Reading about Gene

This article discusses about whether the gene is the main reason that causes homosexuality. Some psychologist think that the fact of homosexuality was caused by the social environment. The important research discussed the relationship between the gene and the homosexuality in 1993, but they just discussed the single X chromosome, and explained that it is likely that the homosexuality gene is passed down from the mom to the son. However, the result of basing the study on a single gene is not convincing. Also, it indicated that only less than 50% showed that there is something with the gene and the sexual orientation. Therefore, there is still a long way to go.


Since the improvement of technology, lots of studies have been conducted. Even the sexual orientation can be shown by the study. To tell the truth, I didn’t realize that homosexuality can be inherited from the gene until I browsed this website. Just like what others thought, I always though that the homosexuals themselves choose to have “this” life-style they live. But the fact is not like this. As you can see from the website, lots of studies are attempting to connect the relationship between the gene and the sexual orientations and to locate that the gene seems to play a significant role in influencing the sexual orientation. Although there is not any definite and absolute result yet, and no matter what the result is, I think the homosexuals are just like the different color of people’s skin or eyes in the world; people should learn to be more of accepting the homosexual life-style.

By Jay

After Reading about Cohabitation

This website introduces a book: Unmarried to each other. It is known that there are more and more couples or partners living together without getting married. This phenomenon is more and more common now than the past. In the book, it describes some facts and discusses some questions and problems that people wonder about and would like to solve. Moreover, it provides some tips or tools for people whether it is in law, finance, having children in the coming years, etc. if they would like to keep the relationship of cohabitation or would consider living together and remaining unmarried. Also, it provides some suggestions from the real samples. Indeed, this book is packed with a lot of information about the joys and common challenges to love without getting married. In addition to the introduction of the book, there are some useful guides provided for those living together as unmarried couples from the news and other related online readings.



This book is discussing the problem of the relationship of cohabitation. It starts from why couples live together without getting married. Also, how to introduce or name each other, how to tell the children the relationship, whom the children will belong to in the future and so forth are mentioned in the book as well.

I would like to share my opinions about cohabitation. I personally agree with living together without getting married for a short term only, i.e. no longer than half year if they are sure they will be married in the coming years and this short period of cohabiting time can be seen as a kind of accommodative time. However, if those who live together hold the concept of “testing marriage,” I don’t agree with cohabitation and I don’t think that is suitable. The most important thing is that cohabitation can neither guarantee nor protect the affectional relationship. For instance, the reason unmarried couples live together is solely because of love at the moment; however, nobody knows if they will break up with each other at the next moment after a dramatic argument. Thus, it is irresponsible for the couples toward dealing with their affection.

Based on the traditional concept, couples live together only if they are married. Also, according to the terms of the law, it also says that to protect the marriage, the right and obligation for couples is to take the full responsibility of their marriage and affection. Cohabitating couples can abandon their affection anytime so nobody will be protected without the law. For instance, in the past, couples without getting married seldom lived together, and the percentage of divorce was not a high proportion. However, more and more couples live together now and the percentage of divorce is getting higher and higher. This also expresses that more and more couples would rather try “trial marriage” or cohabitation to see if they are Mr./ Mrs. right for each other so that the percentage of divorce is increasing. It proves that cohabitation will not only cause the sense of irresponsibility easily but also be helpless for maintaining the affectional relationship.

To sum up, I agree with cohabitation only based on the fact that the couples will get married in the future and they have to live together inevitably because of some reasons for a short period of time. However, I would not agree with cohabitation if they are only trying to “testing marriage.”

By Jay

After reading about Staying Single

the website, Unmarried America, talks about single families and unmarried american. And we can see several topics of unmarried america in this website. We can read Radio one , Column one , Library one. They have alot of information about unmarried america. in Radio one, we can see the voice of unmarried america. In Column one, we can read the viewpoint of unmarried america. In Library one, we can know the achives of unmarried america.

In my opinion , there are a lot of unmarried Americans and single families in America. I think they have some reasons or problems; that's why they would be unmarried or stay single. And I want to resarch the cause of unmarried surely while making the weblog.

The Gay Gene

This website, The Gay Gene, was produced as assignment for an undergraduate at Davidson college. This web site tells us about what is the Gay gene. we could know some detailed information about DNA. This web site contained a lot of content. For example, it tells us that Homosexuality and the rights of homosexuals are enormous issues in our society; it will try to discuss the rise and fall of the 'gay gene'; it tells us how they found the gay gene chronologically and the process of finding it, and says misunderstanding and problems and confusion remains, and so on.

If you are interested in genes, you should go to this web site. It has some difficult contents, but you could learn manythings. In addition, this web site has many links rebated to the gay gene. If you think you want to learn more about genes, you could find many topics about genes. When I saw this web site, I thought it's very difficult to me. However, this topics is very interesting. perhaps you may have interest, when you visit this website.

By Tomohiro Miyamura

Bluetooth

I went to this article. And I read in this web site about Bluetooth. In the last three years it circulated quickly in Saudi Arabia especially technology like this that can make people change their habit. People over there like to use the Bluetooth because it approaches them from each other, so they can chat, and send pictures. On the other hand, it’s easy to find people that you might know, or make new relationships. The great thing is that the Bluetooth feature is free. Unfortunately some people abuse this technology by annoying the others. However, this technology changed the Saudi community in a good way.

In my opinion, I used the Bluetooth before and I like it because it’s helpful and it makes you in touch with people. In fact my recommend is to try using this technology and you will be happy with it.

by Abood Raid

Cohabitation Nation

In recent years, cohabitation of population is getting more common, but they are without marriage. Some people have different opinions and show them on the cohabitation nation web site. According to this web site, they talk about cohabitation nation in many places of the world; some people thought that a cohabitation law in North Dakota could be next; and some people said,“ I don’t know how people got married before living together first”. That’s kind of different opinions; people should be thinking about that.

In my country, most people are pursuing marriage, but I think cohabiting is a good way to adapt before people get married; it is better than people figuring out they can not adapt to each other after, they got married, because they can know what kind of person their partner is, and they can know more about his or her personality.

By Alan

BBC article about Saudi IKEA

I have read a BBC article about Saudi IKEA. The web site said “Three die in Saudi shop stampede” because too many people wanted to go into the store and buy the $150 vouchers. The incident made three people die and Sixteen people injured. IKEA will have two new stores which have 200% more space than the old stores, opening in Jeddah and the capital, Riyadh.

I`m very surprised about the incident, because I have never seen people who wanted to buy something, even if it will make people in danger. The report said they will have two stores that have 200% more space than the old stores; I think they have to solve the problem of crowds, andwhether the place`s space is enougt or not.

By Alan

Stock market crash

i went to this article.
The definition for stock market is: very quick alteration with damage,and this damage they will share with every company.There was many stock market crsashesin 1929 and 1987.
But the biggest and most widespread one was in 1929.It caused a lot of problems with everyone that lived in this time and the people were near dying. This stock made loss trouble in money, but the good thing was in 2002 the stock market was decreasing, which made for people peace of mind.

In my opinion,this article was interesting and it made me curios to read more about stock market, and I thing in 1929 some people die because the unforeseen change.
However, I don’t think so. In this time the stock market could do it again.

by abood raid

IKEA in Jeddah

The link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3618190.stm


In the opening of IKEA stores in the west of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Jeddah city more than 8000 people has gathered near the store for the $150 or 500 RS, IKEA opened the doors at 9:00 am one hour before the scheduled time, because of the large number of people who gather in front of the store. And when the crowed begin to enter the shop in huge numbers the, security couldn't control them and because of that one Saudi man and also a Pakistani where crushed. The new IKEA is now 200% bigger than the old store.

Conclusion: the reason that they didn't succeed the shop successfully:
1- They did not do any survey on the consumer behavior.
2- The opened the store before the scheduled time when the should not open it at all because of the crude.
3- The store was very small and the population of Jeddah is very high and that mean that the store planning was vary bad.
4- The security forces were not enough to control the crude.



Abdulla Alhumaidi

Rude and crude


http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.php?id=35442&adid=opinion


In this article the writer is talking about how people are becoming more rude and less polite in several ways, and she also gives some examples of that In a survey in ABC news, 78% of American say they encounter loud cell phone chatting, and 75% percent hear it often, but the main problem is to say bad words loudly, or even to talk in the cinema theater. She also gives some other examples, about how people are not polite and when she asked them why they said there is not much time to be polite.



What I think is that it is a problem of religion, and in Islam the profit Mohammad told Muslims that politeness is a very important issue and even in Christianity. So it is not about etiquette or what ever it is about believing in something.



Abdulla Alhumaidi

IQ- Genetics or Environment by Kim

According to the Fabian Grasso of AllPsych Journal in July 1. 2002, the debates about the life’s developmental forces will be over sooner or later. Many scientists, for example, Lewis M. Term, a professor of Stanford University, David Wechsler, a Psychologist working at the U.S. Army's Camp Logan, Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, the author of 'The Bell Curve',etc, have looked for clues into how we grow, why we do things and what we do. So they have tried to formulate understanding of I.Q. which centers on the effect of argument between nature of nurture. The inability to recognize which factor is responsible for any specific trait, but knowing that one or both of the two is responsible, will keep the argument of genetics vs. environment on the forefront of our search for answers for a long, long time.

