2008年10月30日 星期四

Health of the Mother

According to Health of the Mother,there was a debate between America presidential candidates.It was about whether late-term-abortion bans should include exceptions for the mother's health.

My reactions:

In America,abortion is a privacy and protected by the constitution:in former three-month pregnancy,women and doctors have complete rights to decide the abortion;in middle pregnancy,we need to obey the rules,which every state made,while in late three-month preganancy,every state can legislate against aborting.Compared to Taiwan,because of the random sexual behaviors,
abortion is no longer a rarely seen phenomenon.

As far as I am concerned,I have great esteem for life.I like children very much.And everytime when I see a new-born,a question comes into my mind-
why has abortion become a common currency? seeing the innocence face of a infant,I don’t know why we have the right to deprive one’s living without consulting with the unborn.

Since choosing to have sex behaviors,we can not over emphasize the importance of the contraception. Otherwise,it is common to have a child. Learning some abortion process from the nursing classes,I knew it is very cruel.Except for some special circumstances,such as abnormal or ill fetus,abortion should be banned.I think we should enhance the right concepts again and again.Life is valuable and has no chance to back,no one can decide others’ life.

2008年10月23日 星期四

Afghan court spares life of inquisitive journalism student

According to Afghan court spares life of inquisitive journalism student,there was a Department of Journalism student in Afghanistan sentenced to death penalty previously,but now changed into twenty years in prison.Because that he asked questions of women rights in class and he gave out an Internet article,which against the conservatism under Islam.

My reactions:

In an Islam society,there are many difference to us.For example,women have to wear long smocks from head to toe almost all day long.I think it has become a symbolic of Islam culture.Hence,we may consider Islam to be a crucial and stric religion.But we can’t forget that we grow up in the different place, political power,and most importantly,culture.So it’s unfair to compare.That is to say,we can’t put two opposite thing in a same level.

And about the penalty in the article,I think it is also a kind of culture difference.As the time goes by,not only the physical life but also the concepts improve.For instance,humans in ancient China have a lot of expression limitation,especially in the Ming and Ching Dynasty.They had serious literary persecutions,which always caused intellectuals doing their writings with fears.
At that time,there was still somebody believing the existence of democracy.
However,it really came true,now people have more freedom than before.Thus,I think the Islam countries will improve their rules.It’s just a matter of time.(206 words)

2008年10月17日 星期五

Classroom Politics: Should Teachers Endorse a Candidate?

According to Classroom Politics: Should Teachers Endorse a Candidate? there is a temporary prohibition against teachers issue on politics in class.However,this order interferes teachers with their freedom of speaking.Often in election season,teachers unions have enforced their members to stand in the same part.But school is the place to learn knowledge instead of promoting politics.

My reactions:

As far as I am concerned,declaring one’s political position is a strange and inappropriate behavior.Not to mention the fact that is the relationship with a teacher and a student.School should be a pure learning center.Though everyone has the right to say,I think that it’s better not to speak of the political issues in front of children.For fear that it might give children wrong concepts and arise the unnecessary quarrels.

For instance,my senior high school English teacher liked to give us English news reports to read.Once,she kept showing us the negative reports of the Democratic Progressive Party,and sometimes she revealed how much she hated that party.Despite of the fact that I didn’t belong any party,my feeling of that was not very good.Because I thought the topics related to politics were too tense.Take one of my classmates for example,she was the super fan of the DPP,so every time when the teacher lectured this kind of paper,she just put the paper away and fell asleep.This action,however,has must affected other students’ concentration on class.So I am for no politics in school.

2008年10月10日 星期五

Climate change could force millions from homes

According to"Climate change could force millions from homes",there are many people migrating because of environmental damages,such as desertification and flooding.Compared to the political refugees fleeing their country,they move to another place which is still located in their country.It is the continual crop failures caused by global warming that results in the migration.

My reaction:

I think the global warming is an unavoidable problem,and we must face it.In the past,I only focused on the sea-level rising.Now I realized what big influence other damages would cause as the sea-level rising.The famous example to sea-level rising is Tuvalu,located in the southern Pacific Ocean,has declared to leave for New Zealand since 2001.Seeing from that,it isn’t hard to imagine the power of naure change.
Not only the natual disaster but also the man-made calamities make our life change. Sahel,the most apparent desertification example in Africa,results in many problems,like air pollution and food shortage.Due to the large amount of population,people have to grow enough food to support their living.In this way, they use the land without limitation.As far as I am concerned,besides the rapidly-increasing population,the biofuels are another factors.A great deal of foods,such as soybeans, wheat and so on,are widely used to make biofuels.
So the hunger is spreading farther and farther.Every government has to figure out the solution,otherwise it will become a new flash point in global.(213words)

2008年10月7日 星期二

Cuba faces food shortages after hurricanes

According to Cuba faces food shortages after hurricanes(Reuters),Cuba was encountering food shortages,because of its state-run agriculture and the hurricanes which made this problem even worse.And nothing else was transported to there on account of the arrivals of the cargo ships will conflict with the government's price controls.In addition,its neighbor,America,refused to lift the embargo.

As far as I am concerned,I don’t agree the solution to natural and man-made calamities of communistic countries.They always take the nation benefits top priorty,ignoring the difficulties their fellows undergo.Maybe I should place myself in their position,but it’s a matter of regime.However,either adjust the over newly imposed price controls or try to solve the food shortages from other place should be taken to solve the crisis.Besides,I think the U.S. should temporarily lift the embargo and ignore the opposite relationship to Cuba for a while.In this way,Cuba can make some purchase to go through the hard time.

Look into the past,Haiti has offered us a good example.The food shortage in Haiti happened in April,2008 resulted in a great deal of disorder.First,people who underwent the famine gathered on the stree and they started to rob the shopstores.Second,they even shot the troops of the United Nations.In addition,their premier was forced to step down,which made him become the first summit leaving his office because of the rising prices on rice and soybeans.From this,it isn’t hard to see that the food shortage will result in many kinds of chaos.I think we should face it and make well preparation on it,because we can’t know if it will happen in our country or not.(254 words)