Basic background

DNA databases

Biometrics: face, facial thermogram, fingerprint, hand geometry, hand vein, iris, retinal scan, signature, voice print





















http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddmvznrf_22cgmkhvcb
I highlighted some important information about it, but when i paste it here, it is the same origin. So it put it in a link to remind what i should distribute in seminar 2.

vocabulary of seminar 2

vocabulary of CCTV

- robbery: be lost/ stolen by a theft (highway robbery = daylight robbery)
- burglary: a crime connected to another crime who enter someone's house illegal
- incident: an event which is either unpleasant or unusual

- warden: US the person in charge of a prison: a prison warden

On her first official visit to the North East, she said greater use of CCTV and neighbourhood wardens led to a fall in robberies and burglaries

Ms Smith saw how CCTV in Byker, Newcastle, had helped to cut incidents of anti-social behaviour

CCTV (Closed Circuit Television) is a visual surveillance technology designed for monitoring a variety of environments and activities. CCTV systems typically involve a fixed (or "dedicated") communications link between cameras and monitors

- surveillance: supervision, the careful watching of a person or place because crime has happened or is expected
- surveillance initiatives:a new action or movement, often intended to solve a problem
- the video surveillance boom (filming): is held above the actors so that it records their voices but cannot be seen by the viewers
- dedicated: specialized designed to be used for one particular purpose
system of cameras with full pan, tilt, zoom and infrared capacity
- pan: (of a film camera) to move slowly from one side to another or up and down
- tilt: as fast as possible
- zoom (lens): (a device in a camera) can be attached to a camera, make the thing being photographed appear nearer
- infrared: a type of light that feels warm but cannot be seen
- assault: a violent attack
- to liter: to spread across an area or place untidily
- to urinate: to excrete urine from the body
- to excrete: to get rid of waste material
- urine: the yellowish liquid waste which is released from the body when you go to the toilet
littering, urinating in public, traffic violations, obstruction, drunkenness, and evading meters in town parking lots
- obstruction: preventing the police/law courts from doing their jobs
- obstructionism: when someone intentionally stops or delays an official process
'undesirable' behavior such as underage smoking and a variety of public order transgressions
- undesirable: not wanted, approved of or popular
- underage: younger than the lowest age which law allows to do something legally
- to transgress: to break a law or moral rule
- marijuana: a usually illegal drug such as: cannabis, hemp
- illegal substance: an illegal drug

drunkenness, racial harassment, sexual harassment, loitering and disorderly behaviour

- harassment: behaviour that annoys or upsets someone

- loitering: the offence of waiting in a place, looking as if you are going to do something illegal

- race (n) especially of people with particular similar physical characteristics, who are considered as belonging to the same type, or such a group

- racial (a) connected with a particular race or with various races

racial discrimination/prejudice

employ bullet-proof casing: ?

enemies of the public interest

--> enemy : a person who hates or opposes another person, tries to harm or stop them from doing something

Preparation for seminar 2

CCTV: Closed-circuit television

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6900807.stm
http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-61925&als[theme]=Video%20Surveillance&headline=CCTV%20Frequently%20Asked%20Questions
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A622487

DNA Databases:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4166559.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4579366.stm

Biometrics:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6070576.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3582461.stm


continue later after finishing working

Prefixes

http://www.virtualsalt.com/roots.htm

This website on Steve's blog is so useful, so i copy it on my blog to remind me whenever i forget or need to review. My memory is not good. Do this exercise later or i will get up late tomorrow.

Final introduction of my essay

Essay Question:

‘Television is in no way a true mirror of society.’ To what extent do you agree with this statement?

Introduction:

‘Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done’- Fred Allen – the famous American comedian – said in 1950. His perceptive insight view still remains the whole value and explains why television as playing a certain role in each household nowadays has been adapting to digital era. The era is of the dramatically development of extra channels on television at the forefront of digital broadcasting. Everyone can find huge information of every field, attain higher education of every subject and get knowledge of society outside the world through those various channels. Television reflects the growing complexity of modern life about the different lifestyles, the challenges families as well as individual face. Someone’s life on television could present for their lives, for either our lives or one class in society. We know a real world in the manner that is both experience in our lives and looking at something through television programmes. Obviously, everything about social values from micro angle to macro one is reflected on television. This leads to a question whether realities of life people watch on television is true or not. This essay critically examines how far we can believe on what we watch and which aspects of society is mirrored on television honestly. It is very useful for our point of view to consider, solve an issue in the real life in which it is a little bit different from life on television before making a right decision carefully.

