Parents suffering with their children By Khalid Doubi.

Khalid Doubi
O6/05/06
AE2
Parents suffering with their children

Video games are one of the biggest problems that parents face with their children; they become the best friend for the child. They affect his health in general. Most of these video games have a lot of violence. The child who's sitting in his chair and playing video games will spend a lot of time playing them. The parents must control it because it's become more and more difficult to control than in the past; at the end of the day you can see that the child spent all his time on these games, and because of that the parents should make strict rules to control it.

I did research on video games and how it affected children, and I found that there is publicity about those children who spend all day playing it and default on all their day work. It's not good at all for their health, especially their eyes, because these games work on electricity and the others work on lasers; the child falls under the effect of the radiation of those dangerous games. It will hurt their eye, brain and body. These children are sitting in an unhealthy way, without any moving; that’s why they become fatter than they were. If they play these video games, they will not contact with the society. They will not be a productive for the country, they can not improve their skills while they are spending all the day playing these video games. The development which happens in the world will stop if the parents did not stop their children and control them, because the children are the generation of the future.

There are a lot of things that children can spend their time on instead of wasting their time with video games. They can read a story, contact with the society, visit his reality and read the newspaper. The scholastic level for the early childhood will go down; there are a lot of people in the world who leave the school and become useless. I find this situation a lot in my country, Saudi Arabia. The society oppresses the child who is banished from school. In my experience I had a hypomania on these video games, especially Grand Theft Auto, but my parents stopped me and punished me. I started to read stories and some magazine, What my parents did to me was good for me; I started to show my skills and improve them.

Most of these video games have alot of violence; this is the biggest problem that has an effect on children and sometimes adults. When the children kill each other on the video games, they will think that it's normal to kill; the murder rate will go up. Indiana state faced a problem; it was about a child who was playing violent games called Grand Theft Auto; he was killing people in the game every day, then he thought that it's normal to kill people, so he went to the street and killed two policemen and he became a murderer. These children could practice violence with their family first, then their friends; because of that, we can say that it changes the behavior and the thinking of the child, it changes the personality of the child, and when he grows up he would grow as a murderer and a killer. In Saudi Arabia we face a lot of these situations on the video games; when murderers kill people, they are hng or he commits suicide by himself. Last month, I read in the newspaper that there is a child from Saudi Arabia who killed his brother with his father's gun; these was a hullabaloo, and all the people were talking about it; the government is trying to stop these video games and also the parents have the biggest role to stop it or control it to stop all these problems.

In conclusion, if the parents control the situation they can make the video games funny, interesting and more safe. If they neglect this situation, the problem will get bigger and it will be the worst. If we use a thing that we have in a good way, it will make us succeed, even the video games, and if we use it in a bad way it will give us a bad effect. There are a lot of things that can develop the children and let them improve themselves, for example educational material.

By Hassan Muslli.

Can a video game lead to murder?


I visited this website, it’s for CDS news, it talked about murdering and video game would be responsible for murder.

The article written on March 6, 2006 and showed a kid who was 18 years old and who was responsible for killing three people. He took this idea from a game called Grand Theift Auto.

This game was about a paid killer, and this is what the article is good because there is an introduction in the beginning and it showed a picture of who was responsible for this game and who was the killer.

Sometimes this is right; the game can lead to murder.

But that depends on the relationship between the families to their kids

By Hassan Muslli.

Can the colors make a change in our life ?

Hi, I visited this site today : it talks about how colors can make a change in our life,And is this true to believe or not?..

There is a lot of information about the colors and what every color means in life …

Some believe that the colors can contact people between each other and every color has an occasion.

In my opinion this is true and if you can see the commercials in media , and Choose the right color in the right advertisement , and it makes a difference if we change this color.

Also, I like this website because it talks about all colors we use and see in our life, but the author should talk about every color with a different font color, and not make it all with black.
Hassan Muslli

Africa faced million of dead people By Khalid Doubi.

Africa faced million of dead people.

