reading journal week7 Donor families lose their say

 Many people are waiting for their donor, who can give their organ to them. It is difficult to find one. It is difficult because some donor families refuse to give their dead family member’s organ.

 NSW having the lowest transplant rate in the country, 12.4 donors per million compared to the national average of 13.8 per million, to being a leader in organ donation becoming the first state to change the consent laws. While NSW has the highest rate of people wanting to be a donor, family refusal rates are more than 45 percent.

The government is taking public submissions until January 31 next year before it sets about reforming the donor system. Many people who want to be donor was overruled by their family after they died, so we need to look at a system where a donor has the final say.

overrule
part of speech: verb
definition: to change a decision or reject an idea from a position of greater power
sentence: my opinion was overruled by my father.

reading journal week7 Facebook

 How many of you have Facebook account? I do have one. Facebook is now the world’s largest network, with 800 million users worldwide as of September 2011.

 They had an interesting research about Facebook users. The researchers used a set of algorithms developed at the University of Milan to calculate the average distance between any two people by computing a vast number of sample paths among Facebook users. They found that number of links from one arbitrarily selected person to another was 4.74.

 It is no surprise that Facebook has become one of the titans of the Internet, challenging even Google with its vision of a Web tied together by personal relationships and recommendations, rather than by search algorithms. In a major expansion, Facebook has spread itself across other Web sites by offering members the chance to “Like’' something, share it with their network, without leaving the Web page they are on.

Arbitrary

 Adj mot seeming to be based on a reason, system or plan and sometimes seeming unfair.

 The choice of players for the team seemed arbitrary.

reading journal week6 $9.1 million for UNICEF

Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs announced that the Australian Government’s contribution will help give some five million children better access to education and health care through the UNICEF Children and AIDS Regional Initiative. The initiative will directly support the Unite for Children, Unit against Aids global campaign, let by UNICEF and UNAIDS.

 Fund will be used to help families and communities support and care for children affected by AIDS and boost their access to education and health care. Funds will also be used to support legal and policy reform to protect vulnerable children.

 According to the latest UNAIDS/UNICAF estimates, 15.2million children under the age of 18 have lost one or both parents to AIDS worldwide, with 12 million in sub-Saharan Africa alone.

 Protecting and supporting orphans and children affected by HIV/AIDS is one of the main goal of Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS.

contribution
 noun a sum of money that is givin to a person or an organization in order to help pay for sth.
 Making a contribution to charity

week#6 reading journal - the crying chair

 Now I am reading a book called “A Cup of Comfort”. This book has many shoot stories. I would like to introduce one of the stories. This story is about a lady who has a special chair, the Crying Chair. When she small girl she had a dinning chair which works pretty well with people who have problems. In her experience, when she had something sad or had problem, she sat the chair to cry out her feeling. It was the place for her to park her emotional baggage so she could get on her life.

 When she started teaching at kindergarten, she put the Crying Chair for students. One student cannot control his tear falling, because if his parents’ divorce. Sometimes it is embarrassing to cry, but when a student sat on the chair he could cry and dried his eyes without being teased by other students. After started using the chair he could control his tear and stop crying uncontrollably and learned that he can cry if he needed. Also, other students learn that if their friend needed to cry they had to pry and tried to give them special kindness and love.

week #4 - homeless in Hawaii

 In Hawaii you can notice many homeless people. They ask you some money of food. They sometimes try to steal money from you. But why there are so many homeless people in Hawaii? There are two reasons. one is the high cost of house. And second is the homeless who moves from other places.

 First of all, in Hawaii the cost of house is extremely expensive. Because lands of Hawaii are limited, and because many people immigrate to Hawaii from other countries, the housing price is getting more expensive each year. People cannot offer money to their house, even they are working full time job.

 Second, those homeless people we see in Hawaii are not all from local. Many of them came from mainland. Hawaii has nice weather and beautiful beach, so homeless people spent their last money for plane tickets to Hawaii.

Week #4 reading journal - health care for....?

 In some countries, health care, like education, is considered a public service that governments provide against their citizens. Most people are vaccinated against infectious diseases, or treated when they are ill, and informed about health problems in their areas. Every day around the world, more than thirty thousand children die from diseases which they could easily be treated. The average American lives into her or his later seventies. But in Bangladesh, average is sixty-three, while it’s fifty in Haiti, forty-tow in Afghanistan, and only thirty-four in Sierra Leone. (in Japanese, average is eighty-three.) Because many countries lack an effective health-care system, some preventable diseases still cause death. Cholera is one of those diseases. AIDS, has struck 40 million people- 28millions are who live in sub-Sahara Africa. In the U.S, people arguing about health insurance for every citizen, I wonder if they will continue that after reading this text.

vocab
  vaccinated  verb
   to give a person or an animal a vassin, especially by injecting it.
   I was vccinated against the flu.

week #3 reding journal - water, everywhere? not puite

In some places, it is difficult to get water for drinking, washing, and farming. Hard to believe, but there are more than 1 billion people have little access to drinkable water. As a vital resource, water has become a major political issue, some countries arguing about rivers and lakes that are overlap on them. For example, in Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers rise in Turkey, where dams built to store water have lowered the water’s flow rate for Turkey’s neighbors. Also water is necessary for farming. People are trying to solve water problem of farming in dry place. Researchers discovered drop system that only use minimal amount of water. In this system vegetables only use right amount of water that they needed.

【Vocab】

   Conflict

    Noun- a situation in which people, groups, or countries are involved in a serious disagreement or argument.

    A conflict between two countries are affect others too.