(245 words)

I found this information and references here:

http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/introductions.htm

http://unilearning.uow.edu.au/essay/4bii.html

http://www.bvws.org.uk/405alive/info/quotes.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Allen

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/unreality-tv-the-final-frontier-515650.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ifs/hi/newsid_4000000/newsid_4001900/4001991.stm

I have changed my references after studying Steve's lesson of how to write References and citations today.

References:

1. Fred Allen, 1950, ‘Quotes on television’, viewed 30 July 2008, <http://www.bvws.org.uk/405alive/info/quotes.html>

2. Wikipedia, ‘Fred Allen’, viewed 30 July 2008, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Allen>

3. The Independent, 2005, ‘Unreality TV: The final frontier’, viewed 30 July 2008, <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/unreality-tv-the-final-frontier-515650.html>

4. Horrocks P. (Head of Television News), 2005, ‘Television News’, BBC News, viewed 30 July 2008, <http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ifs/hi/newsid_4000000/newsid_4001900/4001991.stm>

Lecture: Free Business and Economic System

Segment 3: 1.3 (Clip 3) Free Enterprise & Economic Systems (0:23)

I don't listen lecture for a long time because of many reasons. So i try to take note another chappter of internet lesson today. Basically, i understand it widely in the way i had read from a book before but my knowledge is not deeply. That is why i should read more on my subject, but i think many books connected to business is difficult to choose the best one. Finally i think i will search something what i don't understand.

This is my note-taking of this lesson:

1. Business: Definition

- organized effort of individual and organisation.

- to produce and sell product--> profit

(profit is so important for enterprise to do business and for shareholder, customer)

2. Fundamental Business Resources:

- Human resource

- Information resources: know partner, customer

- Material resource(for manufacturing)

- Financial resource

--> Businesses must combine aff 4 resources to produce goods and supply service

3. Economic system: society's rules: allocating its resources--> produce, distribute goods and service for consumption.

- Impacts economic growth and development.

- Different society as different approach.

4. Types of economic system:

- Communism: everyone have the same benefit, without differrent classes

- Socialism: distribute based on needs, reallocate resources, get higher tax to provide social programme. Everyone don't have high income individually because they work hard, they pay more tax.

- Capitalism: business really sastisfy, don't react well, have a lot of mechandise of goods

5. Key feature of US 'Free Enterprise' system:

System of business in which individual are free to produce, sell

- Customer freedomm of choice

- Private ownership of land and real property

- Competition: among business for the customer's dollar

- Supply and demand: determined by customers'demand

ex: my money is my choice, can get and decide, but careful in terms of procedure. It doesn't work well bu law.

- Circular flow: of money for labour, resource and capital exchang

- Business cycles: driven by growth and contraction--> profit motives for reinvestment

6. Circular Flow of resource in ' Free Economics' system:

I have drawn a diagram on this section (circular flow), but i don't know why i can't copy and paste here.:-(
First disadvantage of this website i found.

7. Types of competition:

Competition - the rivalry mong businesses for sales to potential customer

- Pure competition: many sellers and buyers--> must accept going price

- Monopolistic competition: many buyers, large sellers--> buyers compete with product differences.

- Oligopoly: few Seller--> each Seller consider price control

- Monopoly: only 1 seller--> buyer complete control overprice

+ Natural monopoly: require huge capital

+ Legal monopoly: with partner, copyright or trademark (but a lot od money on design, advertisment)

Short video clip about USA economy:

USA 's business: Function of value production: you can compete in global world.

Expenditure is changing: 95% world population outside USA, a lot of people dirnk a alcohol because some companies oversea increase their profit by cheap row material (not available in their countries) or they adapt new technology.

A company has 2: comparetive advantages, absolutely advantages, for example, Brazil has advantage of producing coffee, South Afria has advantage of dimond.

