Friday's exercise on Steve's blog

I am improving my poor logic of my essay's style by rewrite this topic in my own language based on note-taking. I hope it will be helpful for my final assignment.

The impact/ importance of education

1. Education teaches literacy + numeracy.
2. Literate people - trained for many roles:
· Industrial sector
· Service sectors
3. Literate people - learn - themselves.
4. Simple economies (agriculture) – educate women = dramatic improvements - family welfare
5. Developed countries need more skills
· Languages
· Engineering
· Computing
6. Good education: not passive.
7. Good education skills, people ask questions, make improvements.
8. University education: research technical advances + social advances

Literacy and numeracy are the basic background of education and very necessary for everyone’s life. What benefits education brings to us is to learn ourselves and to provide us with both simple and complex skills. With these simple skills trained from education could help us building our family's welfare, working in industrial or sevice sectors in developing country whose economy is mainly based on agriculture. Even in developed countries such as United Stated, United Kingdom, Japan we can still meet the higher requirements of languages, computer skill, negotiating skill, engineering. Good education seems to literate us the way of thinking logically, actively to obtain improvement considerably. On the one hand, university education connected to research technical and social advances push us in progress.

Enrich vocabulary

I found this website by mistake when i try to make my essay more academic after receiving Steave's feeback. We can find many synomymous words and know how to use them in different situation.
http://encarta.msn.com/thesaurus_/stricken.html
How to find synonymous word ?

my poor draft

‘The advantages of a “surveillance society” far outweigh the drawbacks’. to what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

The development of science and modern technology such as CCTV, DNA databases, biometrics has been leading to the trend of rising subtler criminals recently. The society with the minimum of crimes is probably happened when everything is supervised selectively and considerably. An ideal society is as “a world of surveillance” (Simon Davies, director of Privacy International). Surveillance society is absolutely monitored by a large number of cameras everywhere. Therefore some dangerous criminals will be very stricken because their sins is recorded every as an un refutable evidence. It is often said that the people obtain more benefit than drawback from a surveillance society. This essay will weigh up two aspects of a “surveillance society” to know whether it is really good for the people or not.

Many people complained how much inconvenience they feel under ten thousands of cameras installed in public place such as: on the street, in supermarket, in shop, in car park, in workplace...Nevertheless, we must recognise that the social evils, for example, car theft, burglary, assault, drug use, drunkenness, have been decreased significantly since the system of cameras is operated in public places. Moreover, it is very beneficial in favour of companies who want to monitor their employees from a far distance to eliminate wasted time, cut necessary cost to do business more efficiently.

writing argument in a paragraph

1. The media shouldn't be allowed to follow the private lives of celebrities.
It is often said that the paparazzi are too intrusive when pursuing famous people fro front page photographs, and to a certain extent this is true. However, that brings a million dollars for media companies who know what the publicity is interested in celebrities. Everything about the private lives of celebrities will not be a secrect and will be disclosed without permition or consideration. It is clearly that the role, duty of media chouldn't be limited and out of the private lives of famous people.

2. The death penalty should be used to deal with murderers.
Some people consider that murderers should face capital punishment rather than imprisonment, and in some ways it may be possible to argue this case. However, the death penalty is not only the good solution for murderers because it is also related to human rights.

3. The police should take a tougher stance on dealing with youth crime.
It is generally agreed that youth crime is rising and that the police need to take action of some kind to tackle the problem. Neverthless, the police is not only the authorities who are responsible for youth crime. Their families seem to effect their children's thoughts, habits, education considerably.

4. Fast food should be banned in all school canteens.
A common viewpoint is that young people are eating an increasingly unhealthy diet and that schools chould therefore takemeasures such as banning junk food from their canteens menus. Whilst this may be a sensible idea in some ways, we should not forget that fast food are being sold in a number of shops, suppermarkets. Moreover, profit of some companies is based on producing fast food as the main commodity. To ban selling fast food must be considered carefully.

5. University education should be free for all.
It is widely believe that education is a universal right and that unversities should therefore be open to all those who wish to undertake higher education studies. On the other hand, government couldn't receive money free education in universities. Besides that, government must have a big budget to cover/spend on that kind of education. This is impossible in many developing countries which have a limited budget and heavy debts.

6. Politicians are not doing enough to tackle global warming.
Recent research that the planet is heating up at a faster than expected rate and there have been calls for politicians to do more to address the problem. We should, however, bear in mind that global warming is a big question for not only politicians but also for responsible authities. In order to solve this problem, it requires much time, a better long-term policy, closer cooperation from many authorities.

