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Survey Question 2

                A  graph about people who responsibles in paying the credit card bills shows older people do it much rather than the younger, USA Today reported.  The graph says that people over their sixties have a big percentage in paying the bills, it has the highest number, 87%. It seems like the more you are older the more you have to pay off yours or your family credit card bills. We can see it from the graph that shows adults in the age of forty six until sixty have a chance to settle it too, with the percentage 68%. This condition is very contrast compared to people in the age of under thirty, most of them said no, therefore the percentage is 59% and also for a group in the age of thirty until forty five, they show 49% for saying no to pay off the credit card bills.

Graphic (page 79)

According to USA Today survey, as people getting older, they are less concerned about the amount of debt they have on credit cards.  Those under age 30 are the most responsible people paying their credit cards, it is on 55% percentage moreover 59% of them pay the debt on time every month. People over 30 are less responsive as they only concern below 50%. The percentage of those who concern and not in the age between 30 to 45 are the same, they are on 43%. Only 51% of people paying the debt every month. A group of people from 46-60 are less concerned paying their debts, it was 62% of them say no. They either do not pay attention  to let their debts paid. The highest percentage of people who are not concerned was a group of people over 60, it reaches 81% no. They  give the least attention on paying the debts on time.

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Artificial Language

In the end of the nineteenth century, Dr.Zamenhof  from Poland found Esperanto, the artificial language which is successfully used by people throughout the world. It was affected by English, German, the Romance language, Latin, and Greek. The upcoming artificial language had been found was Interlingua which is built by some language experts from Latin, the Romance language, and English. However, Esperanto was more famous than Interlingua because it is very far easy to understand. (Pei 175-176)

Artificial Language—Objections

                However artificial language like Esperanto and Interlingua are lack in some ways. The structure of language are much influenced by Western culture like European and American so it’s very hard for Asian, African and Slavic to understand it. (Pei 176)

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1. Television channel KSA General Manager im Burns said that not everyone can attend college in the traditional way; therefore, taking courses via television will offer many more students the chance to earn a college degree.
2. Pre-med student Alma Rodriguez said that she miss being on campus, but she has to work and takes care of her family.
3. Other students said that last year they spent several hours a day commuting to and from school. Now they don’t have to do that.
4. Computer engineering student Amir Mahdizadeh stated that he can choose when to study and how to study without a pressure. He also said that he will take more telecourses in the fall.

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1. Dr. Yixuan Ma, a well-known astrophysicist who has been studying black holes, said, “It is one of the most interesting phenomena we astrophysicists have ever studied.”
2. As she explained, “In black holes the laws of nature do not seem to apply.”
3. “A black hole is a tiny point with the mass 25 times the mass of our sun,” explained Ma’s associate, Chun-Yi Su, “black hole are created by death of a very large star.”
4. “It is an invisible vacuum cleaner in space,” she added, “with tremendous gravitational pull.”
5. According to Dr.Su, “If a person falls into a black hole, he will eventually be crushed due to the tremendous gravitational forces.”
6. “Time will slow down for him as he approaches the event horizon”, she said, “and when he reaches the event horizon, time will stand still for him.”

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World’s Major Consumers of Primary Energy

According to statistics published by the U.S Departement of Energy, the world’s consumption of primary energy continued to increase in 1994 in quadrillion’s Btu’s. The three top consumers included the United States, China, and Russia. However, the largest consumer was the United States. It used 85.64 quadrillion Btu. Japan consumed 20.7 quadrillion Btu, whereas Germany consumed 13.87 quadrillion Btu. The countries that consumed less than 10 quadrillion Btu included India, United Kingdom, France, and Italy.

 

Fact Versus Opinions (page 72)

1. (OPINION) Smoking is relaxing and, therefore, enjoyable.
2. (FACT) Dr.Kathleen Parker, a well-known cancer specialist, recently admitted in an interview, “Although I see the harmful effects of smoking nearly everyday in my work, I still enjoy relaxing with a cigarette after dinner.”
3. (FACT) Early in the next decade, more women than men will die young of lung cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. NFS
4. (OPINION) Smoking is attracting more and more adult.
5. (FACT) According to a recent New York Times article, cigarette smoking is increasing among adults in their forties as well as among the college educated and those earning more than $35,000 annually.
6. (OPINION) Red-light runners¹ must take a driver’s education class. Then they will become safer drivers.
7. (FACT) Red-light runners cause scores of accidents, including deaths and injuries as well as million of dollars in damages. NFS
8. (OPINION) Red-light runners should have their driver’s licenses suspended for a period of time.