The world promised that the problem that happened in Rwanda will not happen again. The media disguises the realities from the nation to gratify the government, that’s why it increases the problem. Even though the large number of the media nets in the U.S.A, it did not show the real portraits for the problem, that’s the proof that the big states of the world do not want to fix the problem. The media distressed the celebrities more than the problems that happen in the world. In Sudan there is a similar situation to Rwanda includ killing children, raping, murder and famine. Also in the Democratic Republic of the Congo there is a big disaster that’s happening, a lot of people died for a lot of reasons but the media did not report fast or tell the world about the disaster there.

In my opinion, these big states should give their attention to this problem instead of trying to find affair to the celebrities. I think the world should take a serious step; they are facing a serious problem in Sudan. They should move, and do their best to impore the world also in Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.

The murder by video games By Khalid Doubi.

The murder by video games
I went to this web site.it was talking about how these video games can affect people. These video games companies profit, they made a lot of money and billion of copies. These video games show people how to kill and how to be a murderer. Some countries have faced a lot of murder situation which were from some kids who have video games. There is a video games which is called Grand Theft Auto. You can see the car that you interested in and steal it when the cop sees you he will go after you and you should run away. You can kill the police man. If you killed them, a lot of cops will come after you until they stop you and kill you. They sell these video games in the shops now and any one can have it, even the kids.

In my opinion. I agree that they affect on children and they will raise the murderer rate in the world. They must control it and make a serious rules for these video games. I like the way that they link and I like also the design of the web site.

Privacy and The Media By Khalid Doubi.

Privacy and The Media
According to Kristine Brown and Susan Hood in “Privacy and the media”, the fourth estate is forced by the society to publish an event or story; some people from the society stand against these news; they think it’s private but others think it’s normal to know it. the Fourth estate interferes in the people’s privacy and in their own life; for example, the scandal which happened in the U.S.A. when President Clinton had a relationship with a women and the fourth estate published it. Journalists gain a lot of money from chasing famous people to publish their privacy stories about private affairs. Journalists also take photographs of a celebrity people from their private life and Provocation them. However this is the way that Diana died, because the paparazzis were trying to take photographs and scandal her. There are a lot of critics from the society who claim that the government should stop those paparazzi and journalists who are whipping and scandaling the famous people, because a lot of celebrities don’t want their private life to be published in the news or to the public and the society.
Brown, k. & hood, s. (2002). Privacy and the media. In Academic encounters. New York: Cambridge unir. Press, pp. 123-125

Net poses dangers for soccer fans

According to BBC news, the net poses dangers for soccer fans and they should watch what they are doing if they following their favorite team. A lot of people are interested about the world cup, especially those who dovetail about soccer. The media (internet) performance is doing a good job about that, because it’s a big event this year. There are many websites allied with teams in this series, but they are bug-ridden with spyware and adware. After a search and study about the teams they found Angola had the most hazardous sites, and there are some players who have dangerous sites. Another study looked at websites that have many fans connected with the teams in the world cup. According to the article, they found 24% of the sites for Angola were dangerous; the second team on the list was Brazil with 17% of the sites. Also, they were looking for players in each team who are attractive in this world cup. The Top Ten of most dangerous players were with Angola with 45% of the sites. Moreover they found Brazil and England had about 30% dangerous sites. Finally the world showed acceptance with it, and it will be significant.
Reference:
BBC news. 2006, June 14. net poses dangers for soccer fans

by: Raid Abood

Children in the Media

There are many new and strange things in the media but this thing which I will talk about has become famous for people, especially for children, because it is close to real life. Video games are developing fast in the word. There are different kinds of games, and how the games affect the child like violent games and make them more aggressive in their life, so some countries are trying to eliminate them by judging the stores who sell them.
The parents have most responsibility to keep the children away from those games in a lot of ways.

The parents always should watch the kids and what they do. They can make a schedule for time to play, like just an hour in a day or two times in a day. If the parents can delineate what their children must do and give them some advice, the children’s minds will be changed. The bad things when the child takes a lot of time to play video games are that health problems will start with them, like myopia and some problems in the back.

Also, the parents can do good things to encourage their children. With this thing they could learn something new and at the same time start to fill the time to play video games. If the parents take their children to join them in some school to take benefit or to find some hobby, so that they could take time in something useful far from video gamester, the parents can get peace of mind.