Even though it's not easy to know I.Q. clearly, I had thought I.Q. was only depended on genetics before I saw a genius who is called Ung-Yong Kim in Korea. When he was six years old, he was on TV and showed us how to solve the mathematics problems about the differential and integral calculus. All people who had seen the program were surprised, and we had thought he was a great scientist in the world. But, I was disappointed when I heard the news that he changed to a common man. He had studied home with his parents for 10 years. But, his special ability vanished. I think that it teaches us not only the nature but also the nurture are important.

weblog assignment #6

You may choose any article from weblog assignments 1-5, that you have not read, and do it. OR, you may choose your own article and do that. If you choose your own: be sure that it is related to the subjects we have discussed; and, be sure it's in English.

Remember two other things you need to do before Tuesday....
1. Drop a total of eight comments on your classmates' weblogs;
2. Put TWO of your weblog assignments here (on the AE2 weblog).

Check the links. Fix the grammar. Make them look nice! Thanks. It looks good so far!!
-Tom L.

maxime ghislain zondo

I navigated through the website concerning the wisdom of crowds this article and i found out that there are some elements required to form or to destroy a wise crowd.
Four elements are essential to form a wise crowd. For example, diversity of opinion, when each person should have his private information. Independence, and decentralisation, when people opinions aren’t determined by the opinions of those around them and when people are able to specialize on local knowledge. The last one is aggregation, when some systems exist to turn private judgment into a common decision.
On the other hand the crowd can only do as well as its smartest member, rather than perform better. These are the elements for failures of crowd for being too centralized, too divided, and too imitative.

In my opinion not all crowds are wise, we have unwise crowd too. Although, all these dissensions, the crowds are characterized by collective experimental details. And the main reason is that people in the crowds are conform by the systematic flaw of making decisions

maxime ghislain zondo

iread the website concerning gay gene.Through this effort, I realized that there is a lot of contradictions, confusions and controversy about the homosexual issue. Despite those challenges there is still amazing research which tries to assume the homosexual behavior is gene-linked. For example there is study that reported the gay gene seems to be maternally linked, and is found on the Xq-28 stretch of the X chromosome (hameretal, 1993). But this funding was seriously criticized and questioned by another study, which found out that there is no evidence to relate the homosexual act to genetics (Marshall, 1995). Furthermore other people, especially anti-gay people attribute homosexuality to something such as a mental or physical illness. So ,up to now, there is still confusion about finding whether homosexuality is related to nature or nurture.

In my opinion, it is very hard for us to understand clearly what is going on. Because if it comes to questions of genetics of any homosexual behavior. We have the statement that is genetic behavior, or inherited. And the same time we have the statement that it is not genetics behavior or it is not heritable. I think we must not be skeptics; we have to be hopefully optimistic that in the future the truth shall prevail. But for me the homosexuality is purely related to nurture. On the other hand it is caused maybe by mental or physical illness. Or it is temptation.

sohail

illinois amish
i was interesting in amish life and wanted to know about the way they live , what they eat, how they deal with the ordinary life ,what their jobs are ...ets. then i found the answers to my questions on illionisamish ifound that they have the same kinds of food but in an amish style and they make business by selling i to the people and make money.
also they make money eith thein farms.

in fact, i respect the way which they live but i think they must be moderen.


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sohail

Bluetooth in Saudi Arabia
www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/12/saudi.bluetooth.ap/index.html


I wentto

website to read about Saudi Bluetooth . I read some different stories about young male and female from Saudi Arabia who use Bluetooth. In fact they from Riyadh city which is the capital of the country .I read that they use it to connect with girls and brake the taboo of the society and they use this technology because they think it’s a safety way to make some relationships with other girls while the religion police do not know about it.


In my city which is Jeddah, we have very different culture from Riyadh. For example, girls do not covered their faces when they meet their relative boys or men, we also have many ways to make relationships with other girls with out using Bluetooth but we still use it. In fact, we in Jeddah have more freedom because what called religion police had decreased I mean they can not control us as a result some families from Riyadh come and live in Jeddah.


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Weblog Assignment #5

For this assignment, you may choose among the articles below, OR you may choose from the articles in weblog assignments 1-4 that you have not done yet, OR, you may choose your own article. If you choose your own article, it may be a weblog post; it must be in English; it should be about one of the topics we've studied. In other words, read about people and their influence on each other; don't do a completely unrelated topic.

TRAFFIC WAVES- one driver can improve traffic (William Beatty)
http://www.amasci.com/amateur/traffic/traffic1.html

News article about traffic clumps: go slow to improve traffic (SF Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/01/06/MN229472.DTL

Mass Delusions and Hysterias: Highlights from the Past Millenium (lots of bizarre incidents)
http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-05/delusions.html

Belgian Coca-cola incident
1999/1999_07_12_t_coke.htm">http://www.gladwell.com">1999/1999_07_12_t_coke.htm

Bluetooth helps Saudis break taboos (CNN article)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/12/saudi.bluetooth.ap/index.html

Chinese cell phones change North Korean culture
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=5145

Rude and Crude - Cell phone use (Indiana student newspaper)
http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.php?id=35442&adid=opinion

Weblog Assignment #4

Same as the first three- but you have some new choices!

CROWD CONTROL/DISASTERS

3 Die in Saudi IKEA (BBC article)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3618190.stm

Saudi IKEA tragedy (Arab News)
http://www.crowddynamics.com/Disasters/Ikea%205.htm

Riot control- Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_control

Gustave Le Bon - The Psychology of Revolution
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/628/

The Wisdom of Crowds - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds

STOCK MARKET CRASH/DEPRESSION

Crash of 1929
http://www.btinternet.com/~dreklind/thecrash.htm

Stock Market Crash - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market_crash

Great Depression - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression

weblog assignment #3

Choose one! Remember, you only need to find out what the article DOES....you do not need to copy it, memorize it, summarize it, etc.

Genetic basis of intelligence (article)
http://www.bioteach.ubc.ca/MolecularBiology/Intelligence/index.html

IQ- Genetics or Environment (article)
http://allpsych.com/journal/iq.html

Behavioral Genetics (Human Genome Project)
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/behavior.shtml

Genetics of Homosexuality (article)
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/biology/b103/f97/projects97/Newman.html

The Gay Gene (article)
http://www.bio.davidson.edu/Courses/genomics/2002/Pierce/gaygene.htm

Intelligence, genetic disease linked
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050603-115516-3639r.htm

No thank you, socialization! Homeschoolers respond
http://tnhomeed.com/LRSocial.html

Wild boy of Aveyron
http://sesd.sk.ca/psychology/psych30/wild_boy_P30.htm

weblog assignment #2

This assignment is the same as the last. First choose the site you want. Write about the site...what does it do? Who is it for? Who made it? Then tell your opinion. Link to the site.

THE AMISH

Illinois Amish
http://www.illinoisamishcountry.com/

Illinois Amish Interpretive Center (Virtual Tour)
http://www.amishcenter.com/

Ask the Amish FAQ's
http://www.800padutch.com/atafaq.shtml

THE ROMA

Roma/Gypsies
http://www.leafpile.com/TravelLog/Romania/Roma/Roma.htm

History of the Roma
http://www.romani.org/local/romhist.html

ROOTS OF ALCOHOLISM

FAQ's
http://www.aca-usa.org/faq.htm

NATURE VS. NURTURE

STORY OF ONE BOY (with video) - 60 MINUTES
http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/60/stories/2000_05_07/story_158.asp

Nature vs. Nurture Revisited
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/genome/debate.html

Stepfamily

I went to http://www.stepfamilies.org/statistics.htual
Most children today live in step relationships. Divorced families have lots of problem in
Invisibility, for exemplas social tension or social inequality between real and step and then children have to spend more time with their parent but the parent are always concern about everything so they can’t if they want. They may meet with an expected difficulty.
Bodily injury soon heals, but emotional injury takes longer.

In my opinion, nowadays ‘divorce’ and ‘re-married’ these are words we can hear and we come into contact with many of those things at the circumference easily there are several reasons for divorce that a child thinks that they can solve everything in love or pregnancy, and get what they desired, and then their marriage had the blessing of everybody, in spite of dissimilarity in character and sex or economic reason. Most children get damage by divorce, re-marriage and emotional conflict of new family. They feel out of place there. and mistrust. Nevertheless It’s hard to give up the quality of life for the parent.


by Hanna

Weblog assignment #1

Choose ONE of the following sites and write about it. You may explore before you pick the one you want. Follow the assignment as given to you on the assignment sheet.

