Saturday, December 26, 2009

Flow

A long time ago people had no factories and the pollution was less than nowadays.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC_Mehta_v._Kamal_Nath Water is a source of human life for animals and other living creatures. Some people do not care about infection of water and they only think about how to get money. Many manufacturers throw their waste in rivers and as a result humans get many diseases such as cancer. Moreover polluted water from industries can cause death.www.environment.gov.au/ Although many poor people drink tainted water they do not understand the danger for their health. Scientists say that human bodies contain 80 percent of water. Imagine if the earth had no water. There would be no life on earth. Earth is covered by 70 percent of water . Every year more than 3.570 million people die because of diseases caused from unhealthy water. Human bodies take impure water by washing and showering.

Flow movie shows and discusses as the effects of water problems and how we can solve them. This movie is true about what's happening nowadays in our water system. The major countries that the film discusses are India, USA and South Africa. In India crops require 5-10 times the amount of water to produce the same amount of food so they use a lot of water to grow crops. It is expensive and too expensive for poor people to use traditional methods in India. Pathogens are found in water and cause heart diseases. 2 dollars In India can bring 10 liters of water per day. That money is enough for one person a year. Suez is damming the Ganges River to sell water back to Indian citizens at 10 times the price it had been.http://www.springerlink.com/content/c163v60011036778/ This caused a lot of people to die. There are 7600 community-built water harvesting projects in India that affect the living environment and living creatures. People in India try to protest against Coca-Cola Company. The state of California has 27 years of water left and this is enough even for poor people to drink water and distribute it to other poor countries. In America it is estimated that three out of four Americans drink bottled water. Nestle company market had produced 70 brands of bottled water. In South Africa the water in the river is most polluted so they use water tablets for cleaning water but the problem is a lot of people cannot afford the water tablet. Dirty water kills people much more than AIDS and wars. All of these factors lead poor people to drink water and after that death is waiting for them. Water is an important source for living so we need to take care of it for our health. Water is not money, it’s a life, You can save poor people from death.www.nio.org/aroundus/Sagar/water_cycle.jsp

Bibliography:

"Beyond thirst: the global water crisis." Faces: People, Places, and Cultures Apr. 2009: P84. Student Resource Centre Gold. Web. 22 Dec. 2009.

"Problems: WATER SHORTAGES." Web of creation. Web. 22 Dec. 2009.

FLOW, For Love of Water. Dir. Steven Starr. The Group Entertainment, 2008. DVD.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Vocabulary log

1. Accommodation, noun, a residence, a place where you live.My accommodation in Abu Dhabi is a villa, but in Dubai it is a flat.

2. Achievement, noun, something difficult you succeed in doing.
Studying in HCT is a great achievement.

3. Advertisement, noun, a notice or display advertising something.
I like the advertisement in the newspaper.

5. Aspect, noun, point of view, facet; appearance, outlook; direction; action of a verb without relating to its time.
The photographer takes pictures in every aspect.

6. Audience, noun, a group of people who come to watch and listen to someone speaking or performing in public.
The audience was listening to the music.

7. Awarness, noun, knowledge or understanding of a particular subject or situation.
Culture awareness is an important subject.

8. Beautiful, adjective, lovely, pretty, gorgeous, attractive, fine.He's wearing beautiful boots.

9. Beneficial (adjective): having a good effect.Eating carefully+taking exercise are beneficial to your health.

10. Bosses, noun people who are in charge of an employee or organization.
Bosses should be respected in a polite way.

11. Buddha, noun, (born Siddhartha Gautama) Nepali religious leader and the founder of Buddhism (c.563-c.483 BC); spiritual teacher; person who has reached full enlightenment.
The buddha was a religion leader.


12. Bullying, verb, intimidate or persecute (someone weaker).
The stronger is bullying the weaker.

13. Capable, adjective, having the ability or quality necessary to do something. Open to or admitting of something.
I’m capable of passing.

14. Career, noun, profession; fast run, gallop.
Hassan is using his computer to promote his career..

15. Colleagues, noun, co-workker, fellow worker, workmate, teammate, associate, partner, collaborator, ally, confederate.
Every group in the class has different colleagues.

16. Committed (adjective): willing to work very hard at something. In the last 3 days, I was committed to picking my brothers up from the school.

17. Committee, noun, group of persons appointed or elected to act upon some matter of business, board, and council.
The business committee makes profit from the customers.

18. Competition, noun, rivalry, act of competing against another; contest.
The competition is between two teams.

19. Constructive, adjective, helpful, useful, promoting development; of construction.
The teacher is constructive to the student.
Always work hard to be a constructive student

20. Convenient, adjective, useful to you because it saves you time, or does not spoil your plans or cause you problems. The e-mail is convenient.

