Black Friday

       Apple's retail stores had their biggest sales on Black Friday. Usually iPad and Macbook Air sales were extremely strong,  also the prices of all products were discounted On Black Friday, so Aplle's retail store showed they sold out the iPhone 4S by the end of the day Friday, and Amazon said the Kindle Fire tablet,which may become the strongest challenger to Apple's iPad, had the biggest sales as well and Amazon assistant president expects this trend lasts on Cyber Monday and through the holiday shopping season.          
Online sales went up 39.3% on Thanksgiving Day and 24.3% on Black Friday compared with the same days last year, and Mobile devices accounted for 14.3% of all online retail traffic on Black Friday.

Vocab
Multiple
Part of speech: Adjective
Definition: Several parts
Synonym: Diverse
Sentence: Children's dreams in the future are composed of multiple ideals.

Vice president
Part of speech: Noun
Definition: Someone who is responsible for part of a company.
Synonym: Asistant President
Sentence: Fred is promoted to vice president.

Track
Part of speech: Verb
Definition: To record the progress or develpment of something.
Sentence: Scientists track an experiment with new chemicals.


Source: http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/28/tech/web/tech-black-friday/index.html

Migration

  Economic or labor migration is increasing, because of lack of empolyment oppotunities in developing countries, so youth  women and men need work in other countries, because they would like to support themselves and their families.  But many migrant workers is discriminated commonly, because they are not given full citizenship in countries where they are. On the other hand, skilled migrant workers are less discriminated.  Migrant workers not only contribute to the economies of their countries, and money they send  increases their home economics. 
Vocab
Harassment
Part of speech: Noun
Definition: something to bother someone
Synonym:Worry
Sentence: A friend of my sister's is bothered about sexual harassment in her workplace, so she comes consulting me with fear.

Maltreat
Part of speech: Verb
Definition: To treat someone unfairly.
Synonym: Discriminate
Sentence: A long time ago, American maltreat African, because of the color of skin.

Remittance
Part of speech: Noun
Definition: Money to be sent.
Synonym: Allowance
Sentence: Sam makes remittance for his family as soon as he gets revenue . He always appreciates for his family.

Digital Literacy

    the Internet changes to the way to talk to people who you never meet around the world, but this new type of communication causes new concerns such as cyber bullying, identity theft. 
Cyber bullies may be more agressive than traditional bullies, so we have to worry about them. Cyber bulling takes some forms, but sometimes cyber bullies want to malign someone else, so if you think that you are maligned on the Internet, you shuld tell someone who is familiar with the internet.
Identity theft , called  phishing, is to send spam to get personal information.  Indentity theft is one of the fastest increasing crimes in the US.Spam is junk mail sent by e-mail, also spam sometimes contains viruse, so people storing their personal information on their computer use password or firewall to protect their personal information.
  crimes on the Internet will still keep growing in the future, however  I think  a decreasing in the crimes of the internet depends on how we treat the internet as appropriate  thing.

Vocab
Bully
Part of speech: Noun
Definition: Someone who hurt  someone else who is weaker.
Sentence: I don't want to be like Will, because he always hurts other weak people. He is just a typical bully.

Immune
Part of speech: Adjective
Definition: Not affected
Sentence: My life is immune to others'life.

Global Education

 Standard education is thought as making up the gap between students at various achievement levels. But educators are disagree with  standards-based assessments, because this assessment will lead teacher to teach a way to raise test scores, which limits student's self-improvement. Students will study for only standardized tests. But are standardized tests able to prove student's skills and knowledge?  Actually standardized tests examine whether students can use specific knowledge, but it is more difficult to know if what kind of skills students have through standardized tests.



Vocab
Bridge
Part of speech: Verb
Definition: To make up for something.
Synonym: Fill in
Sentence: Tony bridges a silence with his humor. He is a ice-breaker.


Assess
Part of speech: Verb
Definition: To judge about value or quality of something.
Synonym: Decide
Sentence: It is difficult to assess a person's personality  through only first impression, but we can know if the person is a friendly person or not.

Source http://issues.tigweb.org/globaleducation

Mental Health

  Mental health is as important as physical health. If our brain cause mental illness, our brain doesn't work well and other functions ,thinking and perception and emotion or feeling and signaling and physical functions, collapse.   Health program has an impact on personal, social, civic, economic development. So focusing on mental health problems help young people get well and stay well in the future. It also improves the lives of individuals and families and civil society increasing opportunity for social economic development and global acceptance of human and cultural diversity. Thus mental health is an important element in getting over the stress of each individual life.
Mental health motivates us to do something. But how to keep it stable?  Probably each person would have different ways.

