Computers and Automation Increase Unemployment

Computers are commonly becoming the the important objects where human society are really depend on it. It has been one of the technological advancements where happens to our civilization. Of course, it will come into a lot of argumentations in which have its pros and cons. One of the things that is still being argued is about the computers and automation impact to the unemployment, which is very increasing in recent years.

Responding on the topic, this might also invite many public intentions into debate. Some people are agreed on stating the issue while others are somewhat opposite on it. According to the statement, people usually tend to see the whole situations that is happen until recently.

Most advanced companies are require industrial automation (which is not except computers as well). Mostly, those companies are saying agreed on it which improve the efficiency of resources, materials, and last but not least, time management. On the other hand, people might say no where the highly skilled, but still poor workers are not suitable to place themselves in good position to the factory. As a result, they might lose their occupation and would put into public demonstration.

Despite the fact that is causing the unemploymet, the others have also expressed the rejection that computers increase that such thing, which is more efficient as well as helpful for the employees inside. The truth is that people (employees in this context) are always engaged with the whole automations and they control all of the robotic stuffs to design the product (in which can be found through assembly line inside the factory of company), so that the production is quicker and faster as it takes. Besides, to solve the problem of unemployment rate, most advanced factories have raised their fund in order to increase the whole facilities with variety of divisions where the employees can be placed in that part of it. So if there was fund that is provided, the factory would reise it. Not only for the dacilities (include computers, automation and others), but also for human resource.

In spite of the availability of fund, it takes into the cost that have to be spent. It means the company has to require huge income to facilitate it, which will be benefit and protect te consumer. in fact, the outer hindering factors include the situation of economic turmoil that recently happens right now. The global economic crisis are influence the whole factories income around the globe. As the consequences, their income has cause any money reductions to be contributed to national income of each country. The result would be longer impacted with prolonged demonstration.

As a conclusion, the government should be able to act any further responding those kind of obstacles. Even require many major debating to acquire the result of this issue. But still, everything is bact to the response of the people themselves about the impact of computers in life, which for their daily work. I believe that if the workers are capable of doing things efficiently to achieve the successful result, then it would not be a big deal for people and government of the country as well.

sources:
http://www.wikipedia.org/automation/ (working online), accessed at August 9 2009 \
http://www.google.com/computersandautomationincreaseunemployment/ (working online), accessed at August 13 2009

High School Dropout

Topic : Education
Subtopic : High School Dropouts
Paragraph : Cause and Effect (in Outline)

Paragraph I (Introduction)
It has a lot of urban schools in the United States that faced with the problem, which the problem is well-known as high school dropout. There are variety of aspects toward the problem.
- Economical aspect
- Social aspect
- Environmental aspect
- Academic aspect (which commonly signified with any test scores of each subject done by the students.

Paragraph II (Main Paragraph)
-Cause I-
i) The 'Tough Standards' movement, which potentially dominated by political and corporated worlds
ii) Education and Freedom, which often done by coercive psychological system
iii) Mental Illness where people is feeling hospitalized that occur especially for the children ages 5 through 9

-Cause II-
i) People learn differently
- One's gender affects the process of learning
- Imbalance between the girls and the boys. As an example, girls did enjoy the school instead of the boys.
ii) Extreme Difficulty (especially for the man who need to maintain its relationship to women. This typical case is termed as lack of integration)

-Cause III-
Widespread effects of crisis
- Global financial crisis (affects fund raising fr high school in U.S.)
- Lack of benefits earned from local high schools around the state (According to the source of Dropout Nation)

Paragraph III (Transition Paragraph)
Leading to the point that has several aspects of these dropout cases in schools (comes with various factual data)

Paragraph IV (Main Paragraph -continued-)
-Effects I-
Mind damage towards excessive control, where it encompasses mental illness, family dysfunction, chronic stress, and other mental disorders.

-Effects II-
Educational Rules
i) Extended drills, excessive daily activities
ii) Sleep restriction
iii) Strong aversive emotional in which creates non-physical punishment, for example humiliation, loss of privilage, anxiety, personal intense guilt.

Conclusion + Solution (Concluding Paragraph)
High school dropout should definitely be banned and decreased.
Solutions
- Raising fund policy for high school children by providing more resources (since the government rule of George W. Bush)
- Contributions to schools (officially funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations, called 'The Silent Epidemic')

Writing a Summary (Practicing my SQ3R skills)

Teenage Suicide

Suicide has been increasing and it happens to everyone until this present time. Indeed, this is basically because of the highly emotional reaction neither from inner factors nor outer factors that force the person to commit suicide. In fact, suicide had been totally increasing since 1961 even until 1975, which were adolescents. The overall statistics also estimated 131 percent (Holinger, 1978), then 300 percent (Colt, 1983) since 1960, even more that one million teenagers (Peck, 1982) had done the same thing as well.

To solve this problem, we sholud look back to find the reason why adolescents were commit this kind of behavioural disorder. At the beginning, we have to realize the main reason and go to have an opened discussion. then after that, people (peers in this context) have to be nurtured and educated through practical help such as therapy to avoid the contemplation of suicide.

