Unit 2 : Family Life
Article 3 : Life Jackets: It’s better to be safe than sorry
This article is about the importance of life jackets, especially to the children when they are in the water.Based on this article,we know that parents should take extra precaution with their children’s safety. In example,they should make sure that their children do not swim in choppy seas and treacherous conditions. Children who are unable to swim should not be allowed in the water without adult supervision and they also must wear life jackets for their safety.In this article ,the author exposed that there are some places that the practice of wearing life jacket has not been enforced effectively in the boat because of poor supervision by the authorities. As a result,this situation may lead into drowning or fatalities,especially in the event of life-threatening situation. Therefore,the authorities,as well as parents must pay full attention to their children while they are swimming in the water or when they are in the boat or sampan. They must think that it is better for children to be safe than sorry, and always precautious about children’s safety,because the prevention is better than cure.
Article 4 : Your money: preparing for the baby
This article is about some issues that should be considered before we want to embark our journey to parenthood. Based on this article, we can know that the writer told us an example of a couple who attempt very hard to make sure that they can life comfortably.The writer also explained that we must get ourself totally prepared for this parenthood adventure,include our physical,mental,emotional and financial.What he most important and crucial things to think is financial capabalities. This is because having a baby will increase our daily and monthly expenses.the diapers,baby formula and place or cost of childcare are some of the things that should be considered because it may increase our expenses. Hence,the couple (parents ) should discuss and plan objectively to make sure that they will life comfortably with their baby or children by saving their money and managing budgets or expenses perfectly.
Unit 3 : Technology
Article 5 : Hundred of TVs stations plan Feb 17 digital switch
I have read this article that explained most of the TVs stations plan to replace their analog network broadcasts with digital network broadcasts. So there is a wait lists of users to get coupons so that they can change it with subsidizes converter boxes from the government. They believe this transition is important because digital signals are more efficient than analog ones. TVs connected to cable or satellite services are not affected by the analog shutdowns that are planned by the TVs stations. In my opinion, this transition is reasonable in this globalization period,which need us to use the high and sophisticated technology. However,the TVs stations should perpetuate the analog network broadcasts because the users should be given a right to choose which types of network broadcast that they want to use for their TVs.
Article 6 : Introducing the World’s Smallest Full-Page Printer
Nowadays, there are many companies or individual who try to produce the best product for the users. One of the new sophisticated technology is the world’s smallest full-page printer are produced by PlanOn,the makers of the Award-Winning Docupen Portable Scanner Pen.The size of this printer is just 1 inch(height),10.75 inches(width) and 1.9 inches(deep).this 1.5 pound mobile printer is available for USB 2.0 port and also support Bluetooth connectivity to wirelessly print from devices. Beside that, this printer is rechargeable by Lithium-Ion battery. What the most important is we can print e-mails, documents, and images on –the-spot by using this sophisticated printer. Although supplies can be pricey, but it is reasonable based on the benefits and advantages that we can get when we buy this world’s smallest full-pages printer.
Unit 4 : Health
Artice 7 : Eat out and still eat right.
I have learnt many useful informations from this article especially about some basic strategies on how to maintain our health and to save our expenses when we eat out such as at restaurants. What the most important is we must choose the restaurant that have the good service for their customers.We also must read the nutrient’s informations of each menu before we order any menu. It is important for us to know about the amount of calories of our menus or meals. Beside that, we can maintain our waistline by asking the half portions of any meals or menus that we want to eat. The broth-based soup or salad should be ordered and eat before the entrée. In my opinion, it is beter for us to eat at home because we – or our parents - can prepare the healthy menu, because the healthy menu can prevent us from disease or healthy problems.
Article 8 : Diagnosed with diabetes? Advice for a new life
This article is about some advices for a better life, especially for people who are newly diagnosed with diabetes. It is because they usually highly motivated to improve their lifestyles but they don’t know how to begin making changes. In this article, the author describes that exercise is important thing that should be done to prevent pre-diabetes from graduating to diabetes. However, eating wisely is the method to maintain our health and to prevent us from any disease includes diabetes. In order to begin a better life, we must try to deal with stress by looking for things that bring us joy. Get away from work to take a break and surround ourselves with people who are willing to laugh and share humorous anecdotes with them will help us to avoid stress.
Unit 5 : International Scientist
Article 9 : Scientist explains why they plagiarize
Plagiarism can be defined as someone’s act of plagiarizing or copying another person’s ideas, words or works, and pretend that they are their own. The scientist explained that it is just to easy for them to cut and paste someone’s ideas. “The other guy did it” is one of the popular excuses that is given by plagiarists including the scientists to support this negative behavior. The most alarming thing is this plagiarism also can be seen in data and report that is done by doctors. However the biggest plagiarism is self-plagiarism. This is because there are many researchers who copy their work again and again and republishing old data in varied journals. In my opinion, the plagiarism is an action that should not be allowed because everyone must appreciate others ideas or works.
Article 10 : Kepler launches to find new planets
The aim of new mission launched by NASA recently is to find the answer whether earth is the only habitable planet in this galaxy. So, the Kepler spacecrafts journey is a first for NASA because it is essentially a search for another habitable planet like earth. In this mission, Kepler will follow the earth‘s orbit, besides monitoring 1000 stars. An object, like a planet passes in front of it and blocks the light will be recorded by Kepler every time. Then, scientist try to figure out if that object were in fact a planet and if it is the size of the earth. Next,the distance between the planet and a star will be measured by NASA Ames researchers. The planets would be freezing and uninhabitable if it is too far from the star, and it would be too hot or nothing would survive if it is to close from star. In my opinion, the earth is the only habitable planet and we are alone in this galaxy. However,it will be good to know if there are life forms like earth in this galaxy, and it is probably also with intelligent life like human being.
Unit 6 : Earth Sources and Danger
Article 11 : Oil falls below $45 after OPEC delays cuts
This article is about the decrease of oils price because of the economic recession. The decision to delay cut output made by OPEC cartel caused the world oil price tumbled below $45 dollar a barrel in Asia trade. Actually, the OPEC oil ministers delays the decision to cut output so that they can give enough time to the leaders of the Group of 20 rich and emerging nation(G20) to discuss and respond to the global economic crisis. As we know, the global economic crisis that happened in the US recently caused the big effect to the economic condition of most country in the entire world, as well as Malaysia. So, various method either in the short or long term were planned by each country to maintain and increase their respective economic conditions.
Article 12 : Scientists have little hope of predicting quakes
Earthquakes or also called quakes can be describes as a sudden and violent shaking of the earth surface. Earthquake is a disaster that happened because of the natural phenomena. Usually, quake will caused bad damages to things and people are at high risks into death. Thus, scientists always try to predict this quake by using and referring into various facts and theories. However,we believe that predicting exactly when such shocks will occur remains an art beyond the reach of science. This is because scientist have a lots of theories about how earthquakes happen and until now there are no person who explained the data very well.
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