9. (FACT) Nationwide, the number of red-light running accidents increased18 percent from 1992 through 1995. In 1991, 2,425 deaths resulted, and in 1995, the number rose to 2,866.

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Practice 6:

Many readers  will easy to get bored, if they just try to read around or full of read without knowing the meaning in all sentences of text and can’t resolve their reading problem it self. Reading strategy can be find in the reader ability to know how ther can understand on the particular of the task.

References: Dillon, A. (1994). Designing usable electronic text. Ergonomic aspects  of human information usage. London: Taylor & Francis.

 

Practice 7:At this time teacher can use some interactive media when they teach, using some interactive media which helping student to get an information or knowledge from one multi channel output.

References : Schwier, R., & Misanchuk, E. (1993). Interactive multimedia instruction. Englewood Cliffs. NJ: Educational Technology Publications.

 

 

Practice 8: A particular events whether it’s in formal or informal community are needed to train the learner’s  abilities from every generation.

References : Driscoll, M. P. (2000), Psychology of learning for instruction (2^nd ed.) Needham Heights, MA:  Allyn & Bacon.

 

 

Practice 9:

In explaining how media has a huge influence in our life, Reeves, B., & Nass, C. (1996) said that people’s responses to media show that they treat media specially and more than like tools, and media also become full participants in our social and natural world.

References:  Reeves, B., & Nass, C (1996). The media equation: How people treat computers, television, and new media like real people and places. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

 

Practice  10:

According to Frick T (1991) , many hard things that computers can do , started from simply tasks such as writing , editing until diagnosing equipment malfunction or performing mathematical function . But something that computers can’t do which is to identify human presence .

References: Frick, T. (1991) Restructuring education through technology. Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation.

Outline on Unemployment Essay

Unemployment
I. Introduction
Thesis statement : Unemployment is caused by limited number of job vacancy, and minimum of education background
II. Body
A. The meaning of unemployment
1. A social evil
B. Causes of unemployment
1. Limited number of job vacancy
2. Minimum of education background
C. Effects of unemployment
1. Effects in social
2. Effects in economical
3. Effects in psychological
D. Solutions for unemployment
1. Provide more job vacancies
III. Conclusion
In conclusion, unemployment is one of some problems that leads to some problems in this country like the emergence of crime, poverty, and social jealousy among the people. So, we should care about the unemployment and find a way to solve this problem like creating microbusiness and give the fund for them who wants to create it.

Summary

Essay is a writing produced by writer or student’s thought, contain with some arguments and factual ideas. The purpose of essay is to make students become creative in developing their ideas. Essays divides into some genres; expository, descriptive, narrative, and argumentative (Jack Baker, Allen Brizee, Elizabeth Angeli). Those essays have their own characteristics but the similarity of them is they must be explained in detail and write it in sequence.

Expository essays

Expository essays is an essay that can be called as an explaining essay, because when doing this, students have to provide the topic with a detail explanation supported by evidence. To write an expository essay, on the introduction students have to write the thesis statement or we may add the interesting general statement about the topic so the readers will feel interested about the topic that will be discussed. On the body, we have to give the factual evidence or some trusted sources about the topic. And in writing a conclusion, we may to paraphrase the thesis statement but does not simply restate the thesis, but readdresses it in light of the evidence provided (Jack Baker, Allen Brizee, Elizabeth Angeli.)

Descriptive Essays

Descriptive essay leads us to describe particular thing in detail. The purpose of this essay is to make the readers can imagine of what we’ve written. To write a descriptive essay, here are some guidelines according to Jack Baker, Allen Brizee, and Elizabeth Angeli, take time to brainstorm: point out the specific things, use clear and concise language, choose vivid language, use your senses, leave the reader with a clear impression, and be organized.

Narrative Essays

Narrative essays is similar with a story, because both of them provide fiction things or imaginary things which aims to entertain the readers. Kinds of narrative essays are myth, legend, fairy tales, fables, and so on. To write a narrative essay, you have to pay attention to several things; write the story completely, the essay should be written from a clear point of view, and be organized in sort every event of them so the audiences can follow your lead (Jack Baker, Allen Brizee, Elizabeth Angeli).

Argumentative Essays

Argumentative essay is mainly discussed about our argument but still it has to be provided by the evidence. Many people are confused about the differences between expository and argumentative, argumentative essay differs from the expository essay in the mount of pre-writing (invention) and research involved, also argumentative essay leads to have more research than expository (Jack Baker, Allen Brizee, Elizabeth Angeli).