21. Customs, noun, duties, taxes; official procedure of inspecting merchandise and interrogating people coming into a country; location or place where this is carried out.
Each country has its own customs.


22. Disappear, verb, go out of sight; become extinct, cease to exist.
Suddenly, the thief disappeared.

23. Disappointment, noun, state of not have expectation fulfilled.
David E Bell pioneered the disappointment theory.

24. Dormitory, noun, living quarters for residents of an institution (i.e. university, etc.).
Every university should have a dormitory.

25. Dramatically, adverb, in a dramatic manner, in a theatrical manner.
The price of American cars had fallen dramatically.

27. Efficient, verb, effective, done without waste (of time, resources, etc.).
The student did his exam in an efficient time.

28. Eliminate, noun, remove, gets rid of.
Atlantic club eliminated Al Ahli club in the world clubs cup.

29. Enough, noun, adequate amount, sufficient degree.
I don’t have enough money.

30. Especially, adverb, particularly, specifically.
I like many subjects especially math.

31. Expatriates, noun exile, group of a person who lives in a foreign country.
Expatriates had stolen my business.

32. Foreigner, noun, person from another country, stranger.
Foreigners are disrespected by local people.

33. Furthermore, adverb, in addition to, moreover, additionally.
Furthermore, the human resource course will start next semester.

34. Harmony, noun, unity, agreement, accord; pleasing balance, symmetry; pleasing combination of tones (Music).
Each music has a different harmony.

35. Hygiene, noun, branch of science which promotes the preservation of health and the prevention of illness; practices which promote health and cleanliness.
Good hygiene is important for good health.

36. Immigrant, noun, person who moves to a country to take up permanent residence, one who settles in a new country.
Immigrants are people who move to another country to live permanently.

37. Individual, adjective, single, distinct, sole; of a particular person; unique, special, characteristic.
I am an individual student.

38.intelligence,noun, ability to understand; cleverness.
Very often, the quieter a person is the more intelligence he has.

39. Interpret, verb, explain, clarify, elucidate; orally translate from one language to another; understand or explain in a particular way; act out a part in a particular fashion.
The man didn't understand English so we interpreted for him.

40. Kindergarten, noun, nursery school, school for children between the ages of 4 and 6.
Young children are happy to enter the kindergarten.

41. Kindness, noun, the state or quality of being kind.
Kindness to animals as a good think.

42. Knowledge (noun): the information, skills, and understanding that you have gained through learning or experience. Capability = skill + equipment + knowledge.

43. Literacy, noun, ability to read and write; education; familiarity with a particular subject or field.
Literacy meas being able to read and write.

44. Luxury, adjective, of or pertaining to luxury, providing luxury.
My father had bought a luxury car.

45. Ambulance, noun, a vehicle used to take a sick or injured person to hospital.
The ambulance helped the injured person.

46. Attract, verb, to draw by appealing to the emotions or senses, by stimulating interest, or by exciting admiration; allure; invite: to attract attention; to attract admirers by one's charm.
Shops attract people to buy.

47 . . . . available, adjective, accessible, usable, handy, buyable.
Many 4-WD vehicles are available in the U.A.E.

48. Development, noun, evolvement, gradual growth, evolution, maturation; progression.
Drama reached its highest development in the plays of Shakespeare.

49. Comparison, noun, pointing out of similarities and differences; similarity, likeness.
There are comparisons between birds and frogs.

50. Enormous, adjective, very large, immense, huge.
My brother had seen enormous animals.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Microsoft office

Microsoft office is computer software that is used to organize, analyze and calculate data coherently. There are three main types of Microsoft office such as, Microsoft office world, Microsoft office excel and Microsoft office PowerPoint. Microsoft office is designed to correct and analyze words for writing essays and other writing processes while Microsoft excel is used to calculate numbers automatically when you enter a formula. It is also used in business companies. Microsoft power point is made for presentations and projects.

Microsoft version 1.0 was published in 1991 while the latest version of Microsoft is 2007. Microsoft had stolen some of Mac software and that helped their company to be better known in the world. The owner of Microsoft Company is Bill Gates and he was the wealthiest man in the world. He was born on October 28, 1955. Bill Gate's fortune is $50 billion so he was the number one business man without competitors.( www.wikipedia.org/Bill). Microsoft office is used in universities, companies and schools. Microsoft office is so important it has been taught in many universities as official course material. You can buy Microsoft office CD's in the market. Each CD for Microsoft office only costs 100AED.

I have used Microsoft office software for a long time and I think it’s the best software I have ever used. All business departments use Microsoft office for security; for example, in businesses companies they all use Microsoft office for security which saving all date for all customers. As a result this gives them additional adaptation to the customers to buy stock from different companies. Microsoft Office Communication server uses a modified and incompatible Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).( http://www.microsoft.com/communicationsserver/en/us/capabilities.aspx).