7. It is harder for women to succed in business than it is for men.
It is often argued that 'a glass ceiling' makes it more difficult for women to have the same opportunities and rewards in business as their male counterparts. This is maybe true in some ways, but there are a lot of social tasks which women often have to do besides doing business such as: cooking, washing, nurse her children..It means that women seem to have more works than man to concentrate in doing business effectively. because a sucessful businesswomen need to fulfil her responsiblity in both family and society. Therefore women seem to meet higher, harder requirements than man 's to suceed in business.

8. The dangers of the Internet are greater than the benefits it brings.
Although many people say that there are risks involved in using the Internet, we have to acknowledge the considerable its benefits. Firstly, Internet is a huge stock of information in every sectors, fields. The second benefit of internet is to broaden our mind, to know many kinds of people, to evaluate every situation in the life and then we can manage our lives better by the way we learn from Internet.

Relative clause: Which or what?

http://wwwedu.ge.ch/cptic/prospective/projets/anglais/exercises/relpron2.htm

1. She didn't know who had paid her, wasWhatwhichwhowhose was extremely bizarre! (who)
2. Someone who had been to Red Square before told us the way to the main gate.
3. What I ought to do is find out whose handbag this is.
4. Peter, whose motorbike had broken down, met a man who managed to fix it.
5. The drawer in which he found the gun was the same one wasWhatwhichwhowhose I had searched. (who)
6. Those who arrive late in class must stay afterwards to do the work wasWhatwhichwhowhose they have missed. (what)
7. The dog which I bought was the same one which you saw the day you arrived.
8. That is the boy whose mother knows the man who repaired our heating system.
9. He is the one who asked me wasWhatwhichwhowhose I gave the money to. (what)
10. The snow, wasWhatwhichwhowhose had been falling all day, was what gave us trouble. (what)

My score just 73%. Those wrong answers left as you can see. Then i check and correct it.
1 which
5 which
6 which
9 which
10 was

After correcting it, i found that i couldn't know the difference between which and what. Any different?

prefix exercise

http://www.lapasserelle.com/lm/pagespeciales/prefixes.suffixes/eng.prfx.lit.mean1.html

I found something connected to prefix. It is formed from a simple words but have a different meanings. I did it by hint on website and now, i am doing it again to warm up my mind because i can't use hint again when i copy it in my blog.

1. On the _water__ = afloat
   Hint aertw Answer water

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2. By _cause_ of = because
   Hint acesu Answer cause

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3. In the __rear___ of = behind
   Hint aerr Answer rear

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4. In lower __place___ = below
   Hint acelp Answer place

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5. By the __side___ of = beside
   Hint deis Answer side

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6. To __make___ able = enable
   Hint aekm Answer make

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7. To make __large___ = enlarge
   Hint aeglr Answer large

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8. To make __live___ = enliven
   Hint eillvy Answer lively

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9. To make ___rich___ = enrich
   Hint chir Answer rich

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10. To make ___beautiful___ = embellish
    Hint abefiltuu Answer beautiful

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11. To make __bold___ = embolden
    Hint bdlo Answer bold

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12. To __put___ power to = empower
    Hint egiv Answer give

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13. To __close__ in = enclose
    Hint celos Answer close

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14. To ___put__ into danger = endanger
    Hint ptu Answer put

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15. To put on a __list___ = enlist
    Hint ilst Answer list

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After i did twice, my score now is 12/15

Prefix exercise

http://admin.sfcc.edu/~jgraney/vocabulary/prefix_page.html
http://205.126.22.50/language/lessons/prefixes.html

1. Miyoko her shoes. (placed incorrectly)

2. My mother an old rocking chair. (finished again)

3. Jamie his jeans. (washed before)

4. The artist the orange paint. (applied again)

5. Father the furniture. (arranged again)

6. The guard the door. (opposite of locked)

7. The doctor the patient. (admitted again)

8. The pupil . (behaved incorrectly)

9. The workers must the bridge. (build again)

10. The person the check. (dated before)

I just get 5/10. Here is my right answer:
4 reapplied
5 rearranged
7 readmitted
8 misbehaved
10 predated

Unfortunately, i can't check with the wrong answers. Here they are:
1 misplaced
2 refinished
3 prewashed
6 unlocked
9 rebuild

I still don't know why they are wrong. Anyone help me?

