Week 6-9 Assignments

This is a combination of the last few chapters we have studied.

Please choose whether you want to write about business or agriculture.

#1- BUSINESS CHOICE

Summarize an article pertaining to business.
-Was the article interesting?
-Was there any jargon?
-How could the article be improved for a wider understanding from readers?

#2- AGRICULTURE CHOICE

Summarize an article about agriculture, or the countryside.
-Was the article readable and acceptable for less educated people?
-What issue does this bring to the attention of the public, and what solutions can it bring?

Due date is November 27th.

DON'T BE LAZY!!!

Sherry
link: http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2011/08/17/transforming-agriculture-for-future-generations
Summary: This news is about the agriculture, since Polynesian voyagers first arrived on the islands bringing taro and bananas, Hawaii’s agriculture has undergone dramatic changes. We all know that Agriculture has become more science-based and high tech, so the government decided to transform agriculture for future generations. To that end, the University of Hawaii’s Leeward Community College is training students for new careers in agriculture that are grounded in science. This idea is very helpful i think.
This article is readable and acceptable for less educated people.
This is a new policy and everyone cares about the food. So future generations begin to put foot on this will have a great influence on the agriculture, and help the development of the agriculture,so this issue can catch people's attention.

link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/humanplanetexplorer/environments/agriculture
summary:Learning to grow plants for our own purpose was one of the seminal events in human history. Not only did it lead to the rise of human civilisation, it also led to more populated societies. From the Incas to the Philippines, humans have transformed their environment in order to more efficiently feed themselves and their animals. Different crops are suited to different environments.Despite there being around 10,000 different species of grass on the planet, just seven of them now feed around six billion people around the world.
This article is readable and acceptable for less educated people.
From an article we can learn that crop production allows people to plan ahead, settle into villages, have larger families, and create more complex societies, then the biggest mark of our success as crop growers .

This news is about business.It was interesting for most of chinese to read it,because it proved that china’s overall national strength has been developing rapidly,especially in business field. It was easy for common people to read,and there were not many jargons in the article,just one: Android.Through graph,readers can clearly see the facts.
However,I assume,if the reporter can report different fields people’s ideas.For example,adding the common people ‘s sayings can be more persuadable,and so on.I believe that will be a wider understanding from readers.

Lolana

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/black-friday-2011-joshua-topolskys-tips-for-how-to-shop-like-a-geek/2011/11/22/gIQAml87oN_story.html

SUMMARIZE:This article gives some suggestions to the consumers of what to buy during Black Friday.
1.About tablets:Ipad 2 is at a reduced price on Black Friday,but it's still more expensive than Amazon's Kindle Fire.
2.About laptops:MacBook Airs'a good chioce,but HP Pavilion is a good choice for those who want a pure Windows experience.Do not buy Sylvania Android netbook.
3.About cameras:The author lists some practical cameras for people in different needs.
All in all,consumers should make it clear that what they want to buy.Do not only concern about the cheapest price,it's more available to think about the capabilities and features.

-It was interesting and practical for readers.

-JORGONS:consumer electronics

-IMPROVEMENT FOR WIDER UNDERSTANDING:The article is relatively populaire for most people.For me,who do not live in that region,it's easy to understand,so I didn't figure out how to improve for wider undertanding from readers.

name:julia1
link:http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-11/24/content_14155550.htm
Summary: This news is about business.China will continue to enhance economic and commercial cooperation with Sudan and encourage Chinese companies to intensify cooperation with their Sudanese counterparts, a Chinese official said here on Wednesday.
What's more,China had signed many agreements with Sudan to promote the economic development.
I hope China can cooperate wite more and more countries,then China can be stronger and stronger.
This article is readable and acceptable for less educated people.People can understand it easily .and they will be hanppy and proud of their countries. They will be delighted for the great achievements that China have been mad.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15831619
summary:
US agency says Apple did not violate HTC patents.A US agency has ruled that Apple did not violate graphic patents owned by S3 Graphics, a unit of Taiwan's HTC.
jargon:
image compression;Google's Android operating syste

The article is acceptable for reader .
Before Taiwan's HTC sues Apple in patent infringement dispute.The Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has filed a lawsuit in the US against Apple, accusing its American rival of infringing its patents.HTC is trying to stop US imports of iPhones, iPads, iPods and Mac computers.But

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15831619
summary:
US agency says Apple did not violate HTC patents.A US agency has ruled that Apple did not violate graphic patents owned by S3 Graphics, a unit of Taiwan's HTC.
jargon:
image compression;Google's Android operating syste

The article is acceptable for reader .
Before Taiwan's HTC sues Apple in patent infringement dispute.The Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has filed a lawsuit in the US against Apple, accusing its American rival of infringing its patents.HTC is trying to stop US imports of iPhones, iPads, iPods and Mac computers.But the latest ruling reverses the earlier decision.The ITC is an agency that has the power to block the import of products into the United States that it believes violate patents.