I believe there are some children who are getting used to playing video games, and there are some parents who can not watch their children all the time and stay with them and hinder them from what they did for fun to take their time, but the parents can keep control of the video games, like bring the peaceable games without violence, thinking games, and sport games. That way all of them will win.

In conclusion, I think the big charge is on parents and how to teach their children. In spite of this we see a lot of children who lost their life in the street, or some children who are victims of their parents. I think nobody wants their children like that. This is why some people believe in leaving their children to play video games at home under the aegis of their eyes. However, they should some times give them some freedom to do what they want but by limit, to make life easier.

by: Raid Abood

Britney spears with her child

I went to this article ;I read about the suffering Britney Spears with the Media, especially from photographer’s. On one day Britney drove her car with her son, and bodyguard. They went to store to buy something, when she waited with her son some photographer tried to get a picture of her son, because he wasn’t in the right place in the car. According to an article, the singer loves her baby but she is opposition to some problems with photographs.

In my opinion, I like Britney Spears. She is really a good person, I read about hey. But her problem is normal, because she is famous. I believe sometimes the person can’t be dominating in cases like that, but they should try to adapt themselves because they are famous.

by: Raid Abood

Millions die in Africa

I went to
this article ;the reason that made me choose this article is that the title attracted me to real about it, (millions die in Africa); also, I’m from Africa. Sometimes we hear about people dying or people needing food or money, most of them because of the disease. When we hear about that we feel sad, but the problem is why this thing is less important than insignificant programs in American television, which means that few people know about them. However, they should give them some attention and try to make the number of people who die smaller.


In my opinion, there are many poor countries in Africa that need help from everybody in the world. I think that’s true, and I agree with that (many people don’t know about them) In my country, Sudan, there are some poor towns, and I saw them; it is really a disastrous thing .also, I think the big problem at this time is that the media is interested in famous people and what they do, whereas they should give some consideration about people in Africa.

by: Raid Abood

Parents suffering with their children By Khalid Doubi.

Khalid Doubi
O6/05/06
AE2
Parents suffering with their children
Video games are one of the biggest problems that parents face with their children; they become the best friend for the child. They affect his health in general. Most of these video games have a lot of violence. The child who's sitting in his chair and playing video games will spend a lot of time playing them. The parents must control it because it's become more and more difficult to control than in the past; at the end of the day you can see that the child spent all his time on these games, and because of that the parents should make strict rules to control it.
I did research on video games and how it affected children, and I found that there is publicity about those children who spend all day playing it and default on all their day work. It's not good at all for their health, especially their eyes, because these games work on electricity and the others work on lasers; the child falls under the effect of the radiation of those dangerous games. It will hurt their eye, brain and body. These children are sitting in an unhealthy way, without any moving; that’s why they become fatter than they were. If they play these video games, they will not contact with the society. They will not be a productive for the country, they can not improve their skills while they are spending all the day playing these video games. The development which happens in the world will stop if the parents did not stop their children and control them, because the children are the generation of the future.
There are a lot of things that children can spend their time on instead of wasting their time with video games. They can read a story, contact with the society, visit his reality and read the newspaper. The scholastic level for the early childhood will go down; there are a lot of people in the world who leave the school and become useless. I find this situation a lot in my country, Saudi Arabia. The society oppresses the child who is banished from school. In my experience I had a hypomania on these video games, especially Grand Theft Auto, but my parents stopped me and punished me. I started to read stories and some magazine, What my parents did to me was good for me; I started to show my skills and improve them.
Most of these video games have alot of violence; this is the biggest problem that has an effect on children and sometimes adults. When the children kill each other on the video games, they will think that it's normal to kill; the murder rate will go up. Indiana state faced a problem; it was about a child who was playing violent games called Grand Theft Auto; he was killing people in the game every day, then he thought that it's normal to kill people, so he went to the street and killed two policemen and he became a murderer. These children could practice violence with their family first, then their friends; because of that, we can say that it changes the behavior and the thinking of the child, it changes the personality of the child, and when he grows up he would grow as a murderer and a killer. In Saudi Arabia we face a lot of these situations on the video games; when murderers kill people, they are hng or he commits suicide by himself. Last month, I read in the newspaper that there is a child from Saudi Arabia who killed his brother with his father's gun; these was a hullabaloo, and all the people were talking about it; the government is trying to stop these video games and also the parents have the biggest role to stop it or control it to stop all these problems.
In conclusion, if the parents control the situation they can make the video games funny, interesting and more safe. If they neglect this situation, the problem will get bigger and it will be the worst. If we use a thing that we have in a good way, it will make us succeed, even the video games, and if we use it in a bad way it will give us a bad effect. There are a lot of things that can develop the children and let them improve themselves, for example educational material.

