Personal Reflection # 2

LSEC 1103 Reflection #2

Learning how to write English may be difficult for many individuals, and takes much practice and patience. We all know that communication is vital in today's society. It is not enough to merely be able to speak and understand spoken English. In order to develop practical writing skills, one must understand the basics of English grammar and sentence structure.

This course helps me improved my writing skills through lesson plans and samples. Because of giving individual assessments this course helps the students to improve their skills in speaking and writing in English. This course will also help students learn to write natural and clear sentences, as well as help in composing personal and business letters to better increase job skills and communication for the future. In today's modern world, increasing proficiency and clarity of the written language is fundamental in all human communication. In order to write well, we must practice concepts that involve grammatical structure, voice, style, and vocabulary usage. This course will carefully guide us through the basic structures and rules of the English language and focus on improving skills that are necessary in order to write clearly and accurately which is needed when we our looking for a new job. To improve our English language skills I strongly suggest that we read extensively, speak in English as often as possible and of course attempt to write in English too. I really enjoy this course, the whole part of it. When we are trying to do a paper work on our own and trying to explain and to depend what we have done, this is really a great experience for me.

I realize that English are made to improve your own skills. Skills to write, skills on how to criticize in your own paper and skills on how to be more focused in what you are saying. English writing classes are not so difficult, but they require a lot of time to be efficient and proficient in other word self-discipline as well. Writing is a very important subject that helps students in all fields of study. It helps students in writing all academic papers and

Essay 2

STORY OF THE STUFF (ESSAY)

INTRODUCTION: Do we ever think that consumerism is a good or bad thing? Does it come to your mind where all the stuff came from and how it is process? The effects of the way things are produced and consumed today have impacts all around the world. There are many ways that consumerism can affect the environment. Consumerism can cause air and water pollution, land contamination, and forest degradation. We are part of a slowly enfolding tragedy in which the end of the world as we know it may be getting closer and closer. Now I will explain to you the process on how consumerisms affect not only human but also the whole world.

1.     The first step of the materials process starts with extraction. Extraction is the process of extracting/taking/removing some raw material or environmental substance to produce products. All over the world people are taking natural resources to provides human needs (ex. shelters, clothes) it’s either by export or import. Either from animals and natural environments (trees).

2.     The second part of the process is production. Production is the act of making the raw material plus some chemicals into an output. An output which is made to satisfy the human needs. Production is done by the help of human work as well. It could be a process made by machine or manually operated by human. They are including chemicals which are hazardous to humans life plus the natural resources to create a better product.

3.     The third part is what we call distribution. It’s the process in which goods are transferred from the source of product into individual consumer. One good example of this is by means of marketing. Companies are selling products and people are buying their items. Nowadays, big companies and corporations try to make people buy their products by using more and more advertising techniques. Examples are TV commercials, posters on the walls, newspaper ads and different flyers. By this means people are being attracted on their product and starting to plan the things they are going to buy.

4.     Next process is consumption. Consumption is the act of consuming something, either by eating, drinking, or something you bought and you are using it only for a certain period of time. People want more than they have now, more money, car, a bigger house, more shoes and cloths and sometimes things that not so important and not necessary anymore. They will never be satisfied, because every day there is new advertisement for new cars, clothes and electronics. "To buy and to own has become Western society's essential urge" (Palahniuk, C.2013)

5.     Last process is disposal. Disposal is the process of throwing something which not needed anymore. It’s the separation of biodegradable and non-biodegradable substances. But how people separate their things properly? If we consume a lot, we disposed too much. Not knowing that all the things we bought are baring chemicals from production which gives a bad effect on the environment when we start disposing of it.

6.     Consumerism in United Arab Emirates.  Locals or expatriates are giving higher distribution of their income just to buy something. The higher the income they take the more the amount they are consuming. " Many members of the community are subjected to imprisonment because of non-repayment of bank loans that have an impact on their general behavior and thinking " ( Vadyar, M. 2012 ). Not knowing that the more they consume the higher they dispose, And the more the possibilities to pollute the environment. In the U.A.E carbon footprint, our country gives higher emission of carbon dioxide because of the consumption of energy. Because people are consuming higher amount of gas and water that is why the government tries to provide the needs of the people,and reduce use?"The UAE government is already taking major steps towards sustainability"(How to reduce carbon footprint in UAE ' 2012).

