Your Friends Need Money. Do They Have References?

My reaction:

According to the“ Your Friends Need Money. Do They Have References? ” , the financial planner advised the people thought twice when they wanted to lend money to someone even their friends or relatives because it would cause the inevitable effect that never we thought. Besides, this news mentioned that the true stories which occurred at the United State and told the people--- money is the root of the evil.

In the practical world, money is an issue of sensitive which is bring along some troubles for the people, even damage the relationship between the creditor and debtor. This reminds me that this kind of matter had occurred on me when I was high school. When I lend money for my friend, I was an angel. However, when I asked her to repay me, she reneged on repayment, I got a bad feeling. The truth is that our relationship got worse and worse. When I recalling this matter, I think the distance in the issues of money among the friends is a suitable way that keep the good relationship.

However, it not means that we can not extend the hand, but we want to assure their ethic and the situation. For example, the financial problem of our family, we must settle it with careful. If anything goes awry, family bonds will be frayed. Besides, someone is embarrassing to reject the requesting of borrow money, they unwittingly step into the trap that is made the shameless people.

Standing at the position of greedy, borrowing, a term which is full of the overwhelming temptation because you never pay sweats on the brow but you can get it. However, for me, I think the borrowing likes a path which is full of the thistles and thorns and we don’t know when we can repay it. Despite we can repay it, how about the debts of the gratitude? We will be winced by the feeling of uncomfortable and the unexpected barriers are still there!

Harder To GetTo, Easy To Pay For

My Reaction:
According to the “Harder To Get To, Easy To Pay For”, many New Yorker seeking to migrate to the suburbs to raise the family, they prefer to look out the houses in the Montclair, Maplewood and South Orange, N.J., but the neighboring town of West Orange was not on their shopping list because it does not have a train station that provides direct service to Pennsylvania Station — as Montclair, Maplewood and South Orange do.
In my opinions, I think the inconvenient of the transportation network causes the main factor that the people decline to buy it because a commuter must take a bus to New York from a park-and-ride garage, or a jitney to one of three stations on New Jersey Transit’s Midtown Direct train line, West Orange is generally perceived as somewhat out of the way. They need to waste the time in the way of back and forth between the place of working and residence. However, the journey of torment has exchanged the comfortable of the life such as pay the lower price to buy a bigger house than another downtown at United State.
Besides the problem of transportation, I think, the security of places is a leading consideration point for the buyer, especially in this present situation that the economic is depressed. The increasing of crime rate is make the people surprise and difficult to imagine. On the other hand, the solution of the environment at the urbanization city is serious. People must consider carefully when they make the decision, either the fresh air or the convenient of the transportation. Furthermore, the equipment of West Orange is sufficient like the recreation place.

As a result, we hard to find the perfect in every way, but we can try to choose a thing which is good for us. Everything worth having is worth fighting for. A house which is hardly to get, but easy to pay, I think, it is good!

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As the Rich Get Poorer, Teenagers Feel the Crunch

My reaction:
According to the “As the Rich Get Poorer, Teenagers Feel the Crunch”, children at the American who are studying at high school seek their part time job and earn money as an extra allowance because of the competitive of job opportunity leads to the crunch of the family. Furthermore, the parents even want to borrow the money from their children!
I think the excessively growing up of the economic have caused the serious problem for the life of citizens such as the rising inflation and then cause them suffer from the high prices of the necessary and the expenses that can not be covered in a month. As a result, the parents decrease the allowance for the children and lead them to work outside to earn their pocket money. The survey shows that the phase of age of seeking job gets young and young and it becomes the competitive between the teenagers and the out-of-work adults about 61 years old or above for the low- paying position.
I think, however, it can bring along the advantage for the teenagers because of the children now spend too many money in such materialist enjoyment as the night movies and binges. If they can earn money themselves, they know how can spend their money wisely and alleviate the burden of family. Besides, they become mature and independent to handle the problem by themselves.
Some parents say that the community will become more reality and lack the human touch. They prefer their children involve in the charities than the part- time work and pay more attention on their homework to get the good result. People struggle between the morality ethic and practical world. On the other hand, I think this is an excuse of their laziness because if we can arrange the time wisely, we also can take part in the charities besides of the working. Don’t forget the “you” in the equation so there is a balance between work and charity.
Working is not a dilemma that brings along the pain for the teenagers, but the useful lesson for them. The parents can no protect them excessively and it let the children parasitize at the wing of their parent. The children must adapt the environment themselves but not according to the path that the parents build for them.

Sowing The Seeds Of Gardening

According to the “Sowing The Seeds Of Gardening”, a elementary school in United State begins the Princeton School Gardens program which is about the children regularly work in one of the district’s 15 gardens during school hours, preparing garden beds, planting herbs and vegetables and harvesting them when they are ripe. The children not only enjoy the crop what they plant, but also learn something from this program.
In my opinions, I think the industry, science and technology rapidly expand in our practical world, even the educational institution. People advance the apparatus of teaching in order to follow the stepping of the society. Sometimes, the parents want their children to be a doctor, lawyer, teacher or some else but no a farmer because of their conservative thought that it is not a good job because it is hard and its income is low. They never think that their food come from the sweat of the farmer. Obviously, people ignore the importance of the agriculture. It supplies the foods to the people that give the energy to exercise in a whole day.
In the fact, agriculture is very important and the program of gardening in the school is meaningful that can tell the children the basic knowledge of the plant because some of the children even don’t know where the foods come from. When they touch the gardening, they will really understand it is not to get easily and cherish what they have during they are comparing with the children who can not get a meal in two or three days. Besides, I think it is more effective with the practical teaching through a garden because involved in the process rather than just talking to them about it. It let the student understand but not the fantasy.
Furthermore, the students feel that it is more interesting and become independent to handle the problem. It contributes the growing up of the children. After that, the vegetables grown in the gardens during the summer and donates them to the local food bank as a charity also is a good idea.
Nowadays, I think the children not only need the knowledge in the book, but also need the basic knowledge in our life.
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Going Green, Simply: Weatherproof Your Home