Vocab
Fulfilling
Part of speech: Adjective
Definition: Making someone content.
Synonym: Satisfying
Sentence: The content in his novel was  fulfilling.

Cognition
Part of speech: Noun
Definition: The feeling to notice something.
Synonym: Perception
Sentence: Our cognition toward danger things gradually is reduced by present peaceful state.

Civic
Part of speech: Adjective
Definition: Relating to a city or town.
Synonym: Urban
Sentence: Tim hates a civic life, but he has to tolerate it. Because of his dream to be a lawyer.

Source:http://issues.tigweb.org/mentalhealth

Freedom of expression cuts to the very heart of the debate about the future of cyberspace"

http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/news/latest-news/?view=Speech&id=684974682
Nowadays some people share ideas about recent happenings on the Net. So they can be interested in and learn  recent happenings by sharing ideas through the Net. We can state our ideas on the Net as well as in real world. Also I think we can change what is wrong by sharing our common ideas.  But  majority is not always right. Whether our own ideas is right or not is up to us. That we feel about it is our own ideas.  If we misunderstand these issues. Other people's idea will help us find out what is wrong in our ideas. So sharing ideas will learns new ideas as well as develops our ideas.

Vocab
Aspire(Verb): To hope strongly to get something. 
          Synonym: Long for
          Sentence: When Jim was a child. He aspired to be a lawyer.
Curtail (Verb): To make something short.
           Synonym: Shorten
          Sentence:I curtailed my speeach. Because it is too long.
Round up(verb): To restate briefly the main ideas
          Synonym: Sum up
          Sentence: Our teacher rounds up the important points in book.

Children

http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/children/index.shtml
After the Second World War, Europe's children were in miserable situation. Then UNICEF(United Nations Children's Fund)  came to help them in Europe in1947. This was the fiest international relief campaign for children. UNICEF was able to give six million children and mothers one meal everyday. And also The UN aims to protect children from violence such as trafficking(illegal trade) , prostitution(crime that involves sex). What children needs is granted to them by
various effofts and communities.


Vocab
Eradition(Noun): Destroying completely something.
Synonym:Extermination
Sentence: The govenment strives for the eradition of the infection.

Pervade(Verb): To  be known something in somewhere. 
Synonym:Popularize
Sentence: The notion of recent recession stated on the Net pervades the young generation.

Africa

http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/africa/index.shtml
 Nowadays the African Union has 53 independent member States.
The Africa Union faces massive problems which are poverty and illness and struggle and so on.
So the UN supports Africa's economics and social development and the promotion and protection of human rights. To enhance the support for Africa further, the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa was established in 2003.
Africa Day is an annual memorial of the establishment of the Organization of African Unity on May 25 in 1963. Africa Day is celebrated around the world.
As we know, Africa doesn't have enough money to get through serious problems that they face for long time. some volunteer groups go to help Africans who are sick or cann't get enough nutrition or get hurt in struggle. But  volunteer groups don't have enough money as well to cure so many people who need treatment.  But volunteer groups cann't  cure without medicine.  This situation also slow down to help much more people.

Food

http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/food/index.shtml
I read this article on the net.
Nowadays food prices is still increasing.  So countries restrick their export to protect themselves from food shortages and price shock. But it also foster a rise in price of food. To solve this serious problem, the Secretary-General proposed establishment of the Task Force and published Comprehensive Framework for Action in July 2008. It is composed of 20 key members of the UN system.
Comprehensive Framework for Action aims to face  the immediate needs of  vulnerable populations. And other actions aim to make  the global food and nutrition system recover from a threat to global food and nutrition security.
This settlement is an efficient system. Because each member of the UN system has each own role. They can settle many comprehensive problems.

Tsunami Debris

I read a newspaper airticle about the debris from the tsunami that occurred in Japan
As we know, there was an earthquake on March 11 and also tunami brought big damage. when tsunami came, tsunami took many things from Japan such as TV set, refrigerator, boat. So now there is debris field in the sea and the debris from the tsunami will land on MIldway Island where is the Main Hawaiian Islands and the West Coast of the mainland in 2011.
From on September 21 to 28. the crew of the Russian ship Pallada sailed into the debris field and retrieved a bout and saw other debris. But accutually nobody knows how much it will arrive and how it will be disposed of