Icebergs: A Potential Survey of Water

In countries whee rainfall is very sparse, scientists must constantly seek ways to increase supplies of water. One method being considereed is the use of desalination plants, which would remove salt from seawater. Another method being considered is the towing of icebergs. According to this method, large icebergs from Antartica would be wrapped in cloth or plastic, tied to powerful tugboats by strong ropes, and towed to the countries needing freshwater. While this plan may have some potential, there are certain practical problems that must be solved.

The first problem is the expense. According to estimates, it would cost between $50 million and $100 million to tow a single 100-million-ton iceberg from Antartica to, for example, the coast of Saudi Arabia.

Secondly is the possibility that the iceberg would melt en route. No one knows if an iceberg could be effectively insulated for such a long journey. At the very least, there is the possibility that it would break up into smaller pieces, which would create still other problems.

On the third there is the danger that a huge block of ice floating off an arid coast could have unexpected environmental effects. The ice could drastically change the weather along the coast, and i would probablty affect the fish population.

And the fourth is the cost of providing freshwater from icebergs would be less than the cost of providing water by desalinization, according to most atimates. It would cost between 50 and 60 cents per cubic meter to get water from an iceberg, as opposed to the 80 cents per cubic meter it would cost to get the same amount by desalinization.

In conclusion, before icebergs can become a source of freshwater in the future, problems involving cost, overall practically, and most important, environmental impact must be solved.

Writing Logical Division Thesis Statements

1. There are three styles of clothing, hair, or shoe in my school such as uniformed style, free-
style, and classified style.
2. Dangerous automobile drivers are always caused by the following factors include speeders
factor, cell-phone users factor, and also teens factor.
3. There is appeal of Disneylad's or Disney World's in which not only attracts children, but also
attracts lots of adults.
4. The advantages of living in a lare city signify several actors, which are factor of business
importance, factor of social networking, and finally factor of punctuality.
5. Kinds of appeals television advertisers use to sell any products or services in which encompass
gadgets, travel stuff, and public services.

Using Statistics

World Energy Consumption

According to those charts above, world energy consumption has been steadily increasing. Currently, the nations of the world use between 400 and 600 quadrillion Btu (British thermal units) annually. By the year 2025, consumption is projected to increase to 623 Btu, an increase of 60 percent from the year 1970. The largest consumers are the industrialized countries, and the nations who consume the least energy belong to the EE/FSU (Eastern Europe/Former Soviet Union) group. Developing nationsconsumed approximately the same amount of energy as 1971 until 2001, when the energy use of developing nations began to fall. By 1985, it is projected that their use will nearlt equal that of percentage.

5 English Website

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Academic English
- http://www.proquest.com/

This website is intended as the good website of academic research, but it is often used by

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- http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

As the most recommended website, this website plays an improtant role of conducting not

only for any kinds of academic paper research, but also include parts of English writing in daily

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- http://www.uefap.com/

This website is conducting how to do and write a research paper very effectively. It is

appearently not only contained research paper at all, but it also lists several tips of another

English skills, including note-taking and critical reading as well.

General English
- http://www.manythings.org/

It is actually the best website, which fully recommended for the beginner of English where its

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- http://www.world-english.org/

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Causes and Effects

Accidents in a Large British City (1998)

These are numbers of accident causes occured in a Large British City during year 1998. First, the accident cause where drivers travelling too close to other vehicles was 347 from number of acccidents. Afterwards, the driver accidents, which is reversing negligently was quite huge numbers and it was 169 cases because of this. Furthermore, 113 accidents were happened where pedestrians crossing roads in dangerous places. Despite the fact, it was 5 % fall if compared with the previous year. Finally, the last case in which drivers travelling too quickly in certain bad weather conditions, reached 190 accidents. However, it was significantly rise as 12 % of its percentage whether compared with the year 1997.

Kinds of Logical Oder

Paragraph 1

The process of machine transportation of language is complex. To translate a document from English into Japanese, for example, the computer first analyzes an English sentence, determining its grammatical structure and identifying the subject, verb, objects, and modifiers. Next, the words are translated by an English-Japanese dictionary. After that, another part of the computer program analyzes the resulting awkard jumble of words and meanings and produces an intellligible sentence based on the rules of Japanese syntax and the machine's understanding of what the original English meant. Finally, a human bilingual editor polishes the computer-produced translation.

Kind of Logical Order: Logical Division of Ideas

Paragaraph 2

French and U.S. business managers have decidely different management styles. French meetings, for example, are long and rambling and rarely end on time. Furthermore, meetings often and without closure. Managers in the United States, on the other hand, make an effort to start and stop meeting on time, and North American business meetings typically end with decision and action plans. Another difference involves documentation. North Americans adore documetation; they have a procedure manual for everything. The French, in contrast, thinks this is childish. French managers do not share information with subordinates and make decision with little participation by employees beneath them. In U.S. companies, however, top managers share information and frequently solicit input from subordinates ("How French Managers").