A part of my chapter: Institutions and information

It takes me a long time to read, think and understand what the book is talking about. I am still reading the book 'The Economics of Business Enterprise'- Martin Ricketts- Page 16-20. Now i just focus on the meaning of this section: Institutions and information (PART 1: Basic concepts) So that i just have a look on dictionary briefly and have some note-taking what i read.

INSTITUTIONS AND INFORMATION:
FIRMS:
- characterised by a system of bilateral contracts, or 'nexus of contracts' (in more complex case- agreement is signed between employees, bondholders, landowners and a 'legal fiction' such as: BP, US Steel)
- formed as an institutional response to transactions costs.

CONTRACTS:
imperfectly specified, because the lack of specificity abtains from the simple fact that the precise details of the contract is made at the same time when requires the employees of a firm maybe unknown.

INFORMATION:
- collected concerning opportunities for productive collaboration, on the skills and attributes of employees, on new technical innovations, on the demands of consumers
- transmited to the relevant decision-maker who must choose, implement a plan of action.

INSTITUTIONS AND CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT:
THE EXCHANGE GAME:
I found that international trade as the exchange game. That is very simple, interesting although it is not true in practice, but i like the way thw writer wrote. I will explain what is exchange game. Firstly, have a look of this table

The structure of payoffs in a game of exchange:

		Company A
		Cooperate	Cheat
Company B	Cooperate Cheat	1,1 (a) 2, -1 (b)	-1,2 (c) 0,0 (d)

I supose in the commercial world, there are 2 firms: company A and B. A sells 1 product x, B sells 1 product y. The goods exchange will be happened if A and B sign the contract. In practice, there are 4 cases could be happended:
(a) A and B trust together and cooperate. Each company will get what they want.
(b) A cooperates but B cheats in which A sent his goods x to B before receiving y from B as the B's promise in contract. It means A will receive nothing and lost his goods. So A got -1 goods, B got 1 x and 1 y.
(c) The same case (b)
(d) If A say that please send your goods firstly and then i will send you back my goods. B also say that. Then noone believe each other. It means no comercial exchange.
The reason of these transactions will be explained in next chapters. I am still reading ..

However, to understand that i have to scan these new vocabulary:

- equilibrium method: a condition of balance between oppsed forces
- instantaneous: occuring or completed without perceptible delay
- reconcile: to bring (oneself)) to accept; to make compatible or consistent, reconcile opposing views
--> All transactions are costlessly and instantaneously reconciled.
- gi'gantic: extremely large or extensive, huge
- myriad (a) constituting a very large, identifinite number
(n) a vast number
--> The economy is made up of a myriad of individual contractors, each one in an comprehensive only with painstaking effort, have many complexly arranged elements.
- contractor: one that agrees to perform services at a specified price, especially for construction work
--> contractual (a)
- institution: an established custom, practice or relationship in a society
- firms: a commercial partnership of 2 or more person especially when unincorporated
- rationale: a fundamental reason, rational basic
- sufficient (a) being as much as it needed
- bilateral contracts: contract between 2 sides
- single proprietor: an owner, as of a business, small business
nexus of contracts: a connected services or group, a means of connection, link
- discretion: freedom of action or judgment
--> The choice was left to our considerable discretion.
- collaborate: to work together
--> productive collaboration
- forth (adv) out into view
- implement a plan of action
- decentralise: to cause to withdraw from am area of concentration, to distribute (phan quyen dia phuong)
--> The outcome of entirely decentralised decisions
- conscious decisions of planners: capable of thought, will, perception, deliberate (nhan thuc ro dieu dang xay ra)
- initial characterisation of the firm: su bieu thi dac diem, mo ta tinh cach
- advantage (n)--> advantageous (a) cooperation
- comlementary (a) forming or serving as a complement supplying mutual needs/lacks, addition (su bo sung)
--> complimentary: express a compliment (ca ngoi)
- possession: a territory subject to foreign control
- coalition illustrated: an alliance or union, especially a temporary one (khoi dong minh)
- payoff: a final settlement or reckoning, a bribe
- symmetrical: doi xung
- outcome=result
- dilemma: a situation that requires a choice between options, usually equally unfavourable or mutual exclusive(doc quyen): tien thoai luong nan
- sucker: who is cheated easily

Feedback of seminar 2

Today we have the second seminar in a bigger group, and this is my feedback.

I don't know why i can't copy the same table in this post so that i paste it in my document. Here is the link:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddmvznrf_23d8mwrk3k