STAYING SINGLE

Unmarried America
http://www.unmarriedamerica.org/

LIVING TOGETHER

Cohabitation Nation
http://www.cohabitationnation.com/

STEPFAMILIES

Stepfamily Association of America
http://www.saafamilies.org/

SPERM BANK

Haveababy.com
http://www.haveababy.com/cryogam/cryogam.asp

Notables' Sperm bank (China)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/285/5426/327d

POLYGAMY

Polygamy- "what it is and what guidelines are"
http://www.themodernreligion.com/women/w_poly-znaik.html

COMMUNES

Communes:

Here are two very interesting communes:

The Farm
http://www.thefarm.org/

Twin Oaks
http://www.twinoaks.org/

WELCOME TO CESL!

Things below this picture were done Jan.-March 2006, and appear in the CESL Today Newsletter.

Top Ten Places to go over break

10. Sears Tower, Chicago (Hanna)
9. Michael Jordan’s Restaurant, Chicago (Alan)
8. Miracle Mile shopping district, Chicago (Mohanad)
7. Arch in St. Louis (Misfer)
6. Arch museum buffalo statue, St. Louis (Gilbert)
5. Las Vegas drive-through marriage chapel (N. B.)
4. Las Vegas drive-through divorce court (Omar)
3. Saluki basketball game, SIU Arena, Carbondale (Samah)
2. Giant City Lodge buffalo statue, Makanda (Ray)
1. Kentucky convenience store with “Cigarettes” sign out in front of it (Tahir)

GENDER & OCCUPATION BY NB

First, there are a lot of occupations that are dominated by men, for example construction worker and the percent is 95%, that makes us conider this occupation 'male dominated' because if there is job and the percent is more than 90% we consider it a male or female occupation; for example, fire fighter 95%, truck driver 98%, and people who work in factories who carry heavy things.

There are alot of jobs dominated by women such as baby sitter 90%, teacher in kindergarden and barber shop for women; most who work there are women. We realized that the occupation that female has risen the most in is in tv commecials.

What do male dominated the most occupation have in common?

The men's jobs need strong hard and strong body, but women can work in more comfortuble places like in the office. That's what they have in common .I've learend a lot from this subject and you can visit this site if you want to learn more about gender and occupation .

WWW.ISTAST.NET



IN MY OPINION
In my opinion women must work in comfortuble places because it's too hard for them to work hard jobs like the men. Also, i think the best place for the women to be a house wife and taking care of children, but if women want to work they must arrange their time between work and house and choose work which is good for them and for thier families, because in the end the best place and most comfortuble place for women is home.

The Amish

The Amish live in 10 mils west of Intestale 57 off exit 203. The name of the town is Arthur. The people who live there are around 2,200 residents. The nearby state Amish live in are Ohio and Indiana. They speak english. They are originally from Switzerland. They think the electricity is evil in itself. The most intersting thing is traveling by buggy.

In my opinion, I think the Amish have such a good life that I want to try it just for one month or so. In my country there are some groups who live like the Amish style but I don't agree with them in a lot of things because they believe anything new should be illegal, but nothing we receive from god tells us that. They number around 2000 or less.

amish site
amish site
amish site
amish site
Omar

sexual harassment

I went to www.siuc.edu/~policies/policies/sexual.html. This web site talks about SIUC policies and policies of sexual harassment. The SIUC sexual harassment policy is located in the SUIC Board of Trustees. In this web site, they pointed out that Southern Illinois University (SIUC) "will take any action if necessary to prevent, stop, correct or discipline behavior that violates the sexual harassment policy". Disciplinary action will be inside but not only not oral or written warnings, demotion, transfer, suspension or dismissals for cause. SIUC cannot tolerate any form of sexual harassment. Also in this web site, they gave us direction to whom we can see if we have a case of sexual harassment in campus. We can talk to Janet Coffman in Counseling Center, Diann Anderson in Human Resources, Carmen Suarez in Office of Diversity and Equality. The SIUC sexual harassment policy was established on May 16, 2001 by the SIUC Board of Trustees. The recent new on sexual harassment in Daily Egyptian was about a national study on high incidence of sexual harassment on college campuses around the USA; many of college students between 18 and 24 years old had been harassed in some form. The study reported that 2,036 undergraduate students in USA have been harassed, 62% of them have experienced a harassment based an offensive gesture or remark. Another 32% are victims of physical harassment like unwanted touch,in a sexual way.

I can say sexual harassment law and policies are helpful for women but for men it is not the case, because men are still complaining that their normal, friendly behavior could be considered as sexual harassment. These policies well affect the relationship between men and women because the nature of a man is to look to a woman and ask her about a relationship, but with the law it is a crime. In my view, the sexual harassment policy is harassing the men. By Gilbert.

Sexual harassment

I learned about sexual harassment. I found this information on the website
sexual harassment
There are many kinds of sexual harassment actions. Examples of behavior that may be considered sexual harassment include: First, physical and sexual assault. Second, direct or implied threats that submissions to sexual advances will be a condition of employment work, social position, arise in rank, or letters of recommendation, and sexual questions, jokes, a pattern of conduct that could annoy or humiliate a reasonable person at whom the conduct was obviously directed.

We can go on campus to ask about sexual harassment complaint Resolution officer Seymour Bryson, Affirmative Action office, Seymour Bryson or Marcia Phelps, and the Informal _ Mediation office of the University Ombudsman.

Sexual harassment arises in all part of the country, in school, workplace, hospital and the others. It is still not eliminated. Most women suffer insult more than men and invisibly, but It’s a big problem for both of them. People who suffer sexual harassment are afraid of being damaged again when they let every one know. Many suspects are intact after their bitter experience. We have to tell our mind exactly and produce an atmosphere that, does not tolerate it.


by Hanna

Gender imbalance in population

As for the ratio of boys to girls in India, Vietnam, Korea, Taiwan, and China, boys count more than girls’ count, which means in the future we would have a lot of bachelors. The result is parents like to have boy more than girl because of the culture. We can know that too many parents care about producing a boy. In china, the government limited parents so that they just can have one child; also, the parents want to produce a boy because of culture. Also China has a big problem, that they have too many boys and few girls. The government bans people’s discriminating against a baby before the baby was born, and the parents would receive a combined annual pension for bringing up their girls, because they don’t want people pursuing producing boys.

I think the gender imbalance in population is a big problem; many counties have the same problem. Also they have some way of solution; I think the way maybe can succeed but if we ant to solve this problem completely we should change people’s thinking, and made them understand that a girl is as good as boy.

India
754 girls per 1000 boys

Vietnam
760 girls per 1000 boys

South Korea
880 girls per 1000 boys

Taiwan
910 girls per 1000 boys

China
830 girls per 1000 boys

Alan

Bulimia and anorexia

I went to a site on health information, which talked about anorexia, bulimia and eating disorders. This web site is trying to show us a statistic which has done on people who have the problems of bulimia and anorexia. On this web site, I read how the statistic of bulimia and anorexia is hard to elaborate because people who have that problem don’t like to talk about it, and there are people who have that problem but they don’t realize if they have it. One study shows that symptoms of bulimia in young girls are about 10 percent. Another study has been done on all people and they found out about 20% and 35% have that problem.

Bulimia and eating disorders are cause by the society and media because of socialization from their parents. For example girls are taught to be pretty, which means thin or having an athletes body, then they start to practice bulimia and eating disorders. Also men are the cause because they hate girls or women who are fat. Media has a part in the cause of that problem. When television is making advertisements it shows girls what they can take to become thin. To sum up I can say bulimia and anorexia are very dangerous for health because they can provoke death and diseases. by Gilbert

JUDGE JUDY

It's a nice show. Judge Judy solves people's problems which is very good and there are many positive things in that show for the audience to learn from other people's mistakes. I saw this show one time and I really loved it, even though there are a lot of cases that are kind of stupid and funny.If you are interesting yoy visit the site and read more about Judg Judy and her show and you will really like it.

Sometimes even though it's a very interesting show, they make the judge act funny and they make her get nervous sometimes. Whatever, I think we need this kind of show because we learn from it and it makes us know what is happening in the world outside.

In my opinion we need this kind of show in the TV to learn from other people mistake and and we have alot of peoblem in our society the judge in this she is very strong and she is female and that interesting because usually the females are sweet and kind they are not strong but in this show Judge Judy proves that the women can be strong and successful.


http://www.yobeat.com/issue11/judy.htm



BY:N.B

Growing up Male or Female

Growing up Male or Female
Both of boys and girls don't know if they are boys or girls, and then the society teaches them that. The boys and girls in the united state are treated differently from other countries. For exampe, baby girls tend to be dressed in bink clothing and baby boys tend to be dressed in blue clothing. In addition, about greeting style the girls kiss each other but the boys use a hug or shake hand. Baby girls tend to play by dolls and baby boys like to play cars. The girls care about appearance but boys don't. Terms of languge,the parents are teaching their kids by comparing between”he”and”she”and also by the way parents talk to them. For example, females are more polite than males and the parents are more emotional with girls like,” Could you turn the T.V, please?” “Turn off the T.V”. Girls always try to be polite and care about their beauty, and they ask men for help even if they can solve their problem, and also they care about their beauty to attract the men more than to be independent, and their parents always telling them not to cry and solve your problems. The parents are less emotional with boys. Also boys fear being feminine, and the care about their attitude (Elkin and Handel 1988;power and Shanks 1989). The girls are near to their parents than boys. The girls take care of them when they get older, rememeber the birth days, but boys don't expect to remember these stuffs because they are independent. The girls are less active than boys in the environment because their parents ask them to come to home early, but not boys. Many parents have been teaching their kids gender-neutral socialization. They are trying to raise kids more equal roles.
This situation is very difficult for the parents because of toy stores being filled with gender-specific toy.
Omar

Anorexia/Bulimia

I went to http://www.something-fishy.org/whatarethey/bulimia.php.