Technology can do product better in quality, cheaper in price. Marketing is a key effect on brandname.

phrasal verb exercise

phrasal verb with up

1. Jane and I want to give up smoking.
2. Could you wake me up at 6 o'clock?
3. We must hurry up or we will miss the bus.
4. Can you pick me up at the station?
5. In many countries, the pupils have to stand up when the teacher enters the class-room.
6. I usually have to get up at half past six.
7. I must tidy up my room today.

phrasal verb review

find out	discover	They found out new machine to launch in the market prior to their competitors.
get on with	connect on the phone	Could you get on with Mr John?
hold on	wait	Hold on, i will call him back immediately.
get away	escape	He have just got away from the police in several second.
take after	inherit characteristic, to be similar to an older member of your family in appearance or character	He takes after his father's appearance.
cut down	reduce	The interest rate has been cutting down for 3 times this year.
look after	care for	He looks after her as his brother although he is not hers in law.
come up with	think of a solution	We are coming up with the problem which has made our profit loss recently.
add up	make sense to have a particular result or effect	Their proposals do not add up to any real help for the poor.
put through	connect on the phone	Could you put me through to secretary of Mr.A?
look for	search	I am looking for a new job connected to my subject.
get over	recover from	Do you get over the shock of that accident?
turn up	arrive	I want to turn up Switzerland before it integrates the EU this year.
put off	postpone	The meeting is put off due to the absence of head manager.

My draft of introduction

Essay Question:

‘Television is in no way a true mirror of society.’ To what extent do you agree with this statement?

It is generally agreed that television as playing a certain role in each household nowadays has been adapting to digital era. The era is of the dramatically development of extra channels on television at the forefront of digital broadcasting. Everyone can find huge information of every field, attain higher education of every subject and get knowledge of society outside the world by watching television on those various channels. Television reflects the growing complexity of modern life about the different lifestyles, the challenges families as well as individual face. Someone’s life on television could present for their lives, for either our lives or one class in society. We know a real world in the manner that is both experience in our lives and looking at something through television programme. Obviously, everything about social values from micro angle to macro one is reflected on television. This leads to a question whether realities of life people watch on television is true or not. This essay critically examines how far we can believe on what we watch and which aspects of society is mirrored on television honestly. It is very useful for our point of view to consider or solve an issue in the real life in which it is a little bit different from life on television before making a right decision carefully.

(220 words)

Background of television

What does elevision reflect ?

Prefer the question

What is the focus of this specific essay ?

Before writing

I just read some more example before writing my own introduction. This example is very clear and useful for my essay.

Example of an essay introduction¹

Essay Question: Italy on the eve of 1860 has often been described as an unlikely nation. Why?

On the eve of 1860 the word Italy described not a nation, but a geographical area. The peninsula was split into eight separate states, all independent of one another. Economically, while the whole of Europe seemed to be surging ahead, Italy was lagging behind. At this time, Italy was seen as an unlikely nation because of the many obstacles that lay in the way of unification. The main obstacles were the dislike and distrust between the states and the "slowness of the great bulk of Italians to accept or even comprehend the idea of Italy" (Mack Smith,1968: 2). There was also a lack of planning and common goals amongst the minority of the population that supported and were prepared to fight for a unified country. This was exacerbated by the disagreement and dislike between the leaders of Il Risorgimento, the Italian independence movement.

(143 words)

background
orientation to the topic
thesis statement
outline of argument

Improve my weakness: Phrasal verb

http://www.churchillhouse.com/english/exercises/phrasals/

http://www.churchillhouse.com/english/exercises/phrasals/nightOut.htm

Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the phrasal verbs below:

Dave's a funny chap! He never wants to go out in the evenings, but when he does, he never wants to go home again!

Last Thursday was a typical example. I phoned him and asked if he wanted to go out to our local pub for a quick drink. At first, he said that he didn't want to - he would rather--stay in --- and watch the telly. But after about 10 minutes, I managed to persuade him to come to the pub.

Well, we had a nice evening, and the 'quick drink' turned into a longer drink; the more Dave and I drank, the more we wanted to drink. The pub closed at 11 o'clock, so we had to drink up then, but Dave wanted to ---stay out----- and persuaded me that we should go to the nightclub in town to continue our 'conversation'. There weren't many people in the nightclub, but that didn't stop us from having a good time! I finally ---got back-- home at 5 o'clock in the morning, feeling very happy, tired, and drunk.