According to the “Going Green, Simply: Weatherproof Your Home”, heating of an American home with natural gas creates about 6,400 lbs of carbon dioxide a year; using electricity will produce about 4,700 lbs of emissions in the winter. Therefore, the expert thinks a series of method to tackle this problem such as plugging up the holes that the heat might go out, paying for the energy audit to figure out exactly where the holes are, checking around the house, even adopting the method to use less heat.

In my opinions, I think that it is just one of the quick fix to face the serious global warming problem which is threat our earth. The people work hard a whole day and wish to have the materialist enjoyment, not only the Americans. So, air-condition becomes their necessary and a part of their life, let alone the heating is more important for them in the winter. However, people are neglect the effect of enjoyment that will endanger our life in future even destroy our globe. Besides, ignorance of the people not only accelerating the destruction of the environment, but also implicating their generations.

In the fact, we have many ways to protest the global warming such as the people seldom to use the car to decrease the emission of the carbon dioxide. By the way, building up the transportation networks, the government needs to cut down the forest to be the streets, freeways, and parking area. It is not a true method to tackle this problem. Relying on carbon- neutral vegetable oil and the methane as the energy source also can control the emission of carbon dioxide. On the other hand, the most simply way is plant the tree around the house and the government avoids cut down the forest for the development of the country. It is the most cost-effective green technology can be found around us.

Finally, I think we have the responsibility to cherish our globe and protect it because the earth is only one.

The Great American Smokeout

My Reactions:
According to “The Great American SmokeOut”, the smoking rate among Americans has fallen steadily from 42% on 1964 to 19.8% of adults in 2007 since they have been launching a series of interesting campaigns about dropping the habit of smoking. For examples, they organized a local event called "Don't Smoke Day" and volunteers dressed as smoke detectors blowing kazoos at smokers on the street with a slogan ---"Kiss me, I don't smoke".

Nowadays, even though everyone knows the hazards of smoking—poorer health, persistent cough and wastage of the money, but the people still want to try it even indulged themselves to continue, especially the teenagers. The smoking rate of the teenagers is increased obviously than the older people. Sometimes, we can see the students pick up the butts from the streets even steal the money from others when they can not afford the fees of the cigarette. This is the abnormal phenomenon of our country.

Besides, many smokers are aware of the danger smoking poses to their own health even struggling to quit from the habit of smoking, but do not consider the knock-on effect for their families and friends that the second-hand smoke is hazardous to health. If the pregnant mother inhales the second-hand smoke, they will take a risk that they may give birth to smaller and less healthy children. The smokers always say that they want use the smoking to forget the trouble of the life, but I think it is just an excuse. In contrast, the smokers are easier to get the lung cancer and cause of death.

As a result, I think the method of held a campaign to encourage the people say “no” with the cigarette is good. It can help the smokers plan the quitting and also educate them about using medicine to tackle the problem of pressure is better than smoking. Besides, it not only can reduce smoking and prevent disease, but also quickly and significantly reduce health care costs. Therefore, please thinking about your families and friends, saying goodbye with the cigarettes.

New law to criminalize men who pay for sex with trafficked women

My Reactions:
According to the “New law to criminalize men who pay for sex with trafficked women”, a man will be prosecuted and face the charge of rape if they pay for sex with a woman who has been trafficked or is under the control of a pimp. Besides, a plea of ignorance is not to be a defense against the offense. The police will only to prove that the man pays for sex and the woman has been trafficked. There will be no need to prove he knew it at the time.

In my opinions, the advantages of the new law are more than the coin even though it can not be accepted by someone. First, I think this illegal traffic in sex is against the moral rigorously because the “red- light zone” surpasses the limit, even allow two or three women to work together in a brothel to provide protection for each other. The police can be a pioneer to tackle this problem and close down the brothel and some clubs, especially in the resident area. If the government does not legislate against the illegal traffic and ban on men pay for sex strictly, I think it will get worse and worse.

From the aspect of the women, I think we want to protect them from the victim of the human trafficking. According to the report, a girl says that women from all walks of life, also working as teachers and students, are also working in prostitution. It's consenting sex. But I think they are in the minority, and laws are there to protect the majority. In this case, the majority of women in prostitution and suffer violence and exploitation. If those women who have made a free choice, there are more who have had no choice.

Besides, the English Collective of Prostitutes says that experiences have taught them any law against consenting sex forces prostitution further underground and makes women vulnerable to violence. But I don’t think so! If the government never ban the criminal offence of paying for sex, isn’t the means of encourage the women to devote themselves to the prostitution when they are can not afford their life? Furthermore, the cases of rape can be decreased by other way or method, but not ban this good proposal which is criminalize men who pay for sex. We can decrease the increasing of the AIDS and assure our public health.

As a result, I think the decision to criminalize men who pay for sex with trafficked women is true.