SOLUTION: Being human solution is within us. Consumerism is essential to our economy, but government should imply rules and laws to make sure that consumerism does not destroy our planet. And as individual it is our responsibility to discipline and to control ourselves not to buy stuffs which are not important to us. We should raise our consciousness about the reality of the world. Even the media is a big factor we should not follow them. Try to set on our mind which is really important. All we have to do is to buy thing which is needed. Thrifty spending should be there. Try to learn how to reduce, reuse and recycle. It would help the environment and society in general greatly "Plant location must be selected properly by entrepreneurs while planning to set up their business units" (Heyel, C. 2000).

CONCLUSION: I realize that it may well be impossible to stop consumerism. It has been said that money is the root of all evil; money makes the world go round. Consumerism increases the consumption of human, more consumption requires more production, more production means more jobs and more income in society, and more income means more consumption. This is the life cycle which if managed properly can bring growth and prosperity to society. Save the earth, our mother nature for the children in next generation.

 

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Essay 1

WATER FILTRATION/PURIFICATION

 

My topic is all about water filtration/purification. Water purification is one of the methods for making our water clean to use and safe to drink. It is also the process of removing pathogenic microorganism in water. Pathogenic microorganisms are those organisms that can cause diseases in human body. As we all know people now a day are depending on water for survival. But because of growth civilization and population rises it makes our water contaminated of some indigenous substances. That’s why all over the world our ancient people are trying their best to make our water contaminated free. And that’s the reason why they invented some process and system to make water clean. "Many of the wars of this [20th] century were about oil, but the wars of the next century will be about water" (History of water filters, 2010).

Back in 2000 BC, Ancient Greek and Sanskrit (India) discovered their first water treatment system. It’s the process of boiling water to make it purified. In early stage of the history after the ancient Greek, are some people trying and proving their self that they can purify water as well. After 1500 BC, Egyptian is trying to use the principle of coagulation process. Coagulation is the process of adding some chemical substances in water to remove organic and inorganic particle suspended in water.

Next in line, the person tried to purified water is Hippocrates. Around 500 BC he invented the bag filter (Hippocratic sleeve) the use of this device is to trap some sediment in water that causes odor and bad taste. In 300–200 BC, Rome invented the device aqueducts, use to carry water to one place to another. But process failed. Around 500-1500 AD this is the century known as dark ages. And the future for water purification is uncertain. For a long period of time, in 1627, Sir Francis Bacon continued the water purification process he used the method of desalination, he tried to remove the salt particle in sea water by using sand filtration. But unfortunately it did not work. But because of him even he failed of trying, his encouragement gives to some scientist to make and try another method of purifying the water. And next to him are Robert Thom, John Simpson, John Snow, and Jean-Antoine Nolett. Nolett tried the use of reverse osmosis for water purification.

Nowadays still people are concern about the water they are consuming. And City’s officials are responsible for providing safety water for all residence. As we can see for today century people are already knowledgeable and informed of what method they are using for making their water safe for the body. One good example is using of filter on everyone house to make water contaminated free. Filter device are now be found in all market worldwide.

In country like United Arab Emirates, there’s a lot of company selling different kinds of filter. Examples of those companies are Aqua Pure Company, Alibba Company and Tradekey Company. They are selling and sometime giving installation free.  Nowadays water crisis is there that’s why some countries are making experimentation and investigation if they can use rain water to drinking water (water sewage). One example is Los Angeles city. City’s official are still having argumentation about this, before they are only using sewage water for irrigation and landscaping. But until now sewage water as drinking are not been sure.  People behind all of this are still trying their best to make everything work. And it will continue to evolve and progress in the future until they got the most effective way of purifying our water.

I therefore conclude that water is the most important substance for all human being to survive. It is our responsibility to take care of it and to use it properly. We should conserve water consumption. We didn’t see how valuable and fragile the water to us but our ancient people does. We are lucky that we are in 2000 century, where all devices have been made. All we need to do is to improve it and to make it useful for everyone.

 

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