Microsoft office notes four main components being important in Surface's interface: direct interaction, multi-touch contact, a multi-user experience, and object recognition. (www.microsoft.com).You can download Microsoft office software in many websites for a limited free time and this helps you to get used to or adapt to the Microsoft office software. Microsoft Word has competed with Word Perfect (now part of the Corel suite) for dominance of the word processing market since both were created for DOS. This competition heated up in the Windows environment, and users of one product tend to be passionate about the superiority of "their" product over the other.

Every year Microsoft office updates their software. I am going to write about their similarities and differences between Microsoft office 2003 which is the past version and Microsoft office 2007.

First, a change that you will learn about in all of your Microsoft office training programs is that the add in tool for Office 2003 was removed. It was replaced by a document inspector that can run multiple times at once which makes it easier to clean up documents.

Second, in Microsoft Office 2007 there is now some versioning offered. Before in Microsoft Office 2003 you could only enable or disable versioning, but now versioning numbers are included and numbers such as 3.3 may be used as well as whole numbers like 3.

Last, a change that exists in Microsoft Office 2007 that is different from Microsoft Office 2003 is that Windows Rights Management Client v. 1.0 is no longer supported. A new client version of Windows Rights Management Client SP1 is used in Microsoft Office 2007 and the new version is easy to install and no change is seen when the new version is installed. (http://www.ezinearticles.com).

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Bugatti and Porsche 911 Turbo

Most people nowadays like to drive cars. There are several famous companies that produce cars such as Bugatti, Porsche and Nissan. Cars are known everywhere in the world. A long time ago people used to go from one place to another by walking but today everything has changed. In my essay I am going to write about important similarities and differences between the Bugatti and Porsche 911 Turbo cars.

The first similarity is that both cars are famous cars. Those two cars are ranked top cars and are designed as fashionable cars. Another similarity is that both cars are expensive. This means many people cannot afford those cars. The Bugatti costs $1.6 million while the Porsche 911 Turbo costs $137,360 to 140,780. The last similarity is that both cars are made in Europe. The Veyron and the Porsche 911 Turbo are made in Germany.Although there are similarities between the Bugatti and the Porsche 911 Turbo, there are also differences. (http://www.rsportscars.com/bugatti).

The first difference is that the Bugatti top speed is much faster than the Porsche 911 Turbo. This means the top speed of the Bugatti can reach 253 mph while the Porsche 911 Turbo can only reach 192mph. Another difference is that Bugatti's horse power is much more powerful as opposed to the Porsche 911 Turbo which is the weaker. The Bugatti's horse power is 1001 hp while the Porsche 911 Turbo is only 180 hp. The final difference is that the Bugatti weight is more than the Porsche 911 turbo. The weight of the Bugatti is 5000 lbs but Porsche 911 turbo weighs 3650 to 370 lbs.(http://www.porsche.com/)

In my opinion, I like the Bugatti car because it's the fastest and most expensive car. In addition the Bugatti car has higher features of horse power, weight and top speed. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Veyron.


Reference:


http://www.porsche.com/

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Veyron

http://www.rsportscars.com/bugatti.

Sunday, October 18, 2009

FAT BOY SPECIAL

Fat Boy Special is a motorcycle which has a powerful engine that helps you to travel for a longer distance. The beauty of Fat Boy Special is that it encourages you to be fashionable and trendy in people's eyes. In addition it’s covered with black denim and brushed chrome. Fat Boy Special has reshaped seats that let you feel comfortable while you are driving. Moreover, Fat Boy Special has different composed colors such as, black, red and yellow. Fat Boy Special maintains a hard tail look which has made it so popular over the years with, effective modern suspension front and rear to make you comfortable. This motor cycle had been constructed after pressure from the European market influenced by Harley Davidson. The price of Fat Boy Special is £ 14,730 which is neither expensive nor cheap and it's rated in the market four out of five stars.

Reference:

Moss, Chris, Malc Wheeler, Alain Cathcart, Peter Henshaw, Roland Brown, and Damon I'anson. "FAT BOY SPECIAL." Motorcycle Sept.-Oct. 2009: 20-23. Print.

Iraq Reference :
1)Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. Ed. Timothy L. Gall and Susan Bevan Gall. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2009.

2)Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. Ed. Timothy L. Gall and Susan Bevan Gall. Online ed. Detroit: U*X*L, 2009.

3)History Behind the Headlines: The Origins of Conflicts Worldwide. Ed. Meghan Appel O'Meara. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001.

