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Fewer language

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Topic: Every year several languages die out, some people think that this is not important because life will be easier  if there are fewer languages  in the world.

 

A hot debate on whether fewer language could let the life become more easier is widely discussed. Some people agreed that fewer language could unite people more closer than before. In long term perspective, I think the disadvantage of fewer language outweigh the advantage.

 

On the one hand, to start with the advantage of fewer language, people are likely to communicate with without language burden, the meaning could be easier to understand without translation. For instance, imagine we don’t need translator or google translation when we travel to other place where originally speak different language. There is no doubt that people would be likely to talk with different people. Thus, English has been perceived as the common language in the world, some countries now speak more English than their native language.   

 

On the other hand, the demerits of fewer language can not be neglected, which will cause decreasing the culture diversity, and result in the loss of traditional culture. The disadvantage will reflect on some circumstance, for example, more and more children from Canton, China can no speak Cantonese due to the school encourage them to speak more Mandarin instead of Cantonese on campus. So the children would no be able to communicate with their grandparent who only able to speak Cantonese, at the same time, it is become more difficult to them to acquire the traditional culture.

 

In conclusion, we should realize the importation of language protection, and try our best to avoid the language to die out.

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The consumption of energy since 1980 with prediction until 2030

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The graph depict the consumption of energy since 1980 with prediction until 2030. The energy consumption could be divided into six sectors, petrol and oil, coal, natural gas and clean energies, for instance, nuclear, solar wind and hydropower.

 

It’s obvious that the consumption of petrol and oil always play most important part compare to other energies. The consumption of coal and natural gas is between the petrol, oil and other clean energy. In fact, the clean energy only occupy small sector of the energy consumption.

 

In detail, the consumption of petrol, oil and coal all decreased slightly from 1980 to 1985 and then increased steadily from 1990. The projection of the consumption of natural gas will go up than coal according to the 2008 report. And the other clean energy, will increase slightly but the quadrillion units keep lower than 10.   

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Free trade vs. Protectionism

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World trade should be free basically.

I'll show three reasons below.

  First , free trade promote international trade, thus promoting the growth of the world economy.

While Tokugawa Shogunate ruled the Japan, they closed it up and didn't trade with other countries.

As a result Japan's economy left behind from western countries.

   Second, free trade will expand the international market, thus dramatically increasing job opportunities.

South-east Asian countries were used to be very poor but they have grown because of the capital investment from advanced countries.

  Finally free trade will support countries each other and brings peace.

If world is not safe, people cannot move , work and invest over the seas.

By the reasons I showed above, I believe free trade will be useful for people over the world.

 

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A dream

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I had a dream in early morning today.

In the dream my wife and I visited a small island in south called Miyako island.

My wife was tall and thin and young. ( actually she is not tall, thin and young)

We hiked up some kind of rocky mountain.

After we reached a town, we tried to find a hotel.

I visited a hotel but it was full with TV filming party.

During I was looking for a hotel, my wife found and checked in by herself.

I told my dream to my wife like that in the morning.

But the story was not ended here in my dream.

The room was large and about ten sleeping  mats were on the floor.

Because other hotels were full.( We had to share room.)

She took one of them and lied herself.

Suddenly a young man went to her and tried to kiss her.

I was surprised and rushed to him and punched him on the face.

He blooded from his nose and my shirt got red.

He said when he wanted to , he had right to do.

And I said if you say so, when I wanted to punch you, I have the right to do.

And I got awaked. ( my wife was young and charming.)

I've never been to Miyako island and no one would try to kiss my wife.

Dreams are always strange to me.

 

 

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a pet

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As a family pet , we kept a dog when our kids were small.

The dog's name was March. She came to us in March.

After  fifteen yeas or so, she got ill.

My wife took care of her  and felt sorry very much every time she did.

The dog was gone in a couple of week.

The all family felt sad very much.

After that we have decided not to have any pet any more.

I decide myself not to kill animals like hunting.

Anyone can find pleasure without killing animals.

 

 

 

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In 1976 Shavarsh Karapetyan

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a American Olympic swimmer, after 12-mile running, he saw a trolley but crushed into a dam reservoir.

He immediately dove in and swan to bus where no sight and ten feet deep.

He got injured when he tried to break the closed back window.

He saved 20 people trapped in the bus one at a time over hours.

He got hospitalized for 45 days because of the damages like pneumonia, sepsis and lung damage.

In 1982 he happened to pass by a burning building, he rush into inside and save trapped people.

This time he also got hospitalized with severe burns and lung damage.

He's still kicking it at 66.

(Actually I got this from the Web. and I don't get what "kick" means in this case.)

 

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The population of different age group

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The population of country could be divided into three age groups, such as 0-14, 15-59 and more than 60 years old. There are obvious difference between XX and XX for the charts.

It's no doubt that the percentage of age group from 15-59 always higher than other two age groups. Besides, with the increase of aging population, the age group mo than 60 years old also increased. However, the age group from 0-14 decreased sharply from 2000 to 2050. In contrast, the percentage of 15-59 decreased sharply in XX in five decades with the decrease of birth rate, the percentage of sector 0-14 decrease slightly. And the percentage of age group more than 60 increased sharply from 24.1% to 42.3%.

Likewise, the situation  of decrease of birth date in XX happen  in China, the goverment took some measurements to encourage of the couple have more children.

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The side effects of the booster shot

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My wife and I took the booster shot for Covid on Friday.

My wife got fever next day and was in bed all day.

Around the midnight on Saturday she felt pain in abdomen.

The pain was getting worse and she fell down on the floor  at the rest room.

My daughter and I realized at the sound she fell down and rushed to her.

We carried her to her bed and she started shivering and getting sweat on her face.

We thought it was abnormal and something urgent.

So we called an ambulance.

It take her to a hospital in an hour.

At the hospital a doc checked her brain with MRI.

after doctor's interview we knew nothing happened on her brain.

He explained the strong pain in abdomen would bring her disorder called "Vagal reflex"

A couple hours later we arrived the hospital, she got stable and the doctor allowed us to come back home.

It was a terrible night but I was relieved that the case happened on her was not too serious.

I looked for her almost all day on Sunday.

She is fine now and moving as usual.

 

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The booster shot

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I've got a booster vaccination shot of Covid yesterday.

My first and second was Fizer's. This time i've got Moderna's.

I got pain on the place I got shot yesterday evening.

I felt not good this morning and I have fever a little.

My wife 's one was 37.8c so she doesn't want to work today.

She is in bed today. I hope we can be well soon.

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