The way my head felt on Friday morning (or, to be more accurate, Friday afternoon!), I had to agree with our friends who say that Dave and I are a bad influence on each other!

go out / stay out / stay in / drink up / get back

My score is only 2/5. So sad, so i think i will do more exercise on it.

Improve my weakness: Verb Pattern

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/esl/verbpat4to5.htm

I surprise how correct i did on this exercise:25/25. I think it is because of a very low level of exercise. So i try it on higher level:

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/headway/intermediate/a_grammar/unit06/hwy_int_unit06_2/

Yes, i am right. My score is 4/6 now. Here are 2 my wrong sentences:

1 I don't mind making as long as the roads aren't too busy.
2 My parents always made me drive my bed in the morning.

--> The answer is:

1. driving

2. make

http://www.learn-english-today.com/wordgames/hotpot-quizzes/verb-patterns2.htm

Here is my wrong answer: i chose A, but the right answer is C: happened. I still don't know why.
5.
She ____________ to see him in the car park.
A
remembered
B
could succeed
C
happened
D
doesn't forget

8.
The girl ____________ to do it.
A
can't help
B
stopped
C
doesn't feel like
D
saw him

I chose D, but the answer is C. So my score is 6/8

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/esl/verbpat1to3.htm

12. I want (learn) (fly) an airplane.

--> to learn flying, but the right answer is to learn to fly

So my score is 19/20

http://www.fachschaften.ksluzern.ch/fachschaften/englisch/page/online-exercises/verb_patterns_02_cloze_hot_potatoes.htm

This is very dificult level. My score is 16/19. Here are my mistake:

1) Sorry, I forgot (buy) some milk. --> buying ---> to buy

5) Would you mind (I / close) the window? --> i close--> me closing

7) This soup doesn’t taste right yet. - Try (put) in a bit more salt. --> to put--> putting

The right answer is in bold.

My course, Steve 's homwork

I have looked at my course again to find something new. I surprise my tuition fee to be increased dramatically. Fortunately i will study in Moorgate where is near my house now and i also went there several times.

I am still reading 'The Economics of Business Enterprise'- Martin Rickettts which i borrowed from library. (You can also read online by clicking that link) It is connected to my subject and known from Londonmet's email in which they suggest reading before entering Master course.

Regarding to diagnostic grammar test, I decided 3 my weakness i will focus on this week:
- Verb pattern
- Fill in the gap in small paragraph
- Meaning of phrasal verb

I am answering Steve's questions of this grammar test:

-Which of the grammar points you have problems with are more important for a) writing b) speaking c) both?
--> My speaking is weaker than my writing.

-Do you think that doing lots and lots of grammar exercises is the best way to improve your grammar?

--> It is the best way to improve grammar but it is not enough. I think i should highlight, remember where my mistake is from grammar exercise and make another right sentence using that grammar which i focus on.

-Can you think of any other activities that you could do without having to pick up a grammar book?

--> Exercise on internet is the most convenience book to improve grammar. However i prefer the game of grammar or visual grammar to written grammar.

-How do you think you've learnt the grammar you already know well?

--> My problem is how long i remember what i 've learnt. I think i should review what i already know when i find difficult to use it as much as possible. Therefore my brain works too much to remember for a long time.

-Can you find some online exercises to help you with your grammar weaknesses. Please put a link to anything you find, then do the exercise, and paste into your blog any sentences/phrases you got wrong or would like to remember.

-->

Verb pattern with answer.

Business vocabulary

Phrasal verb

Dictionary

As Steve's suggestion, i found a dictionary connected to my subject: Business economics. To buy a heavy dictionary is not convenience to bring anywhere i need to look up so that i found it on internet like Cambridge Dictionary Online which i often use for academic purpose.





Here is my dictionary:
Business Dictionary Online
Oxford dictionary of business ( book on amazon)


Economic Dictionary Online:
Dictionary 1
(explanation of economic terms in detail)

Dictionary 2
(explanation of economic terms briefly)

Dictionary 3
(explanation of economic terms briefly and grammar, comparison)

Oxford dictionary of economics (book on amazon)