Privacy and the Media

Privacy and the Media

Brown and Hood talked about the influence of the media that the

people who work in media are concerned about several kinds of ethical

issues before they produce their story. For example, they have to decide

whether to let the watcher have the night to know about private lives of

celebrity people or not such as President Clinton and Princess Diana. In

addition, famous people lives have become more and more complicated after

what they call it Paparazzi appear in their lives. Because this Paparazzi

always try to catch any picture for any famous people in order to get a

picture like that the Paparazzi have to put their lives and the famous people

lives and in danger. What happened in 1997 with Princess Diana is the best

example. This can explain the relationship between Paparazzi and

celebrities.

Sohail Ali

Weblog Assignment #5

Choose any of the ones below, from #1 through #5, that you have not done yet. OR, choose one of your own; if you pick your own topic, media is best. Paparazzi, internet filtering, children and television, world cup coverage, whatever you wish.

Be sure to write it down on paper and bring the paper on Monday for speaking. When you are finished, you should have five entries on your weblog, and fifteen comments.

Then, you should put the following on THIS weblog: one summary, one essay, and two weblog entries. For the weblog entries, choose any two that you have already written. You may have to go into your own weblog, edit post, and copy; then sign out, sign in to this one, and paste. You'll lose the title in the process. And don't forget to sign it...(put your name on it). Tell me if you want to keep your name out of all publication...

Finished? Good luck on the final and the TOEFL!

Weblog Assignment #4

PAPARAZZI

http://www.londonpaparazzi.com/londonpaparazzi/home.html
London paparazzi: how to spot the celebs

http://people.howstuffworks.com/paparazzi.htm
How paparazzi work

BRITNEY & the Paparazzi

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=2066105
Marriage is good, paparazzi are terrible

http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1157153,00.html
Britney explains car seat incident

http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1534071/06122006/spears_britney.jhtml
paparazzo sues Britney over 2004 incident

CELEBRITY WEBLOGS

http://www.mediajunk.com/public/archives/000175.html
Too few celebrity weblogs

http://www.diarist.net/links/celebritydiaries.shtml
celebrity blogs and diaries (pick one)

Weblog Assignment #3

Here are some more choices. If you don't like these, pick one from #2 or #1 that you like!

http://www.earthstation1.com/American_Propaganda_Posters.html
American propaganda posters from WWII

http://www.autointell-news.com/News-2001/May-2001/May-2001-5/May-30-01-p3.htm
Toyota advertising controversy

http://www.adslogans.co.uk/ans/creslo01.html
Advertising slogans (alliteration)

http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?AuthorID=7556&id=13513
Political rumors that are NOT TRUE- including "Al Gore invented the internet"

http://diodon349.com/General_Stuff/rumors_on_the_internet.htm
Rumors, scams and hoaxes on the internet

http://www.startphoto.com/learn/basics/color_associations.htm
Color Associations

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/colors1.html
Psychology of Color

Weblog Assignment #2

Pick any one of the following, or any of the ones from Assignment #1 that you haven't done already. Visit the site; write about what you see and what the site does; tell what you think! Good luck!