I’m talking about Anorexia and bulimia.

Many people have abnormal problems. Some of them suffer from Bulimia. They eat food in a relatively short period of time and in quantity. They always punish and blame themselves it become not only be rough in speech but also handle a thing roughly. In short, grow wild. Bulimia has many kinds of mental problems; they are overcome with apprehensions, a feeling of unrest and look anxious. They can’t control their eating behaviors and mind. So they just eat although they don’t want to; after that they experience pain the vomiting again. These things decline in health. They may seem to be nothing more than a dangerous obsession with weight worry on the surface. That’s both Anorexia and Bulimia. They don’t want to be too much just want to be free and find their normal life.

Recently most people desire to have perfect appearance. Anorexia and Bulimia reflect the trends in society. It became this way; if they are not thin or slim they can’t be alive, in a struggle for existence, and people become different in their cognition gradually also. Which is thin and which is chubby? What should our standard for judgement be?

Anorexic and Bulimic people realize that it is foolish and invisivility is more important than visibility, which is knowledge, a mental attitude.

Hanna

Stay at home dads

The site is talking about dads who stay with kids at home . There are some pictures in this site . Also , there are sections which you can enter and search about what you want. It is a free site , and if you have question , there is section which you can enter and put your question and your email . On the other hand , the site’s owner brings some people , and those people are talking about their lives and their experience .

In my opinion , I do not agree with staying fathers at home with kids , because
The fathers should work and get money for their family . Also , this is the man’s nature .
I have read things which are very nice . One of them , a man whose name is Eric ,and
He said my staying at home well for me and my wife . Althogh , the men tend to be outside the home , he stay at home . Because the girls tend to be at home and tend to
Cook and clean , they always stay at home and take care of kids . This is which the
Society taught us when we was children .



MISFER ALMARRI
02/ 09 / 06
AE2

Doom

I went to web-siteDoom, which is made computer game by ID software, that is among land mark titles in the first-person shooter genre. They have made many kinds of a series of Doom since 1993. Doom has a story in which demons suddenly come out of the teleportation gates, so space marine, who is a character in the game, strikes down every demon. In addition, this web site tells generally about Doom such as game play, making of Doom, engine technology and history. In the article, I found very interesting a paragraph which Doom caused harm that is a period of school shootings in the U.S. when it was found that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who committed the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, were aid players of the game. They killed their classmates and teacher in the state of confusing an actuality and unreality.
I don’t like to play computer or video games such as Doom, which is the most violent game, but I feel that I want to play Doom just around once or twice while I read the explanation of Doom because it gave me an interest about its story. Well, young people are probably more interested than me. Nowadays, a lot of young boys spend time playing virtual games out of school. It is becoming a social problem. One of problems is that it has a possibility that young people can confuse actuality and cyberspace. So we can hear that some people who get addicted to virtual games kill people because they want to get people’s item that is used in the game. Other problem is young boys who spend most time playing virtual games cannot do anything but play games. They just paly games alone inside of their own imagination, although they need to study for school, play with friends out of the house and make many friend. As a result, parents and teachers cannot control what children do the whole time. So, they should help children to find something that they can enjoy such as sport, board game and educational computer game. And children is important to realize that playing virtual game is just hobby.
I think this web site tells just information of the Doom, but it is the same as public relations that take consumers into the Doom.
by Ray

Doom 3

The web site of Doom 3 is very scary; they have a picture of a monster on it and when you enter the web site you will hear a lot of scary sounds and they are making the new version of doom and it will be in 2007, you can see the advertisement of the game and also you watch who plays the game.

I think it is a good game but it depends on the gender because girls don’t like this kind of game and I think the society is fighting these games because of what happened in the school. Everyone knows what school.

Mohanad doubi
Ae2

Jerry Springer show

Jerry Springer show
The Jerry Springer Show is a popular TV Show in the U.S. The TV Show invites some people to join the Show and encourages fighting on the show; if they fight each other, they can get high pay, so participators always fight on the TV show, because that can get a lot of viewers' attention, so, the show can get a lot of money and make sure it can keep going. People like watching someone’s stories and talking about that, usually talking about someone who is stealing someone’s husband or wife; it always can catch people’s attention. It’s important to get people’s attention. Jerry Springer shows five stories every week, and you can vote on the website, to choose who’s the winner. If you want to get tickets for free, you can sign in your information on the website; you have opportunity to get the tickets.

The Jerry Springer show looks like it helps people solve the problem, but it’s not true, they always do something wrong, and make families break, because they enlarge the problem; they just think about how many people watch their show, even if it makes a family break, they don’t care about participator’s feeling. Many participators fight on the show, but mostly male participators fight on the show, female participators are more calmer than male participators, because socialization teaches male, they don’t cry, so, they accumulate a lot of emotion; when they can’t accumulate any more, they will blow up, and be uncontrolled; that’s why male participators are more uncontrolled than females.

by Alan

Anorexia/Bulimia

There is no statistics on eating disorders because most of the people who have this disease are shy or they don't know what their problem is. The percantage of this disease in the girls is more than boys. Young women 10, other investigation found between 15% and 20%. The disorder in eating could kill people; the reasons many girls have this disorder is that they want to be slim. The other reason is the media all the time adverties girls follow this advise. Furthermore,many girls have a harmony proplem,so even if they stop eating,nothing is going to change. The kind of food the people eat, I mean junk food,because it's cheap,but it has a lot of fat. In addition,many girls don't want to eat because they don't control themselves when they eat.

In my opinion,these problems came from the media,and physical bodies,and they from desire to be slim,so thereis no solution to these problem because depending on people who have this proplem so the best solution I think it is doing exercises or eating healthy food and being confident of themseves. However, most of young girls want to be princess and they want to be more attractive for the men,so I think this is a natural diseas.
Omar
Statistcs on eating disorders

(Anorexia)

I went to the the anorexia website
It was about anorexia. It also talked about the causes and effects in the long range. I thinke it was really interesting website but i was hoping that they put some real stories about girls who had anorexia or still have it. This big dilemma is more common among girls than boys. In fact, i don't think that there are boys who have anorexia. However, girls have this problem because society teaches them, from the moment of birth, the importance of beauty. And girls always think that if you want to be beautiful you must have the perfect body.

When i was in my country i had anorexia but i had no idea that it's a serious issue. It's so common here in the U.S.A but it's not that common in my country. When i read about the consequences i discovered that i have some of them right now. In conclusion, i must say to all the girls who have anorexia or will have it you should think carefully before you do something stupid that might take your life! samah ali

Anorexia

Anorexia is a phenomenon of eating disorder that mainly affects girls and young woman, we can recognize sick woman with some facts. Usually she has a low body weight and refuses to keep a normal body weight. A more certain fact is she believes she is fat, even when she's very thin. There are some causes of anorexia. The main cause is a cultural problem. Some cultures in the US, have an ideal of extreme thinness in women, they may define themselves on how beautiful they are. If one women has anorexia, her body doesn't get the energy from foods
that it needs so it slows down. And also it would be harder for her to get pregnant. But we have some ways to get better. She must get back to a healthy weight. Or treatmant of medicines that help reduce feelings of depression and anxiety. Then she will be comfortable in mind and healthy.

I think anorexia is a universal problem. Because anorexia is a common problem for girls or young women, not only in the United States but also in many other countries. So we have to make a solution for this phenomenon. A woman who has anorexia always suffers from an imperative idea that she has to be thin. She thinks a thin body is beautiful. But that thinking is wrong. The true beauty is a healthy body with healthy mind. So we have to let every person know. Then people's thinking will be changed so there is no woman who suffers from anorexia, ever.

