do not find a way to trick that.

Monday, July 24, 2006

Al Capone in the history of crimes
I went to a website that is shows life of the man who is a gangster of crimes. He was born in Brooklyn, New York on JAN 17, 1899. He led to the downfall of law and the American system. He changed the law and rules in Chicago during the period of his life and he changed the reputation of Chicago. He stopped going to school when he was 14 years old. He worked in some small job and he didn’t do well because he was cheating. He met a lady and after that he married her and they had boy.

In my opinion the society helps some people that are the same as Al Capone because no one stopped him. The society should be finding and catch and not tolerate any acts similar to his work. The website gives a good short history about Al Capone and I like what the web site shows.

Friday, July 14, 2006

Different place and different kind of dangers
I went to a website that borrows some examples for the most dangerous locations in some countries. In Chechnya, Russia, anyone who hears this city's name gets afraid because it's a very dangerous city. In Israel there is a dangerous place called "Abrahamic" which is a religious place; people who were born there can't tell anyone about their birthplace because that is dangerous. People in the world know that North Korea is dangerous. In Sri Lanka people are afraid about tigers and cannot travel through it because that is dangerous.

In my opinion the government can made good control for any place that makes the crime go down and dangerous places very safe. Another way to make it go down is for the media to pressure the government and it gives more attention to the dangerous event. I agree with websites that show some of this problem.

Sunday, July 09, 2006

Gat “kind of drags” is legal in Yemen but illegal in Saudi Arabia.

Thursday, June 22, 2006

According to Bill Thompson in "A little less censorship" the internet has been monitored by the government about the political and sex websites in China. There are some countries working hard to filter the information, especially the information that is related to government which they don’t want the people to know or to see, and they made rules for the people who don’t obey the rules. Some people want to give anti-censorship software to people in countries with less freedom.
Thompson, B. (2005, Jan 10). "A little less censorship". In BBC World.

The rumors and those who believe them
This website clarifies some of correct rumors and the wrong once and some of that have not been made clear yet. The website shows some wrong rumors. In California some news has been leaked that California will be separated from the U.S.A in the future and it will be led by a new president. Another example of wrong rumors is the one that the former American presidential candidate Al Gore is the first one who invented the Internet. The website shows some correct rumors; for example, that the American President George Bush is the first leader of a fabricated war. It shows some rumors may be correct or may be wrong; for example, that tomato prices will go up if Kerry was chosen president.
In my opinion, there are a lot of rumors in the world and the most common one are the wrong one. In my own experience there was a big rumor in Saudi Arabia and it talked about the king increasing the labor salary to 25%, but he only increased it to 15%.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

According to Kristine Brown & Susan Hood in "Privacy and the Media" he says the reporter usually is in a situation where he must publish something the society has an opinion on why there it agrees or disagrees Journalists usually invade the privacy of the people, regardless of the position of the person, and the kind of the news and the society is very interested in this thing. Journalists continue invading the privacy of people up until that point where they photographed inside their homes and in private movements. However sometimes the journalists tease the famous people to do something wrong and they take photos of them and use them to get money for the new news. Critics are demanding a law for reporters to stop teasing and using famous people because a lot of famous people don’t want their private lives to be shown in the media.
Brown, K & Hood, S. (2002). "Privacy and the Media". In Academic Encounters. New York city; Cambridge university press, PP. 123-125

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Cell phone become available in North Korea
North Korea has been insulated by the countries that carry the world because it doesn’t want to unhand the nuclear weapons. They still don’t have communications with the world but North Korea is trying to link affairs. There is some shirking about the cell phone that comes from China, and it is trying to pivot communication. China supported North Korea's nation to make their business an more particularly in weather, food, and consumer goods. The business has increased between China and North Korea. In 2003 the Chinese Cell phone Company started to build Transmission towers in the North Korea border. There are a lot of North Koreans who have a cell phone now coming from China and they start using it.
However, my opinion is that the county that carries the world that tries to isolate any country is going to fail, because it's not right to take people's freedom and what they are doing is driving people backward. I agree with China about what are they doing with North Korea and I think South Korea should help North Korea.

The new media taking part of our live
The new media takes a huge part in our daily lives and we spend a lot of time using it, and in this time it is impossible to discard it. And it makes our lives easier than in the past, and it has a lot of negative things and all of these problems are not coming from the media but we don’t know how to use it in the right way.
Cell phone problem is economic, it takes a lot of money because you must pay for your account every month if you use it or if you don’t use it, and even small children have cell phones, and that’s making trouble for their parents. It affect your health, if you use a cell phone a lot of time you will have cancer in your brain, For example, a researcher in a Swedish university found that the signal that cell phones give is one of the most common reasons for brain cancer. A researcher who studied wasting time found that people spend more than two hours a day talking on cell phones; for example, international students talk to their family and friends every day. Cell phone is noisy because it rings when you are in class or sleeping or studying and when you are in an important meeting; for example, international student families call them at bad times because of the difference in time zones.
There is a time problem; some people spend a lot of time on the internet, For example, for some people the internet becomes the most important thing in their life; they spend more than eight hours a day, and some people have an addiction to the internet, on the chatting, or on the sex web site or on games on line. The internet is not safe; for example, people may steal your hotmail account, and if you want to buy something from the internet, they will get your card number and they will steal all the money in your account and if you have private information they can take it from your computer and sometimes if somebody sends a virus to you it will damage your computer. The things that we don’t want our children to see, for example sex website and violence, have a negative effect on children's behavior. Every family must have a filter on the computer.
Video games give three problems; video games appear to be violent. For example, a boy in Alabama was playing a famous game which has a lot of violence. The game's name is Grand Theft Auto, and it affected his behavior, and he became a murderer and he killed three men, two of them police officers, because he did in the street what he saw in the game. Some people play games for a lot of time and they are wasting their time; for example, the new generation of children. They have health problems; when people sit and play video games they're not moving, and it will affect their eyes, and they eat and play and will become fat.
In conclusion, the new media leads the people to development, and it opens our minds to things that we never imagined. And it makes the world like a small city. As a result we found that media have a lot of bad effects, especially on small children, and it has a lot of good things, depending on the person who is using it.

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

How can the video games affect the real life?
This web site thinks these video games affect on kids. These companies made a lot of customers, that’s why they made millions of copies. It draws billions of dollars. In some cities adolescents affected by playing video games killed people in the real world. These video games teach some people violence. There are some video games that show you a lot of kinds of cars and you select the car that you want, steal it and run away and you can kill the person you don’t like.
In my opinion there video games a bear to violence. And I like the web site design because you can search for any information and find what you want.

Monday, June 05, 2006

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