Kind of Logical Orders: Comparison/Contrast

Paragraph 3

It took more than 2.500 years to develop the calendar used in most Western countries today. In about 700 B.C.E., te ancient Romans used a calendar that had 304 days divided into 4 months; March was the beginning of each year. There were more than 60 days missing from the calendar, so very soon the calendar did not match the seasons at all. Spring arrived when the calendar said that it was still winter. A few decades later, the Romans added the monthsof January and February to the end of the year. This calendar lasted about 600 years. His calendar had 365 days, with one day added every fourth year. He also moved the beginning of the year to January 1, and he renamed a month for himself: Julius (July). In Caesar's calendar, February had 29 days. The very next emperor, Augustus, not only renamed a month for himself (August), but he also took one day from one day from February and added to it to August so that 'his' month would be just as long as Caesar's. This calendar worked better than the previous ones, but it still was not perfect. By 1580, the first calendrical day of spring was 10 days too early, so in 1582, Pope Gregory XII, the leader of the Roman Catholic religion, made a small change to make the calendar more accurate. In the Gregorian calendar, the year is still 26.3 seconds different from the solar year, but it will be a long time before this causes the problem.

Kind of Logical order: Chronological Order

Paragraph 4

The many different calendars used throughout the world are all based on the phases of the moon, on the revolution of Earth around the Sun, or on a combination of the two. The first kind of calendar is the lunar calendar, based on the phases of the moon. A month is calculated as the time between two full moons, 29.5 days, and a year has 354 days. The Islamic calendar used in Muslim countries is a lunar calendar. It has 12 months and a cycle of 30 years in which the 2nd, 5th, 7th, 10th, 13th, 16th, 18th, 21st, 24th, 26th, and 29th years have 355 days, and the others 354 days. A second kind of calendar is the solar calendar, which is based on the revolution of Earth around the Sun. The ancient Egyptians used a solar calendar divided into 12 months of 30 days each, which left 5 encounted days at the end of each year. A very accurate calendar developed by the Mayan Indians in North America was also a solar calendar. It had 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds long, however, a solar calendar is not totally accurate, so many cultures developed a third kind of calendar, the lunisolar calendar. In a lunisolar calendar, extra days are added every so often to reconcile the lunar months with the solar year. The Chinese, Hebrew, and Gregorian calendars used today are lunisolar calendars.

Kind of Logical Order: Comparison/Contrast

Transition Signals (using appropriate transition signal)

Time

One stereotype about North American says that they are obsessed with time. It sometimes seems true that for North Americans, time seems as valuable as money. Also they even say, "Time is money." In fact have you noticed how many verbs can be followed by both time and money? For example you can spend time, save time, lose time, find time make time, waste time, and run out of time. Similarly you can spend, save, lose, find, make, waste, and run out of money. Second North Americans seem to regard time as a "thing" that one can own. You can have time, buy time, and take time. (One wonders how much it costs and where it is taken.) A third piece of evidence that North Americans are obsessed with time is their fanaticism about always being on time. Indeed people who are habitually late risk punishment ranging from frowning disapproval to losing their jobs. The final and most convincing proof is that these poor people sometimes take courses in their time management! That is really overdoing it, don't you agree?

Move Over, DVD. Here Comes BD!

First, CDs brought digital sound into our homes. Then DVD technology brought digital sound and video and revolutionized the movie industry. Soon there will be furthermore revolution: Blu-ray discs (BDs). A Blu-ray disc will have several advantages. First it has an enormous data storage capacity. A single-sided DVD can hold 4.7 gigabytes of information, about the size of an average 2-hour movie. A single-sided BD, on the other hand, can hold up to 27 gigabytes, enough for 13 hours of standard video. A second advantage is that a BD can record, store, and play back high-definition video. The cost will be about 50 gigabytes, enough for 4.5 hours of high-definition video. The cost will be about the same. Furthermore, a BD has a higher data transfer rate -36 megabits per second- than today's DVD, which transfer at 10 megabits per second. As a result a BD can record 25 gigabytes of data in just over an hour and a half. Indeed because of their large storage capacity and comparable cost. BDs will probably take over the market when they become widely available.

Transition Signals

Inflation

A recent article in Era magazine suggested ways to reduce inflation . The article suggested that the president reduce the federal budget; furthermore, it suggested that the government reduce federal, state, and local taxes.

The same article said that the cause of inflation were easy to to find, however the cure for inflation was not so easy to prescribe.

Era also suggested that rising wages were one of the primary causes of inflation therefore the government should take action to control wages.

In physics, the weight of an object is the gravitational force with which Earth attracts it; for example, if a man weighs 150 pounds, this means that Earth pulls him down with a force of 150 pounds.

The farther away from Earth a person is, the less gravitational force of Earth. Therefore a man weighs less when he is 50.000 miles from Earth that when is only 50.000.

A tsunami is a tidal wave produced by an earthquake on the ocean floor. The waves are very long and low in open water, but when they get close to land, they encounter friction because water is shallow as a result the waves increase in height and can cause considerable damage when they finally reach land.