Traditions weigh on China’s women (summary)

A lot of Chinese women who are in trouble they will commit suicide. “More women in China commit suicide than in other countries” (WHO).150,000 out of 1.5 million of women succeed in their attempts to commit to suicide. In the rural areas the situation of suicides is worse than in the cites, because the poisons are available in agricultural areas.
Xu Rong believes that arranged marriage leads to emotional problems for the wife. She will enter to the new family. Sometimes the husband feels that his wife is not happy to be with him.70-80% of suicides comes from conflicts between couples. Xu Rog estimation. Awoman will be comforted if she lives with someone who respects and loves her. Some studies agree that women do commit suicide to gain dignity and to show others that they are feeling angry. Xu Rong’s project is to prevent the suicides by providing villages support to women and offering everything for them.
In rural areas people prefer sons to daughters by saying that sons will look after their parents and daughters will leave their parents after getting married. So many female foetuses are aborted. Young woman in the city can be a victim of sexual harassment, but she will be more confident and independent than in the rural areas.

Main Idea:
Chinese women are at risk in the rural areas and they are escaping from the injustice of husbands and from their tradition through suicides. However, it is very hard to change the traditions. Women in the cities are also having problems but they can build their lives more easily.

Comment:
Women suicides sound very bad. I think this topic is very important. Nobody has the right to commit suicide or to make others commit suicide. I hope that this problem does not spread to the other countries.

Task 5 : My Carbon Footprint

Carbon footprint is the measurement of all greenhouse gases produced by individual, company, institution and country activities which impact our environment by burning fossil fuel for electricity, heating and transportation every day. The UAE has the highest carbon footprint in the world per person. That means people in the UAE are consuming a lot of carbon by driving big cars or using high electric consuming items or maybe they prefer eating food which comes from outside the country.

Everyone on the earth has a carbon footprint and it depends on how much carbon the person consumes. My carbon footprint is 4.5, which is very close to my colleagues. The main factors that led to a higher level of my carbon foot print are Travel, Stuff, and Home. I am looking now how to improve our carbon footprint. I think we can use buses or share cars instead of travelling each one by his own car. We will save some energy and consume less carbon than using our private cars. We can use power saver lights and switch off unused devices, recycle waste papers, plastic, irrigate plants with recycled water, replace old cooling machines by new ones which are free of CFC and not buying packages over our needs. I don’t think that we can do more than these improvements to reduce our footprint.



References:
- http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/
- http://www.carbonfootprint.com/minimisecfp.html
- http://www.carbonfootprint.com/carbonfootprint.html

Task 4: An Inconvenient Truth Reviews

* A favorable review:
Helen OHara, http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/ReviewComplete.asp?FID=134187, says:
Al Gore presents the movie away from being boring and dry; he mixes some jokes on what would happen for the future.
We are with Al Gore in accepting this theory. No need for more explanation and the global warming is happening.
Al Gore presents his movie to save the planet from the global warming.
In the end of the movie Al Gore offers some ways to avoid the phenomenon in the future.

* An unfavourable review:
www.darylscience.com/Movies/InconvenientTruth.html :
The starting of this movie is like that we are killing ourselves and nobody knows what would happen for the future. Al Gore was predicting the future. Al Gore didn’t mention the reason for the disappearance of the glacier in the Argentine. Oregon’s Mountain Hood latest picture might be taken in the summer, after the ice is melted.

* Opinion:
I think we should be positive with this movie and I believe that global warming will come with very bad results because some signs of it have emerged. Like the temperature and pollution proportion is increased and some ice in the pole is melted. Although we don’t know what the future is carrying for us, we have to be prepared and aware about what can any phenomenon causes. Then we may have an ability to avoid the coming risks.

* Bibliography:
- http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/ReviewComplete.asp?FID=134187
- www.darylscience.com/Movies/InconvenientTruth.html