Summery
Summery
Chinese economy shows the indication that it stops growing.
Chinese manufacturing activity shrank for the first time in seven months in December. Markit Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) that signifies national growth rate was at 49.6, just below the 50 level. 50 level is standard rate. If it is higher, it means its economy continues growing and its market is expanding. On the other hand, if it is lower, it means its economy is shrinking. Chinese economy, which is honored as “factory of the world” is gradually declining in power. As the response to this, Chinese central bank surprisingly cut interest rates to 2.75% for the first time since 2012 aiming recovering the economy.
What makes China stop growing economically? The answer is not said in this article but I think it’s because of soaring cost of labor. In those days, China has attracted many foreign companies by making use of the cheapness of cost of labor and activated its economy. In fact, Japanese companies also has constructed their factories. When we look at products that is sold in Japan, they often have tags that is written “made in China”.
What makes cost of labor in China soar? The reason we can guess is improving of the life standard in China. It is natural as we think, so China stands on the stage that it have to get new temptation except the cheapness of cost of labor. On the other hand, because Japan is much depending on Chinese market, it is needed to find new markets with making sure of the economic situation in the world.
Ken Robinson, an expert on education talked about his ideas about education, intelligence and learning in the video.
At first, he said the educaction is the thing which enable to carry to prospective future. And though making mistakes and being creative is not same, the education always criticizes making mistakes. He also said there are the relative merits of the subjects in education all over the world. For example, mathematic and language are top and art is low. He expressed it is the education lacked creative.
In these points, I agree with his idea. In present education, people always divide the things to right and wrong things and they condemn the wrong things are bad. But I think these education system killed the human`s creative and talent. So I agree with his idea.
Next, he said the intelligence is composed of three points. First point is the diversity. He explained it is very important to think the things from every angles. Second point is dinamic. He produced the example, interaction of human brain. He said the intelligence is made from interaction between various fields and values. Third point is distinctive. In this point, he talked about Jylian Lin who became a dancer.
In these points, I also agree with his idea. I think everyone in this world has an uncertain intelligence of various fields. And we also cannot never evaluate that intelligence. But above mentioned, the present education system evaluates the intellgence by using grades. So I think that situation of education kills the human`s intelligence. Therefore, we have to reconsider of these education systems.
Finally, he also talked about learning. He said that every children can show exceptional power. And the essence of learning is human`s concentration of the talent which they have.
I also agree with his idea. I also think the essence of learning is human`s concentration of the talent which they have. So the education must accommodate to this essence. But I think prensent education system robbed the chances for people to concentrate . The school timetable is a good example. Because it makes every people do the things decided by school on time. If there is a child who has a talent of art, he will be robbed the time to concentrate to his talent by the school timetable.
These are my response to his ideas about education, intelligence and learning. Before writing this essay, I don`t have a chance to think about the relation between education and learning. But this time, I could reconsider of these things.
I appreciate to attend your class. Thank you!
Summary
The UK economy has grown more slowly in the past year.
Revised figures show GDP in the 2014 was a few persent higher than in 2013.
Also, the UK’s curent account deficit widened.
The downward revision in the annual GDP groeth rate was due to lower government and business investment than first thought, and higher imports.
Despite that, the UK’s GDP still grew a litle.
However, the economy is now only a few persent higher than the previous pre-recession peak.
Some professionnal said that weakness in the eurozone is having dampening impact on business confidence and investment.
On the other hand, some professionnal said that the economy could grow faster next year than this.
Though there are some opinions about the UK’s economy, the actually that the economy is not so good is sure.
Opinion
The UK may change this bad situation. If like Venezuela, the main exports have a problem,it is difficult to recover the economic.
However, in case of the UK, the UK can export goods to other countries expect for eurozone. To take this way, the economy may improve more than now.
The UK is a main country in the world. Economic power’s good or bad of the market affect many countries. So economic power, like the UK, should stabilise the economy. It is the good way to steady the world economy.
Summary
Nowadays, Apple’s position in the market is getting worse. The number of big technological innovations are decreasing. Some people say that Apple’s software quality have been dropping in the last few years and Apple’s future is worried. They fear that Apple’s leadership doesn’t realize quite how badly their software flaws have damaged their reputation. Apple’s cloud services aren’t particularly very good. Complaints about Apple’s core software have been far more muted until a wave of bugs and security holes plagued both operating systems over the past several months. Apple has long marketed its products with “it just works” slogan, but Apple products are now operating far from that goal.
Comments
I use iPhone5S and I almost satisfy about iPhone’s spec, but I feel that Apple’s innovation became weaker recently compared with the days when Steve Jobs lived. Missing his intelligence and ideas is a very severe damage for the company, but there are maybe many people who have good brains. I want to expect that Apple will make many big changes to their software. I think there is no remit in human’s ideas. Apple have to make a lot of efforts to produce new software and smartphones for many their consumers around the world.
In Japan doctors can only test which the eggs have problems or not before return them to mother’s body in the case of in-vitro fertilization. When we discuss this theme, we should think at the both points of view of mothers and doctors. Mothers, especially elderly mothers tend to know that the eggs are in order or disorder than younger ones. Because the late child-bearing has high risk. Furthermore they concentrate their first pregnant more. I give you my thought first . I disagree with such technology. I am going to explain the reason later. But if I were elderly mother, I would like to know the “fact”. The conclusion we can get through the technology may not perfectly correct. But it is the fact that we can get the information to some extent. So I can’t say this test is perfectly bad and we should eliminate such technology.
Facebook is thinking the way to express more appropriate emotions like “sad”. Mark Zuckerberg said that many user didn’t feel “like” button was appropriate for unfortunate incidents. However, user can comment on a post when they don’t want to use “like” button. And Facebook has no plan to make “dislike” button.
I think that Facebook should introduce another button, but “dislike” is not proper. It means “not like”. No one would push the button when he or she sees the post about death or illness. If people face unfortunate events, they will sympathize. So to express this emotion, “sad” button is better than “dislike” button.
Other social network services also use button to express feelings. LINE is the most famous SNS in Japan, and it has timeline. By using face fonts, user can express many kinds of feeling in timeline. There are six face fonts, love, very happy, good, wish, surprise, and sad. This way is very easy to express how he or she thinks. Not only letters button but face fonts is a good choice, I think.
Watch the talk given by a Ken Robinson, an expert on education. You can turn on subtitles. Click here and scroll to No. 9 if you have problems watching the embedded video <
Write an essay with your response to his ideas about education, intelligence and learning. Read aloud your essay to make an audio essay.
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Summery
Nowadays game controllers are used in a lot of practical ways. For example, surgery training, flight simulating and bomb defusing. In addition, a future weapon of U.S. Navy using laser is going to be controlled by a controller like that of PS3 and XBOX360. The reason for these wide use of video game controllers is that they have evolved into more and more comfortable and intelligent forms. They have polished for a lot of years to become easier to handle and intelligent to control complex things. As a result, they exceed controllers developed by public organizations. Ways of controllers will expand in the future.
My opinion
I think surely game controllers are great, but it can lead dangerous situation. For above reasons, game controllers are easy to handle and can control complex system. Ways of video game controllers will expand from controlling a robot to driving. However, some people will use controllers in playing feelings. This brings about danger because of their practical use. If a student of medical department uses a controller in surgery training with playing feeling, they cannot obtain enough skills. If a pilot controls a automated bomber with playing feeling, serious mistake bombing can occur. Therefore, you can use video game controllers in a lot of situations, but you should use them in serious attitude.