I went to Women's health.gov - overview website

Esther

Growing up male and female By Gilbert

Brown and Hood (2002) in “Growing up Male and Female”,talk about four different methods which the society uses to bring up their children according to their gender. First of all they say newborn babies do not know whether they are boys or girls; they learn their gender roles by observing how the society treats them because babies are treated according to their gender. Baby girls are dressed up in pink closing and boys in blue. The society doesn’t give them the same toys. For example boys are given cars, guns trucks and girls are given dolls and beauty sets. Second they talk about when babies start to talk; the society teaches them masculine words and feminine words like “him” and “her” or “he” and “she”. Parents talk to their children in different ways, more politely to girls than to boys. I mean they use more emotion and feelings with their girls than with boys.Next Brown and Hood talk about behavior in which girls are tought to be “ladylike” polite, pretty, gently and sexy. They are tought also to rely on boys for help; they are though to express their emotions. Then boys are tought to be “Man like”, for example, they tell boys not to cry and not to loose. Because of this socialization boys grow up with a fear of being female. The authors talk about parent’s expectations of daughters and sons. Daughters are socialized more about the family; for example they expect them to remember birthdays, to take care of newborn baby in the house. Sons are not expected to do this stuff; they are expected to be more interested in the world, for example, getting a job and making money. The authors continue by discussing gender neutral socialization in which parents want to socialize their children into equal gender roles, but it is hard for them because of stores which make and sell specific gender toys; war toys for boys and domestic toys for girls. Parents try also giving their children gender neutral toys but it doesn’t work because of gifts from their relatives and friends.

Weblog Assignment #2

Go to the weblog of your choice. Find out as much as you can from the website.

Then, write two paragraphs, each of several sentences. The first just tells what you see. What's there? Who is it for? What does it do? The second will tell how you feel about it and why.

Possible topics (remember, we've been studying socialization

Daytime television

Jerry Springer Show
http://www.jerryspringertv.com/

Judge Judy
http://www.yobeat.com/issue11/judy.htm

Daytime television overview
http://television.aol.com/

Anorexia/bulimia

Statistics on eating disorders
http://web4health.info/en/answers/ed-other-incidence.htm

Women's health.gov - overview
http://www.4woman.gov/faq/easyread/anorexia-etr.htm

Something fishy- website on eating disorders
http://www.something-fishy.org/whatarethey/bulimia.php

Video Games & Doom

Main site of Doom 3
http://www.doom3.com/

Doom (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom

Dads who stay at home

Stay-at-home Dads (or visit any of the three stories at the bottom)
http://www.ivillage.co.uk/parenting/pracad/parcare/articles/0,,186674_618693,00.html

Contemporary Guide for Stay-at-home Dads
http://www.nationallampoon.com/nl/08_features/homedad/homedad.asp

Three Pigs

My mother told me a folk tale like "3 pigs".A long time ago, there were three pigs and they were brothers.When they grew up , they all wanted to leave their parents and want to built their owned house outside.The elderpig built a house with straw,so it was built quickly. The second pig built a housewith wood. He built slower than the elder pig. The youngest pig built a house with stone. The two of the elder pigs all laughed at the youngest pig because it was built very slowly.One day ,a big wolf wanted to eat these three pigs. The strew-made house and the wood-made house were all destroyed by the big wolf easily. The two pigs run into the youngest pig's house .Because this house was build by stone and it was very strong,the big wolf couldn't destroy it. This story wants to tell us that brothers need to work in cooperation. Every difficult thing will be sloved.
by TU CHAI HAO

Gold Axe And Silver Axe

My mother told me a story, that’s “Gold Axe And Silver Axe” . The story is talking about two men who live in a forest, and they cut trees every day. One day, a woodcutter went to work near the lake; when he wanted to work, his axe fell down into the lake. He was very worried, and tried to find his axe. When he went to give up, suddenly one woman rose up from lake, and talked to the woodcutter. She said, “What’s going on?“ the woodcutter said, “I lost my axe, and I can’t work. The woman said, “ I can’t help you.“ She went down the lake; after a few minutes she took a silver axe and asked the woodcutter, “Is this your axe?” He said, “ it not mine. The woman went down again, and rose up. She took a gold axe said, “Is this your axe?” He said, “It’s not mine." The woman was very surprised that he was so honest. So she gave him a gold axe, silver axe, and his own axe. The woodcutter went back home, and told the other woodcutters, the other woodcutter wanted to got those axes, and he did the same thing as the honest woodcutter, but he didn’t tell the truth; he said, “I lost his gold axe!“ The woman didn’t want to help, so he missed his axe.

by Han Tsung Tsai

The Cunning Fox

Once upon a time there were three friends in the jungle, a lion, a wolf and a fox... one day they went to look for something to eat because they were starving... by the end of the day they had hunted three animals as prey: a camel, a pig and a goat.Then the lion asked the wolf to divide the loot... so he hit the wolf severely until he died. Then the lion asked the fox about his opinion... the fox said, "The goat is for your breakfast, the camel is for your lunch and the pig is for your dinner". The lion really liked that...So, he asked the fox "Who taught you this fair division?". The fox answered,"It was the death of the wolf"
In conclusion, we find out how the strong can prevail and the weak can't...and also we know how the cunning fox saved his life by using his mind!
samah ali

The Rabbit and The Turtle

this story talks about emulation between the animals the rabbit was the fastest,and he defeated them all one day he wanted to run with the turtle and he knew that the turtle was too slow . the racing began and the rabbit ran fast then the turtel he sid whe am running she is too sloow and he slept and the turtle was working and she won

the end


mohanad

Sun and Moon

A long time ago, one brother and sister lived with their mother. Their mother made rice cakes and sold them for their living. One day, When mother came back home, she met a great tiger. The tiger said to her, "If you gave me one rice cake, I won't eat you, ever." So she gave a rice cake to him. But a few minutes later, the tiger said to her, again, "If you gave me one rice cake, I won't eat you." So she gave a rice cake to him. Finally the rice cakes ran out. The bad tiger caught the mother later, then ate her. At the same time, the brother and sister were waiting for their mom but mother didn't come back home. Tiger started to find them in order to eat them. Brother and sister ran away from the tiger.
Finally the arrived at some field. And they prayed, "Please help us, god. If you let us live, please give us a good string, or give us a bad string." After then a good string came down in the sky. So brother and sister went up with the good string. And then, the tiger also prayed. "Please help me, god. If you let me live, please give me a good string or give me a bad string." But a bad string came down in the sky. So the tiger fell to the ground and died. God pitied a brother and sister. He gave them each a job. So brother became the sun and sister became the moon.

Esther

angel and man

Hanna

Once upon a time a man lived deep in the mountain with his mother.
He was not married. He always desired that He would get married but nobady wanted to be with him because he was poor. He always felt so sad about that. One day when he was walking around, he saw that angels came down to take a shower in the lake. He just stole a glance at them and then he realized that if he took away the angel's clothing, she wouldn't fly back into the sky, so he put the angel's clothing somewhere out of sight. Finally an angel who couldn't fly became his wife. His mother told him never give her clothing until she got three babies because she obviously would leave him, but if she had 3babies, she couldn't leave with babies in her arms. The angel always missed the heavens; also, it always gave him great anxiety. So a long time later, he gave it to her when they got two babies. She didn't hesitate, and she put it on very quickly and then flew up to the sky with 2babis. He deeply regretted his behavior.

Lila and Wolf

There was one young girl whse name was Lila. She was living with her mom and her grand mother lived on the other side of the forest. One day her mom asked her to go to her grandmother to give her something. Before that day, the wolf who lived in the forest kidnapped her grand mother as a hostage. While Lila was walking to her grandmother's house, the wolf was follonging her and she didn't know that. When Lila became close to arriving at her grandmother's house, the wolf was running to arrive before she got there. Furthermore, he was covering half of his face. Therefore,Lila got her grandmother's bedroom. She began talking with the wolf because she thought that she was talking to her grandmother. Lila said, "because I can smell you well." then Lila asked her,"why are your eyes big?" The wolf said, "to see you clearly." After that, the wolf asked Lila to come close to give him a kiss, and the wolf attacked her. At that moment, her grandmother hit him with her stick several times and he ran away from the house.
Omar

The Lazy Boy Who Became a Cow

A long time ago in Korea, there was a man who didn’t like to do anything. He thought lying down and taking a nap was the best way in his life without work. One day, although his mother requested something to him, he pretended that he didn’t hear. Then his mother was angry for his behavior, so he had to leave home unavoidably. He saw an old man on the way when he was going somewhere. The old man had a mask that looked like a cow. The old man said, “if you wore the this mask, you could live at ease, like a cow that feeds on grass and takes a nap comfortably.” The lazy man wanted to wear the mask, so he wore the mask. Then suddenly he was changed into a real cow. He was very surprised at what happened. The old man took away the boy who was changed into a cow, and then put the cow on the market. After that he sold him to a farmer. He told the farmer, “If you feed a radish to a cow, it must die. That’s why you don’t give him a radish. And you should whip the cow to get him to work.” The lazy man worked hard for the first time in his life. He worked every day and was whipped harshly from early morning to night. He couldn’t bear everything, so he decided to die. After work on the way to home, suddenly he ran to the radish field, and he ate one. Thereupon, he turned back to his original form. He found out his mistake, and he worked hard after this happening.
by Ray

Story about Maconco (burundi)

There was a man whose name is maconco, he married a king's daughter. One year after marriage he told his wife to go to her father and tell him this, Maconco needs your lovely cow and if you don't give it to him, he is going to kill himself and when the wife told her father about that he said it's impossible. Only what I can do is to let him choose another not my lovely cow. Then his daughter started crying, then the king got emotion then gave her the cow. when Maconco saw the cow, he was happy, but after that he needed the king's dog, if not, he was going to kill himself. His wife went back to her father and said, this time Maconco wants your dog; if not, the same condition as last time. The King didn't agree to give his dog. Then his daughter went back and lied to Maconco that her father told her he will give you the dog after two days. Then the wife went after two days and stole the dog from her father. When the king learned that his dog has been stolen by his daughter,he sent his army to get his dog from Maconco's house, then they ended by killing Maconco.
By Gilbert.