NEWSWORTHY?

http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/
Technorati- rates most popular blogs. Why are some most popular?

http://worldhungeryear.blogspot.com/2006_03_26_worldhungeryear_archive.html
Millions die in Africa- newsworthy? (article)

http://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&ustory_id=dd34a9b6-6291-4025-b735-ac1cb9a0e142
Celebrity news coverage rages out of control (article)

PROPAGANDA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_leaflet_propaganda
Airborne leaflet propaganda

http://www.kimsoft.com/war/miller.htm
Propaganda leaflet collection

CELL PHONES & NORTH KOREA

http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=5145
Chinese cell phone breaches hermit kingdom (article)

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Focus/GA20Dh01.html
Cell phones invade North Korea

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4157121.stm
North Korea wages war on long hair

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200211/kt2002112117000111360.htm
Unification- Germany compared to Korea

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200506/200506270020.html
Cost of unification

Weblog assignment #1

Choose ONE of these and take a look at it. Write about the SITE, not the subject. DO NOT COPY. Your first paragraph should tell only about the site and link to it. What does the site do? Who made it? What does it look like? Your second paragraph should be your opinion.
Hand in your paper before you post it.
Type it if possible, double-space.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,70909-0.html?tw=wn_culture_11
Second Life land deal ends up in court

http://secondlife.com/
Home page of Second Life

http://www.entropiauniverse.com/en/rich/5000.html
Project Entropia

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9905/14/e3.idg/
video games don't influence kids (much)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/04/60minutes/main678261.shtml
Can a video game lead to murder?

http://www.wired.com/news/holidays/0,1882,48479,00.html
Video game addiction

http://www.nd.edu/~observer/02282001/Scene/0.html
America's love of soap operas

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4962540.stm
Controversial gay soap opera grips Cuba

Welcome to CESL 063!

photo by Eric Jang

TRAFFIC WAVES

I went to
TRAFFIC WAVES and I have written this article about it on my web log: http://www.muhammad178.blogspot.com/

He lives in Seattle; it took him 45 minutes to go back and forth to work if he's lucky. Sometimes it took him 4 hours to go back and forth to work. That forced him to watch what's going on on the road and it led him to realize a lot of things. In fact he realized that traffic is fantasy, it's like "a flowing liquid" he said. He also became a main part of this traffic; he uses his car just to be in the traffic and watch people. Finally, he thinks the traffic is a phenomena.

In my opinion, I believe that traffic is bad, and it's the only thing that makes you hate driving when you're in it. Indeed, this guy surprised me when he said he likes it, I thought he's going to hate it. As a matter of fact, when I am involved in traffic I just start to look for an exit to get away from the traffic. And I have succeed to find other ways and roads to take, so when I come the next time I won't come to the same road or highway that has the traffic. In short, people should organize themselves when they're behind the wheels, in order to prevent the traffic, and I'm optimistic about it; I believe humans are going to find a way to solve this issue.

by, Mohammed

3 Die in Saudi IKEA (BBC article)

I went to
3 Die in Saudi IKEA and I have written this article about it on my web log: http://www.muhammad178.blogspot.com/

The Ikea store in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia was the scene of killing of three people in the crowded line of its opening day. The incident began when Ikea advertised its big opening and its big discounts for those who will enter first. But what happened? Almost 8000 people gathered and stayed in line in a very big crowd for the $150 vouchers; some of them came from the night before and waited until the store opened. However, one hour before the store opened at 0900 people gathered and pushed each other because everyone wanted to enter first. As a result of this crowd it hurt some people and made some die and be injured; even the Ikea guards gave up and couldn't help the hurt people; meanwhile another store in Riyadh opened and had the same troubles.

In my opinion, I believe the crowd is healthy and socializing event for people, when it is organized and safe; but if it's not it becomes dangerous and harmful. According to this Ikea story, it's completely the opposite; Ikea and other stores like it should be a shamed of what happened because of its foolish advertising. People, I say they must be smarter and wiser; they shouldn't let anyone take advantage of their need. However, police and ambulances should be aware of any crowd; they must go to it and make sure to keep it safe. In short, I hope we can gather in any public event and enjoy it, and of the same time we have to learn anywhere in this world to organize ourselves in any crowd.

