Thursday, May 22, 2008

Feedback of Research Paper

Actually, this was a wonderful experience for research paper, although I had a hard time to write it. When I finished it, I was so proud and satisfied...It was difficult to describe my feeling when I saw my final draft.... It is like my own child.
From beginning, thinking a topic, collecting information, reading them, beginning writing, all these made me hard but also happy. Second draft, third draft...and even final draft made me crazy....grammar mistakes, little format mistake also made me awful...on the other hand, I learned a lot through the research paper. generally, I learned how can I write a research paper, and what is research paper. also, my writing improved a lot. I knew what is the format for a research paper. Before I thought research paper is like our normal writing, but I am wrong. It requires strict format, and each source should reference clearly. I will never forget this experience. I think it is useful for me because when I go to university, lots of research paper need to be written.
When I prepare for presentation of research paper, I had a hard time to choose information. every part connect together, I can not ignore any one of them, but time is limited. finally, I decided to just explain the most important information for each part, and give some examples. I will practice, practice and practice ! I hope tomorrow I can give classmates a great presentation!

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Population

Accordiong to the video and reading of population, I learn that population growth create huge problems to our society and our live.
Overpopulation make lack of space. For example, people do not have place to live, and we do not have enough space for argriculture. Moreover, lack of food. limited resourse increase requirement pressure. As a result, in some developing countries, food price will be increased~~~Also, overpopulation create environmental problems, such as, loss of species, soil shrink, and polution. More and more new births order more resourses, and when they grow up, they also require more job....
Aging of population is another huge problem. In some rich countries, the growth of new births are almost zero! Few young people can not support huge retirement! Consequently, economy will derease by not enough young people.
In my opinion, I am not optimistic about the future in term of population. This is so complex question. Sometimes, it depends on individuals. We can control one family only can have 1 or 2 children, but we can not limit each family must have at least 1 child....Also, sometimes, we do not have chiose. Lack of education for women make them do not know how to make choise about their children. I think government should limit their law, and increase education. This issue need whole world connect together to against! Unfortunately, it is difficult to do that because developed countries can not really help developing countries, may be because of "country selfish"