Happy New Year...Welcome 061 new students!

CESL 056

What is below this post was done by CESL students in 056, and can be most easily accessed through the archives by clicking on October 2005, November 2005, and December 2005. What is above this post is work in the new term, 061.

Listening - Final

I. Kip Kinkel pleads guilty...

Go here to kinkleplea.ram.

Remember to go to the harddrive; go to applications; open up Real One (the tape player), then come back; this will be on your desktop.

II. Kinkel sentenced.

Go here to kipfinal.ram.

Same story!

Violent Girls

I looked at ’Bad girls go wild’ in the Newsweek. I learned 3 things. First of all, percent change in juvenile arrests for aggravated assault, 1980~2003, the number of girls increased 96%. Second, today one in three juveniles arrested for violent crimes are female. Last, a lot of juvenile females assault both girls and boys violently. I think that plenty of young females who make violence lack love from family or people around them. Therefore, people who know her should take care of her with love. In addition, they need to talk about their mind before committing crime.

I have asked those questions to some people. They answered something in common with each other. First, what can you tell a violent girl, if you meet her? People answered that there would be so many other things girls could enjoy and make their life better doing so. Second, how should they be punished? People replied that they would educate them about the future side effect caused by the physical fighting and the violent activity girls do to other people. Third, have you ever been attacked by a female? People gave an answer that a female had never attacked them. Last, do their parents have responsibility for their children’s violence? People responded that parents were responsible for their children’s violence so that they should be educated in good parenting. I agree with all of people’s opinions and I got the answer that I needed from people. However, nobody talked about her needing parental love and care. First of all, people who know her should take care of her with love so that it can prevent them from violence and crime.

Jeongki Lee

DNA Testing and the Death Penalty

I look at DNA Testing and the Death Penalty. I learned 108 people including 12 death row prisoners were forgiven because of use of DNA testing in the U.S. on June 2002. They use DNA testing to help confirm the innocence or guilt. In 2001, at least 14 of the 38 death penalty states now give prisoners the right to DNA testing. I think DNA testing is very important thing because DNA is very definite. Many prisoners were saved from death penalty after DNA testing.

I asked 4 questions to 3 Americans. I asked these questions. 1. What do you think about DNA testing, is it good or bad? 2. Why? 3. What do you think about the Death penalty? 4. Why is the murder rate going down? Everyone said DNA testing is good because some guy said DNA testing can be use in the courts. An other person said it shows the proof and other person said it can find the criminal easily. Question 3's answer was divided into 2 opinions. 2 people said Death penalty is good. One person said it is bad because many innocent people die. 2 people have no idea about question 4. One person said family value in society has improved over the last several years.

Chiemi

Hackers History

I talked with my neighbor Darrel, about hackers . He thinks hackers are immoral and he doesn't know about the history of hackers because he believes that is a bad thing because they go through people's privacy and they are trying to steal the people's documents. Next, about what's the best way to stop these people, he thinks very family has to study the nature of greed and explain to all families from now to the end of time. In conclusion, I think to stop the hackers the first solution is from the family first to teach their kids.

CAPITAL Punishment

Capital punishment

This website, which I read about “Capital Punishment- Pro & Con, talks about capital punishment, but the content is not by professional people, for example they said, “Just for fun”. There are eight students who expressed their belief about the death penalty. Specially, the people argue against capital punishment. In “Hard to kill a wrongly convicted criminal”, there are four people who suggest their opinion. Edward Laijas thought that innocent people will be wrongfully executed all in the name of justice. Jon Manning proposed that this slow execution rate is the process of appeals; from sentencing to execution there is about a seven to eight year wait. Abel Martinez put forward that people who kill someone in self defense should not be treated as one who kills just for the sake of killing. Jessica Spinler thought that the possibility of an innocent person being put to death is another argument some people have against the death penalty. Considering these opinions, I find the strongest reason that argues against capital punishment, is that, people cannot completely trust the law. “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,” is what most people agree with, but the truth is so difficult and confusing. So the law and judgment are the most important problems whether the death penalty is permitted.

In my interview, we talked about the following questions:
1. Do you agree with capital punishment in America? Why?
2. Do you agree with capital punishment everywhere? Why?
3. What crime should result in capital punishment in America?
4. Do you know what religion is against capital punishment?
All people do agree with capital punishment in America, even everywhere. They think that the murders were so cruel, to serve victims we need to consider their feeling and life. Then they only know that the homicide should result in capital punishment in America. Concerning that, people have different opinions about the relation between religion and capital punishment. Especially, Christians are in the same situation also. There are two things which are interesting for me. The first one, most people who are against capital punishment are Christians, but I unexpectedly heard the Christians agree with the death penalty. The second one, in my textbook, their discussion focused on the relation between the capital punishment and decreasing the murder rate, and whether to support the death penalty. In my interview, they never proposed how to decrease the murder rate with an extreme penalty, and they just talked about justice and righteousness. So I think that most American don’t care whether the capital punishment can decrease the murder rate, they just care whether the abolition is equal for the victims. Finally, in my opinion, I disagree with the capital punishment because I think the murderers never consider how certain the punishment will be when they were killing someone. Next, what value is the execution in the world? The death penalty just makes the murderers who were captured be gone. Then, nothing is changed and that the tragedy still is the same situation. However, if the murderer could be reformed, their stories will be good examples, and even affect some evil people to be correct. Maybe it is so difficult for this vision and it is like a dream. But I prefer to choose the little chance for the world and that I don’t want to make one more murderers in the world.

ManJung

Murder and death penalty

I went to www.deathpenalty. org, and i tried to search hpw death penalty works with murder. I read about the US especially, there are some state wich use the death penalty for murder but others don't use it. For example Kansas and New york, which adopted the death penalty in 1994 and 1995 respectively. If thesr states are even more dramatic. In 1990, the murder rates in death penalty states and states without it was 4%. By 2000, murder rate in the death penalty states was 35%hight than the rate in states without the death penalty. In my opinion, the death penalty doesn't work because criminals don't fear execution; as you know, there are some criminals who kill poeple after they kill themselves, and also thier target is to kill then they can say, " I will kill you; after that they will execute me"> That is a kind of encouragement that the death penalty gives them. I suggest to those states which use death penalty to give up and panush them with life in prison.


Idscussed with some Americans thier opinions on the death penalty. One group agrees with it and said the execution is a good punishment of murder because of the family of the victim ,if they don't see the killer or heard his/her news in prison; they will be happy and also they will forget the victim. Another group said if someone commits a murder the goverment has to throw the book at him, they to put him in prison npot kill him. That is because if they kill him , he will not feel the panushment. Then all of them said, death penalty and life in prison don't decrease the murder.

By Gilbert

DNA testing & the death penalty

I investigated DNA (deoxyribonucleic aid) testing using the website,"DNA testing & the death penalty." DNA is an essential molecule which is part og every cell in our body such as skin, saliva, semen, blood or hair, etc. DNA testing helps accuratelu convict or exonerate. I heard that there wew a lot or suspects who received a wrong decion in the world, so DNA ersting is very important to solve many crimes. I hope that a wrong decision and crimes will be lost.

I asked some questions to three Americans. First is “What do you think about DNA testing?” and they said, “It is very practical to solve some crime. It is terrible that DNA testing can specify a person from one hair.” Second is “What do you know about DNA testing?” and they said, “I don’t know too much well. But I know that DNA testing can help them get much information from small things such as hair.” Third is “Do you know some crimes which were solved thanks to DNA testing? If you know some cases, please tell me.” and they said, “I don’t know in detail but there are many crimes which were solved by DNA testing.” Finally I asked that “I learned that the death penalty increase the murder rate. Do you know the reason?” and one guy said, “I don’t want to receive a punishment, so I think that, on the contrary, crimes decrease.” and the others said, “I think that there is a person enjoying thrill in a criminal. Also, someone wants to die but he isn’t brave enough to die by himself, so he tries to use the death penalty. ” I had an opinion of the former but I understand this fact thanks to them. There are many reasons that didn’t occur to me like they said. However, I don’t know the relation between the death penalty and the murder rate exactly. I hope someone will clarify this relation and carry out the best measures as soon as possible.