Vivian

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15861083

Summary:This news is about the agriculture.A pilot project to harvest rainwater is beginning to transform Nicaragua that is one of the poorest and driest areas of the county.Farmers here,produce maize no longer depend on seasonal rainfall,and they have a surplus to trade.Nicaragua has a huge contrast between the rainy and the dry season.For this reason,the project involves building earthen dams to form reservoirs or ponds to collect rainwater during the rainy season.The water is used for irrigation during periods of drought.The irrigation gave a great help to farmers.This project has changed the life of farmers lived in Nicaragua.

This article is readable and acceptable for less educated people.

We can leran from the news that this technology can work in the poorest of countries.Poor countries in the world should adopt this technology so that give farmers good harvest and change their life.

Link:http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/11/euro-crisis-16

Summary:This news is about the euro crisis.Europe crisis was keep for a long time.Now most of banks was in danger.Many people and companies can't got money from bank.Europe’s leaders are certainly aware of the dangers—and are working on solutions. But it would not be the first time that their efforts are overtaken by events.

I think few of people were intrested in it,especially girls

IMPROVEMENT FOR WIDER UNDERSTANDING:I think it can make us know more about the world economic.At first,I didn't intrested in it too.But if I want to improve myself,it necessary.Most important reason why I intrested is that my favourite reporter was a chair on CCTV2 economic news

link：http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/index.html
Summary:News from Beijing：the price of Chinese food market is keeping rising since last two weeks,and it has tendency to keeping going up, because of production drawdown in the winter, and this will cause china’s inflation (Statement from the Ministry of Commerce onTuesday.)

This article is readale and acceptable for less educated people.

Maybe by reading this news ,people will pay more attention to their daily life ,this can force government to take some measures, we can see from the news, the reason of rising price is that we have not enough food ,maybe the government should encourage farmers by giving them more welfare and helping them rising fund. The government can also sent some experts who know agricultural technology to villages to help the farmers increasing their productivity.

http://wenwen.soso.com/z/q184940992.htm
HKs outward processing exports to mainland down 10%
Hong Kong's total exports to the Chinese mainland for outward processing dropped 10 percent year on year to 425.2 billion HK dollars (54.8 billion U.S. dollars) in 2009, the HK authority said on Thursday.
The Census & Statistics Department said the value of domestic exports to the mainland for outward processing fell 45 percent to 7.3 billion HK dollars (0.94 billion U.S. dollars) whereas that of re-exports to the mainland for outward processing dropped 9 percent to 417.9 billion HK dollars (53.85 billion U.S. dollars).
During the year, the value of imports from the mainland related to outward processing dropped 21 percent to 623.2 billion HK dollars (80.3 billion U.S. dollars), while 641.8 billion HK dollars (82.7 billion U.S. dollars) of Hong Kong's re-exports originally from the mainland were produced through outward processing on the mainland, down 19 percent compared the previous year.
Last year 34 percent of Hong Kong's total exports to the mainland were for outward processing. The figure was 27 percent for domestic exports and 34 percent for re-exports.
Among Hong Kong's imports from the mainland, 50 percent were for outward processing. 68 percent of HK's re-exports originally from the mainland were produced through outward processing on the mainland.
I am sorry ,I am hillary ,because my password is wrong .
It is not interesting.
Only a little
It is not difficult, can understand easy

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/business/global/banks-fear-breakup-of-the-euro-zone.html?ref=economy

SUMMARIZE:
Some banks are no longer so sure, especially as the sovereign debt crisis threatened to ensnare Germany itself this week, when investors began to question the nation’s stature as Europe’s main pillar of stability.
Now the euro zone's economyis very weak. So many banks even gountries want to do something to change th terrible situation. People have different ideas, some think it will be worse in several years, some think it will be better.
I think the European Union will become better, it has so many powerful and rich countries, if they want to overcome the difficulties, they will do it. So, there is no need to worry about anything bad which will happen in the future.

This news is not interesting, at least I don't like it, because everything about economy is boring.

There are so many jargons in htis article.

If poeple have known something about the world's economy, they will understand it well

cindy

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2011-11/26/content_14167554.htm

It is an interesting news,because we have close relationship with it.
There are some jargons like deputy director of the Development Research Center (DRC) of the State Council ,investment, consumption and exports, gauge of inflation.
If the news could more easier to understand,it will generate the interest from wider reader,or add some explanation.

