Today we can often hear the term, "global warming." The one of the main reasons why we can hear that term so frequently is that the problems that are caused by global warming are affecting almost all aspects of our lives. There are some examples of it are following: climate change, appearance of new diseases, negative impact on economic activities. Firstly, according to the statistics of temperature change of the earth during the last century, we are experiencing the most unstable climates ever. By having dramic growth in temperature, we have been damaged by many kinds of natural disaster such as severe hurricanes and melting glaciers. Those negative effects predicts that we will have tragic natural disaster within next 50 years or so. Also, it is projected that most species will be extincted at the end of 21st century because of the growth of temperature in earth. Secondly, new diseases have appeared during the last century due to the increasing temperature. As an example, SARS has become floushied because of warm atmosphere which allow virus to survive longer. Lastly, global warming is causing negative effects onbusiness activities as well. In the past, natural resources such as water and gas considered as infinite resources. However, due to the influence of global warming, we are predicted to suffer from the shortage of those natural resources. Along with that, insurance fee keep increasing because increasing of number of natural disasters and disease that might kill people. Furthermore, it is also causing conflict between interest groups about environment. Overall, global warming became an issue that we should be concerned in order to maintain lives that we have lived until now.
Personally, I also learned and heard about global warming since I was an elementary school student. At that time, I did not really think the issue is important to be concerned. However, since when I was in high school, I have started to realize that global warming is a serious issue as I keep experiencing climate change every year and hearing about news related to natural disasters caused by global warming. Actually, I am taking meteorology class now in San Jose State University. As I have gone through the semester, I even recognized how important to solve the problem for us in order to prevent to have catastrophic moment in the future. Although today's global warming is mainly caused by a few developed nations which began to industrialized earlier than other countries, global warmining has become an issue for countries all over the world. Since it is affecting all nations on the earth, we are required to act global as a whole. Some efforts made by a few nations will not be able to solve this complicated issue. Rather than that, all people from all over the world should act simultaneously in order to overcome the difficulties. Now it is the time for us to make a decision whether having bright future as we have had during the history of mankind or being ready to have a doom's day.
And I finally believe that it is totally up to how we react to today's situation.
Monday, April 30, 2007
Sunday, April 29, 2007
How can the U.S. avoid to be a "Fast Food Nation?"
Today I watched the movie called, "Fast Food Nation." Although I already read the book, "Fast Food Nation", it is the first time for me to watch the movie. The movie basically showed me about how harmful eating fast food regularly. In the movie, one individual conducted the experiment by himself. He ate fast food for every meal for thirty days and showed how his health condition has been changed. Even though I already knew about harmful effects of fast food, I was very shocked and realized how serious the problem is by watching the movie. After thirty days of experiment, he got fat and sick, and had higher possibilities to get several different kinds of diseases caused by obesity. All of doctors advised him to stop eating fast food and insisted that he already ate enough amount of fast food for his entire life.
In the United States, many people enjoy many different kinds of fast food nowadays. Esepecially, younger people tend to eat more fast food than elders. Because of this fact, we can easily see many people who are overweight from yougers to elders on the street everyday. According to the statistics that is provided by several studies show, we have people who are overweight more than ever before. Also, people with obesity keep increasing now. Since 1990s, when fast food industries are popularized in the U.S., obesity has become one of the most serious social problems in American society. More serious problem is that it seems very hard to solve this problem since fast food has already become daily meal for all Americans.
In order to solve this complicated problem, in my opinion, fast food industries should be more ethical when they sell their food to the customers. Almost all of them know about harmful effects of their food, but they do not want let cusotmers know about those. Rather they just focus on selling food in order to make more money. Actually, the health of the people in this nation is more important than making more money for a few people. Along with that, some strict policies regarding nutritional restrictions are strongly needed. In order to protect people's health, fast food industries should follow the rules that are for people to keep them in good health condition. Finally, more campaigns have to be done in order to let the people know about harmful effects of fast food and make them not to eat fast food too much.
In the United States, many people enjoy many different kinds of fast food nowadays. Esepecially, younger people tend to eat more fast food than elders. Because of this fact, we can easily see many people who are overweight from yougers to elders on the street everyday. According to the statistics that is provided by several studies show, we have people who are overweight more than ever before. Also, people with obesity keep increasing now. Since 1990s, when fast food industries are popularized in the U.S., obesity has become one of the most serious social problems in American society. More serious problem is that it seems very hard to solve this problem since fast food has already become daily meal for all Americans.
In order to solve this complicated problem, in my opinion, fast food industries should be more ethical when they sell their food to the customers. Almost all of them know about harmful effects of their food, but they do not want let cusotmers know about those. Rather they just focus on selling food in order to make more money. Actually, the health of the people in this nation is more important than making more money for a few people. Along with that, some strict policies regarding nutritional restrictions are strongly needed. In order to protect people's health, fast food industries should follow the rules that are for people to keep them in good health condition. Finally, more campaigns have to be done in order to let the people know about harmful effects of fast food and make them not to eat fast food too much.
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Choosing the Best Career..
Since I am planning to graduate next semester, I applied for Bachelor's degree about a month ago. When I filled out graduation application form that shows the classes I have already taken, I found that I have not fulfilled section E of general GE. Because of that, I am taking one more class in De Anza in order to fulfill that area. The class that I am taking now is called, "Career Learning Planning." The main pupose of this class is to help the students to choose the best major or career based on his or her abilities and interests. We usually do a lot of discussions during the period of class time and take several surveys in order to help them to know about themselves more in depth. Actually I am really enjoying those activities because I am getting know more about myself that I did not know in the past.
Although I have already decided my major, business management, I also have some interests in other fields. By taking this class, I realized that I have many interests in such a diverse aspects of our lives that I still want to develop. Also, I leaned some more jobs that I did not know before. In my opinion, finding interests and abilities of one's own is the first and foremost thing that has to be done in order to choose the best career for hime or her. If he or she is not interested in something, he or she might not be able to continue what he or she is doing continously. Also, if one is not good at something, he or she will not be able to do that job as much as other people who are interested in it do. In my case, I also have some likes and dislikes on my major. And I bellieve it is more important to choose a career that I can be satisfied with rather than just sticking to a major after the graduation. Since I have not specifically diecided what kind of job I want to hold, I hope to know more about myself by taking this class in order to make a smart deicison that help me to choose the best career for me.
Although I have already decided my major, business management, I also have some interests in other fields. By taking this class, I realized that I have many interests in such a diverse aspects of our lives that I still want to develop. Also, I leaned some more jobs that I did not know before. In my opinion, finding interests and abilities of one's own is the first and foremost thing that has to be done in order to choose the best career for hime or her. If he or she is not interested in something, he or she might not be able to continue what he or she is doing continously. Also, if one is not good at something, he or she will not be able to do that job as much as other people who are interested in it do. In my case, I also have some likes and dislikes on my major. And I bellieve it is more important to choose a career that I can be satisfied with rather than just sticking to a major after the graduation. Since I have not specifically diecided what kind of job I want to hold, I hope to know more about myself by taking this class in order to make a smart deicison that help me to choose the best career for me.
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