Monday, September 7, 2009

Gender equality


In the previous lesson,Mr.YJ had dicussed the topic"Gender Equality" with us.We had dicussed the topic from different aspects such as linguistic and education,religion and upbringing,social and economic status and also life style and perspective.However, most of us are unfamiliar with the topic. We are unable to support our ideas with concrete examples.In order to have better understanding with the topic, i had do some research from the internet.

Finland is one of the nation that has successful in gender equality issues.Act on Equality between Women and Men (609/86) is introduced since 1987 .It promotes equality in education, teaching and research.Besides,there is an Employment and Equality Committee in Finnish Parliament.There are also Gender Equality Unit, Ombudsman for Equality and Council of Equality in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health.These units are responsible for promoting equality between man and woman.

You can find more information about gender equality's policy in Finland through this link. http://www.gender-equality.webinfo.lt/results/finland.htm

Furthermore,i also found some useful articles in NYtimes.One is an interview with Hillary Clinton ;another is the involvement of women in job market.

Here are the links.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/magazine/23clinton-t.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=gender%20equality&st=cse
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/the-mancession/?scp=6&sq=gender equality&st=cse

In wikipedia.org,there are even more article on the issue.However,i could not read them all as the articles are very long and somehow dull.



Sat Review 2

More familiar with the sat format......
Time constraint is no longer the problem.......
Cant understand the passages which mainly about american cultures.......
Still , weak in voca......

Approach:
Read more about american cultures..
Learn more voca....
Do more practices.....

Sunday, August 30, 2009

SAT Review

This is our first attempt on SAT mock test.We are supposed to be excited.However,many of us fail to answer the question due to lack of concentration.While doing the test,we are too tired and exhausted because of YJ's work.

In SAT reading part,the passage is abstruse and we have been tortured because of it.As a result,we are both physically and mentally tired after the test.The passage is hard to understand because of its complexity in sentence's structures and the words that we have never met.All we can do is "tembak","tembak",and "tembak".We are not surprised of our poor result but we felt embarrassed in receiving the result.

Our approaches to improve the situation is read more and try the augment our lexicon.The foremost approach is we must have enough sleep before test.

She has a good heart

Last Friday,i went to my friend's house in Kajang.After Friday class,her father picked me at IKAL and we straight to her house.It is a new experience for me as i have never stay at friend's house for a night.Her mother had prepared some delicious home made food that i missed so much.
Her families are amicable and easy to get along.It was happy to be with them and seeing her family members played cards after dinner remind me of my brothers and sister.
When i am with her family, i remembered Pak Ariff had said that he has a foster mother in American.During Christmas ,he would go there and celebrate the festival with her.I wondered what would it look like,now i have a vague idea of it.
I realise one thing that is we must be independant yet we take care of each other.Friendship is important for all of us.In return to Winyee kindness,i promise that she can stay in my house when she visit her aunt at Skudai.But ...... there are nothing interesting in Kulai...SO,don't hope too much in it ya^-^

Friday, August 28, 2009

CRITICAL THINKING

Refresh ur mind............


There are 8 matches and 1 balance on the table. Among the 8 matches, there are 7 matches with the same mass and 1 has the biggest mass. So how can we differentiate the one who has the biggest mass from the others.You can only weigh the matches twice. Try it out !!!!!!