Link:http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/west/Business-Bomba-Competition-Inspires-Innovation-in-Sierra-Leone-112423169.html
summary:This news is about business.As Sierra Leone becomes increasingly business-friendly, a national business-plan competition invites innovative thinkers to bring their best business ideas to vie for a $23,000 start-up prize.Massive speakers at a busy intersection in Freetown blast out news of "Business Bomba", a national business competition aiming to inspire future entrepreneurs to come up with new ideas.
I think that is interesting.This contest is both good for the ideal ower and the company.

Link:http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2011-11/22/content_14143640.htm
Summary:Actually, Chinese consumers can buy luxury goods in domestic duty-free shops quite conveniently.Because of more than 50 percent of luxury purchases by Chinese consumers take place overseas, and now domestic duty-free shops are currently operating on a trial basis in the cities of Sanya and Haikou in south China's Hainan province, which can change their current business model and provide more support services.And Chinese becomes the largest portion buying luxury, so the politics on this is significant for them. As we are now developing faster than before, China will overtake Japan to produce the largest number of luxury-goods consumers in 2012. Therefore, it is an interesting news.

David

http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/25/yao-ming-basketball-star-wine-maker/?hpt=ibu_c2

The story said that Yao Ming started producing and selling wine, but his fans and other people had different point of views. Whan should professional athletes du after their retirement from the sports career? Even though they are public person. It is interesting.

Helen
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2011-11/26/content_14167554.htm
China’s economy was estimated to grow 8.5 percent in 2012. The main factors in stimualting economic growth are investment, cosumption and exports. The deputy director of the DRC(Development Research Center) of the Sate Council said the next year’s total consumption may higher than that of 2012. He still said that the grow economuc growth is “reasonable and acceptable”.
This article was not very interesting

JARGON: Investment, Cosumption, Exports.

IMPROVEMENT FOR WIDER UNDERSTANDING: Maybe some people are intrerested in the development of China’s econmoy.

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/decapua-g20-agriculture-8sept11-129449883.html

Agricultural experts from the G20 countries met on September to find ways to match the latest research and technology to the growing demand for more food. It’s estimated the world’s population will grow to nine billion by 2050.

The meeting in Montpellier, France, stems from last November’s G20 summit in Seoul, South Korea. During that conference, France, Japan, Canada and Brazil were asked to focus more on food security.

In the future the government will focus on agricultural and countryside .

http://www.24en.com/bbc/bbc5/2011-11-08/137449.html

Jenny class1

Manchester United have renamed the North Stand at Old Trafford the Sir Alex Ferguson Stand in recognition of his 25 years as manager of the club.
Sir Alex Ferguson is presented with a photo to commemerate his 25th year as manager
Ferguson was given a guard of honour by his own players and visitors Sunderland as he made his way on to the pitch for Saturday's Premier League game.
The club also announced that a statue of the Scot would go outside the stand before the start of next season.
Chief executive David Gill announced that the stand was to be named in Ferguson's honour on the pitch before the match against Sunderland, which United won 1-0 thanks to an own goal from their former defender Wes Brown.
Following a standing ovation 长时间起立鼓掌 from the crowd, the manager declared his pride at working for "the best club in the world".
When asked for the most memorable moment of his 25 years in charge , Ferguson said: "I'll never forget Barcelona. Never." He was talking about the night when Manchester United won the 1999 Champions League final against Bayern Munich with two injury-time goals. The game was played at Barcelona's stadium, Camp Nou.

1.Name:Mia
2.Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/humanplanetexplorer/environments/agriculture
3.Summary:Learning to grow plants for our own purpose was one of the important events in human history.People have improved their environment in order to more efficiently feed themselves.Our ancestors worked out how to grow cereals like rice, corn, wheat, and barley.They set an example to us.However,we need to improve the agriculture efficiently.
4-Was the article readable and acceptable for less educated people?
-No,it was not

5-What issue does this bring to the attention of the public, and what solutions can it bring?
-We should take measures to balance the relation between nature and human.Make good use of the land

http://www.tingvoa.com/html/20111129/59225_2.html
The United Nations estimates that world food production will have to increase by seventy percent by twenty-fifty. A world population growing in number and wealth will require one billion tons more grain each year, and two hundred million tons more meat. The Food and Agriculture Organization says those gains will have to happen largely on existing land through "sustainable intensification."
It was just apart of the news, I think it was a serious problem all over the world . we should take some measures to solve this problem. I think
We should cherish the food and have a healthy diet.