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http://ecofriendlylivingforyou.info/editorial-germany-taking-lead-with-green-energies-istockanalyst-com-press-release/

According to this article, I got the news that Germany makes this decision that the whole lot of the country’s nuclear power factories will be shut down before 2022 this year. Then we can found that the Japanese earthquake caused serious nuclear leak, lets the world, especially in the developed countries of Europe by nuclear power proportion big country caused very big influence. My major is geography when I studied in high school, so I know something about nature resources. Originally nuclear power is a more efficient and clean way of generating, but nuclear technology is a double-edged sword, it also with highest risk. If no accident happen is best, once, an accident of human will cause huge damage to the environment, just like the Fukushima event happened few months ago. Nuclear radiation not only impact on contemporary human, but also to change people's genes by radiation, leading to their descendants have also been seriously affected. A very typical example is the Chernobyl event; even though it happened in 1986, the children who were born after that year also have something strange with their body and brain today.

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First and foremost, people enjoy volunteering because of the unbalanced society. Nowadays, most people have a high standard of life, but there are also some people live under normal standard of lives. For example, in China, about 300 thousand children cannot go to school because lack of education of resources and high tuition fee. Therefore, some rich people and rich companies built school in poor areas. However, these places are very poor and far from big cities that means there is a lack of teaching resources, so many colleges’ students thought they should be volunteers to help people who come from these poor city. The most surprising thing is that there are many foreigners in the projects, such as Anke Lu who comes from Germany and has been a volunteer about 10 years. During an interview, he told the interviewer that he just want more children to go to schools. Like Anke Lu, all volunteers never get any benefits because they just want to help the government and society to do something they can.




http://www.worldvolunteerweb.org/current-highlight/doc/is-forced-volunteering-helping.html

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In contemporary society, there are many GM foods which are genetically modified ones, such GM food as salmon, tomato, and so on. This food is made by changing some genes of animals or plants. According to the article, the Food and Drug Administration stated that “as safe to eat as food from other Atlantic salmon” (Leslie Gevirtz, 2010). Like this, not only the U.S government, but the Korean government also claims that the GMO, genetically modified organism, is safe; however, most people do not accept GM foods. In other words, they people worldwide do not want to eat GM food for some reasons. While the number of the GM food is increasing, people still have a doubt about the security of GM food. This is because GM foods do not testify whether the GM food is safe or not, because of the fact that the study about this kind of foods is still studying by scientists. Nowadays, there is lots of new information about GM food by researcher. Some of information is that GM food is the same as regular good. On the other hand, others said that GM food is harmful to human body and the environment. Like this, GM food is still controversial, so this causes people not to trust the GM food.



http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/09/03/us-aquabounty-salmon-idUSTRE68231Q20100903

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This news is published on july 27, 2011, by RACHEL CROMIDAS from The New York Times. the reporter introduces the new creative camp at Bard College in New York City for low income students gifted in mathematics, ages ranged around eighth-grade.
these adolescents who were selected to this math-camp are more outstanding in mathematics than their peers. everyday, these kids have to go through 6 hours of head-scratching math instruction in a college dormitory far from home. however, for them, this heavy workload does not feels like what it sounds, not just because their talent and innate interests to mathematics, but also due to the well-designed strategy and detail by program holder. some of strategies are purposely designed to make the campers spontaneously cooperate to the program. as writen in the news, "they all love math. At this camp, asking “What kind of math do you like, algebra or geometry?” is considered an appropriate icebreaker, and invoking the newly learned term “the multiplication principle” elicits whoops and high-fives." some campers express that eventhought the camp is boring sometimes, but they are really thankful for this free training because they could understand the insightful effect this camp can give them in future.
In my opinion, this kind of academic training will definitely enable these kids competiveness in academic aspects in future. as we know, math the most important part of the general education in every educational system over the world; especially for the entry-college level education, the heavy math training will bring the campers a huge advantage compare to the peers. However, this kind of activity might has some side-effects to the whole education system. few years ago, the same phenomenon appears in china, many summer academic camp becomes most students' choices. the major reason for this academic camp boom is because a specialization in certain academic subject, such as prizes in academic olympics championship, can be an bonus condition for college entry exam.





http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/nyregion/a-sleepaway-camp-for-low-income-ny-math-whizzes.html?ref=education

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    http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html#



 I believe that if people can deal the technology problems, there must be more and more countries want to join and accept dealing with Greenhouse gas problem. At first, energy should be changed. Although fuels are very useful; oil is important for factories, it is the main “crime culprit” of global warming. There are lot kinds of other energy that people can use, but why do most countries still use oil? Because those new technology is not good enough now. For example, the wind energy is a perfect energy that is renewable, sometimes cannot afford enough energy; some people even say it can kill birds. I have to accept that some birds really were killed by this kind of machine, but the number is so little when it compared with other situations, like airplane, car, humans’ big buildings.