Reference questions-par 1

1) What is plagiarism?
Answer: Using some in else's words or ideas and representing them as your own.


2) What must you do avoid plagiarizing?
Answer: Take careful and accurate notes as you research.

3) What style of referencing is accepted at HCT?
Answer: MLA Modern Language Association and APA American Psychological Association.


4) What are five types of information that are often included when referencing from various sources?
Answer: Anther's name, Title of article, Page number, Publisher/Website address and Date.


5) When creating a reference for a book what comes first?
Answer: Author's title.


6) What are the second items of information in a magazine reference?
Answer: Article title.


7) What is the last item of information in a magazine reference?
Answer: Page number.


8) What is the third item of information when referencing a website?
Answer: Title of the website.

9) What is last item of information when referencing a website?
Answer: Date visited.


11) What comes before the URL in a data reference?
Answer: http://.


12) Where is the bibliography?
Answer: At the end.


13) Where is in the bibliography?
Answer: References.

14) When giving the author's name which part of the name do you put first?
Answer: Family name.

15) How do you order items in the bibliography?
Answer: Alphabetical.

16) Besides, quotations, where do you use an online citation?
Answer: Paraphrasing.

17) What information goes in an online citation?
Answer: Name and date.

18) Name one citation machine that can help you?
Answer: www.easybib.com .

19) Besides your teacher, who can help you with referencing?
Answer: easybib.com .

Iraq references:


1)Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. Ed. Timothy L. Gall and Susan Bevan Gall. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2009.


2)Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. Ed. Timothy L. Gall and Susan Bevan Gall. Online ed. Detroit: U*X*L, 2009.


3)History Behind the Headlines: The Origins of Conflicts Worldwide. Ed. Meghan Appel O'Meara. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Nature Paradise gets Protection

In the Hagar Mountains there are more than 100 species of animals. It's been a short time since the country's first protected mountain area in Fujairah. The Emirates wildlife society works in association with the World Wide Fund for Nature (EWS-WWF). The Wadi is also home to fresh water fish and people can enjoy camping areas, nature trails and having barbecues. The only problem that prevents the success of the Wadi project is local tribes. Another issue to the success of the project is sponsorship. Managing will help the Wadi avoid the fate of other picturesque spots and will increase the number of natural beauty spots in the UAE. Dibba Rock is considered one of the most beautiful natural areas which has a large number of visitors. The increasing number of visitors can damage the environment.


Main Idea:


1)Wadi Warayah is a rugged beautiful place which is considered a natural paradise.

2)Emirates Wildlife Society works in association with the World Wide Fund for Nature (EWS-WWF).

3)Another issue to the success of the project is sponsor ship.



In my opinion, "Natural paradise gets protection" article is one of the best articles I have read because it shows how people protect and manage the environment.

Monday, September 28, 2009

fast food

Junk food these days is considered unhealthy but is there a difference between the meals and what is good and bad for us?
Junk food is fast food which has a lot of fat and it's considered unhealthy. McDonald's and Domino's pizza are labeled as junk food and the two most popular chicken restaurants are Nando's and KFC. Many people think that pizza is a healthy meal but in reality pizza is junk food except Italian pizza while KFC and Nando's are considered to have the highest fat contents. Most junk food are popular because they are trendy and fashionable.

Overall, junk food has different kinds of contents such as, nutrition, carbohydrates, fats .By exercise you can change your meal from unhealthy to healthy food. I prefer to eat in the house rather than a restaurant because I think that all junk food is unhealthy and I don’t like it.

Main Idea:
1) People these days do not know the reality of junk food and its nutrition.
2) You can make your food and cook it in a unhealthy to healthy meal.

my opinion :

I like junk food article because it showed me how to cook in right way and change your meal from unhealthy to healthy.

Dyslexia Problem

Dyslexia is a problem with processing specific visual information that causes trouble in reading and writing. Scientists have found results to reduce the level of dyslexia by using spectacles. Dyslexia is a disturbing sensation which causes headache and reading problem. For example, one of the student how suffer from dyslexia told his teacher the words were moving without legs this shows that student has problem in his eyes that disable him to concentrate in reading. Many people think that dyslexia is a disease but it's actually a brain difference. People who have dyslexia do not have enough mango cells. Hi-tech spectacles can reduce dyslexia levels by special exercises. Improving reading skills can solve problem of dyslexia.

Main idea:

1) Children who suffer from dyslexia have problems processing specific visual information.
2) Dyslexia is a problem caused by eye wobble.
3) Dyslexics do not have enough magno cells.
4) To solve the problem of dyslexia you must improve reading skills.

My opinion :

In my opinion, the article gave us ideas about dyslexia that help us to know about the problems in humans. I like the article because the subject is about biology.