by, Mohammed

Saudi's Break Taboos By Khalid

Saudi's break taboos by the Bluetooth

The restaurants in Saudi Arabia is different than the other, the families section is separated from the men section, so women don’t eat with men in the same place. While they eating their dinner they send to each other their numbers by using Bluetooth technology. They also send viruses to each other by using Bluetooth technology and bug it. Women hide their names from the men. Women are not allowed to stay with the man in privet place, like dating or staying alone in the car. They will get in trouble by the religious police. They use the Bluetooth because they want to stay out of trouble. They make a relationship by sending their pictures and their numbers, their was a small problem their, that the girls take pictures of other women in the weddings, then hw them and send them to their friends and brother. After that the men will see it and that is not allowed.
Bluetooth can keep lovers in touch safely. They send a love messages and an Arabic music to each other. It is hard for the police to catch them because they are a business men and people with connections in the government and people from the royal family. Mohammad said he always use the Bluetooth in his laptop, and when he see a pretty girl he make a search for Bluetooth devices and if he find her name he send his number to her and he start his relationship with her.

In my opinion, the Bluetooth is very harmful for Saudi people, especially in weddings, because it's very rude to take pictures and record videos of Saudi women who don’t want their picture to be seen by other men. They should make Bluetooth new technology under control, if they did not the problem will keep going and get bigger.

By Khalid Doubi.

King Fahad's Death By Khalid

King fahd's death and the marbella

King fahd death had a big impact to the Spanish, Spain missed the Saudi ruler in summer, the cost that was embosom king fahad missed him in one of the summer nights. It made a big effect to the Spanish providence. He had a lot of belonging include his castle, sanatorium and some villas. When he was alive he used to use his black beautiful helicopter to move from place to the other, several Mercedes-Benz and a special vans. a lot of people come to his castle asking for a good job. Some of those people who applied there they want to work with the royal family because it has a lot of benefits. The other want to work in a stores and jewelry shops, king fahad spent a lot of money there, because of these it put him in dealings with the hierarchy, in 2002, he was also spending 200m in that year. He had a luxury ship for one million dollars.

In my opinion king fahd's death hurt all the people in the world not just spanish, all the stock in the middle east was down in the month that he died; he is also a good man; he always helps people; he gives them jobs; he gave to the poor people and to the orphans, he is a generous man, he is one of the richest people in the world.

By Khalid Doubi.

The Roma’s Gypsies by Kim

Gypsies are everywhere in Romania. There are several classes of gypsy. One of them is affluent groups such as musicians that can travel to the West. And also affluent are those who sell fine products like rugs. They are living in houses. But most of them are poor. They migrate with covered wagons. They have things to sell, but are just as likely to make their living by begging. Based on linguistic and anthropological evidence, many people are thinking that they have migrated from Europe in the early 15th century.

I heard that Gypsy is a wanderer of Europe. They love music and could play music very well. When I went to Sevilla, which is the south-western area in Spain that is famous for Flamenco. I saw their performance. I was impressed by their performance at that time. I also had the opportunity to visit their village, Sacromonte, nearby the Alhambra palace. But it was a surprise to me. They lived in a dugout. My guide told me they do not want to live in the house which was given to them by the government. They did not feel comfortable there. So I think that their lives are like a heritage museum.

i went to gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/behavior.shtml.It explains why people act the way they do. Information is givin about the influences of behavior, and where you get your behavior from you mother or father.

In my opinion.we get our behavior from our parent's even though we might act different,
For example,If my father was a trouble maker I might be a trouble maker too, but he grow up and i will grow up. So i think we all act the way we do because of our parent's.


BY; NBEEhttp://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/behavior.shtml

by:nb

AMISH IN ILLINOIS


I went to illinoisamishcountry the website talks about amish people in Illinois Also, the site shows that the heart of Illinois country is a town of 2,200 residents which is located 20 miles west of interstate 57 off exit 203.Then, it talks about what their stores and shops look like . If you are intersted in Amish calture,visit this site above and you will find what you need to know.



In my opinion it's very interesting to know and learn different cultures. Also,we might like it or might not, but we will know about other people's lifestyles compare it with ours.

by;NB

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.

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CESL 056

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