Traditions weigh on China’s women

Summary:

China is the only country where suicide is being committed by more women than men. The problem is that women commit suicide in rural areas more than cities by three times. The ready availability of the venomous pesticides in the rural areas and farms is one of the reasons that increase the number of women who kill themselves in China. Tradition is one of the reasons that affect the women because she’s being sold like an item and she needs to fit into the husband’s family. The women are being forced into another foreign environment; completely strange to her original family and she needs to accept this. When it comes to the planned marriages even the husband may feel that his wife doesn’t like him, she doesn’t suit him and that leads to fights and many arguments. Xie Lihua says that if women live in a friendly environment and they feel safe there won’t be any suicide and hey will live happily. Women in China often find that the best way to get away from misery is to commit suicide and leave everything behind. Arranged marriages are illegal but the traditions are hard to change. There is another problem that increases the danger which is that women are less numerous than men in China. This problem where women are less than men could lead to abduction of women, trafficking, prostitution, sexual violence and rape. Xu Rong's organization is trying to reduce these horrible numbers of suicides by offering women jobs and giving them some information on mental health. Xu Rong’s organization has decreased the number of women suicides in many rural areas and they are trying to spread nationwide to help other rural places.

Main idea:

Women in China are committing suicide because of the strict traditions of their families. The ways of suicide are easy in the rural areas where poison is easy to reach. Government is trying to reduce the number of suicides but it’s still hard to do that because of the birth control and the number of women to men. Xu Rong’s organization started to help women since 1998 and it has already helped a lot of women to continue their lives naturally.

Opinion:

In my judgment its China’s government’s responsibility and they have to lend a hand to all the families in China to reduce the number of women suicides. There are some organizations that are eager to help out the Chinese women and it’s effective for the Chinese women. They must maintain these organizations and support them.

Task 5 - My carbon footprint

The definition of carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases produced by human activities directly or indirectly. In other words when I drive my car from home to work and it depends on my car type when the petrol burns it creates a certain amount of emissions and that’s called CO2. There are many other things that affect our footprint and that’s the way of producing food and goods which also creates CO2 during the process.

My own carbon footprint was 4.39 planets that means if all people were living like me we will need four more planets or more. I measured my own carbon footprint at (http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/). My main contributors on my footprint were traveling, stuff and food respectively. The class total average was 3.86 while our teacher Hedley had 4.10. I think most people would be around 3 and 4 since most of us use and do the same things.

I could reduce my carbon footprint if I bought a car that works on electricity but this technology is not yet released for the public and it’s expensive. My car uses a lot of petrol and I drive a bit too fast and I need to reduce my speed in order to reduce my car emissions. I don’t spend a lot on goods and food. I only buy goods when it’s running out and have time to go shopping. There are many things that we can’t stop using it like electricity since we have hot weather in the UAE and that does contribute a lot to my carbon footprint. I myself and most people are shocked when we see the amount of CO2 our activities create!

Reviews of 'An Inconvenient Truth'

A favorable review:

Brandon Fibbs, http://brandonfibbs.com/2006/05/24/an-inconvenient-truth , says Al Gore is correct and that all the scientists agree about global warming. Al Gore supported the movie with graphs, charts, time-lapsed photographs and scientific studies to make people believe. The movie showed that the evidence is everywhere in the world and every part of the world is already starting to be affected or will be affected by global warming. In addition he said that all the skeptics will be convinced from the evidence that Al Gore represented in his movie. In my opinion he made his points clear and he presented his scientific evidence in simple graphs and statistics.

An unfavorable review:

Scott,http://www.threemoviebuffs.com/review.php?movieID=inconvenienttruth%23Scott, criticizes the movie because it’s talking about Al Gore more than global warming and climate changing. He showed the audience some parts of his life and he told that his sister died because she had lung cancer. He made some jokes about Bush and some politicians. However, another criticizer called Eric asked if the pictures were original and wasn’t it in different seasons of the year. In my opinion why would someone take pictures of mountains that are covered on ice all the year to fool the audience? There would be some geologist sitting in the audience who would disagree with him.