Hiroto

Violent Girl

I looked at a weblog whose name is 'Bad Girls Go Wild'. I learned women's violent crime is extremly increased. Moreover some crime was more blutal than male's crime. And also I learned age of women who commit violent crime is getting younger. I think these phenomenon is natural. Nowadays the right of woman is enccourage, and women always assert themselves like man, so aspect of violent is opened as well. In addition, nowadays there is a lot of violence in media. I think nobody is sure violent media never influences a girl's behaviour.

I asked three American people. Two of them are undergraduate students at SIU, and one of them is a teacher who is middle-age in CESL. I asked four questions. First, why do you think girls are more violent than they used to be? Both students said, they think nowadays women try to equalise with men. So girls' attitude is changed. And society is getting more open to them. The teacher said their families have problems. So she thinks they who are violent have a mental problem, so people who have a mental problem are increasing in this country. Second, how should they be punished? Both students said they should be punished the same as men are punished, like being sent to prison. But the teacher was different from the students' ideas. She thinks prison is not helpful to them; they need counseling to heal their minds. Third, do you know any violent girl? Both students said that they have known one violent girl. Finally, if you see a fighting between female would with violence, what would you do? One of them would ignore them and the rest of them will call the police or make them stop. AS you see, different generations have different ideas except on the last question. I agree with all of them. Ther are a lot of reasons. I think family is a basic socializer to them. But parents are too busy to manage their child, because of their job. They are opened to violent media without censorship by their parents and also they lack modeling.

DIKI

Paparazzi

PAPARAZZI

In the website (http://www.gawker.com/news/paparazzi/index.php) there were 4 sections that talked about paparazzi. One is “paparazzo and Moral Arbiter”. This is a section that records an interview with a paparazzo, Ron Galella. This guy thinks that he is right to shoot any celeb even though we think that their behavior is bad, but his arguments justify himself. Another is “Gossip Round: Mary-Kate Will Kick Your Ass”, which collects five gossip about famous people. The exaggeration seems to be a characteristic of the news. Although people considered whether the news was true, they still made an effort in believing in the rumors. Next one is “Have you No Sense of Decency, Paparazzi?” Here is a statement that paparazzi not only do something for their profit, and some paparazzi declared themselves to be the friendly paparazzi, because they allowed celebrities to retain some control over choosing the pictures that appear. The last section is “‘People’ Stalkerazzi Not as Smart as Your Average Stalkerazzi”. The article seems to emphasize roles of the action through the event that Jeffrey Weiss and Don Sider were arrested. In fact, paparazzi are in the supporting role and the editor is just the leading role in the whole action. And the behavior of the paparazzi should be considered a multiple foul.

In my opinion, the biggest dispute is about the behavior of the paparazzi. Surely, we know they did something that we feel is evil. But we also know this fact that everyone likes to see paparazzo’s achievement, just the celebrities’ pictures. Do we sense evil for our behavior that we like to obverse someone’s privacy? I believe that if everybody stops looking at these magazines which do invasion of someone’s privacy, then “paparazzi” will be a historical word. That’s because they will not be able to get any profit from their evil pictures.

Man-Jung


LONDON PAPARAZZI

I went to website whose name is “London Paparazzi”. This site is made by Jack Ludlam, who is a paparazzi. First he introduced himself. He said that he has been doing “Celebrity Photography” for a long time. He is also available for conference photography, P.R. events, etc. And I also can see a lot of his pictures.But I don’t know most of the people who show up in his pictures, because I think most of them are British celebrities. And he also introduced BBC’s TV documentary, whose name is “Inside Out”, because this documentary is based on his story. He expressed his opinion about paparazzi using one sentence, “We’re a nation obsessed with stars, fame and celebrity.” And he also told us a few hot tips about the best place to take a picture. In addition, there is Jack Ludlam’s guide to the top celebrity spotting place in London. And he explained about his work. He said, “People want to see celebrities and some celebrities want to be seen. We’re in this together”. However they also asked a question about star’s privacy and they want to know what we think by using e-mail. I think paparazzi have a deep impact between the right-to-know of the public and star’s privacy. If I were a star, I would hate paparazzi, because whenever and whatever I’m doing, somebody would watch me somewhere. How a terrible it would be! Stars are people before celebrities. For this reason, I think paparazzi are not good.

DIKI



Faking the Paparazzi

I read news which is from BBC in London on a Web-site. It is a story about The Kingly club which lies to paparazzi. The Kingly Club is employing doubles to act as decoys, which it hopes will knock certain photogrophers off the scent of visiting celebrities. One day they invited Tom Cruise, who is Hollywood movie star. They said the idea came after Tom Cruise was provided with a decoy when he visited the venue. It was successful. Thy have as one of then purpose that paparazzi are not against doing their job. So, they are going to have a little joke at the expense of the snapper for their guest because of faking out the paparazzi. It showed that paparazzi is a serious problem in the UK. To be sure, phptpgraphers can take photos of public people. However, they refuse to face the camera, because paparazzi have their photograph taken indiscriminately. Therefore I think that public people should find a method for feaking paparazzi even though they don’t Stop taking photographs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/3950771.stm
decoys to fool paparazzi


PAPARAZZI

I examined "PAPARAZZI" and went to the website, "Gawker-New York City website about paparazzi," so I want to tell you about "PAPARAZZI."

The website has 5 articles, "Paparazzo and Moral Arbiter," "Gossip Roundup: Mary-Kate Will Kick Your Ass," "Have You No Sense of Decency, Paparazzi?" "Gossip Roundup: Paparazzi, Car Crash, Yadda," and "People Stalkerazzi Not as Smart as Your Average." The author discussed paparazzi's acts, mind, role, effect or how to take picture of celebrities in the articles. For example, in the case of Ron Galella, one of the paparazzi, he goes to one celeb's house and knocks the door. Then she opens the door and he takes some pictures of the inside of her house. Next he goes to her neighbor's house and shoots from neighbor's garden to take her private pictures like wearing sexy clothes or no clothes. He thinks this act is right even though we think his behavior doesn't have common sense.

I think paparazzi's behavior goes to excess. Certainly I often imagine the noble or gorgeous life of celebrities and we would like to know about their private lives. But famous pepole have privacy like us also. And sometimes the act of paparazzi will be the cause of the celeb's death or will imply things that aren't true, for example, Princess Diana's death. Her car was chased by some paparazzi when the car caused the accident. In this case, we can say the paparazzi's behavior is the biggest reason of this accident. Thus the paparazzi's behavior has caused some tragedy. I hope paparazzi do the action with common sense and such a tragedy or false implication is lost.

Hiroto


Paris Hilton

I went to"Paris Hilton caught up in paparazzi." This report was on 14 October 2005. This article said that Paris Hilton and Bijou Phillips fought paparazzi in Los Angeles. They were leaving the club after partying with Bruce Willis, Lindsay Lohan and Eddie Murphy. After that a brawl happened in the street. Paris's bodygurd attacked a photpgrapher who got too close to him and he yelled "Don't ever touch me." Paris tried to stop the conflict. Paris is usually known to share her schedule with paparazzi. I think this event is bad for both of them because paparazzi usually shoot candid pictures of her. If she always is protected from paparazzi, they can't get close to her. But I think paparazzi have no morals. They should have more morals.

Chiemi Fukunaga


The above posts are a compilation of November posts from this weblog and have been changed slightly. To see the originals, scroll down.

weblog assignment (core)

Read and respond to one of the following:

Time to end recidivism
The Nation, R. Aborn (recidivism=rate of returning to prison after being released). Do you agree with Mr. Aborn?

Capital Punishment- Pro & Con
Students make arguments- choose two. What do you think of them?

Celebrity Crime (click on one): Choose one, try to get the outline of the crime. What do you think of it?

hacker hoaxes claims that major viruses were actually hoaxes (tricks)...do you believe this?

Frontline's report on Hackers...choose one, click on it, and tell what you think!

Secret DNA testing should be banned (in UK)...BBC...what do you think?

110 inmates freed after DNA testing (but their lives are ruined)...try to get the main idea & tell what you think.

DNA testing & the death penalty...what do you think?

deterrence and the death penalty...lots of interesting facts...how do you feel about some of them?

Death by murder: safest and most dangerous places. What do you think?

Bad girls go wild: girl-on-girl violence

LMC List. Ex. #4 & 5

Here it is (#4):

indict.ram

Remember: Go back to Real One, and open it; it will be on your desktop.
Good luck! Listen as many times as you like!


Here is #5:

genome.ram

Remember: Go back to Real One, and open it; it will be on your desktop.
Good luck! Listen as many times as you like!

LMC Listening Assignment #3

This one is about hackers. It is

here.

Remember,
1) click and it will download on your desktop
2) go back to Real Audio (the tape player) and make sure you are in Real Audio.
3) find it on your desktop and open it.

Listen as many times as you want!

LMC Assignment #2

Here's the next one!

Here...

Remember,
start Real One by going to the Mac Hardrive, opening up Applications, and scrolling down to Real One.
Once it's open (it looks like a tape recorder), come back here and open this. It will land on your desktop.
Then go back to Real One, and find this, and click on it...it'll start!

