Reading Reaction Journal A (About the major)

Le Gao, EAP1B
March 26, 2009

Reference:

Thomson, Iain. (2009, March 1). Recession sees rise in computer science students. Vnunet.com. Retrieved March 23, 2009, from http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2238681/recession-sees-rise-computerter.

Summary:

Iain Thomson’s article entitled “Recession sees rise in computer science students” discusses the fact that the number of computer science students began to go up since 2003. At first the finding said that more and more students decided to study computer science, including undergraduate students and PhD students. And the situation is unexpected. Even thought they can’t find the high salary jobs as before. However, just 10% of technology graduates are women. Thus, the U.S. Department of Labor expected the upward surge would happen next year. Some of them may grow more than one time.

Reaction:

In my opinion, the recession will not affect the IT jobs. Computer, which is used everywhere in life, is the most necessary to the modern world. However, the recession is bad for marketing, economy, or finding a job. Before, people chose the major of computer science almost because of the high salary and good future. I don’t know why they also want to choose this major during the recession. From this article, I find the answer that they feel the intellectual depth and societal benefits of computing technology. I hope my future will go very well. My field is to be a programmer. I want to find more good software to make people’s life better than before. I believe I will.

The National Flag of the People's Republic of China Journal Questions 3/29 ~

The National Flag of the People's Republic of China

My national flag is" five-star red flag". As its name suggests, it is a red flag with 5 yellow stars. Red means revolution, 5 yellow stars and their relationship express population unite together with Communist Party of China. They use yellow instead of white because yellow is more obvious on the red flag. The 5 stars are not the same size. One of them is bigger, it means Communist Party of China, other 4 stars means the national of China, including: the working class, the peasantry, the petty bourgeoisie, and the national bourgeoisie. And every star has a angle point at the focus of the big one. That's interesting. In 1949 the first time of the "five-star red flag" appeared, there is a sickle and a hammer in the bigger star. It stand for the working class and the peasantry. But they decided that no sickle and hammer in the bigger star, because it is similar as the flag of Russia. And then, the National People's Congress laid down so many law to protect the flag. For example: we must change the flag on Tiananmen Square everyday, we can not use the flag which is broken or dirty, and so on.

Reading Reaction Journal A

http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2271


http://southern-star.whereilive.com.au/news/story/help-the-school-that-helps-teen-mums-and-their-babies/


http://ezinearticles.com/?Teenage-Relationship-Dangers-Teen-Pregnancy&id=2029288

Children's Stress

Children’s stress
Everyone has problem when they live in the world. Some of them can solve, but some can not. In my country, both of the adults and children have stress. The differences are: the adults have the stress about employment, emotion, economy, relationship and what kind of education they can give to their child. But the children’s stresses are not so many. They only need to worry about what kind of assignment they have to do which is from their parents. They must do so many things when they were young, even though they didn’t know whether they like it.
For example, my little brother Tantan is 16 years old. He is the only child of my aunty. So she wants to give him the best future. She must to have a plan about that. When he was 4 years old, my aunty sent him to study English in all weathers. When he was 5 or 6 years old, he began to study drawing and playing accordion [əˈkɔ:djən]. At the age of 7, he must to go to primary [ˈpraiməri] school and at the same time, he didn’t give up to study English. During those years, I always see that he was so busy. Weekdays, after school he must to go to English class. At the weekend, school has no classes, he had to go to children's palace [ˈpælis] which place teach children all kinds of skills. In all word, he is busier than an adult.
At that age, they didn’t have to under pressure like that. Childhood is the most important time for the child, don’t give them so many assignment to do. It can not help them like studying, they may be tired of study. They need happy, carefree and normal life. Let them playing, give them free time to do what they want to do. That’s the great way for them. Stress is not suitable for the children.