When you're done, I'll give you the script.

LMC Listening Assignment (AE2 Core)

Directions: You may have to go to "Applications" to make sure "Real One" or Real Audio is open and available.

Then, open This link and answer the questions that are given to you. You may listen as many times as you want. After you are finished, you will receive the transcript.

If this works, we'll do some more!

paparazzi

PAPARAZZI

In the website (http://www.gawker.com/news/paparazzi/index.php) there were 4 sections that talked about paparazzi. One is “paparazzo and Moral Arbiter”. This is a section that records an interview with a paparazzo, Ron Galella. This guy thinks that he is right to shoot any celeb even though we think that their behavior is bad, but his arguments justify himself. Another is “Gossip Round: Mary-Kate Will Kick Your Ass”, which collects five gossip about famous people. The exaggeration seems to be a characteristic of the news. Although people considered whether the news was true, they still made an effort in believing in the rumors. Next one is “Have you No Sense of Decency, Paparazzi?” Here is a statement that paparazzi not only do something for their profit, and some paparazzi declared themselves to be the friendly paparazzi, because they allowed celebrities to retain some control over choosing the pictures that appear. The last section is “‘People’ Stalkerazzi Not as Smart as Your Average Stalkerazzi”. The article seems to emphasize roles of the action through the event that Jeffrey Weiss and Don Sider were arrested. In fact, paparazzi are in the supporting role and the editor is just the leading role in the whole action. And the behavior of the paparazzi should be considered a multiple foul.
In my opinion, the biggest dispute is about the behavior of the paparazzi. Surely, we know they did something that we feel is evil. But we also know this fact that everyone likes to see paparazzo’s achievement, just the celebrities’ pictures. Do we sense evil for our behavior that we like to obverse someone’s privacy? I believe that if everybody stops looking at these magazines which do invasion of someone’s privacy, then “paparazzi” will be a historical word. That’s because they will not be able to get any profit from their evil pictures.

Man-Jung

PAPARAZZI

LONDON PAPARAZZI
I went to website whose name is “London Paparazzi”. This site is made by Jack Ludlam, who is a paparazzi. First he introduced himself. He said that he has been doing “Celebrity Photography” for a long time. He is also available for conference photography, P.R. events, etc. And I also can see a lot of his pictures.But I don’t know most of the people who show up in his pictures, because I think most of them are British celebrities. And he also introduced BBC’s TV documentary, whose name is “Inside Out”, because this documentary is based on his story. He expressed his opinion about paparazzi using one sentence, “We’re a nation obsessed with stars, fame and celebrity.” And he also told us a few hot tips about the best place to take a picture. In addition, there is Jack Ludlam’s guide to the top celebrity spotting place in London. And he explained about his work. He said, “People want to see celebrities and some celebrities want to be seen. We’re in this together”. However they also asked a question about star’s privacy and they want to know what we think by using e-mail. I think paparazzi have a deep impact between the right-to-know of the public and star’s privacy. If I were a star, I would hate paparazzi, because whenever and whatever I’m doing, somebody would watch me somewhere. How a terrible it would be! Stars are people before celebrities. For this reason, I think paparazzi are not good.

Feaking Paparazzi

I read news which is from BBC in London on a Web-site. It is a story about The Kingly club which lies to paparazzi. The Kingly Club is employing doubles to act as decoys, which it hopes will knock certain photogrophers off the scent of visiting celebrities. One day they invited Tom Cruise, who is Hollywood movie star. They said the idea came after Tom Cruise was provided with a decoy when he visited the venue. It was successful. Thy have as one of then purpose that paparazzi are not against doing their job. So, they are going to have a little joke at the expense of the snapper for their guest because of faking out the paparazzi. It showed that paparazzi is a serious problem in the UK. To be sure, phptpgraphers can take photos of public people. However, they refuse to face the camera, because paparazzi have their photograph taken indiscriminately. Therefore I think that public people should find a method for feaking paparazzi even though they don’t Stop taking photographs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/3950771.stm
decoys to fool paparazzi

Paris Hilton

Paris Hilton

Paris Hilton caught up in a fight between Bijou Phillips outside Los Angeles on Wednesday night. The paparazzi took a photo when Paris Hilton rode on her silver Bentley. The bodyguard who saw this happening attacked to the photographer. Paris Hilton did not care about this event.

The Fox network has canceled Hilton's TV show due to their scheduling problems. The TV show began in 2003 and carried on. Rumors are that Paris Hilton and Nichole Richie had developed a strained relationship and could not bear the sight of each other. In addition to this, Fox TV wanted the film separately, but Paris Hilton called off her engagement two weeks ago. Because of this, Fox TV did not see any future about this programme.

http://news.sawf.org/Entertainment/3362.aspx

PAPARAZZI

I examined "PAPARAZZI" and went to the website, "Gawker-New York City website about paparazzi," so I want to tell you about "PAPARAZZI."

The website has 5 articles, "Paparazzo and Moral Arbiter," "Gossip Roundup: Mary-Kate Will Kick Your Ass," "Have You No Sense of Decency, Paparazzi?" "Gossip Roundup: Paparazzi, Car Crash, Yadda," and "People Stalkerazzi Not as Smart as Your Average." The author discussed paparazzi's acts, mind, role, effect or how to take picture of celebrities in the articles. For example, in the case of Ron Galella, one of the paparazzi, he goes to one celeb's house and knocks the door. Then she opens the door and he takes some pictures of the inside of her house. Next he goes to her neighbor's house and shoots from neighbor's garden to take her private pictures like wearing sexy clothes or no clothes. He thinks this act is right even though we think his behavior doesn't have common sense.

I think paparazzi's behavior goes to excess. Certainly I often imagine the noble or gorgeous life of celebrities and we would like to know about their private lives. But famous pepole have privacy like us also. And sometimes the act of paparazzi will be the cause of the celeb's death or will imply things that aren't true, for example, Princess Diana's death. Her car was chased by some paparazzi when the car caused the accident. In this case, we can say the paparazzi's behavior is the biggest reason of this accident. Thus the paparazzi's behavior has caused some tragedy. I hope paparazzi do the action with common sense and such a tragedy or false implication is lost.

Hiroto

Paris Hilton vs. Paparazzi

I went to"Paris Hilton caught up in paparazzi." This report was on 14 October 2005. This article said that Paris Hilton and Bijou Phillips fought paparazzi in Los Angeles. They were leaving the club after partying with Bruce Willis, Lindsay Lohan and Eddie Murphy. After that a brawl happened in the street. Paris's bodygurd attacked a photpgrapher who got too close to him and he yelled "Don't ever touch me." Paris tried to stop the conflict. Paris is usually known to share her schedule with paparazzi. I think this event is bad for both of them because paparazzi usually shoot candid pictures of her. If she always is protected from paparazzi, they can't get close to her. But I think paparazzi have no morals. They should have more morals.

Chiemi Fukunaga

Reading for weblog by Gilbert

I went to www.kinja.com/topic/politics that web site talks about a political digest.Also it contains thet newestwriting from weblogs picked by editors at kinja.the content changed frquently,like every 5 minutes.In fact this web site doesn't have his own news; it gets news from weblogs.On that web site ;i read one title about why doesn't the adminitration fight back, by john, who is saying "i don't understand it.The democrats are mounting the most scurrillious political complain that has been seen in American politics since the civil war.The administration can easly win the argment over Iraq, but instead it has abondoned the field to the enemy.Why the enjoy being puching bags at the white house."

Reading for weblog by Gilbert

I went to www.kinja.com/topic/politics that web site talks about a political digest.Also it contains thet newestwriting from weblogs picked by editors at kinja.the content changed frquently,like every 5 minutes.In fact this web site doesn't have his own news; it gets news from weblogs.On that web site ;i read one title about why doesn't the adminitration fight back, by john, who is saying "i don't understand it.The democrats are mounting the most scurrillious political complain that has been seen in American politics since the civil war.The administration can easly win the argment over Iraq, but instead it has abondoned the field to the enemy.Why the enjoy being puching bags at the white house."

Weblog assignment

For thsi assignment all we will do is write a paragraph about what we see and where we go. Go to your page (it could be an article), look around and report on what you found. In your paragraph you will link again to the site...you can see how I did it here.

If you are doing Paparazzi, choose one of these:

http://www.londonpaparazzi.com/londonpaparazzi/home.html
London paparazzi

http://www.gawker.com/news/paparazzi/index.php
gawker- new york city website about paparazzi

http://news.sawf.org/Entertainment/3362.aspx
Paris Hilton vs. paparazzi

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/3950771.stm
decoys to fool paparazzi

If you are doing Rumors & Weblogs, try these:

http://www.drudge.com/
drudge retort- see it for yourself!

http://kinja.com/topic/politics/
kinja, online rumor source (up to the minute)

http://www.jdlasica.com/blog/archives/cat_participatory_journalism.html
JD's blog about weblog journalism

http://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/1234000787031740/
political bloggers: the new paparazzi! (article with many many comments...interesting!)